Houghton Library
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of John DePol prints and proofs
Prints and proofs of work by American engraver and illustrator, John DePol.
De Ricci Census and Supplement Manuscript Department records
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
Blotter art from various artists.
Houghton Library collection of anti-nuclear protest armbands
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
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
Contains piloting licenses for John Thomas (Navy agent) and Thomas Clarke.
Houghton Library collection of Ludwig Mestler papers
Houghton Library collection of papers of Austrian American artist Ludwig Mestler.
Houghton Library collection of medals and seals
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
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
Printing ephemera from individual printers and grouped in categories.
Houghton Library collection of sheet music related to Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War
Collection of American sheet music about Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, including both Union and Confederate imprints.
Houghton Library collection of Sumneriana
A collection of items honoring statesman Charles Sumner.
Houghton Library collection of Tennessee Williams typescript compositions
Typescripts of compositions by Tennessee Williams collected by the Houghton Library.
Houghton Library collection of World War II propaganda and ephemera
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
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
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 collections of unknown provenance
Houghton Library opening gala photographs and other records
Records relating to the gala for the opening of the Houghton Library in 1942.
Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z and unidentified
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
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
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
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
Papers of philanthropist and art collector, Susan Morse Hilles.
Reproductions of Houghton Library collection material
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
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.