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Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1895

Location Note

Vertical file 4: OVR 21-30

GUSN

GUSN-198912

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Description

This shows multiple small black and white drawings of Harvard buildings and landmarks. The artist's inscription in the lower right corner is to "Mass. Hist. Soc. - Mar. 23, 1904."

Details

Descriptive Terms

universities (buildings)
buildings (structures)
drawings (visual works)
prints (visual works)
heliotypes (prints)

Additional Identification Number

Prints and Engravings Collection Number PR27OVR

Physical Description

1 heliotype

Collection Code

GC002

Collection Name

Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

Date of Acquisition

1922-02-02

Reference Code

GC002.02.027

Acquisition Type

Gift

Image Dimensions

19 x 24 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bostonian Society, 1922

Places

Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Papanti, Louis (Artist)
Heliotype Printing Co. (Printer)

Material Type

prints (visual works)
heliotypes (prints)

Other Organizations

Massachusetts Historical Society

Restrictions

poor

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Vertical file 4: OVR 21-30

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