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Aerial photographs.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Scope Note: Photographs taken from the air. For representations of cities or landscapes portrayed as if viewed from above see Aerial views.

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

[Aerial photograph of Harvard University and the Charles River, looking north], [1934]

Item Identifier: HUV, HUV 15, Folder 7 of 24,, HUV 15 (7-8)
Scope and Contents:

This photograph taken from an airplane in 1934 depicts Charles River and Cambridge, east from the train yards and west to De Wolfe Street. Eliot House, Winthrop House (consisting of the Standish and Gore quadrangle buldings) and Leverett House are in the foreground. Widener Library, Cambridge Common, Massachusetts Avenue, Oxford Street, and Memorial Hall are visible in the background, and the view extends further northward into Cambridge.

Aerial photographs of Cambridge, Mass. taken by Edward R. Cogswell, Jr.

Collection Identifier: HUV 2297.10
Overview:

This collection consists of seven black and white platinum prints taken by Edward Russell Cogswell, Jr., on September 18, 1897, from the top of the chimney of the old power house at the intersection of Boylston Street (now John F. Kennedy Street) and Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Mass. The photographs are aerial views of Harvard Square, Cambridge, Allston and the Charles River.

[Panoramic photograph of Naples, Italy], circa 1915

Series Identifier: HUPSFPA, HUPSF Unidentified photo (PA 1)
Scope and Contents:

Panoramic photograph taken from an elevated point of view showing a vast area including city buildings in the near ground, Mount Vesuvius to the left background, and the Bay of Naples.

Panoramic view of Harvard and Cambridge, looking west from Memorial Hall tower, circa 1918

Item Identifier: HUVPA, HUV 15 (PA 1)
Scope and Contents:

The panoramic views chiefly depict the Harvard environment, places where the Harvard community studies, teaches, works, researches, or lives.