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Photographic views of Memorial Hall

Collection Identifier: HUV 166
Overview: Located just north of Harvard Yard, Memorial Hall is a memorial constructed between 1870 and 1877 to honor Harvard University students and alumni who had been killed while fighting for the Union cause during the Civil War. In addition, Memorial Hall contains Annenberg Hall (formerly Alumni Hall), which has served as student commons and a multi-use venue for exams, dances, and banquets; and Sanders Theatre, which hosted Commencement exercises and has functioned as a lecture hall and...

Photographic views of Quincy House

Collection Identifier: HUV 563
Overview: Established in 1958, Quincy House is one of the houses in Harvard University's House system and was the first built since the original seven were developed in the early 1930s. It consists of four parts: New Quincy, Stone Hall (formerly named Mather Hall, then Old Quincy), the library known as the "Qube," and the commons, which is attached to New Quincy. Stone Hall was built in the Georgian Revival style in 1930, and the other three buildings were built in the International Style in 1958. The...

Photographic views of Sever Hall

Collection Identifier: HUV 50
Overview: Completed in 1880, Sever Hall is a classroom building at Harvard University that was designed by renowned architect H. H. Richardson. It was named for Ann E. P. Sever, the widow of Colonel James Warren Sever, after she contributed $100,000 from her will toward the $115,000 construction costs. The Richardsonian Romanesque building is known for its intricate brickwork exterior and flexible interior that can be easily updated and remodeled as the needs of users change over time. It is also...

Photographic views of the Harvard campus, 1897

Collection Identifier: HUV 2297.4
Overview:

Harvey Lincoln Wheelock earned his Harvard A.B. in 1896 and took these photographs of the Harvard campus in about 1897.  

Photographic views of the Harvard College Observatory

Collection Identifier: HUV 1210
Overview: The Harvard College Observatory was established in 1839 when, after decades of attempts to develop an observatory, the Harvard Corporation hired William Cranch Bond, a Boston clockmaker, as the Astronomical Observer to the University. In 1844, the University moved the equipment to the main building at a site now known as Observatory Hill that is fifty feet higher in elevation than the rest of Cambridge. The Photographic views of the Harvard College Observatory provides a visual record of...

Photographic views of the Harvard Faculty Club

Collection Identifier: HUV 152
Overview: The Harvard Faculty Club was established in 1928 as a private club for Harvard University faculty, providing dining rooms, meeting rooms, and a library for its members. The Faculty Club building was constructed in 1930 due to the deterioration of its previous building, which was originally the home of Henry James, Sr., and had also housed the Colonial Club, a private club for the Cambridge elite. The Photographic views of the Harvard Faculty Club provide a visual record from 1930 to 1990 of...

Photographic views of University Hall

Collection Identifier: HUV 39
Overview: Located in the center of Harvard Yard, University Hall was built in 1815. It originally contained Harvard University's chapel, six classrooms, the president's office, and the commons, consisting of four dining halls. The Federal-style building was designed by Charles Bulfinch, who is considered to be the first American professional architect, and built by Loammi Baldwin, Jr., and it was the first building in the Yard to be built from stone rather than brick. The Photographic views of...

Photographic views of Wadsworth House

Collection Identifier: HUV 46
Overview: Wadsworth House, located in the southwest corner of Harvard Yard, was built in 1726 to serve as the residence of Harvard University's presidents, beginning with President Benjamin Wadsworth, for whom the building is named. It served this purpose for nine Harvard presidents over 120 years, until President Jared Sparks elected to stay in his own Cambridge home in 1849. The Photographic views of Wadsworth House provide a visual record of Harvard University's second oldest building and former...

Photographic views of Widener Library

Collection Identifier: HUV 49
Overview: Built in 1915, the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library is the central library of Harvard University. It was built with a gift from Eleanor Elkins Widener as a memorial to her son, Harry Elkins Widener, a 1907 graduate of Harvard, who died with the sinking of the Titanic in April 1912. The library, built with a capacity for three million volumes, was designed by architect Horace Trumbauer and Julian Abele, Trumbauer’s chief designer and the first African American...

Photographic views of Winthrop House

Collection Identifier: HUV 660
Overview:

John Winthrop House, established in 1931, is one of the student residential houses in Harvard University's house system. The two buildings that make up Winthrop House are Gore Hall and Standish Hall, which were both freshman dormitories before being incorporated into one administrative entity in 1931. This collection holds a visual record of Winthrop House's buildings, grounds, and surroundings from 1913 to 1957.

Photographs of Harvard faculty and buildings, 1936

Collection Identifier: HUV 2336.17
Overview:

This collection consists of 58 black and white photographs and 117 negatives depicting Harvard buildings and faculty. Taken by photographer and architect Richard Carver Wood, the photographs were commissioned for the Harvard tercentenary celebration in 1936.

Photographs of Harvard graduates removed from Harvard College class albums

Collection Identifier: HUD 259.705
Overview: The photographs in this collection appear to be removed from Harvard College class albums from the Harvard College Classes of 1859 through 1869. The images depict selected Harvard College students as graduating seniors and also include photographs of some Harvard professors from the classes of 1826 and 1833. All photographs appear to have been taken between 1859 and 1869. Class albums functioned as a photographic supplement to the college yearbook before printed photographs were widely...

Photographs of the Harvard Hall renovations

Collection Identifier: HUY 89
Overview: Harvard Hall, the fifth oldest structure in the Harvard Yard and the seventh oldest at the University, was built in 1766 to replace Old Harvard Hall, which burned on January 25, 1764. Harvard Hall underwent significant interior renovations between 1968 and 1969 to make it compliant with new fire safety requirements. The collection consists of 92 black and white 8 x 10 in. photographs (with the exception of one 5 ¼ x 10 in. photograph) of the interior and exterior of Harvard Hall before,...

Papers of William Henry Pickering

Collection Identifier: HUG 1691
Overview:

William Henry Pickering (1858-1938) was an American astronomer. He was an enthusiastic explorer, charged with expeditions to view solar eclipses and with establishing observatories for Harvard University in Peru, Arizona, and Jamaica. The collection contains a mix of personal, family, and astronomical materials including letters, notes, data, drawings, and photographs.

Triennial Catalogues annotated by John Pierce

Collection Identifier: HUM 30
Overview: Reverend John Pierce (1773-1849, Harvard AB 1793) was pastor of the First Church in Brookline, Mass. for fifty years, and served as secretary to the Harvard Board of Overseers. The collection holds five Harvard Triennial Catalogues annotated by Pierce for the years 1794, 1797, 1800, 1803, and 1806 with biographical information about Harvard alumni. Pierce's work was a resource for the Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts,...

David R. Pilbeam personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUM 378
Scope and content: This collection includes letters of recommendation and student records, research files related to Pilbeam's fieldwork in Chad, Pakistan, and Cameroon, grant records, professional activity files, and manuscripts, including related correspondence and illustrations. Teaching materials include lecture notes, syllabi, examinations, handouts, laboratory work, and student grades for Pilbeam's anthropology courses at Harvard and Yale Universities. Other records include royalty statements and...

Architectural drawings for the redesign and additions to gardens at Villa I Tatti,

Sub-Series Identifier: UAI 15.99.27
Overview:

Cecil Pinsent (1884-1963) and partner Geoffrey Scott (1884-1929) became the architects of choice for Florence, Italy’s Anglo-American expatriate community at the beginning of the 20th century. Designs consist of measured plans of the main architectural features of the Villa I Tatti garden. Drawings are pencil on tracing paper. These are particularly rare, because Pinsent is known to have burned most of his records.

Faculty reports by John Snelling Popkin, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature

Collection Identifier: UAI 15.1021
Overview:

The faculty reports in this collection provide an overview of the classical instruction given to students at Harvard in the early nineteenth century by John Snelling Popkin, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature from 1825 to 1827. The reports also document Popkin's apprehension about the introduction of modern languages to the college curriculum (ca. 1825) and the impact this new curriculum might have on the standing of classical studies at Harvard.

John Snelling Popkin personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUG 1706
Overview: John Snelling Popkin (1771-1852), minister and scholar, served as College Professor of Greek at Harvard from 1815 to 1826 and Eliot Professor of Greek Literature from 1826 to 1833. The John Snelling Popkin personal archive consists of a letter to Reverend William Mason of Castine, Maine, dated February 13, 1801, with a note from the item's donor in 1928, and a folder of assorted papers, dated 1815-1896, including a small amount of Popkin’s correspondence and business records, an...

Papers of Arthur Kingsley Porter

Collection Identifier: HUG 1706.1xx
Overview:

Arthur Kingsley Porter (1883-1933), archeologist, art historian, and medievalist, was the Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University from 1925 to 1933. The Papers of Arthur Kingsley Porter document his professional and personal career from chiefly from 1863 to 1933.

Portraits of Harvard Librarians

Collection Identifier: UAIII 50.119.50.6
Overview:

This collection contains eighteen portraits depicting seventeen librarians at Harvard College and Harvard University (two portraits of Yen-Tsai Feng) from circa 1715 to circa 2000. The portraits visually represent the Harvard Library's leadership across four centuries.

Henry Conant Prentiss collection of Harvard memorabilia

Collection Identifier: HUM 145
Overview:

The collection chiefly consists of an autograph book signed by members of the Harvard College Class of 1854 and other pieces of Harvard ephemera presumably collected by Henry Conant Prentiss. Prentiss, doctor and statistician, was born on April 10, 1832, and received his Harvard AB in 1854.

Papers of Nathan Prince

Collection Identifier: HUM 67
Overview: Nathan Prince (1698-1748), who was educated at Harvard College and employed as one of its Tutors for almost twenty years, was believed by many to be the most significant scholar of mathematics and natural philosophy in the American colonies of his time. This collection contains notebooks on mathematics and other subjects Prince created while a Harvard undergraduate, as well as a notebook on a wide range of topics which he appears to have used in teaching. Also in the collection is a notebook...

Papers of Tatiana Proskouriakoff

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 51.5
Overview:

Tatiana Proskouriakoff (1909-1985), Mayanist scholar and archaeologist, worked at the Peabody Museum at Harvard University from 1958 until her retirement in 1977. Her papers consist of account books and diaries, dating from the beginning of her career as an archaeological illustrator, extending through her time at the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, and ending during Proskouriakoff’s retirement.

Papers of Nathan Marsh Pusey, 1860, 1907, ca. 1915-2001.

Collection Identifier: UAI 15.900
Overview:

Nathan Marsh Pusey (1907-2001) was the twenty-fourth president of Harvard University from 1953 to 1971. This collection contains material from his personal and professional life starting chiefly from after his retirement from Harvard University in 1971, to his death in 2001.