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Administrative records of the Harvard Athletic Association

Sub-Series Identifier: UAV 170.xx
Overview:

The Harvard Athletic Association was formed in 1874, and in 1951 became the Harvard University Department of Athletics. This collection contains some of the earliest administrative records of the Association.

Records of the Harvard Athletic Association : team photographs, 1868-1947

Sub-Series Identifier: UAV 170.270.2
Overview:

The Harvard Athletic Association was formed in 1874, and in 1951 became the Harvard University Department of Athletics. Team photographs were taken almost as early as teams formed. These photographs contain some of the earliest group portraits of Harvard athletic teams. The 19th-century and early 20th-century team photographs appear to be photographic duplicates of earlier photographs. Paper lists of the individuals depicted accompany many of the images.

Records of the Harvard Athletic Association : team photographs, 1934-1956

Sub-Series Identifier: UAV 170.270
Overview:

The Harvard Athletic Association was formed in 1874 and in 1951 became the Harvard University Department of Athletics. Team photographs were taken almost as early as teams formed.

Records of the Harvard Biblical Club, 1881-1919.

Collection Identifier: HUD 3211
Overview: The Harvard Biblical Club (known as the Harvard Semitic Club until December 3, 1881) was founded on January 22, 1881 by Crawford Howell Toy, Harvard University Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages and Dexter Lecturer, as a Protestant biblical study group whose object was the study of the Old and New Testaments. The records are organized in three series: General Information about the Harvard Biblical Club, Meeting Minutes, and Papers presented to the Harvard Biblical...

Records of the Harvard Black Students Association, 1977-2005, and undated

Collection Identifier: HUD 3222.5000
Overview:

The Harvard Black Students Association, also known as the BSA, was established during the 1976-1977 academic year. The records document the history, activities, and interests of this group.

Records of the Harvard Chemical Club, 1879-1901.

Collection Identifier: HUD 3274.5000
Overview:

The Harvard Chemical Club (also known as the Cambridge Chemical Club) was organized on December 22, 1879 to advance the study of chemistry at Harvard University. The records are organized in two series: Letter from Kenneth L. Mark and Meeting minutes.

Records of the Harvard Chinese Students' Club, 1908-1913, and 1933-1946

Collection Identifier: HUD 3277.3000
Overview:

The Harvard Chinese Students' Club held its first meeting 24 October 1908. The records document the history, activities, and interests of this group, as well as the history of Chinese students at Harvard.

Records of the Harvard Club of Boston, 1908-1990 (inclusive)

Collection Identifier: HUD 3227
Overview:

An organization of Harvard alumni living in and around Boston, Massachusetts, the Harvard Club of Boston was founded on March 19, 1908. The records document the history, activities, and interests of the Club.

Records of the Harvard Club of Chicago

Collection Identifier: HUD 3276.7000
Overview:

The Harvard Club of Chicago, founded in 1857, is the oldest of Harvard’s alumni clubs still in existence. The Club celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2007. The records document the history, activities, and interests of the Club, and include general information, a small amount of correspondence and minutes, and directories of members.

Records of the Harvard Club, 1855-1858 and 1933

Collection Identifier: HUD 3226
Overview:

The short-lived Harvard Club (1855-1857), based in Boston, was the first of Harvard's alumni clubs. The Club records document the history, activities, and interests of the Club, and include general information, correspondence, meeting minutes, financial records, and committee records.

Harvard College admission lists

Collection Identifier: UAIII 15.5.1
Overview:

This collection contains handwritten lists of Harvard freshmen entering the College in the years 1743-1753, 1758, and 1760-1764 which correspond to the Harvard Classes of 1747-1757, 1762, and 1764-1768. The admission lists provide the first documentary evidence of a student's life at Harvard and were presumably created in the early days of the fall semester.

District reports created by the Scholars of the House

Collection Identifier: UAIII 15.22
Overview: The Scholars of the House were students appointed by the Harvard Corporation in the 17th and 18th centuries to monitor the buildings, rooms, and fences of the College, and to provide a quarterly accounting to the Treasurer of damages and perpetrators. The collection contains the quarterly district reports created by the Scholars of the House from 1738-1769 documenting the occupants of Harvard's dormitories and providing information about the physical design, use, and upkeep of the College's...

Records of the Associate Dean of Harvard College in Charge of Alumni Placement and Student Employment, 1934-1942

Record Group Identifier: UAIII 5.76
Overview:

The office of Associate Dean of Harvard College in Charge of Alumni Placement and Student Employment existed from 1935-1943. Its only office holder was George F. Plimpton. These records document Plimpton's administrative activities which included not only alumni and student job placement but also encompassed freshman advising, administration of scholarships for German refugees, and United States Army Air Corps intelligence officer placement.

Letters to Lemuel Shaw

Collection Identifier: HUD 200.505
Overview:

This collection contains letters to Lemuel Shaw, dated 1798-1857, from five other members of the Harvard College class of 1800: Timothy Boutelle, Timothy Flint, Abiel Holbrook, William Sawyer, and Daniel Kimball. A folder enclosed with the correspondence indicates Shaw was on a committee to collect biographical information on the class of 1800, and these letters, which date from their college days until late adulthood, may have been used to compile a class book.

Harvard College Class of 1822 Class Book, 1822-1852.

Record Group Identifier: HUD 222.714
Overview:

This volume was maintained by Class Secretary Nathaniel I. Bowditch. The volume is a highly selective scrapbook containing biographical information on class members and minutes of class meetings.

Harvard College Class of 1843 class book, 1843-1910.

Record Group Identifier: HUD 243.714F
Overview:

The Class Book of 1843 contains biographical entries for nearly all members of the Class of 1843, many of them written by the students themselves. Broad portraits of undergraduate life are not found in these pages; they consist mainly of biographical facts and anecdotes. The Class Book also contains the Class Oration and Class Poem, as well as the minutes of Class Meetings and Suppers.

Harvard College Class of 1844 photograph album, compiled 1867-1895

Sub-Series Identifier: HUD 244.704
Overview:

The album contains photographs of nearly all members of the Harvard College Class of 1844. There is chiefly one image per person. Some are reproducations of images from the sitter’s student days, some are probably contemporary with the receipt of the request for the photograph. Wheelright’s notes on the receipt of each image are pasted in at the front of the album.

Class Book, 1848-1899

Record Group Identifier: HUD 248.714 F
Overview:

Records of the Class of 1848 containing biographical information on class members and minutes of class meetings.

Class Book, 1852-1908.

Record Group Identifier: HUD 252.714 F
Overview:

Members of the Class of 1852 fought on both sides in the Civil War and most lived to witness the rise of Harvard from a semi-rural college to a national institution. There are no great events recorded here, only telling details, often recorded in faint pencil: "1863 July 4-Died of wound rec'd July 2 at Gettysburg." This volume is part of the official records of the class, containing biographical information on class members, minutes of class meetings, and records of class suppers.

Daguerreotypes of members of the Harvard College Class of 1852

Sub-Series Identifier: HUD 252.716
Overview:

Harvard College graduating classes created records of the class as both a group and as individuals that followed them through their years at Harvard and beyond into their lives as alumni. The Class of 1852 was the first to use photography as a means of record-keeping. Class members posed for photographer John Adams Whipple, and the 83 sixth-plate daguerreotypes Whipple produced were stored together.

Harvard College Class of 1857 Class Book, 1853-1910.

Record Group Identifier: HUD 257.714 F
Overview:

The volume forms part of the Records of the Harvard College Class of 1857. It contains biographical information on class members and minutes of class meetings.

Class Book, 1863-1924.

Record Group Identifier: HUD 264.714
Overview:

The volume holds the records of the class from graduation in 1864 through the 1923-1924 academic year. The biographical entries form the largest portion of the Class Book.

Harvard College Class of 1864 Class album, 1864.

Series Identifier: HUD 264.04 A
Overview:

This volume is part of a series of Harvard class photograph albums, which may be considered the nineteenth-century counterpart to yearbooks.  This volume contains photographs of instructors and administrators, class members, the campus and environs, and a few other individuals who drew the notice of the album's compiler.

Class album, 1867.

Series Identifier: HUD 267.04.3
Overview:

This volume is part of a series of Harvard class photograph albums, which may be considered the nineteenth-century counterpart to yearbooks.  This volume contains photographs of instructors and administrators, class members, the campus and environs, and a few other individuals who drew the notice of the album's compiler.