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The Class of 1861, Harvard College
Cambridge, Mass., Riverside, 1861, large quarto, yearbook album with 110 oval salt print portraits, measuring 6 x 5 inches, 28 of faculty members, each signed, one of the African American porter, (unsigned), plus 82 portraits of class members, all but four of which are signed by the subject with their hometown, binding worn, backstrip defective, front board missing, images are in good clean condition.
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The faculty include the
photographs and signatures of several prominent scholars and educators
including: historian and regent of the Smithsonian Institution Cornelius Conway
Felton (1807-1862), preacher and author Andrew Preston Peabody (1811-1893),
biologist Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), poet James Russell Lowell (1819-1891),
botanist Asa Gray (1810-1888), philosopher Francis Bowen (1811-1890), musical
scholar Francis James Child (1825-1896), modern Greek scholar Evangelinos Apostolides
Sophocles (1807-1883), Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) who would transform
Harvard and be its longest-serving president.
