Students at Harvard University stroll along a campus walkway, Cambridge, 1947

Item Overview

Title

Students at Harvard University stroll along a campus walkway, Cambridge, 1947

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

October, 1947

Date

1947-10

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

An out-of-focus and poorly-lit photograph of students walking along a campus walkway at Harvard University. A wide walkway enters frame from the lower left corner and stretches back on an angle towards the right. In the near distance at center, 4 young men, dressed in suits and ties, walk in a row towards the camera. To the right of them, a few other students walk past them. At far right and partially obscured by shadow, steps leading up to a building enter frame. Narrower walkways crisscross the treed campus grounds in the background at left and center. Jagged streaks of white occupy the upper right corner and just below the upper left corner. A light haze glazes over the entirety of the image.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2355. Eastern trip October 1947 Cambridge 1 Mertie West about to enter Peabody Museum 2 and 3 Two small photos of campus 4 Mertie West on sidewalk at Cambridge in front of building used as barracks in Revolution 5 The chapel thru the trees 6 H H West at the statue of John Harvard

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Harvard University

Location

Massachusetts--Cambridge

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Students--American--Massachusetts--Cambridge