COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Schruers, Edwin Judson
Date:
1935
Short Title:
A prospect of Harvard University and of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Publisher:
Merrymount Press
Publisher Location:
Boston
Type:
Separate Map
Obj Height cm:
82
Obj Width cm:
62
Scale 1:
2,400
Note:
Pictorial map of the Harvard and Radcliffe campus, mounted on linen, dedicated to its graduates in celebration of the university’s tercentenary in 1936 -- the 300th anniversary of its founding in 1636. Sjows Brattle Square, the University Museum, Memorial Church, Business School, Law School, and the Stadium. Crew teams row in the Charles River. The coats of arms are shown for the seven houses of Lowell, Dunster, Winthrop, Eliot, Kirkland, Adams and Leverett. The compass rose is done in the style of the Coney Seal of 1693. The cartouche also features the coat of arms of the school, Harvard Presidents Lowell and Conant appear on either side of the map's title. Views of Harvard College in 1726, and statue of John Harvard, are shown in the upper left. The following dedication, with quaint spelling and using the old-fashioned convention of printing "v" for "u," serves as the border: After God had carried vs safe to New England, and wee had bvilded ovr hovses, provided necessaries for ovr lively-hood, rear’d convenient places for Gods worship, and settled the civill government. One of the next things we longed for, and looked after was to advance learning and perpetvate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministery to the chvrches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dvst. 1636 -- Dedicated to the gradvates of Harvard Vniversity in commemoration of the tercentenary of its fovnding--1936.
City:
Cambridge (Mass.)
Subject:
Pictorial map
Full Title:
A prospect of Harvard University and of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Designed and drawn by Edwin J. Schruers 1935. Copyright, 1935. By Edwin J. Schruers. The Merrymount Press, Boston.
List No:
8144.000
Publication Author:
Schruers, Edwin Judson
Pub Date:
1935
Pub Title:
A prospect of Harvard University and of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Designed and drawn by Edwin J. Schruers 1935. Copyright, 1935. By Edwin J. Schruers. The Merrymount Press, Boston.
Pub Note:
See note field above.
Pub List No:
8144.000
Pub Type:
Separate Map
Pub Height cm:
82
Pub Width cm:
62
Image No:
8144000.jp2
Authors:
Schruers, Edwin Judson
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A prospect of Harvard University and of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts
