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Preparatory matter for Out of Smalle Beginings,

Collection Identifier: HUA 636.29
Overview:

Margery Somers Foster (b. 1914) earned her Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College in 1934 and her Ph.D. in Economics from Radcliffe College in 1958. Her dissertation focussed on the early financial history of Harvard and was later published. This collection contains the research and manuscript materials for her book.

Katharine Fowler-Billings lantern slide collection

Collection Identifier: HUM 206
Overview: Katharine “Kay” Stevens Fowler-Billings (1902-1997), geologist, was born in 1902 and was raised in Boston, Massachusetts. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1925, received her MA from the University of Wisconsin in 1926, and completed her Ph.D in geology at Columbia University in 1930. The collection includes 88 lantern slides that document Fowler-Billings’ 1937 geological expedition to Russia and Japan for the 17th International Geological Conference. The slides include photographs and...

Papers of Thomas Foxcroft

Collection Identifier: HUM 68
Overview: Thomas Foxcroft (1696/7-1769) was minister of the First Church of Boston from 1717 until his death in 1769. He attended Harvard College as an undergraduate from 1710 to 1714 and studied a curriculum that emphasized Latin and Greek studies, and public discourse and syllogistic debate. The papers of Thomas Foxcroft consist of thin paper notebooks of theses and Latin lessons kept by Foxcroft while an undergraduate at Harvard College, as well as a Commencement thesis, and the salutatory and...

Papers of Marcel Françon

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 120.xx
Overview:

Marcel Auguste Françon (1900-1990) taught French in Harvard’s Department of Romance Languages and Literatures for many decades, beginning in 1927. His papers contain records related to his teaching career at Harvard University, his publishing activities, and his personal life, including correspondence, meeting minutes, memoranda, lecture notes, student materials, and manuscripts.

Richard J. Friary collection of Woodward Research Institute materials

Collection Identifier: HUM 323
Overview:

The Richard J. Friary collection of Woodward Research Institute materials document Friary’s association with the Woodward Research Institute and Harvard chemist Robert Burns Woodward in the early 1970s. Friary is a synthetic organic and medicinal chemist who has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for more than thirty years.

Papers of Carl J. Friedrich

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 17
Overview:

Carl Joachim Friedrich (1901-1984) was a poltical scientist, political advisor, and educator. These papers document his professional activities including research, writing, teaching, and advising.

Papers of Clifford Frondel, 1940-1968

Collection Identifier: HUG 4409.5xx
Overview:

Clifford Frondel was a mineralogist and a professor at Harvard University.  Papers consist of a small amount of correspondence and published works by Frondel.

Papers of Wendell Hinkle Furry

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 105
Overview: Wendell Hinkle Furry (1907-1984) was Professor of Physics at Harvard from 1934 to 1977. His areas of research included quantum mechanics, kinetic theory, molecular energies, positron theory, and microwave propagation. The Papers of Wendell Hinkle Furry contain notes, manuscripts, translations, reports, correspondence, and other papers relating to Furry's teaching and research career, including his graduate studies at the University of Illinois (1928-1932), his post-graduate work at the...

Caleb Gannett collection

Collection Identifier: HUM 314
Overview: Caleb Gannett (1745-1818), Harvard College Steward from 1779 to 1818, was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He received an AB from Harvard in 1763 and an AM in 1766. Gannett was a member of the Pembroke Church and studied theology with Ebenezer Gay (1696-1787; Harvard AB 1714). The collection consists of seven manuscript notebooks, dated circa 1758 to 1785. There are two letter books; three mathematical and astronomical notebooks, mostly compiled while Gannett was a student at Harvard...

Papers of Caleb Gannett

Collection Identifier: HUG 1411
Overview: The papers of Caleb Gannett (1745-1818; Harvard AB 1763), Harvard College Steward from 1779 to 1818, consist of a small assortment of miscellaneous personal records including a personal account notebook used between 1768 and 1777, two pieces of correspondence, miscellaneous financial documents, and records created in the settlement of Gannett's estate. Notably, the collection includes a 1775 letter written by Gannett discussing his smallpox inoculation and news of the Revolutionary War, and...

Papers of Hilda Geiringer

Collection Identifier: HUG 4574.1xx
Overview: Hilda Geiringer (1893-1973), Austrian-American mathematician and pioneering geneticist, was an Assistant Fellow in mathematics at Harvard University from 1955 to 1959. The collection documents her teaching career at various academic institutions, including Harvard; publishing activities; work relating to husband Richard Von Mises; mathematics and genetics research; and personal life. It contains correspondence, teaching materials, such as notebooks and lecture notes, manuscripts of published...

General information on basketball at Harvard

Collection Identifier: HUD 11194
Overview:

The Harvard Crimson men's and women's basketball teams compete in the Ivy League in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Home games are played at the Lavietes Pavilion in Boston, Massachusetts. News clippings, basketball programs, schedules, placards, box scores, and media guides in this collection document men's and women's basketball at Harvard from 1900 to 2012.

Papers of Alexander Gerschenkron

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 45
Overview:

Alexander Gerschenkron (1904-1978) was a professor of economics at Harvard from 1948 to 1975. The collection contains his professional and personal correspondence, research notes, unpublished manuscripts, and course materials for Economics 233.

Papers of Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb

Collection Identifier: HUGBG 460.25
Overview: Sir Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb (1895-1971), commonly known as H.A.R. Gibb, was the James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and University Professor at Harvard University from 1955 to 1966. Gibb also served as Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard from 1957 to 1966. This collection consists chiefly of Gibb's notes, in both English and Arabic, and reports. Also includes lecture notes from his courses at the University of Edinburgh, and correspondence regarding...

Papers of the Gilman and Bowen families

Collection Identifier: HUM 93
Overview: The collection documents the careers and families of two Unitarian ministers active in the United States in the 19th century: Samuel Gilman and his son-in-law, Charles J. Bowen. Samuel Gilman, Unitarian minister and author of “Fair Harvard,” was born on February 16, 1791, to Frederick and Abigail (Somes) Gilman in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Charles James Bowen, Unitarian minister, was born on May 20, 1827, in Providence, Rhode Island to Henry and Harriet Amanda (Munro) Bowen. The collection...

Triennial Catalogue annotated by Nicholas Gilman

Collection Identifier: HUM 28
Overview:

Nicholas Gilman (1708-1748, Harvard AB 1724, AM 1727) was a New Hampshire minister. This 1733 copy of the Harvard Triennial Catalogue was annotated by Gilman in 1737 with additional alumni biographical information. Gilman's work was a resource for the series Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1642-1774.

Papers of Stephen Gilman

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 115.xx
Overview: Stephen Gilman (1917-1986), Hispanist, was professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University from 1955 until his retirement in 1985. His papers document his teaching career at Harvard, Princeton, and Ohio State Universities, his time as a graduate and undergraduate student at Princeton, his research and publishing activities, his service during World War II, and his personal life, particularly his familial relationships. The collection includes correspondence, teaching...

Papers of Myron Piper Gilmore

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 32
Overview: Myron Piper Gilmore (1910-1978) was Gurney Professor of History and Political Science and Director of the I Tatti Center for Renaissance Studies at Harvard. Gilmore received an AB from Amherst College in 1932 and an AM in 1933 and Ph.D. in 1937 from Harvard. He taught at Harvard from 1937 to 1978. The Papers of Myron Piper Gilmore document his career and include materials relating to his research, writing, teaching, administrative positions, membership in professional organizations, and...

Glass plate negative of Harvard-Dartmouth football game

Collection Identifier: HUY 231
Scope and Contents: Glass plate negative of a Harvard-Dartmouth football game, dated November 14, 1908. The 5 x 7 inch glass plate negative depicts a football game, with several men clashing on the field and a crowd-filled stand surrounding them. The slide is accompanied by a small slip of paper, on which is written, “Reproduction of Harvard vs. Dartmouth (football), November 14, 1908.” The 1908 Harvard football team finished with a 9-0-1 record; the team was retroactively named national champions by the...

Photographs of H. S. Glazier, classmates, and scenes of Harvard life

Collection Identifier: HUV 2289
Overview:

This collection consists of 41 black and white photographs and 6 glass negatives depicting Henry Simon Glazier (1868-1939), his classmates, and scenes of Harvard life while Glazier was a Harvard student from 1886-1890. The bulk of the collection is made up of photographs of Glazier's classmates posing in dormitory rooms with various props.

Photographs of the Harvard University campus and student life, ca. 1890-1894

Collection Identifier: HUV 2294.2
Overview:

This collection consists of 14 glass negatives and 9 photographic prints taken by John George Macbeth Glessner (1871-1929) while he was a student at Harvard from 1890-1894. The images depict Harvard University buildings, athletics, and Harvard students.

Papers of Leo Goldberg, 1933-1987

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 83
Overview:

Leo Goldberg (1913-1987) was an American astronomer with appointments to the University of Michigan, Harvard, the United States National Observatory at Kitt Peak, and the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Materials document Goldberg's career, chiefly post-1960.

Joseph Goldstein World War I memoir

Collection Identifier: HUM 376
Scope and Content: Typewritten memoir by Joseph Goldstein (Harvard SB 1918) about his experience serving in France during WWI. It is a 60-page document filled with journal entries and musings about his experiences in the American Expeditionary Forces abroad and his time once at home. Goldstein told his grandchildren that the memoir was named “How I Won the War!” The memoir is largely structured like a journal, with Goldstein recounting his experience chronologically. He begins his account at Harvard Street...

Papers of Nelson Goodman

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 64.10
Overview:

Henry Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) was a Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University from 1968 to 1977. Goodman's records chiefly document his publication of works on epistemology and metaphysics, involvement with Harvard Project Zero, the Harvard Summer Dance Center, the Summer Institute for Arts, and the production of the multi-media dance performance Hockey Seen.

Letter from Ralph Gordon to Alicia Kennedy

Collection Identifier: HUM 382
Scope and Contents: Three-page handwritten letter sent by unclassified Harvard student Ralph Gordon, dated April 25, 1916, to Alicia Kennedy, a student at Bennett School, a women’s college located in Millbrook, New York. In it, Gordon references the April 14, 1916 edition of the Harvard Lampoon in which three of his drawings appeared. Gordon discusses his schoolwork and taking makeup examinations, his social life, and briefly references current events. There are two small sketches throughout the letter and all...