Edward W. Forbes collection of Harvard photographs
Scope and Contents
The collection contains two photographs documenting Edward Waldo Forbes’s experience as a student at Harvard. It includes an 1893 photograph from Forbes’s sophomore year in a theater performance, labeled “DKE Play,” likely from Delta Kappa Epsilon. The back side of the mount has a handwritten list of the play’s cast, labeled "Dramatis Personae," with the names of each actor.
The other photograph is from the Harvard College Class of 1895 graduation, featuring Forbes and other classmates dressed in caps and gowns. The students pictured include Roland Gray, William Palten, Percy Lombard, Edward J. Holmes, Andrew Peters, Robert Walcott, Richard Wheatland, William Emerson, and [Joseph Lewis] Stackpole.
Dates
- Creation: 1893, 1895
Creator
Researcher Access
The collection is open for research.
Extent
.6 cubic feet (1 flat box)Biographical note on Edward Waldo Forbes
Edward Waldo Forbes (1873-1969) graduated with an AB from Harvard in 1895. He was the son of William Hathaway Forbes, founder and first president of the American Bell Telephone Company, and Edith Emerson Forbes, daughter of poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. In 1907, Forbes taught his first course, on Florentine painting, at Harvard. He became lecturer in Fine Arts in 1909, the same year he became Director of the Fogg Museum. Forbes continued to teach throughout his years as Museum Director and was named Martin A. Ryerson Lecturer in Fine Arts in 1935. He also founded the Center for Conservation and technical studies. Forbes retired from the museum in 1944. He died in 1969.
Acquisition
Gift of Beatrice F. Manz, received July 31, 2019; Accession 2020.067.
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Olivia Mandica-Hart in February 2022. Processing included physical re-housing and the creation of this finding aid.
Creator
- Title
- Forbes, Edward W. (Edward Waldo), 1873-1969. Edward W. Forbes collection of Harvard photographs, 1893, 1895 : an inventory
- Author
- Harvard University Archives
- Date
- February 23, 2022
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- hua13022
Repository Details
Part of the Harvard University Archives Repository
Holding nearly four centuries of materials, the Harvard University Archives is the principal repository for the institutional records of Harvard University and the personal archives of Harvard faculty, as well as collections related to students, alumni, Harvard-affiliates and other associated topics. The collections document the intellectual, cultural, administrative and social life of Harvard and the influence of the University as it emerged across the globe.
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