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Found in 73 Collections and/or Records:

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...

Joseph LeVow Steinberg personal archive

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 335
Overview: The Joseph LeVow Steinberg personal archive contains correspondence and student materials chronicling Steinberg’s academic and social life at Harvard College from 1952 to 1959. Also included are Harvard ephemera collected by Steinberg both as a student and alumnus from 1936 to 2012 which document his participation in sport and cultural activities at Harvard College as well as his life-long interest in events at Harvard. Joseph LeVow Steinberg (born 1934), an attorney, received an AB from...

Papers of Stanley Smith Stevens, 1931-1973

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUGFP 2 and HUGBS 837.72
Overview:

Stanley Smith Stevens (1906-1973) was a physicist and professor at Harvard University. He was an authority on the physics of sensory perception, especially hearing. He was director of the Psycho-Acoustics Laboratory and the Psychophysics Laboratory at Harvard. This collection documents Stevens' research and professional activities.

Joseph Vera collection of Harvard memorabilia

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 321
Overview: This collection documents Joseph Vera’s association with the Harvard fencing team, the Harvard Glee Club, his participation in Class of 1950 reunions, and his attendance at athletic events including Harvard football games. Joseph Sequeira Vera (1928-2018), a lawyer, received an AB from Harvard University (1950), a Juris Doctor from Boston University (1953), and a Master of Laws from Georgetown University (1955). He practiced law in New Bedford, Massachusetts from 1954-1970 before accepting...

Langdon Warner personal archive

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUG 4872.1010
Overview: Langdon Warner (1881-1955) was a curator of Far Eastern Art at Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum from 1923 to 1950, and was an advisor to the United States military on Far Eastern shrines and art centers in World War II. The Langdon Warner personal archive documents Warner's career as a curator, art historian, and lecturer and illustrates his roles as an authority on Asian art and culture, especially on Japanese and Chinese art and culture. The collection provides a view of United...

George Williamson personal archive Digital

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 126
Overview:

George Williamson, a member of the Harvard College Class of 1905, was the first Harvard alumnus to die while serving in the First World War. The archive consists of letters Williamson wrote while a Harvard undergraduate, military medals awarded to him, and letters documenting his wartime service.

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