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Harvard Square, looking south, circa 1860, albumen print. At left-center is Farwell’s general store, built around 1800, and to the right, on the site of the present-day Harvard Coop, is Lyceum Hall. In the foreground, barely visible, are the rails of a horse-drawn streetcar line, Union Railway, which opened in 1854.

The ‘mirror with a memory’

Photo exhibit spotlights Harvard in the Civil War era

Arts|

DateApril 15, 2013April 16, 2019

Images from long ago or far away

Peabody exhibition examines photography and anthropology

Science|

DateJuly 3, 2012July 26, 2019

These two daguerreotypes, acquired in 2008 from a local dealer by the Harvard Art Museum’s Department of Photographs, are currently on display in a rotating exhibition space at Harvard’s Arthur M. Sackler Museum. The unidentified subjects, captured by an unknown artist, were likely taken in the 1840s or ’50s in an urban setting such as New York, Philadelphia, or Boston.

Defining themselves

Two 19th century daguerreotypes allowed African Americans to show their lives as they were

Arts|

DateJanuary 11, 2010