'We Carry With Us Precious Memorials': Early Harvard Class Photograph Albums

摘要

THANKS to the aid of photography we are enabled, as we take leave of each other to day, to carry with us precious memorials of college associations and college friendships" Charles Carroll Tower, Harvard Class of 1855, wrote,1 With the introduction of photography in the midnineteenth century, Harvard graduates could remember their college years with a new fidelity-whether through evocative portraits of classmates and faculty or graceful scenes of Harvard Yard.