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Clara Swigart De Windt collection of American sheet music

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Multiple ContainersIdentifier: 2015T-60
Summary: American sheet music, probably from the larger collection of Mrs. Heyliger de Windt; chiefly for voice and piano, some for piano solo. Box 1. Popular music (early 1800s to 1870) chiefly published in Boston by Graupner; two books written and published by Gottlieb Graupner in Boston: 1st and 2nd "improved and enlarged" edition of Rudiments of the art of playing on the Piano Forte. Box 2. Music with lyrics by: Mrs. Hemans ; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Oliver Wendell...

Collection of John DePol prints and proofs

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Typ 1225
Overview:

Prints and proofs of work by American engraver and illustrator, John DePol.

De Ricci Census and Supplement Manuscript Department records

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Multiple ContainersIdentifier: 95M-59
General Note:

Annotated typescript (carbon) copy of the Supplement, a list of private collections represented in the Census, and some editorial files from Supplement and Manuscript Department correspondence re: revisions and additions.

Evert Jansen Wendell and Raymond S. Wilkins collection of American sheet music by title

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: 2015T-52
Summary:

Sheet music published in America, chiefly from (but not limited to) the Raymond S. Wilkins and Evert Jansen Wendell collections; for voice and piano, some for piano solo.

Evert Jansen Wendell collection of sheet music with lyrics by Felicia Dorothea Hemans

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 2015T-188
Summary:

American sheet music, scant few published in London; chiefly for voice and piano, some for piano solo, with lyrics by English poet Felicia Dorothea Hemans.

Harvard Theatre Collection of sheet music newspaper supplements

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 2015T-58
Summary:

Music supplements from newspapers in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco; chiefly for voice and piano.

Harvard Theatre Collection of Ukrainian sheet music

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 2015T-187
Summary:

Ukrainian sheet music, in popular and folk idioms; chiefly for voice and piano, some for chorus, some instrumental.

Music published in New York, Jersey City (N.J.), L'viv (Poland, then Ukraine), Ternopilʹ (Ukraine), Kharkiv (Ukraine), Kiev (Ukraine), Warsaw (Poland), and Riga (Latvia); primary publishers include Smolensky (New York) and Torban (L'viv).

Some texts by Taras Shevchenko.

Houghton Library blotter art collection

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 3231
Overview:

Blotter art from various artists.

Houghton Library collection of Cuban slavery documents

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Span 170
Overview:

Documents concerning enslaved persons, slavery, Black Cubans, and related economic factors, collected by Houghton Library.

Documentos sobre personas esclavizadas, la esclavitud, cubanos negros, y factores económicos relacionados, coleccionados por Houghton Library.

Houghton Library collection of historical memorabilia

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Multiple ContainersIdentifier: 2000M-78
Scope and Contents:

Collection is comprised of 18 unrelated objects with a small number of accompanying notes. Items include rings, wooden and brick fragments, cameos, a cane, and a sword.

Houghton Library collection of Ludwig Mestler papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Ger 291
Overview:

Houghton Library collection of papers of Austrian American artist Ludwig Mestler.

Houghton Library collection of medals and seals

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Multiple ContainersIdentifier: 2000M-77
Scope and Contents:

Over 1000 medals, seals, and coins, with a small amount of correspondence, and a clock, dating from the 13th to the 20th centuries from many countries and in many languages.

Houghton Library collection of photographs of Henry Hobson Richardson architectural projects

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Typ 1070
Overview:

Photographs of architectural projects of American architect Henry Hobson Richardson.

Houghton Library collection of printing ephemera

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Typ 1222
Overview:

Printing ephemera from individual printers and grouped in categories.

Houghton Library collection of sheet music related to Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Lincoln 4
Overview:

Collection of American sheet music about Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, including both Union and Confederate imprints.

Houghton Library collection of Sumneriana

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 3258
Overview:

A collection of items honoring statesman Charles Sumner.

Houghton Library collection of Tennessee Williams typescript compositions

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 551
Overview:

Typescripts of compositions by Tennessee Williams collected by the Houghton Library.

Houghton Library collection on Jane Austen

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 3472
Overview:

This collection contains materials inspired by Jane Austen's works.

Houghton Library collection on Louisa May Alcott

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 3466
Overview:

This collection contains materials on Louisa May Alcott and materials inspired by her or her works.

Houghton Library collection on the Houghton Chronicle

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Multiple ContainersIdentifier: 93M-158
Summary:

Includes photographs, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and notes assembled for the 1992 exhibition and publication. Much of this material came from Houghton Librarian William H. Bond and librarian Carolyn Jakeman. Jakeman was the source of the scrapbooks.

Houghton Library opening gala photographs and other records

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 3461
Overview:

Records relating to the gala for the opening of the Houghton Library in 1942.



Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D
Overview:

Index to ownership/provenance information, primarily from printed books, held by Houghton Library.

Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z and unidentified

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z
Overview:

Index to ownership/provenance information primarily from printed books at Houghton Library.

Houghton Library sound recordings for the symposium Rare book and manuscript libraries in the twenty-first century

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: 2003M-42
Summary:

Two sets of master and user tapes of 7 sessions; with two masters and one user tape of guest speaker Don Gifford.