James Cummins Bookseller

[Cambridge: 1866].

80 mounted photographs, including faculty, students and views of the interior and exterior of buildings. 4to. Contemporary pebbled brown morocco, a.e.g. with, "James Hampden Robb" on the upper cover stamped in gilt. Worn at head and tail of spine Item #320278

George Kendall Warren (1824-1884) was a distinguished northeastern landscape photographer and the most highly-regarded collegiate yearbook photographer to elite northeastern institutions: Dartmouth, Williams, Brown, Weslyan, Yale, Princeton, Rutgers, West Point, Union, and Harvard.

Notable portraits include Gov. Andrew, President Hill, Professers Louis Agassiz, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Evangelinus Sophocles, and Longfellow.

Also pictured is Aaron Molyneaux Hewlett (1820-18710, African-American physical education instructor and boxing coach. Hewlett was the first African American on the Harvard University staff and the director and curator of the Harvard Gymnasium from 1859 to 1871. He also taught gymnastics, boxing and the use of dumbbells. He is pictured here with the tools of his craft: boxing gloves, Indian Clubs, Dumbbells, medicine balls and the wooden wand.

Other images of note include the Harvard baseball team in uniform, a young African American boy, a view of scullers in the water by a boathouse, various outdoor views on the quad, R. H. Richardson Bookseller & Stationer (third from last photo in album).

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