Harvard College Library
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
Bookplates, approximately 1897-approximately 1932.
Bookplates designating book funds and collections from some of Harvard University's libraries. Bookplates are chiefly from libraries that are administrative units of the Harvard College Library.
Harvard College Library deposit cards for special gifts
Collection includes index cards listing contents of materials deposited, and sometimes also donor information, restrictions, notes, and often includes letters relating to the collection. Many collections and books listed in these entries eventually became part of Houghton library when the Widener Library Treasure Room collection was transferred to Houghton; some of the materials were transferred elsewhere.
Early Catalogs and Shelflists of the Harvard College Library
Early Harvard College Librarian's papers
Harvard College Library bills and list of books purchased, 1877-1971
Harvard College Library Catalogue Department subject files: Thomas Franklin Currier, 1894-1952
Harvard College Library Circulation and Reference letters, 1919-1976
This collection is comprised of correspondence of the Circulation and Reference Department of the Harvard College Library from 1919 to 1976. Correspondence is arranged in groups by academic year, and within groups, alphabetically by last name of correspondent. Topics presumably reflect the reference inquiries of particular correspondents.
Harvard Library Director Records: Alfred Claghorn Potter general files
Alfred Claghorn Potter became Director of the Harvard Library in 1928. These records date from his administration of the Harvard libraries.
Harvard College Library letters
Lists of books donated to the Harvard College Library by Thomas Hollis
Lists of donations to the Harvard College Library, [1782]-1863
Consists of manuscript lists of donations to the Harvard College Library from 1782 to 1863. Also includes scattered correspondence with donors offering books and other items to the Harvard College Library, and a compilation of donations to the Harvard College Library from 1770 to 1840 that was printed in Josiah Quincy's The History of Harvard University, published in 1840.
Harvard College Library Order Department letters, 1881-1976
Outgoing Harvard College Library correspondence (copybooks)
Copies of letters sent from the Harvard College Library.
Harvard College Library printing plates and blocks used in the production of bookplates
This collection consists of engraved printing plates and blocks created for the production of bookplates for the Harvard College Library from the the mid-eighteenth through mid-twentieth centuries. Most plates and blocks indicate the names of donors and specified funds for Harvard College Library acquisitions. A limited amount of sample bookplates and related correspondence is also included in the collection.
Records of books spared from 1764 Harvard Hall fire and subsequent gifts
Records of the Harvard College Library: Borrowing privileges correspondence
This collection contains correspondence to the Harvard College librarian asking for book borrowing privileges, primarily from faculty and other individuals with a connection to the college, dated 1775 to circa 1826, and a 20th century dealer catalog entry for a 1764 letter related to donated volumes. The records include the borrower's name, the titles of the books borrowed, the date of loans, and in some cases, the return of books.
Records of the Harvard College Library : Library charging records, 1762-1897.
These records document book borrowing from the Harvard College Library from 1762 to 1897. Book borrowers include Harvard faculty and students, tutors, overseers, proctors, administrators, employees, and prominent clergy, jurists, lawyers, doctors, and educators with connections to Harvard University. The records offer insight into the reading habits and intellectual life of New England's most educated thinkers.
Records of the Harvard College Library: William Coolidge Lane general files
Mechanicals and related records for Five centuries of books and manuscripts in modern Greek
Mechanicals and related materials for an exhibition catalog written by Evro Layton and produced by the Harvard College Library.
Papers of Florence May Wyman Currier, 1898-1966
Diaries, school reports, reading log, "cheer" book, and photograph album of Florence May Wyman Currier, Radcliffe College Class of 1903.
Proofs and related material for Illuminated & Calligraphic Manuscripts
Proofs and related material for the exhibition catalog, Illuminated & Calligraphic Manuscripts.