Class Album. photos taken later in life Class of 1873.

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Class Album. photos taken later in life Class of 1873.

4 boxes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8186179

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...

Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1873

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These volumes are part of a series of Harvard class albums, which may be considered the nineteenth-century counterpart to yearbooks. Individual students compiled their own albums. This album belonged to James Laurence Laughlin, a class member who went on to earn a Ph.D. at Harvard in 1876 and taught at Harvard. He was an Instructor in Political Economy from 1878 to 1883, was Assistant Professor of Political Economy from 1883 to 1888. He left Harvard to became a Professor...