[Cornelius Conway Felton with His Hat and Coat], early 1850s, Daguerreotype, visible: 8.3 x 7 cm (3 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.) each, Photographs, John Adams Whipple (American, 1822–1891), This rare daguerreotype diptych shows Cornelius Conway Felton (1807–1862), Eliot Professor of Greek Literature at Harvard University, reaching for his felt hat and duster. The first son of a poverty-stricken furniture maker, Felton became one of the most renowned classical scholars in the country and, in 1860, Harvard's president
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