On View
Not on viewProfessor W.T. Harris
DateEarly 1900s
Dimensions24.76 × 15.24 cm (9 3/4 × 6 in.)
Object numberPI1113.0002
DescriptionReproduction of a photograph, mounted on paper. Picture of Professor William Torrey Harris. Harris, a friend of Alcott. Lived in Orchard House. Born at Killingly, CT, Sept. 10, 1835. Superindendent of public schools of St. Louis 1867, founded the "Journal of Speculative Philososphy" in 1867 and became U.S. Commissioner of Education in 1889.