Scope and Content
The Tozier collection consists of 576 glass lantern slides, circa late 1920s-1950s. The slides are mostly labeled and are primarily color images of living plants. A few slides indicate the locality of the plant. There are also a few black-and-white images, line drawings, and dead plant matter.
Dates
- Creation: circa late 1920s-1950s
Creator
- Tozier, Charles Herman, 1875-1947 (Photographer, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is available by appointment for research. Researchers must register and provide valid photo identification. Please contact botref@oeb.harvard.edu for additional information.
Extent
1 collection (8 boxes)Biography
Charles Herman Tozier was born on February 24, 1875 in Waterville, Maine, to Cyrus Greely and Annie Osgood Tozier. He attended high school in Somerville and entered Harvard in 1894. He earned an B.S. in 1898 and continued his studies at Harvard Medical School, where he earned an M.D. in 1901. He spent a year at Harvard Dental School studying diseases of the mouth and left in June 1902 to join a medical practice in Boston.
Tozier married Edith Downs Peck in the fall of 1902; the couple had one son, Charles William, in 1910. Tozier became interested in photography as early as the 1920s. He traveled throughout North and South America to photograph wildlife and took microscopic photographs of plant and animal life while working in laboratories at Harvard. He also exhibited and lectured on his photography around the Boston area.
Edith died in 1935. The following year Tozier returned to Harvard as a Research Fellow in Dental Science. In 1937 he married Helen Clark Hopewell. He continued as a Dental Science Fellow until 1944 when he became a Research Fellow in Visual Education. He remained in this position until his death from heart disease on January 1, 1947.
Sources
Color films of wild life shown: Fish and game group hear Dr. Charles H. Tozier. Daily Boston Globe (1928-1960). 1967 Mar 17:5 (col. 5).
Conant JB. 1949. President’s Report. Official Register of Harvard University. 66(30):5-30.
Shows movies of America, buys gifts for U.S. Fighters. Daily Boston Globe (1928-1960). 1942 Sep 20:19 (col. 3).
Woodward W. 1913. Harvard College Class of 1898 - Quindecennial Report. Cambridge (MA): [Harvard College Class of 1898].
Arrangement
The Tozier slides were assigned numbers based on the order in which they were found stored in the Herbaria. This order has been preserved.
Provenance
The glass slides were likely part of a larger collection of images and camera equipment that was donated to Harvard and divided between departments. They were previously stored with the Herbaria collections.
Creator
- Tozier, Charles Herman, 1875-1947 (Photographer, Person)
- Title
- Tozier, Charles Herman, 1875-1947. Charles Herman Tozier glass lantern slides, circa late 1920s-1950s. A Guide.
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University.
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- gra00061
Repository Details
Part of the Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University Repository
The Harvard University Herbaria houses five research libraries that are managed collectively as the Botany Libraries. The Gray Herbarium Library specializes in the identification and classification of New World plants with emphasis on North American plants. The Archives of the Gray Herbarium houses unique resources including personal papers, institutional records, field notes and plant lists, expedition records, photographs, original artwork, and objects from faculty, curators, staff, and affiliates of the Gray Herbarium.
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