Scope of the Official Correspondence Subseries:: Chiefly incoming and outgoing correspondence of James Bryant Conant during his tenure as President of Harvard University documenting Conant's administrative duties as president as well as his involvement national affairs. Though primarily correspondence, the subseries also includes reports, memoranda, and other documents created and received by Conant in his capacity as Harvard's president and as a member of several national committees. Events relating to Harvard University that...

Scope and Contents: This subseries chiefly chronicles Abbott Lawrence Lowell's activities as a professor at Harvard including his service on committees dedicated to improving the curriculum and stimulating academic achievement among Harvard students; there is very little material in this subseries referring to Lowell's tenure as Harvard president. This subseries offers a glimpse into academic achievement at Harvard and includes a Committee on Academic Distinction report (1907) co-authored by Lowell on academic...

Scope and Content of the Collection: These records document the establishment, organization, and activities of the College Teas Association and its evolution into Harvard Neighbors, as well as the establishment of the Newcomer's Club.  In so doing, these records also document the changing social roles and lives of women at Harvard University, their use of a formal social network, and the experiences of college professors wives in the United States throughout the 20th century. Most of the records document the history...

Scope of the personal and family materials subseries: The notebooks, scrapbooks, daily calendars, photographs, diaries and other assorted materials in this subseries document Conant's life as well as the lives of some of his family members. There are materials from his early school days along with diplomas and other documents marking pivotal events in his life. The daily calendars contain brief entries regarding Conant's appointments. Materials about Conant's family members includes two diaries with brief entries kept by Conant's...

Scope of the High Commissioner and Ambassador to Germany Series:

The series documents Conant's service as United States High Commissioner for Germany and United States Ambassador to Germany. Paper documents include texts of official speeches given by Conant, his travel itineraries and correspondence regarding his arrival and departure in Germany. Other formats found in this series are scrapbooks, photographs, photograph albums, and newspaper clippings (chiefly from German newspapers).

Scope of the Photographic subjects file:

Photographs chiefly depict the Harvard community and its environment, chiefly groups of people or places they inhabit. Some images included here are not photographs. Rarely, images may be other two-dimensional images such as engravings, drawings, or paintings, or photographic reproductions of such two-dimensional artwork.

Scope of the Photographic subjects file:

Photographs chiefly depict the Harvard community and its environment, chiefly groups of people or places they inhabit. Some images included here are not photographs. Rarely, images may be other two-dimensional images such as engravings, drawings, or paintings, or photographic reproductions of such two-dimensional artwork.