Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration

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The collection consists of seven color 35mm photographic slides of “Tortilla Flats” taken by Wendell Eugene Carter (MBA 1947) (1915-2001) between 1946 and 1947. Carter lived in the housing with his wife Helen and children, Sandra, David, and Karen, while earning his Masters in Business Administration degree at Harvard Business School. The images include several shots of the temporary housing, Carter’s children and friends, and unknown women posing in front of one of the houses.

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The records span the years 1945 to 1971 and document the department’s efforts to both contribute to a better understanding of the usefulness of visual aids in teaching and establish a film archive to complement its pioneering case method teaching.

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Harvard Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) Supply Course applications collection is from the year 1917 and contains application cards from Harvard University ROTC members for a Harvard Business School Supply Course.

Scope and Contents: Typescript memoirs of Albert Lincoln “Bertie” Hoffman (1887-1981), who was a member of the first Harvard Business School class. Hoffman writes about his early years living in Lenox, Massachusetts, New Orleans, France, New York City, and Southampton, Long Island. He details the various schools he attended, including entering Harvard Business School. Other parts of the memoir include daily journals from various cities and countries to which he travelled, select letters he wrote, places he...

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Baker Library holds an extensive collection of industrial film, dating from the 1940s to the 1980s, that documents the development of this genre. The topics of the films include labor and human relations, offering unique insight into industrial relations at this time.