Members of "The Club" [photograph album], ca. 1855-1862.

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Members of "The Club" [photograph album], ca. 1855-1862.

ca. 1855-1862

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Portrait photographs of members of "The Club," made up of various graduates of Harvard College, classes of 1810-1817. Subjects include Samuel Atkins Eliot, Theophilus Parsons, Franklin Dexter, Charles Folsom, Jared Sparks, and William Hickling Prescott, among others. Many of the photographs are displayed with the autographs of the subjects. All of the photographs are identified and were taken ca. 1855-1862. None of the photographers are identified.

23 photographs in 1 album.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7645830

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859

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William Hickling Prescott, born in Salem, Massachusetts to a prominent family, wrote romantic and highly-regarded works of Spanish and Latin American history. From the guide to the Letters to Richard Bentley, 1837-1858., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

Folsom, Charles, 1794-1872

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Charles Folsom (Harvard, A.B., 1813) taught Italian and served as librarian at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Charles Folsom, 1829. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972777 ...

Eliot, Samuel Atkins, 1798-1862

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Samuel Atkins Eliot was born in Boston, Mass., March 5, 1798; attended the Boston Latin School; was graduated from Harvard University in 1817 and from the divinity school in 1820; member of the State house of representatives 1834-1837; mayor of Boston 1837-1839; served in the State senate in 1843-1844; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert C. Winthrop and served from August 22, 1850, to March 3, 1851; declined to be a candidate for...

Club (Boston, Mass.)

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The Club was formed in 1818 and eventually included twenty-four members. All but one of the members graduated from Harvard College between 1810 and 1817 and held prominent positions within Boston society. Meetings were held in the homes of individual members. The club dissolved in the 1850s due to political differences between the membership. From the description of Group portrait of The Club (Boston Athenaeum). ...

Sparks, Jared (1)

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Harvard College (1780- )

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Special students were those who took courses in Harvard College but were not degree candidates; they had not gone through the standard admissions process completed by AB degree candidates. From the description of Records of special students, 1876-1907. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77064523 It is unclear whether F.C. Fabel ever attended Harvard College. F.C. Fabel may be Frederick Charles Fabel, who received an AB from the University of Rochester in 1893. ...

Dexter, Franklin, 1793-1857

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