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Papers of Ralph Beatley

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 111
Overview: Ralph Beatley (1892-1989) was associate professor of education and a tutor in the Department of Mathematics at Harvard from 1922 to 1959. His primary area of focus was the training of secondary school mathematics teachers; he trained teachers and lectured widely on the subject. Beatley was also interested in improving testing in mathematics for college entrance examinations and was an active member of several professional organizations. The Papers of Ralph Beatley contain his professional...

Ralph Beatley scrapbook and Frederick Sheldon Travelling Fellowship diary and photographs

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 111.33
Overview: Ralph Beatley (1892-1989) received an A.B., cum laude, from Harvard in 1913. He was a recipient of the Frederick Sheldon Travelling Fellowship, allowing him to study in Europe in 1913-1914. He went on to be associate professor of education and a tutor in the Department of Mathematics at Harvard from 1922 to 1959. The collection of personal papers includes photographs, ephemera, and a diary from Beatley's high school, undergraduate student life, and early career. Major topics include his...

Samuel H. Beer personal archive, 1898-2009 and undated

Collection Identifier: HUM 182
Overview: Samuel Hutchison Beer (1911-2009) was the Eaton Professor of Science of Government at Harvard University from 1971 to 1982. Beer’s research focused on the government and politics of Great Britain, American federalism, intergovernmental relations, comparative government, and the history of political theory. The collection documents Beer’s involvement as a teacher, writer, advisor, consultant, and political activist, and illuminates his role as a distinguished American scholar of British...

Records of the Harvard Policy Committee kept by Linda Liu Behar, 1966-1969

Collection Identifier: HUM 359
Overview: The Records of the Harvard Policy Committee kept by Linda Liu Behar, dating from 1966 to 1969, document Behar’s participation on the Harvard Policy Committee and its 1967 audit of the Architectural Sciences field of concentration. The audit eventually led to the abolition of the Architectural Sciences Department and the creation of the Visual and Environmental Studies Department in 1968. Primarily consisting of Harvard Policy Committee records and academic administrative records, the...

Student compositions of Jeremy Belknap

Collection Identifier: HUC 8762.324.2
Overview: The collection contains eight short handwritten works composed by three Harvard undergraduates Jeremy Belknap (1744-1798; Harvard AB 1762), Andrew Fuller (1743-1831; Harvard AB 1764), and Peter Thacher (1752-1802; Harvard AB 1769) in the mid-18th century. The documents include six compositions composed by Belknap consisting of two philosophical themes on morality, a disputation, an analysis of Luke 14, and a sketch on the death of John the Baptist, as well as a Latin disputation composed by...

Triennial Catalogue annotated by Jeremy Belknap

Collection Identifier: HUM 29
Overview:

Jeremy Belknap (1744-1798, Harvard AB 1762, AM 1765) was a minister and historian. The collection holds a 1791 copy of the Harvard Triennial Catalogue annotated by Belknap. Belknap's work was a resource for the Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1642-1774 series.

Daniel Bell personal archive

Collection Identifier: Accession 18559
Overview: The Daniel Bell personal archive documents the academic and professional career of Daniel Bell as a teacher, writer, consultant, and researcher, with the heaviest concentration of material dating from 1940 to 1990. The collection is a valuable resource for research in the intellectual history of the social sciences and the study of the economic and social trends that shaped American society in the twentieth century. Bell was a prolific researcher, correspondent, and author, and thus much of...

Daniel Bell unpublished manuscripts

Collection Identifier: HUM 295
Overview:

This collection includes Daniel Bell’s unpublished manuscripts: The Exhausted Isle, Theories of Social Change : A Stocktaking, Socialism: a historical sketch, Perestroika; and The history of the idea of the future.

Papers of Wilbur J. Bender

Collection Identifier: HUG 4201.10
Overview: Wilbur Joseph Bender (1903-1969) served as dean of Harvard College from 1947 to 1952 and dean of Admissions and Financial aid for the College from 1952 to 1960. The Papers of Wilbur J. Bender consists of Bender's talks, reports, and other documents produced while serving as Dean of Harvard College and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at Harvard. A limited amount of material documents Bender's life in Indiana before arriving at Harvard as a student in 1925, his experiences teaching at...

Papers of William Bentley

Collection Identifier: HUG 1203.5
Overview: William Bentley (1759-1819) was a Unitarian clergyman in Salem, Mass., a journalist for the Salem Gazette and the Essex Register, a book and coin collector, and a scholar. Bentley served as the minister of the East Church in Salem from 1784 until his death in 1819, and was a prominent presence both in Salem and in the larger intellectual community. This collection contains a selection of correspondence sent to Bentley between 1783 and...

Papers of Joseph Charles Bequaert

Collection Identifier: HUG 4202.xx
Overview: Joseph Charles Corneille Bequaert (1886-1982), Belgian-American botanist and entomologist, worked at Harvard University from 1925 to 1956, as a professor of medical entomology and curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. His papers contain biographical materials; correspondence, including many letters from Bequaert to his wife, Frances Brown Bequaert; lectures; a catalog of herbarium specimens collected by Bequaert; writings; and several diaries and notebooks from Bequaert's early life,...

Howard C. Berg personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUM 435
Overview: Howard Curtis Berg (1934-2021) was the Herchel Smith Professor of Physics and professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University. Berg's research focused on the chemical structure of cell membranes and the motility and chemotaxis of bacteria, and his work helped establish foundations for modern quantitative biology. Component outlines, scientific data, notes, calculations, and correspondence in this collection document Berg's design and construction of laboratory equipment for...

David Sandler Berkowitz student and teaching notes

Collection Identifier: HUC 8934.402
Overview:

David Sandler Berkowitz (1913-1983) received his Harvard A.B. in 1938, and his Ph.D. in 1946. While a graduate student, he was a section leader for Roger Merriman's History 1 course. These student and teaching notes document his curricular activities as a student, including both his own studies and his student teaching as section leader.

Papers of Henry Bryant Bigelow

Collection Identifier: HUG 4212
Overview:

Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879-1967) was an oceanographer and zoologist who served on the faculty of Harvard and at the Museum of Comparative Zoology for 62 years. His research focused on the interdependence of physics, chemistry, and biology in oceanography. The collection contains Bigelow’s personal and professional correspondence.

Records of Jacob Bigelow, Rumford Professor and Lecturer on the Application of Science to the Useful Arts

Collection Identifier: UAI 15.1031
Overview: The records in this collection document the activities of Jacob Bigelow as Rumford Professor and Lecturer on the Application of Science to the Useful Arts at Harvard from 1816 to 1827. The correspondence, reports, and plan of lectures in this collection provide an overview of Bigelow's establishment and administration of the Rumford Apparatus, a collection of scientific instruments and working models designed to promote the practical sciences and demonstrate the usefulness of science to...

Papers of William J. Bingham

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 54
Overview: William J. Bingham (1889-1970) was Harvard's first athletic director. Bingham's papers chiefly document his personal and professional activities while serving as Harvard's Athletic Director from 1926 to 1951. The bulk of the collection contains correspondence and speeches, mostly relating to his work in Harvard's athletic department, as well as his World War II military service. Photographs and envelopes illustrated by artist Waldo Peirce from 1947 to 1949 are also found in the...

William J. Bingham diaries and scrapbooks

Collection Identifier: HUM 387
Overview: This collection documents the personal life, education, and career of William J. Bingham (1889-1971), who graduated from Harvard in 1916 and served as the University’s first athletic director from 1926 to 1951. The bulk of the collection consists of five scrapbooks, dating from 1908 to 1951, which document Bingham’s education and athletic achievements at Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University, his continued association with the Harvard College Class of 1916, and his long association...

Papers of Francis Birch

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 132.xx
Overview:

Francis Birch was a pioneer in the study of geophysics, a participant in the Manhattan project, and an advisor on public policy matters involving geophysics, especially the disposal of nuclear waste. His papers document the breadth of his work in research, consulting, teaching, and his relationships with colleagues and scientific societies.

Papers of George D. Birkhoff

Collection Identifier: HUG 4213.xx
Overview: George David Birkhoff (1884-1944), mathematician and Perkins Professor of Astronomy and Mathematics and Astronomy at Harvard College, taught mathematics at Harvard from 1912 until 1944. Birkhoff discovered what is now called the ergodic theorem in 1931, and his research focused on differential and difference equations and the calculus of variations, relativity, dynamical systems and stability. The Papers of George D. Birkhoff, 1902-1946, chiefly contain correspondence, writings, speeches,...

William Cameron Blackett personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUM 136
Overview: William Cameron Blackett, salesman and business man, was born on March 30, 1890, and received his Harvard AB in February 1913 as a member of the Harvard College Class of 1912. The collection consists of a scrapbook kept by William Cameron Blackett while an undergraduate, loose photographs and ephemeral items, and a lacrosse medal awarded to Blackett in 1910. The collection documents his undergraduate social life; hiking and canoeing trips; his work as a counselor at Brantwood, a summer camp...

Papers of Charles Préaut Blaney

Collection Identifier: HUM 83
Overview:

Charles Préaut Blaney, a lawyer in New York City, was born on March 14, 1868, in Dorchester, Mass. to Charles and Antoinette Hamilton (Lamson) Blaney. He received his Harvard AB in 1890 and his LLB in 1893. The collection documents Blaney’s social and academic life while an undergraduate student at Harvard and consists of invitations, notices of election to student societies, and records of grades and examination results.

Papers of Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss, approximately 1860-1969

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 76.xx
Overview:

Robert Woods Bliss (1875-1962) and his wife, Mildred Barnes Bliss (1879-1969) were prominent art collectors and the founders of Dumbarton Oaks, an estate which they developed and conveyed in 1940 to Harvard University as the Center for Byzantine Studies. Contains personal, philanthropic and United States Foreign Service-related papers.

William Cranch Bond family collection, 1845-1872 and undated

Collection Identifier: HUG 1225 and HUG 1226
Overview: This collection holds papers relating to the work and life of the William Cranch Bond family of Massachusetts, including several family chronicles written by Elizabeth L. Bond. William Cranch Bond (1789-1859), son of a clockmaker, was the proprietor of Willliam Bond & Son, makers of scientific instruments, particularly chronometers. Both William Cranch Bond and his son George Phillips Bond were directors of the Harvard College Observatory and held the title Phillips Professor of...

Papers of Allen Foster Boone

Collection Identifier: HUM 111
Overview:

Allen Foster Boone, manufacturer, was born on November 1, 1838, and received his Harvard AB in 1861. The collection provides documentation of Boone’s undergraduate experience at Harvard College during the mid-nineteenth century, as well as his continued association with the College as an alumnus.

Papers of the Bordman family

Collection Identifier: HUG 1228
Overview: The Bordman family of Cambridge, Massachusetts maintained a long and prominent relationship with Harvard College and the local community. Multiple generations of Bordman men served as the College's Steward and the Cambridge Town Clerk from the mid-17th century through the close of the 18th century. Most of the Papers of the Bordman family collection document real estate and business transactions of Andrew Bordman II (1681-1747). Many items in the collection were created as the Bordmans...