Literary Collector


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The Bookman


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Early American Plays


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Manuscripts


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Annual Literary Index


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Critic and Literary World


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A Curious & Ingenious Art


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"Harvard also saw the potential of photography for scientific research, as stunningly exemplified in one of the first detailed daguerreotypes of the moon, taken in 1851, as well as in images capturing the emergence of modern anesthesia. An unfortunate misuse of photography is recalled in the now famous slave daguerreotypes commissioned by natural historian Louis Agassiz, who believed in the theory of separate human species.".