Photographs of the Harvard University campus and environs taken by William M. Rittase, ca. 1930.

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Photographs of the Harvard University campus and environs taken by William M. Rittase, ca. 1930.

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This collection consists of 87 black and white photographic prints from a series taken by William M. Rittase in the late 1920s or early 1930s depicting Harvard University buildings in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A small number document campus environs such as the Charles River and Weeks Footbridge and the Harvard Business School in nearby Allston, Massachusetts. The photographs focus primarily on exterior views of the buildings and are a mix of general views and detailed views of building architecture. Memorial Church is particularly well-documented with numerous exterior as well as interior views comprising more than a quarter of the collection.

2.44 cubic feet (87 photographic prints (4 flat photo boxes ))

Harvard University Archives.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7450149

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...

Harvard Business Press

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Memorial Church Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.)

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Rittase, William M., 1894-1968

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William M. Rittase (January 16, 1887-October 28, 1968) was an American photographer active in Philadelphia during the 1920s and 1930s. He was known for his industrial photography commissioned for articles and advertisements and his photographs appeared frequently in Fortune magazine and other periodicals in the 1930s. His work was included in Lincoln Kirstein’s 1930 Harvard Society for Contemporary Art exhibition among numerous other exhibitions. Rittase was affiliated with the Camera Pictoriali...