View looking across Harvard Yard, Cambridge, 1947

Item Overview

Title

View looking across Harvard Yard, 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

NRHP reference # 73000287, 87002137
Photograph of Harvard Yard, as viewed from a a walkway at Harvard University. A wide walkway enters frame from the lower left corner, spanning the width of the bottom edge as it stretches back on an angle to the right. The lawn of Harvard Yard stretches to the left of it. Narrow walkways intersect the wide walkway from the left. A man walks along a walkway in the near distance at left. Beyond him, trees in the quad shade the grounds. Dormitories stand across the back, left edge and the back, right edge of the green space. Both are mostly obscured by trees and face towards the quad.

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

Longitude

42.374781

Latitude

-71.116967

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Harvard Yard (Cambridge, Mass.)
Dormitories--Massachusetts--Cambridge