Joseph Winlock [photograph], [ca. 1850-1860].

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Joseph Winlock [photograph], [ca. 1850-1860].

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Hand-colored, quarter-plate daguerreotype in leather case of Joseph Winlock (1826-1875), astronomer, mathematician, and Harvard professor. The photograph was taken ca. 1850-1860 by an unknown photographer.

1 photograph : daguerreotype, b&w, hand-colored ; visible oval image 9 x 7 cm. (quarter-plate), in case 12 x 9 1/2 cm.

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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...

Winlock, Joseph, 1826-1875

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Joseph Winlock was an astronomer and mathematician. Winlock was the superintendent of the "American Ephemeries and Nautical Almanac" (1858-1859), head of the Department of Mathematics at the U.S. Naval Academy (1859), and Director of the Harvard College Observatory, as well as being a professor of astronomy at Harvard (1866-1875). From the description of Letterbook, 1857-1875. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523480 From the guide to the Josep...