Collection of visual material relating to the Woodberry Poetry Room
Scope and Contents
Drawings and photographs portraying the Woodberry Poetry Room and its staff and other significant figures received from various sources at various times.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1960s-1980s
Language of Materials
Collection material is in English.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Extent
.08 linear feet (1 box)Biographical / Historical
The Woodberry Poetry Room is a special collections reading room and audio-visual archive at Harvard University, located in Lamont Library in a room designed by renowned Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.
Arrangement
Arranged in series by format; in no order within series.
Physical Location
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Custodial History
Gift of various sources at various times.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2018M-31. Received from various sources at various times.
Processing Information
Minimally processed by Melanie Wisner.
Subject
- Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library) (Organization)
- Packard, Frederick C. (Frederick Clifton) (Person)
- Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976 (Person)
- Sweeney, Máire (Person)
- Title
- Collection of visual materials relating to the Woodberry Poetry Room (MS Am 3147): Guide.
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Melanie Wisner
- Date
- 9/20/2017
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- Edition statement
- Updated 2017 September 21.
- EAD ID
- hou02843
Repository Details
Part of the Houghton Library Repository
Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
Houghton Library’s Reading Room is free and open to all who wish to use the library’s collections.
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