Harvard Divinity School. Photographs, c. 1895-2011.
Overview
This collection consists of photographs, postcards, slides, contact sheets, and negatives of the faculty, students, staff, and facilities of Harvard Divinity School.
Dates
- Creation: 1895-2011
Creator
- Harvard Divinity School (Organization)
Access
There are no restrictions on access to this collection.
Extent
13 boxesThis collection consists of photographs, postcards, slides, contact sheets, and negatives of the faculty, students, staff, and facilities of Harvard Divinity School (HDS). Events such as commencement, faculty convocations, conferences, lectures, and receptions are depicted in many of the photographs. Box 13 contains an album that includes portrait photographs of HDS faculty, students, and Harvard faculty.
Arrangement
Organized into the following series:
- Series I. Faculty (mostly portrait photographs), arranged alphabetically
- Series II. Faculty convocations, arranged chronologically
- Series III. HDS class photographs and informal commencement photographs, arranged chronologically
- Series IV. Student life, arranged chronologically
- Series V. Events, arranged chronologically
- Series VI. Staff, arranged chronologically
- Series VII. Buildings, arranged alphabetically
- Series VIII. Unidentified contact sheets and negatives
Processing Information
Processed by Fran O'Donnell and Joseph Florez, 2013.
Creator
- Harvard Divinity School (Organization)
- Title
- Harvard Divinity School. Photographs, c. 1895-2011: A Finding Aid.
- Author
- Andover-Harvard Theological Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- div00131
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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