[HARVARD UNIVERSITY]. The Class of 1861 Harvard College. Cambridge, MA: Riverside, 1861. Yearbook with albumen photographs of faculty, students, and grounds.

4to (253 x 329 mm). Approx. 116 mounted albumen photographs. Original gilt morocco (front board and spine detached, scuffs, puncture to lower board). Provenance: Library of the Frontier (bookplate to front board interior). Manuscript index tipped in to front flyleaf which notes that the first 20 pages are faculty "then arrangement by chums as far as seventy seventh page, After that in alphabetical order."

The album contains 14 outdoor photographs of the grounds and university buildings; 19 portraits of faculty, each SIGNED; 82 portraits of classmates, each SIGNED by the subject with their hometown; and 1 photograph of a young subject identified as "Nicoline, the Candy boy".

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.

Property From the Westland Library of the Frontier

[HARVARD UNIVERSITY]. The Class of 1861 Harvard College. Cambridge, MA: Riverside, 1861. Yearbook with albumen photographs of faculty, students, and grounds.

[HARVARD UNIVERSITY]. The Class of 1861 Harvard College. Cambridge, MA: Riverside, 1861. Yearbook with albumen photographs of faculty, students, and grounds.