Scope and Contents
Audio recordings of lectures, events, chapel services, and sermons held at Harvard Divinity School, 1950-1971. The collection also contains student practice sermons from 1956-1968.
Dates
- Creation: 1950-1971
Conditions Governing Access
Digitized material is open for research. Use of original audiotape reels, audiocassettes, and compact discs is restricted. The audiotape reels, audiocassettes, and compact discs in this collection must be digitized prior to research use. The student sermons in boxes 14-19 are restricted for 80 years from the date the sermon was given.
Extent
19 cubic feet (19 boxes)681 audiotape reels (600, 900, and 1200 foot reels)
2 audiocassettes
16 compact discs
Arrangement
This collection is arranged alphabetically by speaker or event name. Some recordings are listed under both the name of the lecture or event and the name of the speaker, resulting in duplicate entries for the same item.
Processing Information
This finding aid was migrated as part of the legacy finding aid project, 2023-2024. Materials were not reviewed as part of this project to verify accuracy of the existing description. In order to make finding aids compliant with DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), some titles have been updated, and in cases where no date information appeared in the legacy finding aid, the material was designated undated.
- Title
- Harvard Divinity School audio reels, 1950-1971.
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- div00613
Repository Details
Part of the Harvard Divinity School Library, Harvard University Repository
Special Collections at Harvard Divinity School Library preserves and makes accessible primary source materials documenting the history of religion and theology, with particular historical emphasis on American liberal religious traditions. Though the historical strengths of the collections have been in the field of Christianity, other religious traditions are increasingly reflected, in step with Harvard Divinity School's evolving focus on global religious studies. Known as Andover-Harvard Theological Library since 1911, it was renamed the Harvard Divinity School Library in 2021.
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