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Papers of Dudley Allen Sargent

Collection Identifier: HUG 1768.xx
Overview: Dudley Allen Sargent (1849-1924), a physical educator, was the Director of the Hemenway Gymnasium (1879-1919) and Assistant Professor of Physical Training (1879-1889) at Harvard University. Sargent was an inventor of modern gymnasium equipment, a supporter of anthropometry (the science of human measurement), and a pioneer in advancing physical education in the United States. A valuable resource for physical education and training research, much of the collection consists of Sargent's...

David C. Schlakman personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUM 344
Overview:

This collection was compiled by David C. Schlakman, Harvard AB 1976, during his time as at the College and as a recent Harvard graduate. The collection consists of programs from the Harvard-Yale football games between 1975 and 1982; Leverett House directories for faculty, staff, and students, from 1973 to 1976; and Schlakman’s annotated script of Agatha Christie's play, The Mousetrap, for a 1975 Leverett House Arts Society presentation.

Arthur Schuh collection of Harvard photographs and negatives

Collection Identifier: HUM 429
Overview: The collection consists of photographs and negatives taken by Harvard alumnus Arthur Schuh chiefly from 1934 to 1946, illustrating Schuh's fond memories of his college years at Harvard and the pride he and others shared in the school. In addition, the photographs serve as examples of early twentieth-century amateur photography and community life at Harvard. Arthur Schuh (1917-2011) was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, and graduated from North Quincy High School. He attended Harvard College,...

Papers of Joseph Alois Schumpeter

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 4.xx, HUGFP 66.xx, HUBS 276.xx
Overview: The Papers of Joseph Alois Schumpeter document the academic and professional career of Joseph Alois Schumpeter as a teacher, writer, and researcher from 1905 to 1982. The collection is a valuable resource for economic research particularly in the analysis of economic change and development in society. The collection also contains materials related to Schumpeter’s personal life and family. Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950), was an Austrian economist, former Minister of Finance in...

Henry Edwards Scott personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUM 319
Overview:

This collection chiefly chronicles Henry Edwards Scott, Jr. (1900-1990) studies in the fields of chemistry, engineering sciences, English, mathematics, physics, and music at Harvard University primarily from 1918 to 1922, and his participation in student organizations including the Pi Eta Club and the Harvard Glee Club. A drawing and a commercial advertisement demonstrate Scott’s career as an artist.

Papers of the Sever family

Collection Identifier: HUM 91
Overview: The Papers of the Sever family contain seventeen sermons composed by Nicholas Sever primarily between 1709 and 1722, and a volume of sermon notes and an academic notebook likely kept by Nicholas Sever's son William between 1745 and 1747. Nicholas Sever (1680-1764; Harvard AB 1701), a Harvard College tutor and Plymouth County judge, preached in New England churches as the ordained minister of Dover, New Hampshire between 1711 and 1715, as a substitute for ministers in other parishes, and as a...

Papers of Stephen Sewall

Collection Identifier: HUG 1782
Overview: The papers of Stephen Sewall consist of a small assortment of his personal papers, four volumes of lectures delivered at Harvard College, and three volumes containing an Aramaic (known as Chaldee in the 18th century) and a Greek lexicon. Stephen Sewall (1733/4-1804), the first Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages at Harvard, was considered one of the most accomplished scholars in North America in the late 1700s. As an educator, Sewall utilized a system of teaching...

James William Davenport Seymour World War I correspondence

Collection Identifier: HUM 433
Overview:

James William Davenport Seymour (1895-1976), diplomatic attaché, screenwriter, and reader examiner, received his AB from Harvard University in 1917. This collection contains Seymour’s correspondence written to his family from 1917 to 1919 while serving in France in the American Ambulance Field Service during World War I.

Research materials collected by Henry D. Shapiro for a biography of Harry A. Wolfson

Collection Identifier: HUM 401
Overview: Henry David Shapiro (1937-2004) was a history professor at the University of Cincinnati. Shapiro began a biography of Wolfson, The Sage as Symbol: Harry A. Wolfson and the Usefulness of Philosophy, which was nearly completed at the time of his death in 2004. The bulk of the collection consists of transcripts of Shapiro's interviews with Wolfson, and photocopies of Wolfson's correspondence, manuscript drafts, published and unpublished articles, lectures, and...

Papers of Samuel Shapleigh

Collection Identifier: HUM 57
Overview: Samuel Shapleigh (1765-1800) spent half of his life at Harvard College, first as a student and later as College Butler and Librarian. This collection includes bills and other records of Shapleigh's time as a Harvard student; personal papers related to family property in Kittery, Maine; legal documents granting him power of attorney for several individuals; and his reading notes on two contemporary novels, perhaps created in his role as College Librarian. Of particular note are the extensive...

Papers of Harlow Shapley, 1906-1966

Collection Identifier: HUG 4773.xxx
Scope of the Harlow Shapley Papers: The Papers of Harlow Shapley date from 1906 through 1966 and document Shapley's career before and during his tenure at Harvard. The collection includes biographical and genealogical information, as well as some documentation of Shapley's family life. It also includes some papers of Martha Betz Shapley (Mrs. Harlow Shapley). Documents include correspondence, manuscripts of articles and books, news clippings,...

Papers of Judith N. Shklar

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 118
Overview:

Judith Nisse Shklar was an eminent political theorist and a pioneering female faculty member at Harvard University. These papers consist chiefly of teaching materials and lecture notes, which cover Shklar's prolific career in the Dept. of Government at Harvard, and provide evidence of her strong emphasis on scholarship.

Conrad Louis Benoni Shuddemagen mathematical and physics lecture notebooks

Collection Identifier: HUM 167
Overview: Conrad L.B. Shudeman, physicist and philosopher, born Conrad Louis Benoni Shuddemagen, earned his SB (1902) and SM (1904) at the University of Texas. After completing his PhD at Harvard (1908), Shudeman accepted a faculty appointment at the University of Texas, serving as a physics instructor until 1910. The collection contains mathematical and physics notebooks kept by Shudeman while a PhD student at Harvard University from 1904 to 1908. The notebooks offer an overview of Shudeman’s...

Papers of John Langdon Sibley

Collection Identifier: HUG 1791.xx
Overview:

John Langdon Sibley (1804-1885) served as Harvard's Assistant Librarian from 1825 to 1826 and 1841 to 1856, Librarian from 1856 to 1877, and as editor of the Triennial and Quinquennial Catalogues of Harvard Graduates. Sibley’s papers include correspondence, lectures, manuscripts, research materials, and publications, chiefly documenting his biographical research and publications on Harvard graduates.

William James Sidis personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUM 425
Overview: William James Sidis (1898-1944), an author, was a child prodigy and the youngest entrant of Harvard College at eleven in 1909, graduating in 1914 at sixteen years old. Sidis garnered the attention of the news media throughout his childhood for his mathematical knowledge and intelligence. This collection contains correspondence, articles, news clippings, transit guides, and manuscripts documenting Sidis’s academic and social endeavors in such areas as the study of American colonial history,...

Papers of Roscoe Conkling Simmons, 1875-1951

Collection Identifier: HUM 2
Overview: Roscoe Conkling Simmons (born 1878 or 1881, died 1951) was an African-American orator, civic leader, journalist, and politician. He was an active member of the Republican party, a much sought-after public speaker, an advisor to three American presidents, and a journalist in Chicago during the first half of the 20th century. The Papers of Roscoe Conkling Simmons are a rich source for historical information not only on Roscoe Conkling Simmons' public role and life, but on American politics and...

Roscoe Conkling Simmons Collection, 1917-1951 and undated.

Collection Identifier: HUM 114
Overview:

The Roscoe Conkling Simmons Collection provides a glimpse into the political activities of Roscoe Conkling Simmons, African American Republican and advisor to presidents, from 1917 to 1951. Correspondence in this collection illustrates Simmons' demand as a public speaker; photographs reveal Simmons' involvement in political campaigns; and writings and biographical materials highlight the esteem in which Simmons was held in by his contemporaries.

Ernest Singer photographs of Harvard and Massachusetts events

Collection Identifier: HUM 322
Overview: Ernest Alfred Singer received his Harvard AB in 1941, his I.A. in 1942, his MBA in 1946, and his M.Ed. in 1954. The collection consists mostly of photographs taken by Singer at various Harvard commencement ceremonies from 1959 to 1996. These photographs capture many honorary degree recipients, as well as political activism, including the 1970 housing protest and the 1993 movement to lift the ban gay people serving in the United States military. It also includes photographs and ephemera...

Papers of Burrhus Frederic Skinner

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 60.xx
Overview:

Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904-1990), Harvard professor, made an indelible mark in the field of psychology. He was a strict behaviorist who championed the theory of operant conditioning. These papers document his professional life, research interests, and public reaction to his provocative ideas.

Small Magellanic Cloud finding charts inscribed with the names of Harvard College Observatory astronomers

Collection Identifier: UAV 630.253
Overview: This series contains seventeen photographic finding charts of the Small Magellanic Cloud produced in the early twentieth century and inscribed with the names of several astronomers working at the Harvard College Observatory, including Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Marjorie Browning Leavens, Sylvia Mussells Lindsay, Sarah Hall Bonesteele, and Philip Shaefer Riggs. The Magellanic Clouds comprise two irregular galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), which...

Photographs of Boyden Station in South Africa

Collection Identifier: HUY 178
Overview: Boyden Station was established by Harvard University in 1889 to allow for observations from the Southern Hemisphere. The observatory was originally located in Arequipa, Peru, but was relocated to a spot near Bloemfontien in the Orange Free State, South Africa in 1927 due to better weather. The collection includes 182 photographs, which probably date from the 1930s to 1950s. The images depict Boyden Station, as well as its surrounding areas, including employees, equipment, and local South...

Lawrence G. Smith personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUM 260
Overview: The Lawrence G. Smith personal archive documents his academic and social experiences as a Harvard undergraduate, a graduate student, his career as a bank officer, and as a Harvard alumnus from 1955 to 2021. Records include Smith's personal correspondence, diaries, and Harvard College Class of 1959 reunion memorabilia. Lawrence George Smith was a senior bank Vice-President. He received his Harvard AB in 1959, his AM in 1964, and his PhD in the history of American civilization from Harvard in...

Lee Stanley Smith collection of Harvard negatives

Collection Identifier: HUM 428
Overview: Lee Stanley Smith, photographer and lawyer, received his AB from Harvard College in 1969. The collection consists of photographic negatives and contact sheets taken by Smith while he was a student at Harvard as a photographer for the Harvard Yearbook between 1965 and 1969. The photographs document student life across the Harvard and Radcliffe campuses, as well as in the greater Boston and Cambridge communities. Of particular note are shots of student activism and protests of the late 1960's,...

Perspective View of Boston Harbor [engraving]

Collection Identifier: HUY 232
Scope and Contents: The 1904 framed engraving by Sidney Lawton Smith (1845-1929) illustrates a panoramic perspective view of Boston Harbor. The scene is modeled after an original watercolor by artist Christian Remick, entitled, “A Perspective View of the Blockad[e] of Boston Harbour.” The engraving appears to depict the arrival of the British Army’s 14th regiment, disembarking in Boston on October 1, 1768. The British soldiers were deployed to Boston to keep order in face of the growing discontent with the...

Records of the Society of Harvard Dames

Collection Identifier: HUD 3317.3xxx
Overview:

The Records of the Society of Harvard Dames include the organization's constitution and by-laws, yearbooks, minutes, corresponding secretary's reports, president's files, activity and program records, scrapbooks, event calendars, financial records, and annual reports dating from 1896 to 1983.