Harvard credited its own associate rather than the researcher who actually documented the daguerreotypes

Evidence

In all the reporting I’d read about the provenance of the daguerreotypes, there was mention only of “a Harvard associate” doing the original research, which gave the impression that they sponsored and supported it. I now understood that they had in fact appropriated Ellie’s work—without giving her proper credit! It was more proof that they were trying to cover their own culpability in how these images came into existence. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 746

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s core thesis about how institutions hold stolen things and manage provenance narratives — echoes the institutional self-protection patterns familiar from museum repatriation debates.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how did the reach of Ellie’s study get separated from her name in official Harvard framing? A concrete mechanism of credit-appropriation worth documenting.