Photographs of the Harvard University campus and environs taken by George K. Warren, 1860.

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Photographs of the Harvard University campus and environs taken by George K. Warren, 1860.

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This collection consists of 16 sepia-toned cartes-de-visite taken by George K. Warren in 1860 depicting Harvard University buildings and environs in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The photographs are primarily exterior overall views of campus buildings, with two photographs of nearby locales, Christ Church and the Washington Elm (which fell in 1923). Approximately half of the collection consists of views of student residence halls.

.17 cubic ft. (16 photographic prints (1 folder))

Harvard University Archives.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7450061

Harvard University Archives.

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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...

Warren, G. K. (George Kendall), -1884

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George K. Warren (1834-1884) was an American photographer active in Massachusetts in the second half of the 19th century. He was based in Lowell, Massachusetts from 1850 to 1870 and moved to Boston in 1870, where he worked until his death in 1884. In 1858 he began taking photographs of graduating college classes and became known as a prominent class photographer, particularly at Ivy League schools. In the 1860s he published a series of cartes-de-visite of Cambridge, Watertown, Concord, and Lexin...