Excerpt from Proceedings, Vol. 53: October, 1919 June, 1920
From Mrs. Charles Francis Adams, a bust, in bronze, of Mr. Adams, by T. Spicer - Simson.
From the Boston Medical Library, two large photographs of General William T. Sherman.
From Mr. Norcross, a photograph of Francis Gardner (1812 headmaster (1851 - 1876) of the Boston Latin School, taken about 1870.
From George L. Shepley, of Providence a photostat of a pen and-ink sketch, by Whitman Barber, 1919, of Shakespeare's Head, Meeting Street, Providence, which was John Carter's printing office from December, 1772, to November, 1793; also woodcuts of Harvard College, Yale College, and other colleges, and buildings in the country.
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