Harvard pressured the employee who exposed the daguerreotypes into leaving by 1978.

Evidence

A year after Ellie’s piece was published, the museum made it impossible for her to continue working there. “The director wanted her to do clerical work,” Dr. Reichlin said. She wound up leaving the museum in 1978. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 763

Categorization

• XREF: Strong parallel to institutional retaliation protecting reputation — echoes the fate of whistleblowers in “Troubling Transparency” (FOIA exemptions) and how institutions hold stolen things.