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| NO. |
PHOTO |
CAPTION |
DATE |
| 1. |
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Sabattus High School portrait of Gleason Archer, who would go on to graduate as valedictorian of the Class of 1902 (1899). |
1899 |
| 2. |
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Gleason Archer, the year of Suffolk’s founding (1906). |
1906 |
| 3. |
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Gleason Archer inscribed this color postcard of the Boston Court House, “Here is where I became a lawyer at 9:30 this morning G.L. Archer August 21 ‘06” (1906). |
1906 |
| 4. |
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The diploma of Roland E. Brown. Brown, a machinist, was a member of the first class and the first Suffolk student to pass the Massachusetts Bar. He accomplished this feat as a junior in 1908. |
1909 |
| 5. |
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Evening school freshmen (1911). |
1911 |
| 6. |
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This building at 45 Mount Vernon Street, Boston, was the Law School’s home beginning in 1914, the year the school received its degree-granting charter and changed its name to Suffolk Law School. Because Archer had mortgaged his home to purchase the building, he and his family moved into the top floor (1914). |
1914 |
| 7. |
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Interior, 45 Mount Vernon Street (1914). |
1914 |
| 8. |
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Thomas Vreeland Jones was one of the first African Americans to graduate from Suffolk Law School, in 1915 at age 40. His family and friends established a scholarship in his memory (1915). |
1915 |
| 9. |
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Suffolk Law School Register (1915). |
1915 |
| 10. |
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Suffolk University grew from humble beginnings in the living room of Gleason Archer’s home in Roxbury. Here, on September 19, 1906, the young lawyer began teaching a handful of workingmen who wished to study law in the evenings (1916). |
1916 |
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