Henry Davis Minot photographs, ca. 1861-1883.

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Henry Davis Minot photographs, ca. 1861-1883.

Photographs of Henry Davis Minot [HDM], ornithologist, artist, and railroad executive, best known as the first president of the Eastern Minnesota railroad. One narrow box of loose photographs includes portraits of HDM as a child and as an adult, as well as various Minot family members and friends; several souvenir carte de visite photographs of England and France; and various images of birds. Subjects of the portraits include HDM's friends and classmates at Harvard University (including Henry Eliot Guild, Francis James Child, and Theodore Roosevelt), Alice Woodburn Minot, Charles Sedgwick Minot, Katharine Sedgwick Minot, Laurence Minot, Mary Minot, and William Minot, among others. The photographs include cartes de visite, cabinet cards, and tintypes and were taken by George Kendall Warren (of Cambridge, Mass.) and James Notman, William Notman, John Adams Whipple, Allen & Horton, and Allen & Rowell (all of Boston, Mass.).

34 photographs in 1 narrow box.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7629871

Massachusetts Historical Society

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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...

Minot, Laurence, 1865-1921.

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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...

Minot, Alice Woodburn, 1847-1883

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Minot, Katharine Sedgwick, 1820-1880.

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Minot, Charles Sedgwick, 1852-1914

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Minot (Harvard, S.D. 1878) began teaching at Harvard in 1880 and was appointed James Stillman Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Harvard Medical School in 1905, a position he held until his death. Early in his career he did studies of insects and described new species; his interest expanded to comparative anatomy, morphology and growth; and his work included physiological experimentation on effects of anesthesia, reaction to tetanus, and the nature of muscular contractions. His research in huma...

Minot, H. D. (Henry Davis), 1859-1890

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Minot, Mary, b. 1811

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Minot family

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Notman, William

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Guild, Henry Eliot, 1859-1888

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Allen & Rowell (Boston, Mass.),

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Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924

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Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924) was born into a prominent Boston family in 1850. Through his mother’s family, the Cabots, Lodge traced his lineage back to the 17th century, with one great-grandfather a leading Federalist during the Revolutionary period. Growing up in both an intellectual and privileged household, "Cabot" took naturally to academic subjects, particularly history and literature. Beyond his early devotion to scholarly pursuits, Lodge also enjoyed numerous sports and the great outdoor...

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

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Allen & Horton (Boston, Mass.),

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Child, Francis James, 1825-1896

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The materials in this bound volume were generated due to a manuscript called the "Harris manuscript." The Harris manuscript was written down by the sisters Amelia Harris (1815-1891) and Jane Harris (1823-1897). They compiled a family repertoire of Scottish ballads, mainly passed on orally to the sisters by their mother, Grace Dow Harris (Mrs. David Harris) (b.1782). This manuscript and some correspondence was purchased in 1873 by Professor Francis James Child of Harvard University who was a scho...

Minot, William, 1783-1873.

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Notman, James, 1849-1932

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Whipple, John Adams, 1822-1891

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Served with the New England Women's Auxiliary Association of the United States Sanitary Commission, 1861-1866; Freedmen's Aid Society, 1866-1873; founded the New England Women's Club, 1868; Boston School Committee representative, 1875-1878; member of the Massachusetts Board of Education, 1879-1888; president of the Massachusetts School Sufrrage Association, 1880-1888; member and president of the Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women, 1880-1886; and member of the Association...