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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. According to the negative sleeve, this set of photographs is captured in color. The scans of these images are in black and white. A poorly-exposed and out-of-focus photograph of Mertie West standing beside the statue of John Harvard in Harvard Yard. Mertie West stands in the near distance, left-of-center. She faces forward, but looks to the right--where the statue stands. The bronze statue of a seated John Harvard is viewed at an angle from the front and the side, facing left. The plinth it sits upon stands slightly taller than Mertie. A bronze seal is inset to the right side of the plinth. University Hall (partial view) is viewed close-up as it stretches across the background on an angle. Four punched holes line the lower left edge. Text from negative sleeve: 2337. COLOR Eastern trip October 1947 Cambridge. 1 Mertie West at John Harvard Statue 1 film
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