George Franklin Grant

George Franklin Grant

Harvard Medical School

Harvard Dental School

Photographs

Freeman, Robert Tanner

Dr. George Franklin Grant (1847-1910) of Oswego, New York, received a degree from the Harvard Dental School in 1870 and then joined the faculty as an authority on mechanical dentistry. He was the first African-American faculty member at the university and remembered today for his invention and patenting of the golf tee.

Albumen print of George Franklin Grant, the first African-American faculty member

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1870

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Harvard Dental School Class Pictures (DD1870.B10)

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1 albumen print

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Gift of Dr. Charles Wilson to the Harvard Dental School, 1894