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Correspondence by John Gorham, Erving Professor of Chemistry

Collection Identifier: UAI 15.990
Overview:

The correspondence in this collection documents a small part of the teaching and administrative activities of John Gorham, Erving Professor of Chemistry at Harvard from 1825 to 1826. The letters also allude to the financial difficulties the College experienced after 1824 when a grant of $10,000 that Harvard received annually from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was not renewed and led to a period of economizing; including a reduction of professors' salaries.

Papers of Louis C. Graton

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 48.xx
Overview: Louis Caryl Graton (1880-1970), geologist, chemist, and educator, was the Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard University. Graton's research focused on the geologic, chemical, and physical processes by which ore deposits are formed and the techniques necessary to make them valuable as sources of metals. The Papers of Louis C. Graton document Graton's academic and professional career, with the heaviest concentration of material dating from 1905 to 1953. A valuable resource for...

Drawings by Joshua Green, ca. 1781-1784

Collection Identifier: HUV 2181
Overview: This collection consists of five watercolor drawings created by Joshua Green, a judge and legislator from Wendell, Massachusetts, while he was an undergraduate at Harvard College between 1780 and 1784. Four of the drawings depict Harvard buildings, or buildings in the vicinity of Harvard, and one of these drawings includes measurements of the distances between the depicted buildings; these drawings were possibly created as part of a mathematical assignment. The fifth drawing is a map of...

Comment and Guest Book

Collection — Box: 1Identifier: HUM 427
Overview: This collection includes a notebook used by three Harvard students, Bernard Bisgeier, Lawrence Creshkoff, and Robert Abraham Green, as a comment and guestbook for their shared dorm room. The students entered Harvard as members of the Class of 1946. The students lived together from March 1943 to January 1944, when Bisgeier left Harvard and joined the United States Army. Green and Creshkoff passed the book to one another to record their comments in the fall of 1944 when they lived in separate...

Malcolm W. Greenough Harvard football scrapbook

Collection Identifier: HUM 372
Scope and Contents: Scrapbook of newspaper clippings belonging to Harvard College Class of 1925 student Malcolm W. Greenough. The scrapbook contains pasted newspaper clippings concerning the 1924 Harvard Football team, for which Greenough served as Captain, and documents Greenough’s accomplishments on the football field as an undergraduate student at Harvard, as well as those of his teammates. Many of the articles are focused on the 1924 Harvard-Yale game, which Yale won. The scrapbook also includes a 1925...

Joseph Clark Grew personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUM 197
Overview: Joseph Clark Grew (1880-1965) graduated from Harvard in 1902, then worked as an officer with the United States Foreign Service from 1904 to 1945; he held multiple positions within the United States federal government, including acting Secretary of State for five months in 1945. Collection consists of a photograph album (1899-1902) assembled by Joseph Clark Grew, member of the Harvard College Class of 1902, and an autographed copy of Grew’s 1944 book, Ten Years in Japan: A...

Papers of Zvi Griliches, ca. 1930-2000

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 153
Overview:

Zvi Griliches (1930-1999) was a professor of economics at Harvard University (1969-1999) and one of the world's leading authorities in the use of mathematical and statistical tools in the study of economic data and problems. These paper pertain chiefly to his research and writing, but also contain teaching records and family and biographical information.

Alice Gordon Gulick personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUM 360
Overview:

This collection contains the papers of Alice Gordon Gulick, a missionary and women’s education advocate who served as Dean of Women for the Harvard Cuban Summer School of 1900. It documents her work as the Dean of Women and the friendships she made with Cuban teacher participants, and primarily includes letters and writings from Cuban teachers to Gulick as well as Cuban Summer School memorabilia and photographs.

Archivo personal de Alice Gordon Gulick

Collection Identifier: HUM_360
Visión general:

Esta colección contiene los documentos de Alice Gordon Gulick, una misionera y defensora de la educación de las mujeres que se desempeñó como Decana de Mujeres en la Escuela de Verano Cubana de Harvard de 1900. Documenta su trabajo como Decana de Mujeres y las amistades que hizo con las maestras cubanas participantes, e incluye principalmente cartas y escritos de maestros cubanos a Gulick, así como recuerdos y fotografías de la Escuela Cubana de Verano.

Philip F. Gura personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUM 355
Overview: Philip Francis Gura (born 1950), Harvard College Class of 1972, intellectual and cultural historian, is the William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill since 2000. Gura’s diaries and Harvard class notes chiefly focus on his undergraduate program and student experiences at Harvard College from 1966 to 1975. Diaries from 1963 to 1965 chronicle Gura’s bird watching experiences as a teenager, while his diaries...

Papers of Franklin L. Gurley

Collection Identifier: HUD 947.35
Overview:

Franklin L. Gurley (1925-2004) was a member of the Harvard College Class of 1947 who served in the European Theater in World War II, and later worked as a trial lawyer and military historian. This collection contains correspondence, journals and writings that document his military service and illustrate his efforts to chronicle the history of the 399th Infantry Division in which he served during World War II.

Papers of John Haller, 1944-1984

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 84
Overview:

John Haller (1927-1984), a professor of geology at Harvard University (1965-1984), was an authority on structural geology, tectonics, and regional geology. He was a member of the Danish East Greenland Expeditions between 1949 and 1963 and is recognized for his compilatory work on the Geology of the East Greenland Caledonides.

Harvard portraits taken by Philippe Halsman, 1943-1968

Collection Identifier: HUP 1036
Overview:

Portraits by the photographer Philippe Halsman of nineteen people associated with Harvard, most of whom were members of the faculty or alumni. The prints were made by Halsman at the time the photographs were taken.

John Hancock Collection

Collection Identifier: UAI 50.27.73
Overview: John Hancock (1737-1793) was a prominent Boston merchant and leading statesman during the American Revolutionary War period. A 1754 graduate of Harvard College, he served as its treasurer from 1773 until 1777. The collection includes correspondence, receipts, and accounting records relating to Hancock’s tenure as Harvard College treasurer as well as a limited number of his personal papers. The records document the strained relationship between College administrators and Hancock that began in...

Papers of George M. A. Hanfmann

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 65.xx
Overview: George M.A. Hanfmann (1911-1986), archaeologist, art historian, and museum curator, was John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology at Harvard University from 1935 until his retirement in 1982. Hanfmann’s papers document his personal life and professional career, including his teaching, research, and publishing activities, as well as his involvement with various professional organizations. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, field notebooks, teaching materials, notes and...

Charles Stedman Hanks scrapbooks

Collection Identifier: HUD 875.36
Overview:

Charles Stedman Hanks (A.B. 1879) was a lawyer, author, philanthropist, and railroad investigator. This collection consists of two scrapbooks that record Hanks’ academic and social life during his undergraduate years at Harvard, 1875-1879.

Alvin Harvey Hansen writings and publications

Collection Identifier: HUGB H145.xx
Overview:

Alvin Harvey Hansen (1887-1975), an economist, was the Littauer Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. His work focused on Keynesian economics in the United States. Writings, publications, and related records in this collection document Alvin Harvey Hansen's academic contributions to economics from 1918 to 1957.

Papers of Alvin Harvey Hansen

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 3.xx
Overview:

Alvin Harvey Hansen (1887-1975), an economist, was the Littauer Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University from 1937 to 1957. Hansen introduced Keynesian economics to the United States in the 1930s and played a significant role in creating the Social Security System and the Council of Economic Advisors. The Papers of Alvin Harvey Hansen, including correspondence, research notes, and writings, document Hansen's academic and professional career chiefly from 1907 to 1975.

Papers of Paul H. Hanus

Collection Identifier: HUG 4447.xx
Overview:

Paul Henry Hanus (1855-1944) was the first appointed faculty member in education at Harvard, appointed by President Charles W. Eliot in 1891. The Papers of Paul H. Hanus, 1891-1941, chiefly consist of Hanus's correspondence while a faculty member at Harvard, personal chronological files, and writings and speeches given while Hanus was at Harvard. The collection also contains Hanus's research correspondence on his survey of the New York school system from 1911 to 1913.

Papers of Seymour E. Harris

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 52.xx
Overview: Seymour Edwin Harris (1897-1974), economist, teacher, author, and public servant, was the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University from 1957 to 1964. The collection documents Harris's career as an economist and public servant helping to formulate national economic policy by advocating for increased government spending and the lowering of taxes to address economic problems in the United States. Harris served in the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson...

Thaddeus Mason Harris personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUG 1445
Overview:

Thaddeus Mason Harris (1768-1842) was a Harvard librarian, Unitarian minister, and author in Boston. This collection contains correspondence, sermons, and commonplace books of Harris, dated 1746-1846.

Papers of Albert Bushnell Hart.

Collection Identifier: HUG 4448
Overview:

Albert Bushnell Hart (1854-1943), American historian, writer, and editor, taught history and government at Harvard University and Radcliffe College from 1883 to 1926. The Papers of Albert Bushnell Hart document the professional and personal life of A. B. Hart from the 1870s to 1943. The collection also documents the personal lives of Hart’s family members from 1832 to 1943.

Papers of Louis Hartz

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 77
Overview: Louis Hartz (1919-1986) was a professor of government at Harvard from 1947 to 1974. Hartz received his SB from Harvard in 1940 and Ph.D. in 1946. Hartz’s scholarship focused on comparative politics and economic policy. The Papers of Louis Hartz document his research, writing, teaching, administrative responsibilities, and personal life from 1955 to 1986. The collection includes manuscripts and notes, professional and personal correspondence, teaching materials, administrative records, and...

Records of the Harvard Advocate

Collection Identifier: HUD 3121
Overview:

Founded in 1866, the Harvard Advocate is Harvard University's oldest existing student literary magazine. The Advocate publishes short stories, verses, essays and articles, reviews of books, interviews, photographs, and plays. The Records of the Harvard Advocate document the history and activities of this literary group. Business and financial records are the largest part of the collection.

Records of the Harvard Aeronautical Society, 1909-1911, 1946, 1959 and 1986

Collection Identifier: HUD 3123
Overview:

The Harvard Aeronautical Society was organized on November 11, 1909. The records document the activities of this society; documents dated later than 1920 are not records created by the Society, but instead recount the history of the organization.