Dinner Club, 1940.

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Dinner Club, 1940.

1940

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Biographies of members of the Dinner Club (or Dining Club) pictured in a photograph taken ca. 1865 that hung (1941) opposite the Harvard University Librarian's office. Includes biographies of Jared Sparks, Charles Folsom, John Chipman Gray, Octavius Pickering, Charles Greely Loring, Samuel Atkins Eliot, Theophilus Parsons, John Gorman Palfrey, William Howard Gardiner, Franklin Dexter, William Powell Mason, Henry Warren, and William Hickling Prescot. Includes a list of members not pictured.

16 p. ; 31 cm.

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Boston Athenaeum

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