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The Photo Archive
There are three categories in the Cambridge Historical Society's Photo Collection: Portraits, Harvard Buildings and Cambridge Buildings (still being catalogued)

Portraits:

Scope:

 

 

 The collection includes images in varying sizes (photos, etchings, and photos of paintings) of notable Cambridge citizens such as Louis Agassiz, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes, as well as several Harvard University professors.There are also numerous photos of the Litchfield family and the Charles Eliot Norton family.

Content:

 

 The collection is comprised of approximately one hundred thirty images divided into three black boxes labeled Portraits A-F, Portraits G-L, and Portraits M-Z.
Acquisition Information: When possible, the source for individual images has been listed in the Photograph Collection's "Portrait Catalogue"


Harvard Buildings:

Scope:

 

The Harvard Buildings category of the Photo Collection of the Cambridge Historical Society contains over three hundred photos, reproductions and engravings of the University's buildings in varying sizes and conditions.

Content:

 

 These images may be found in two black boxes labeled Harvard Buildings A-Holden, and Harvard Buildings Hollis-Z.
Acquisition Information: When possible, the source for individual images has been listed in the Photograph Collection's Harvard Buildings Catalogue.

 

 

 






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