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Houghton Library

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Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

Collection of John DePol prints and proofs

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Typ 1225
Overview:

Prints and proofs of work by American engraver and illustrator, John DePol.

De Ricci Census and Supplement Manuscript Department records

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Multiple ContainersIdentifier: 95M-59
General Note:

Annotated typescript (carbon) copy of the Supplement, a list of private collections represented in the Census, and some editorial files from Supplement and Manuscript Department correspondence re: revisions and additions.

Houghton Library blotter art collection

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 3231
Overview:

Blotter art from various artists.

Houghton Library collection of anti-nuclear protest armbands

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 3354
Overview:

Contains six linen armbands, with text and decorative elements, used at anti-nuclear protests against power plants at Seabrook (New Hampshire), Shoreham (New York), and Dauphin County (Pennsylvania).

Houghton Library collection of Cuban slavery documents

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Span 170
Overview:

Documents concerning enslaved persons, slavery, Black Cubans, and related economic factors, collected by Houghton Library.

Documentos sobre personas esclavizadas, la esclavitud, cubanos negros, y factores económicos relacionados, coleccionados por Houghton Library.

Houghton Library collection of documents granting license to pilot ships in Chesapeake Bay area

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Volume 1Identifier: 93M-191
Summary:

Contains piloting licenses for John Thomas (Navy agent) and Thomas Clarke.

Houghton Library collection of Ludwig Mestler papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Ger 291
Overview:

Houghton Library collection of papers of Austrian American artist Ludwig Mestler.

Houghton Library collection of medals and seals

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Multiple ContainersIdentifier: 2000M-77
Scope and Contents:

Over 1000 medals, seals, and coins, with a small amount of correspondence, and a clock, dating from the 13th to the 20th centuries from many countries and in many languages.

Houghton Library collection of miscellaneous letters, check, and coat-of-arms

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Volume 1Identifier: 93M-175
Summary:

Contains letter by William? Strong, Librarian to the Duke of Devonshire, June 8, 1907; coat-of-arms of Edward Craven Hawtren; bank check, May 5, 1892; letter from E. Menken, bookseller; and printed sheet re: Library of B. H. Bright, Esq.

Houghton Library collection of printing ephemera

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Typ 1222
Overview:

Printing ephemera from individual printers and grouped in categories.

Houghton Library collection of sheet music related to Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Lincoln 4
Overview:

Collection of American sheet music about Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, including both Union and Confederate imprints.

Houghton Library collection of Sumneriana

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 3258
Overview:

A collection of items honoring statesman Charles Sumner.

Houghton Library collection of Tennessee Williams typescript compositions

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 551
Overview:

Typescripts of compositions by Tennessee Williams collected by the Houghton Library.

Houghton Library collection of World War II propaganda and ephemera

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 3391
Overview:

Contains propaganda from World War II and the surrounding years, mainly from the United States, the Nazis in Germany and across the territories they occupied during the war, and the United Kingdom, among other countries, as well as some related ephemera.

Houghton Library collection on Ralph Waldo Emerson bicentennial

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Volume 1Identifier: 2007M-35
Summary:

Chiefly printed programs, articles, and mementos, some produced by the Emerson Bicentennial Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Association; with several photographs.

Houghton Library collection on the Houghton Chronicle

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Multiple ContainersIdentifier: 93M-158
Summary:

Includes photographs, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and notes assembled for the 1992 exhibition and publication. Much of this material came from Houghton Librarian William H. Bond and librarian Carolyn Jakeman. Jakeman was the source of the scrapbooks.

Houghton Library opening gala photographs and other records

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 3461
Overview:

Records relating to the gala for the opening of the Houghton Library in 1942.



Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z and unidentified

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z
Overview:

Index to ownership/provenance information primarily from printed books at Houghton Library.

Houghton Library sound recordings for the symposium Rare book and manuscript libraries in the twenty-first century

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box 1Identifier: 2003M-42
Summary:

Two sets of master and user tapes of 7 sessions; with two masters and one user tape of guest speaker Don Gifford.

Jane M. Rabb collection on Literature and photography: interactions, 1840-1990

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box 1Identifier: 2008MH-2
Summary:

Photographic prints and negatives obtained from many sources; copies of printed articles; and copies of the printed exhibition catalog.

Mechanicals and related records for Five centuries of books and manuscripts in modern Greek

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 3149
Overview:

Mechanicals and related materials for an exhibition catalog written by Evro Layton and produced by the Harvard College Library.

Papers of Susan Hilles Morse, 1839-2002

Collection Identifier: MC 463: T-280
Overview:

Papers of philanthropist and art collector, Susan Morse Hilles.

Reproductions of Houghton Library collection material

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: Negative File
Scope and Contents:

Photographic negatives, color transparencies, slides, photo CDs, and digital film of individual pages or whole works from Houghton's collections, occasionally accompanied by black and white prints and related material; most are identified by call number written on the media or on accompanying notes.

Subversion in the Houghton Library collection

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 2963
Overview:

Various materials relating to the Houghton Library staff's production of a 1953 radio-play Subversion in the Houghton Library and the 1954 Houghton Movie.