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Trees in Harvard Yard

• HF-ID: HFP-115
• Category: Visual Materials
• Creator:
  • Fisher, R.T.
  • MacDonald, A.
  • Herlihy, W.

• Date: ca. 1915-1916
• Location: Cambridge MA
• Media: Mixed media
• Contents:
  • photographs, negatives, lantern slides.

• Abstract:
  • Folder 1
  
  
  • R.T. Fisher photographs, ca. 1916, of elms selected for planting in Harvard Yard, Harvard Yard, planting the tree, tree after planting
  
  
  • Photographs taken by Alfred MacDonald, ca. 1916, of pruning trees, street tree infested with bark beetles, unfertilized and fertilized tree, treatment of tree cancers
  
  
  • Photographs and negatives of Harvard Yard, some labeled "Before class day 1916"
  
  
  • Folder 2
  
  
  • Letter to R.T. Fisher from W. Herlihy, dated July 26, 1915, with 15 black & white photographs of trees around Harvard Yard
  
  
  • Folder 3
  
  
  • Series of 8 lantern slides by R.T. Fisher of tree planting

• Related Items:
  • Correspondence relating to the care of trees on the Harvard Yard, 1913-1931

• Archives Location: Map Room, stack 6, drawer 3
• Access: Active