Photograph album of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, ca. 1886.

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Photograph album of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, ca. 1886.

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This collection consists of 117 cyanotypes taken ca. 1886 by Grenville Lindall Winthrop while he was a student at Harvard and living in Beck Hall. Taken at a variety of locations, including Beck Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Elberon, New Jersey; Dublin, New Hampshire; and Tivoli-on-the-Hudson, New York, these photographs illustrate student life at Harvard in the late nineteenth century. Also depicted are upper-class family life, nature scenes, and sporting activities including tennis and Fives. A type of hand-tennis that originated in Great Britain, a Fives court was built on Holmes Field at Harvard University in 1889. The photographs are mounted on paper and were originally housed in a bound album. Photographs are housed in Mylar sleeves.

0.45 cubic feet (1 document box)117 photographic prints : cyanotypes ; 4 in. x 5 in. ; 8.25 in. x 10 in., mounted.

Harvard University Archives.

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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...

Winthrop, Grenville Lindall, 1864-1943

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Lawyer and art connoisseur. Educated at Harvard (Class of 1886). Maintained residences in New York and Lenox, Mass. Made many gifts to the Fogg Art Museum during his lifetime, and left his entire collection to the Museum in 1943. From the description of Papers of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1885-1943 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 234360169 Grenville Lindall Winthrop, lawyer and art collector, was born in New York, N.Y. on February 11, 1864. He received ...