Records of the Harvard University Portrait Collection, 1900-1984 (bulk).

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Records of the Harvard University Portrait Collection, 1900-1984 (bulk).

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Records pertain to the more than one thousand portrait paintings, sculpture, and works of art on paper, which are located in some hundred buildings at Harvard. Each file in the records typically contains: record of acquisition, physical description, often a photographic print, correspondence, record of inter-institutional loans, and in some instances, bibliographic references. Also included are a small number of views of Harvard University buildings.

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Harvard University Art Museum

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SNAC Resource ID: 7111723

Harvard University Art Museum

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Forbes, Edward R.

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Adams family.

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Boylston family.

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Coolidge, John, 1913-1995

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Coolidge earned his Harvard AB in 1935. He was the director of the Fogg Art Museum from 1948-1968. From the description of Notes in Fine Arts 1c and 1d, 1931-1932. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075975 From the description of Notes in History 1, 1931-1932. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075976 Coolidge, John, 1913, Educator and director of the Fogg Art Museum, 1948-1968. From the description of Oral history interview with John C...

Tarbell, Edmund Charles, 1862-1938.

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Painter, born Groton, Mass.; graduated from Dartmouth in 1929; instructor at Boston Museum and represented in many museums (Corcoran, Boston, and Washington). From the description of Letters to Florence N. Levy, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 54674316 Painter, teacher; Boston, Mass. and New Hampshire. Born West Groton, Mass. Studied at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston School, and the Academie Julian. Taught at MFA, Boston School fr...

Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925

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Florence 1856-1925 London. From the description of Portrait of Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Jr. (nee Jane Norton Grew, 1868-1925) [painting]. [ca. 1905] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270906593 Anglo-American painter. From the description of Letters, 1881-1916. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81028068 Sargent was an American-born painter who lived and worked in France, England and elsewhere. From the description of [Letter] Sunday, 33, T...

Harvard University. Portrait Collection

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Longfellow, Ernest Wadsworth, 1845-1921

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Ernest Longfellow was a noted landscape painter and son of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Harriet Longfellow, his wife, was a painter also. They resided in New York City and in Magnolia, Mass. From the description of Ernest Wadsworth and Harriet S. Wadsworth Longfellow sketchbooks 1867-1903. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122455496 ...

Coolidge family.

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Elliott family.

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Winthrop family.

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Lowell family.

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