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Old 05-26-2011, 11:13 PM
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Originally Posted by scooter729 View Post
One other thought - Marlboro Mass. is about 40-45 minutes west of Harvard, while Boston is about 10 minutes away. So if (esp. in the 1870s-1880s) one were looking for a photographer, proximity would be of the utmost importance.

With a large number of photography studios in Boston (and in Cambridge) at the time, I would see it strange to use a photographer located so far away from Harvard.
I was thinking it might be a reference to Harvard, Mass (the town), which is a bit closer to Marlborough.
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