Robert Tanner Freeman

Robert Tanner Freeman

Harvard Medical School

Harvard Dental School

Photographs

Freeman, Robert Tanner

Part of a set of photographs of members of the first graduates of the Harvard Dental School, this image of Robert Tanner Freeman (d. 1873) is particularly interesting. Dr. Freeman was born in Washington, D.C., and was the son of former slaves from North Carolina. After attending classes in the Harvard Medical School, he became, in 1869, the first African-American to graduate from the Harvard Dental School and is believed to be the first to be awarded a dental degree in the United States.

Albumen print of Dental School graduate Robert Tanner Freeman

Unknown

1869

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Harvard Dental School Class Pictures (DD1869.B10)

image

1 albumen print

still image

Gift of Dr. Thomas Fillebrown to the Harvard Dental School, 1894