Harry probably started school in 1882 at the age of six. The first portrait is of his dress-up for school. His father died in 1885 when Harry was in grade school. The family seems to have done pretty well as documented in these sequence of pictures. Harry graduated from highschool about 1894 and soon after entered Medical School at the State University of Iowa from which he graduated in 1902. The last portrait in this series is about the time he finished his medical education at the age of 26.

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H. N. Anderson in the 1880s

HN Anderson, 1882: Ready for School

HN Anderson, 1888, age 12

HN Anderson Highschool Band Clarinet Player

On the left: Harry ready for first grade. Next at age 12 and in the sixth grade, finally a band member in high school

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Graduation from Highschool, 1894

Portrait commemorating Harry’s graduation from high school about 1894 in Scranton, Iowa.

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In room at State University of Iowa, Iowa City

H. N. Anderson was at the State University of Iowa from 1898 to 1902 when he graduated with an MD degree. As a grandson that was initially interested in going into medicine, I inherited his Grey’s Anatomy with the dates 1898 and 1902 inscribed on an inside page. On the fly leaf H.N. has inscribed:

“Should there be another flood,
To this spot I would fly,
For when all else on earth is wet,
This book will still be dry”

This edition of Gray’s Anatomy was published by Lea Brothers & Co. in 1893. On several pages there are notes made by Harry Anderson. I found it fascinating to compare what was know about the blood and clotting factors in the late 1800s with the research he was engaged in at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 1958-1960.

Among this group of photographs is one with H.N and his classmates in the human anatomy lab with the subject they dissected to learn the parts of the body.

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H. N. Anderson in 1901 or 1902

This portrait may have been taken upon his graduation from the State University of Iowa or upon his marriage in 1905 to Margaret Holmes. I have included it to close H.N.’s academic career.

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