Harry Philip Edwards Photograph Collection

Collection

Identifier: MS Coll 148

Staff Only

Scope and Content

Collection contains photographs taken by Harry Philip Edwards during his time as a student of the University of Florida. Subjects include student life on campus, campus buildings, WRUF towers and transcription equipment, and photographs of an alligator being handed to Boston College football coach Paul Curley during the Boston College/UF football game in 1939.

Dates

Creation: 1936 - 1942

Creator

Edwards, Harry Philip, 1916-2015. (Photographer, Person)

Access

University Archives collections are available for research. Portions of the collections may be restricted due to the requirements of applicable state and federal laws, including but not limited to FERPA and HIPAA, and in accordance with best practices as defined by the Society of American Archivists.

Biographical/Historical Note

Harry Philip Edwards (1 May 1916-16 March 2015) was born in New York, but spent some of his early life in Mexico before returning to the United States and settling in Boston, Massachusetts, where he lived for the remainder of his life.

Edwards graduated from the University of Florida in 1938 with his Bachelor of Arts degree, and attended law school at the University of Florida from 1940-1942. After an interruption in his studies due to the outbreak of WWII, Edwards returned to the University of Florida to finish his law degree, graduating in 1945. He was a member of the Beta Theta Pi, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and Phi Alpha Delta fraternities.

After graduation, Edwards returned to Boston and started his own legal practice. He was raised a Mason in St. John's Lodge, Boston, in November 1948, and was a Mason for over 66 years.

Edwards married twice; his first wife, Lucy-Ann (Dick) Edwards in 1951 until her death in 1973 and his second wife, Dr. Sylvia (Meyer) Edwards in 1980 until her death in 2008.

More information may be found in Edwards' obituary.