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Records of the Harvard Bicentenary Celebration
The records document some of the activities related to the Harvard Bicentenary Celebration held on September 8, 1836. Materials include extracts listing the votes of the Corporation about the 1836 celebration, a plan for the evening illumination of Holworthy Hall, a volume of autographs signed by Harvard graduates and guests, blank tickets for the “Dinner of the Alumni” held during the celebration and letters from Harvard alumni confirming their attendance at the dinner.
Benjamin Peirce personal archive
Benjamin Peirce (1778-1831), a Harvard historian and librarian, was born in Salem, Massachusetts. He earned his AB from Harvard in 1801, and was a merchant and state legislator prior to his appointment as college librarian in 1826. This collection contains personal correspondence, student papers, political writings, and manuscripts, notes, and letters relating to Peirce's work on the history of Harvard University, dated 1787-1832.
Wyman family archive
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- Creator
- Harvard University. Corporation 1
- Peirce, Benjamin, 1778-1831 1
- Wyman family 1
- Subject
- Cambridge (Mass.) 2
- Admission tickets. 1
- Architectual drawings. 1
- Audio recordings. 1
- Autographs -- Collections. 1
- Boston (Mass.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 1
- Boston (Mass.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. 1
- Cabinet photographs. 1
- Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
- Correspondence 1
- Correspondence. 1
- Diaries. 1
- Harvard University -- Alumni and alumnae 1
- Harvard University -- Anniversaries, etc. 1
- Harvard University -- Buildings. 1
- Harvard University -- Centennial celebration, etc. 1
- Harvard University -- History -- 19th century. 1
- Harvard students' essays. 1
- Harvard students' letters 1
- Holworthy Hall (Cambridge, Mass) 1
- Human anatomy -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Massachusetts -- 19th century. 1
- Human remains (Archaeology)--Racial analysis 1
- Legislators -- Massachusetts -- 19th century 1
- Letters (correspondence) 1
- Manuscripts for publication 1
- Massachusetts -- Politics and government -- 19th century 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Periodicals. 1
- Photographs 1
- Printing plates. 1
- Research Notes 1
- Scrapbooks. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 1
- United States--History--War of 1812 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Greene, Jerome Davis, 1874-1959. 1
- Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1801 1
- Harvard University 1
- Harvard University -- History -- Research 1
- Harvard University -- Libraries -- Employees 1