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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of Mertie West standing on a street corner across the street from Harvard Yard. A brick-paved sidewalk spans the width of the bottom edge, curving across the lower left corner. Mertie West stands at center, just at the back edge of the sidewalk; she looks to camera. Behind and to the left of her, a woman beside the left edge steps onto the sidewalk. In the near distance, Massachusetts Avenue stretches across the image. Several cars drive along it. Harvard Yard stretches along the far side of Massachusetts Avenue. Massachusetts Hall stands at center, behind Mertie. The Georgian-style building is viewed at a slight angle from its short side. Beside it, Straus Hall enters frame from the right. Straus Hall is viewed from its long side. Both buildings are draped in ivy. NRHP reference # 73000287 (Old Harvard Yard); 66000769 (Massachusetts Hall) 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
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_2355_003 ark:/21198/zz002j3n9w
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Harvard Yard (Cambridge, Mass.) Massachusetts Hall (Cambridge, Mass.) Sightseers--Massachusetts--Cambridge Architecture, Georgian--Massachusetts--Cambridge Dormitories--Massachusetts--Cambridge West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972 Harvard University
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