Harvard University 1636-1936 Tercentenary Poster Print

This listing is for a rare pictorial map created as a tribute to Harvard University's tercentenary. The full title is "A Prospect of Harvard University and of Radcliffe College Cambridge Massachusetts." It shows all of the buildings and surrounding areas of Harvard and Radcliffe College. The work was created in 1935 by the architect Edwin. J. Schruers, who was a professor at Harvard at one time. It measures about 24.25" inches by 33" inches and is in very good overall condition. There is some yellowing on the print, and we notice a tear at the bottom a few inches long. The frame measures about 25" inches by 33.5" inches. This listing has no reserve price so don't miss your chance to win!

If requested by the winning bidder, we may be able to remove this print from its frame and ship it in a tube. If we are able to do this, the shipping charge would be reduced.

From Georgeglazer.com:

Edwin J. Schruers (1903-1994) (after)
A Prospect of Harvard University and of Radcliffe College, Cambridge Massachusetts
The Merrymount Press, Boston, Massachusetts: 1935
Color process print

Pictorial map of the Harvard and Radcliffe campus, dedicated to its graduates in celebration of the university’s tercentenary in 1936 -- the 300th anniversary of its founding in 1636. Illustrations include Brattle Square, the University Museum, Memorial Church, the Yard, Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School, and the Stadium (with a Yale Harvard football game). 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, and is flanked by a professor and graduate. A view of Harvard College in 1726, as well as of a statue of John Harvard, are shown in the upper left. The map’s designer, Edwin J. Schruers, is also credited as the copyright holder.

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.

Edwin J. Schruers was an American architect. He was born in Oil City, Pennsylvania, and received a degree in architecture from Allegheny College. He later taught at Harvard, and produced a pictorial map of the campus, A Prospect of Harvard University and of Radcliffe College, in 1935. In 1938, he designed the set for the W.P.A. Federal Theatre production of George Bernard Shaw’s On the Rocks on Broadway. From 1940 to 1945, Schruers served as a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy. He then spent several years traveling and living in South America, eventually settling in Berkeley, California, where he had his own architectural firm. Another example of his Harvard-Radcliffe map is in the collection of the Library of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.