Description

Group portrait of ten of MIT's earliest students. In the front row, from left to right: Robert Hallowell Richards, Josiah A. Osgood, Charles T. Lee, and William Tryon. In the back row, from left to right: John Rayner Edmands, W. P. G. Hayward, Samuel Cabot Jr., Charles B. Fillebrown, Ernest W. Bowditch, and Frank Wells. Original caption: "Ten of the early students at M.I.T. were, left to right: front row, Robert H. Richards, '68; Josiah A. Osgood, '70; Charles T. Lee, '68; and William Tryon, '69; rear row, John Rayner Edmands, '69; W. P. G. Hayward, '70; Samuel Cabot, Jr., '70; C. B. Fillebrown, '69; Ernest W. Bowditch, '69; and Frank Wells, '70."