School photography--Massachusetts--Boston--History--19th century
Photography--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century
Aristocracy (Social class)--History--19th century--Pictorial works
"This is the first study to explore the connections between late-19th-century university/college composite class portraits and the field of Eugenics--which first took hold in the United States at Harvard University. Eugenics, 'Aristogenics', Photography takes a closer look at how composite portraiture documented an idealized "reality" of the New England social-caste experience and explains how, when positioned in relation to the individual stories and portraits of members of the class, the portraits reveal points of non-conformity and rebellion with their own rhetoric"--