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Found in 81 Collections and/or Records:

Triennial Catalogues Collection

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HU 20.35.1
Overview:

The Triennial Catalogues are chronological and cumulative lists of Harvard graduates published every three years from 1674 to 1875. The Catalogues represent Harvard’s first efforts to comprehensively document its graduates and were considered the official record of degree recipients. This collection contains Triennial Catalogues published during the 17th and 18th centuries. Annotated Triennial Catalogues are cataloged separately.

Harvard-Yale football game, 1986

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives / Sub-Group: Harvard panoramas photographed by Brad LaPayne
Item Identifier: HUV 2386.4, HUV 2386.4 (PA 2)
Depicted:

Harvard-Yale football game of 1986. View is from behind the goal post at the open end of the stadium. Players are on the field and the stands are full of attendees.

Harvardians in the Rebellion of 1861-1865

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 136.112
Overview: The Harvardians in the Rebellion of 1861-1865 scapbooks is comprised of four volumes into which letters, photographs, and ephemera pertaining to Harvard students and alumni serving in the Civil War have been glued. The correspondence in the first three volumes is arranged by Harvard class year, and then alphabetically by last name. The correspondence chiefly falls into two categories: letters accepting or declining the invitation to attend a commemoration ceremony held at Harvard on July 21,...

Leverett Franklin Hooper personal archive

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 317
Overview: This collection contains ephemera, photographs, and related records acquired by Leverett Franklin Hooper while he was a student at Harvard University and serving in the United States Army during World War I. The bulk of the records date from 1914 to 1919 documenting Hooper’s involvement in World War I as a first lieutenant and member of the United States Army 351st Field Artillery Regiment. Also included is Hooper’s Harvard College undergraduate diploma (AB 1915), and Harvard diplomas for...

Fotis C. Kafatos personal archive

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 287
Overview: Fotis C. Kafatos (1940-2017) was professor of Biology at Harvard University (1969-1994) and chair of the Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology (1978-1981). The Fotis C. Kafatos personal archive chiefly contains Kafatos’s class notes taken while he was a student at Cornell University (1958-1961) and Harvard University (1961-1963) primarily in the fields of biology and zoology, and his Harvard University lecture notes from 1965 to 1990 that he used in his biology classes. Also...

Photographs of the Harvard College Class of 1920 and the Harvard gymnastics team collected by Moses Kopel

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 316
Scope and Contents: The collection contains four black and white photographs, including three panoramic photographs, collected by Moses Kopel who attended Harvard College from 1916 to 1918 as a member of the Harvard College Class of 1920.The photographs include a group portrait of the Harvard College gymnastics team, circa 1916-1918; a panoramic photograph of members of the Harvard College Class of 1920 as freshmen in 1916, taken outside of Gore Hall; a panoramic photograph of the Harvard College...

Harvard panoramas photographed by Brad LaPayne

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Sub-Group Identifier: HUV 2386.4
Overview:

The panoramic photographs depict Harvard Yard, Harvard Square, and a football game.

Frank A. Loda personal archive

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 286
Abstract: Frank Aloysius Loda, Jr., (born 1934), physician and professor, received his AB (1956) from Harvard University and his MD (1960) from Vanderbilt University (four years in medical school and one year as an intern in pediatrics). The collection contains approximately 550 letters and postcards from Loda to his family in Texarkana, Arkansas. The letters and postcards document Loda’s experiences as an undergraduate student at Harvard University from 1952 to 1956, and his post-graduate studies...

Letters from Francis P. Magoun, Jr. to Rudolf Hertz

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 331
Overview: The collection contains correspondence from Francis P. Magoun, Jr. to his friend Professor Rudolf Hertz from 1946-1953. Most of the letters discuss personal and family matters, while some letters include Magoun’s comments on the political volatility that existed during the Cold War in the 1950s, particularly the Cold War with the Soviet Union and United States involvement in the Korean War. Little in these letters chronicle Magoun’s teaching at Harvard University. Francis Peabody Magoun,...

Records of the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, 1933-2008 (inclusive), 1960-1999 (bulk)

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: RG XXVIII
Overview:

Records of the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute contain the office files of the deans and directors of the Institute: Constance E. Smith, Alice Kimball Smith, Susan Storey Lyman (Acting Director), Patricia Albjerg Graham, Marion Kilson, Mary Baughman Anderson (Acting Director), and Margaret McKenna.

Papers of Donald Howard Menzel, 1931-1986

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUG 4567
Overview: Donald Howard Menzel (1901-1976) taught astronomy at Harvard, and was director of the Harvard College Observatory from 1952 to 1966. According to the National Academy of Sciences' Biographical Memoir, "Menzel was one of the first practitioners of theoretical astrophysics in the United States and pioneered the application of quantum mechanics to astronomical spectroscopy." These papers chiefly document Menzel's professional life of research, writing, and participation in professional...

André Morize personal archive

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUG 4582
Overview: André Morize (1883-1957), professor and French military captain, taught military science and French literature at Harvard from 1918 until his retirement in 1950. He served in an infantry regiment of the French Army from 1914 to 1917, as sergeant, lieutenant, and captain. In the 1920s, Morize established the French Summer School at Middlebury College, where he served as director until 1946. The collection consists of photographs, memorabilia, correspondence, writings, teaching and research...

Nathan Dane papers

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 2147275
Overview:

Contains correspondence to and from a variety of individuals regarding Dane's law practice and his endowments to Harvard University for professorships in natural history and in law.

Papers of Anthony Oettinger

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUGFP 59
Overview:

The collection contains a portion of the professional papers of Anthony Gervin Oettinger (1929- ) who teaches applied mathematics and information resources policy at Harvard University. Dr. Oettinger's research interests have expanded to include not only computer science, but the social and political aspects of computers as they relate to communication and information policy.

Leonard Opdycke lecture notes

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUGB 0677.40
Scope and Contents: Collection contains Opdycke’s lecture notes, course handouts, exams, and a few student papers for art history courses that Opdycke taught at Harvard from the 1930s through the early 1960s. Most lecture notes are handwritten; handouts and exams are mimeograph copies of typescript. Decriptive course titles were derived from Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Courses of instruction....

Papers of Jean Tepperman, 1974-1975

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: MC 366
Overview:

Transcripts of interviews with clerical workers, notes, questionnaires, etc., of Jean Tepperman, poet, teacher, writer, and secretary.

Papers of Lucretia Mott Churchill Jordan, 1882-1922

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: 83-M77--83-M103
Overview:

Scrapbook, programs, journal, etc,. of Lucretia Mott Churchill Jordan, great-granddaughter of abolitionist Lucretia Mott.

Henry Bromfield Pearson letters to his parents

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUD 815.69
Overview: Henry Bromfield Pearson (1795-1867), a lawyer who practiced in Philadelphia and Boston, was the son of Eliphalet Pearson, Harvard’s second Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages from 1786 to 1806, the College’s interim President from 1804 to 1806, and a member of the Harvard Corporation. After beginning his studies at Yale College as a member of the Class of 1815, Pearson entered Harvard College as a senior in 1815 and graduated with an A.B in 1816. All letters in this...

Papers of William Dandridge Peck

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUG 1677
Overview: William Dandridge Peck (1763-1822) was the first Massachusetts Professor of Natural History at Harvard. The Papers of William Dandridge Peck contain his personal and professional correspondence, travel journals, lectures, writings, and botanical and zoological drawings, dated 1775-1822. The collection also includes an obituary notice and auction catalogue of Peck’s library and research notes and transcripts of letters and journals of Peck by biographer Thomas Barbour, created circa...

Photographic views of Winthrop House

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUV 660
Overview:

John Winthrop House, established in 1931, is one of the student residential houses in Harvard University's house system. The two buildings that make up Winthrop House are Gore Hall and Standish Hall, which were both freshman dormitories before being incorporated into one administrative entity in 1931. This collection holds a visual record of Winthrop House's buildings, grounds, and surroundings from 1913 to 1957.

Records of Radcliffe College President Matina Horner, 1972-1989

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: RG II, Series 5
Overview:

Official Radcliffe College correspondence, reports, minutes, etc. of Matina Horner, professor and sixth president of Radcliffe College.

Henry Edwards Scott personal archive

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 319
Overview:

This collection chiefly chronicles Henry Edwards Scott, Jr. (1900-1990) studies in the fields of chemistry, engineering sciences, English, mathematics, physics, and music at Harvard University primarily from 1918 to 1922, and his participation in student organizations including the Pi Eta Club and the Harvard Glee Club. A drawing and a commercial advertisement demonstrate Scott’s career as an artist.

Conrad Louis Benoni Shuddemagen mathematical and physics lecture notebooks

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 167
Overview: Conrad L.B. Shudeman, physicist and philosopher, born Conrad Louis Benoni Shuddemagen, earned his SB (1902) and SM (1904) at the University of Texas. After completing his PhD at Harvard (1908), Shudeman accepted a faculty appointment at the University of Texas, serving as a physics instructor until 1910. The collection contains mathematical and physics notebooks kept by Shudeman while a PhD student at Harvard University from 1904 to 1908. The notebooks offer an overview of Shudeman’s...

Lawrence G. Smith personal archive

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 260
Overview: The Lawrence G. Smith personal archive documents his academic and social experiences as a Harvard undergraduate, a graduate student, his career as a bank officer, and as a Harvard alumnus from 1955 to 2021. Records include Smith's personal correspondence, diaries, and Harvard College Class of 1959 reunion memorabilia. Lawrence George Smith was a senior bank Vice-President. He received his Harvard AB in 1959, his AM in 1964, and his PhD in the history of American civilization from Harvard in...

[Stanford baseball team], 1934 Digital

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives / Collection: The Henry Chauncey Collection of film and photographs from the Harvard baseball team's tour of Japan / Series: Film reels
Item — Box 2, Reel: 9Identifier: HUM 187
Scope and Contents: Twelve minutes and fifty-five seconds of footage showing a group of men, presumably the Harvard baseball team and staff, doing a variety of activities, including boarding a bus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, throwing around a baseball on the side of a road, boarding a train, and playing a baseball game, possibly against Stanford University. Footage then shows the group en route to Hawaii, aboard the M.S. Tatsuta Maru, posing for photographs with the ship's crew. Upon...
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