Harvard University faculty and staff photographs, ca. 1879-1889.

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Harvard University faculty and staff photographs, ca. 1879-1889.

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Twenty-nine cabinet cards, mostly portraits of members of the Harvard University faculty and staff, collected by Harvard professor James Atkins Noyes. The portraits depict various professors, as well as student actors in a performance of "Oedipus Tyrannus," an African-American custodian, Harvard librarian Justin Winsor, and president Charles W. Eliot, among other subjects. All of the photographs were taken between 1879-1889. Photographers include Pach Bros. of New York and Cambridge, Mass., among others.

29 photographs in 1 narrow box : cabinet cards, b&w ; 16 1/2 x 11 cm.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7662437

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897

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