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Eileen Southern personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUM 253
Overview:

Eileen Jackson Southern (1920-2002) was the first African-American woman to be appointed as a tenured full professor at Harvard University, where she taught from 1975 to 1987. The collection consists of correspondence, writings, and publications that chronicle her time as a Harvard College professor and as Chair of the Afro-American Department, as well as her tenure at the City University of New York, and retirement.

Papers of Jared Sparks, 1820-1861, 1866.

Collection Identifier: UAI 15.886
Overview:

Jared Sparks (1789-1866) was the President of Harvard University from February 1, 1849 to February 10, 1853. He was also a Unitarian minister, editor, and historian.

Papers of Francis T. Spaulding

Collection Identifier: HUG 4800.xx
Overview:

Francis Trow Spaulding (1896-1950), second dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, worked at Harvard University from 1924 to 1942 in several positions, including instructor, professor, and associate dean. His papers contain personal, family, and professional correspondence, course materials, manuscripts of articles and speeches, and papers relating to Spaulding's World War II military service.

Early records of the Speaking Club

Collection Identifier: HUD 3803.2500
Overview: These early records of the Speaking Club, a private student club established at Harvard College as a forum for practicing oratory, contain information about club rules and regulations, signed declarations of its members, lists of speakers and their topics, meeting minutes, votes, orders, financial accounts, and other routine administrative information. The records also include information about the library kept by the Club for its members. These early records are only a subset of the...

Joseph LeVow Steinberg personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUM 335
Overview: The Joseph LeVow Steinberg personal archive contains correspondence and student materials chronicling Steinberg’s academic and social life at Harvard College from 1952 to 1959. Also included are Harvard ephemera collected by Steinberg both as a student and alumnus from 1936 to 2012 which document his participation in sport and cultural activities at Harvard College as well as his life-long interest in events at Harvard. Joseph LeVow Steinberg (born 1934), an attorney, received an AB from...

Thomas W. Stephenson diaries

Collection Identifier: HUGB S833.5
Overview:

The Thomas W. Stephenson diaries, 1934-1940, 1981-1987, document his experiences both as a Harvard undergraduate (1934-1937) and as a senior administrator at the University (1981-1987). The five diaries also detail Stephenson's life immediately following his graduation from Harvard (1937-1940) while pursuing his AM and serving as Assistant Athletic Director at Harvard.

Papers of Stanley Smith Stevens, 1931-1973

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 2 and HUGBS 837.72
Overview:

Stanley Smith Stevens (1906-1973) was a physicist and professor at Harvard University. He was an authority on the physics of sensory perception, especially hearing. He was director of the Psycho-Acoustics Laboratory and the Psychophysics Laboratory at Harvard. This collection documents Stevens' research and professional activities.

Ebenezer Storer Collection

Collection Identifier: HUG 1808.1000.1
Overview:

Ebenezer Storer (1730-1807) was a prominent Boston philanthropist and served as Treasurer of Harvard College for thirty years, from 1777 to 1807. The Ebenezer Storer Collection consists of items formerly owned by Storer including diplomas from Harvard and Yale Universities, a terrestrial and celestial pocket globe, and a reading or quizzing glass.

Papers of Samuel Andrew Stouffer

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 31
Overview: Samuel Andrew Stouffer (1900-1960) was professor of sociology and director the Laboratory of Social Relations at Harvard from 1946 to 1960. Throughout his career, Stouffer led major sociological studies including surveys of attitudes of soldiers in the U.S. Army for the War Department’s Information and Education Division during World War II and surveys on public opinion of communism during the McCarthy era of the 1950s. The collection contains professional papers, including correspondence,...

Student notes on lectures by John Palfrey, Henry Ware, and George Ticknor

Collection Identifier: HUM 380
Scope and content: Bound volume of notes on lectures given by John Gorham Palfrey, Professor of Biblical Literature, Henry Ware, Hollis Professor of Divinity, and George Ticknor, Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures. The unidentified author was likely a student in Harvard College or the Harvard Divinity School.The volume is organized in three sections. The first section (160 pages) begins with an inscription reading “Notes from Dr. Palfrey’s Lectures on The Four...

Collection of college memorials of Charles Pinckney Sumner and his son, Charles Sumner

Collection Identifier: HUD 794.83
Overview:

This collection contains college bills, exhibition and commencement programs, manuscripts and other materials collected by Charles Pinckney Sumner (1776-1839) and his son Charles Sumner (1811-1874) related to their time as students at Harvard College.

Hue-Tam Ho Tai personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUM 381
Overview: Hue-Tam Ho Tai (born 1948), joined the Harvard faculty in 1989 and was the Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History at Harvard University from 1990-2017. This collection consists of manuscripts and writings, research notes and files, newspaper clippings, lecture notes, course syllabi, teaching materials (including syllabi for History 1826 and History 1824 and lecture notes); grant proposals, including records relating to the project on Early Modern Vietnam and its 1982...

Papers of F. W. Taussig

Collection Identifier: HUG 4823
Abstract: The Papers of F. W. Taussig, 1879-1946, chiefly consists of correspondence documenting Taussig's research on capital earnings and other subjects while a professor econimics at Harvard; and personal items including a scrapbook and photographs. The collection also includes Taussig's correspondence relating to his service to President Woodrow Wilson as an econimic adviser and chairman of the U.S. Tariff Commission, and his correspondence with Harvard faculty about the Walsh-Sweezy Harvard...

Papers of Karl V. Teeter, 1769-2003 (inclusive), 1953-1998 (bulk).

Collection Identifier: HUM 5
Overview:

Karl van Duyn Teeter (1929-2007) was an American linguist who specialized in endangered Algic and Algonquian languages. These papers primarily document Teeter's linguistic research on the Wiyot and Maliseet-Passamaquoddy languages and his professional activities as a Professor of Linguistics in the Harvard University Department of Linguistics.

Papers of Kenneth V. Thimann

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 127.xx
Overview: Kenneth Vivian Thimann (1904-1997), British-American plant microbiologist, taught at Harvard University from 1935 to 1965 and was director of Harvard's Biological Laboratories from 1946 to 1950. The collection documents his teaching and research activities and contains correspondence, biographical materials, speeches, photographs, teaching materials, and research relating to Thimann's books and articles, including correspondence regarding Thimann's book, Life of...

Papers of Charles Swain Thomas

Collection Identifier: HUG 4836.xx
Overview:

Charles Swain Thomas (1868-1943), educator, taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1920 to 1936. His papers contain correspondence and teaching materials, including student papers, relating to Harvard English courses taught by Thomas.

Records of the Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures kept by George Ticknor

Collection Identifier: UAI 15.1038
Overview:

The letters, Corporation votes, reports, and news clippings in this collection document the activities of George Ticknor, Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures at Harvard from 1816 to 1835. The records also illustrate the interaction between George Ticknor, Harvard faculty, and members of the Harvard Corporation, in their attempts to harmonize competing education reform proposals at Harvard in the early nineteenth century.

Letters from Harvard undergraduate Martin Buel Tinker, Jr. to his parents, Martin Buel Tinker and Ethel Louise Bates Tinker

Collection Identifier: HUD 924.86
Overview:

Martin Buel Tinker, Jr. (1906-1982), a physician, graduated from Harvard University in 1928 (AB) and Johns Hopkins University in 1933 (MD). The collection contains correspondence of Martin Buel Tinker, Jr. to his parents, Martin Buel Tinker and Ethel Louise Bates Tinker, from 1924 to 1928. Tickner's letters detail his life as a student at Harvard and include accounts of classes, course work, friends, dating, and general life on campus and off-campus outings.

Index to University records, 1636-1870 and Sibley's private journal, 1847-1882

Collection Identifier: UAV 156.287
Overview: The Tolman Index, informally named for its compiler, is an exhaustive name and subject card index covering the records of Harvard University from its earliest days in 1636 through 1870. The index was digitized in 2012. This finding aid contains links to the digitized cards, as well as links to an explanatory key to the index and two sample cards with explanations to help researchers decipher the references on the cards. The key and the sample cards are the first two items listed in the...

Triennial Catalogues annotated by unidentified authors

Collection Identifier: HUM 33
Overview: The Triennial Catalogues are chronological and cumulative lists of Harvard graduates published every three years from 1674 to 1875. The Catalogues represent Harvard’s first efforts to comprehensively document its graduates and were considered the official record of degree recipients. The collection includes 18th century Triennial Catalogues annotated with additional biographical information by unidentified authors. The Catalogues represent the College's earliest attempt to compile a...

Records of the Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins

Collection Identifier: HUY 26
Overview: Early New England educational institutions benefitted from the bequests of wealthy donors. The 1657 will of Connecticut Governor Edward Hopkins allocated money for New England schools, and a 1713 British decree established the Charity of Edward Hopkins to manage the Hopkins legacy and to allocate funds to support students at Harvard College and a Cambridge grammar school. The records of the Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins contain documents created and collected by the Trustees in...

Papers of John Henry Tudor

Collection Identifier: HUM 21
Overview: John Henry Tudor (1782-1802) was the son of a prominent Boston family who died two years after graduating from Harvard College. These papers document his studies, recreational activities, thoughts, and feelings while an undergraduate at Harvard College from 1796 to 1800, as well as his life outside of college. They include letters to his brothers, William and Frederic, and to his father, William; copies of letters to friend and classmate Moody Noyes; a book of student themes on various...

William Tudor personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUM 202
Overview: This collection contains the papers of William Tudor (1779-1830; Harvard AB 1796), a Boston author, merchant, legislator, and diplomat, dating from approximately 1792 to 1914. It includes his correspondence with family, friends, politicians, and merchants, many of whom were Harvard graduates. These letters document Tudor’s travels to Europe, his efforts to succeed in trade and manufacturing, and his literary endeavors and intellectual pursuits. Later correspondence while Tudor was a diplomat...

Papers of Royall Tyler

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 38.6
Overview: Royall Tyler (1884-1953) was an art dealer, historian, and banker. He was an advisor to Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss in the development of the Dumbarton Oaks Collection of Byzantine art. The collection primarily contains letters of Royall Tyler to Mildred Barnes Bliss; also many letters from Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss, from Royall's wife Elisina and son William R. Tyler, the first director of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection of Harvard. Also includes a few letters from...

Papers of Robert Ulich

Collection Identifier: HUG 4860.xx
Overview:

Robert Ulich (1890-1977), German-American historian and philosopher, taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1935 to 1960 and served as the first James Bryant Conant Professor of Education. His papers contain correspondence; manuscripts of writings, including an unpublished novel on Martin Luther; and poems. The collection also includes essays written by Ulich's students on liberal traditions in education.