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
33 x 24.25 inches black border
33.5 x 24.75 inches overall
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Harvard University & Radcliffe College
Tercentenary Pictorial Map
Tercentenary Pictorial Map
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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.
References:
Farran, Don. “Recollections of the Federal Theatre.” Books at Iowa 18. University of Iowa. April 1973. Online at University of Iowa Special Collections. http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/Bai/farran.htm (25 July 2006).
Mitchell, Priscilla. “Re: Harvard-Radcliffe Prospect.” E-mail. 29 May 2007.
Smith, Murphy D. “Realms of Gold: A Catalogue of Maps in the Library of the American Philosophical Society. Part II: Printed Maps -- New England.” American Philosophical Society. http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/r/rogprintedmaps10b1.htm (25 July 2006).