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American Soldier in WWII subject index and codebooks

Collection Identifier: HUM 291
Overview: The collection contains the questions used to survey American soldiers during World War II by the Research Branch of the War Department’s Information and Education Division. Under the direction of Samuel A. Stouffer, later director of the Laboratory of Social Relations and professor of sociology (1946-1960) at Harvard University, the survey results provided the United States Army with information to formulate policies and procedures. The survey results were published in four volumes as...

Valerie Novales collection of Harvard memorabilia

Collection Identifier: HUM 409
Overview:

Valerie Novales graduated with honors from Harvard University with a degree in History in 2004. The collection, named in her honor, contains issues of the Harvard Lampoon; 18 postcards with images of Harvard buildings and views; two John Harvard First Day of Issue stamps on envelopes; a photograph of the Classes of 1887 and 1888 Gates; and a Harvard University Summer School College Admission English examination, possibly dating from 1908.

Receipt and warrant for Massachusetts state pension payment to Anthony Vassall Digital

Collection — item: 1Identifier: HUY 218
Scope and Contents:

Receipt from Anthony (Tony) Vassall to Massachusetts for £12 payment in full, acknowledged by his mark, an elongated “T,” on April 21, 1792. The inscription dockets the verso of a warrant signed by Massachusetts Governor John Hancock in Boston on February 7, 1792, ordering state treasurer Alexander Hodgdon to pay Anthony Vassall the sum of £12 for one year’s pension, to be disbursed from the proceeds of the estate of absentee John Vassall of Cambridge.

Joseph Vera collection of Harvard memorabilia

Collection Identifier: HUM 321
Overview: This collection documents Joseph Vera’s association with the Harvard fencing team, the Harvard Glee Club, his participation in Class of 1950 reunions, and his attendance at athletic events including Harvard football games. Joseph Sequeira Vera (1928-2018), a lawyer, received an AB from Harvard University (1950), a Juris Doctor from Boston University (1953), and a Master of Laws from Georgetown University (1955). He practiced law in New Bedford, Massachusetts from 1954-1970 before accepting...

Papers of Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule, 1946-1996 and 2001

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 151
Overview:

Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule (1928-2001), a professor of classical philology and archaeology at Harvard University (1970-1994), was an internationally recognized authority on the Bronze Age of Greece and a distinguished archaeologist, classicist, and art historian.

Papers of Evon Zartman Vogt

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 140
Overview: Evon Zartman Vogt, Jr. (1918-2004) was professor of social anthropology at Harvard from 1948 to 1989 and curator of Middle American ethnology at the Peabody Museum. Vogt’s research interests included ethnology, cultural change, religion, acculturation, and other topics in social anthropology, and he primarily studied ethnic groups in Mexico and the Southwestern United States, including the Maya and Navajo (Diné). The collection documents Vogt’s teaching and research while at Harvard,...

Papers of Richard Von Mises

Collection Identifier: HUG 4574.xx
Overview: Richard Von Mises (1883-1953), Austrian-American mathematician and engineer, taught at Harvard University beginning in 1939, holding the position of Gordon McKay Professor of Aerodynamics and Applied Mathematics from 1944 to 1953. The collection documents his personal life and professional career as a mathematician and Harvard University professor. It includes correspondence, research materials, manuscripts, lecture notes and other teaching materials, photographs, diaries, and biographical...

Papers of Benjamin Wadsworth

Collection Identifier: UAI 15.868
Overview:

Benjamin Wadsworth (1670-1737) was pastor of the First Church of Boston from 1693 to 1725 and the eighth president of Harvard College, serving from 1725 to 1737. This collection documents Wadsworth’s activities and interests as a pastor and as president of Harvard. It contains his diary, 1725-1736, sermons, 1696-1734, a medical account book listing medical remedies collected by Wadsworth, and a receipt from Wadsworth to Thomas Emory, 1725.

Benjamin Wadsworth legal documents

Collection Identifier: HUM 313
Overview:

Benjamin Wadsworth (1750-1826), a Danvers, Massachusetts, minister, was born on July 18, 1750, in Milton. He graduated from Harvard College with an AB in 1769 and received an AM in 1772. This collection consists of an estate document and deed of his father, Benjamin Wadsworth (1707-1771), as well as a wooden box cover with an engraving of Harvard Hall and surrounding buildings, dated 1765-1775.

Edward W. Wagner personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUM 243
Overview: Edward Willett Wagner (1924-2001) was Professor of Korean Studies at Harvard for thirty-five years and was a pioneer in the study of Korean history in the United States. A specialist in pre-modern Korean history, Wagner's research centered on the study of the elite structure of Korea’s Yi (Chosŏn) dynasty. The Edward W. Wagner personal archive documents Wagner’s academic and professional career as a teacher, writer, and historian and highlights his role as an authority on the history and...

Papers of George Wald

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 143
Overview:

George David Wald, 1906-1997, was a Nobel Prize-winning biologist, Higgins Professor of Biology at Harvard University, and a promoter of progressive political and social causes. These papers document both his life as a scientist and his life as a social activist.

Papers of James Walker

Collection Identifier: UAI 15.888
Overview:

James Walker (1794-1874) was President of Harvard University from February 10, 1853 to January 26, 1860. Walker was also a Unitarian minister and religious philosopher.

Papers of Lauriston Ward

Collection Identifier: HUM 119
Overview: Lauriston Ward (1882-1960) was a journalist, businessman, and anthropologist. The Papers of Lauriston Ward chiefly document his studies of English writers and British history at Harvard from 1900 to 1903. The bulk of the collection consists of Ward's student notes, papers, and essays, and a small number of Harvard publications pertaining to student life at Harvard from 1901 to 1903. The collection also includes a small amount of biographical material and personal correspondence created after...

Papers of Henry Ware, Sr.

Collection Identifier: HUG 1871
Overview: Henry Ware, Sr., a Unitarian minister and theologian, was the fourth Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard University from 1805 until 1837. Ware was instrumental in the creation of the Harvard Divinity School and the development of Unitarianism in New England. The papers of Henry Ware, Sr. contain materials he created over more than half a century beginning as a Harvard undergraduate in 1785, a minister in Hingham, Mass., and later as the Hollis Professor of Divinity. The collection...

Papers of Henry Ware, Jr.

Collection Identifier: HUG 1872.xx
Overview:

Henry Ware, Jr. (1794-1843), Unitarian theologian, was Professor of Pulpit Eloquence and Pastoral Care at the Harvard Divinity School from 1830 to 1842. His papers include personal correspondence and letters to Unitarian minister Frederic Huidekoper; manuscripts of sermons; and manuscript notes made by students under Ware's supervision in compiling a book, "The Religious Life Delineated."

Langdon Warner personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUG 4872.1010
Overview: Langdon Warner (1881-1955) was a curator of Far Eastern Art at Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum from 1923 to 1950, and was an advisor to the United States military on Far Eastern shrines and art centers in World War II. The Langdon Warner personal archive documents Warner's career as a curator, art historian, and lecturer and illustrates his roles as an authority on Asian art and culture, especially on Japanese and Chinese art and culture. The collection provides a view of United...

Photographs of the Harvard University campus and environs taken by George K. Warren, 1860

Collection Identifier: HUV 2260.5
Overview:

George K. Warren was an American photographer active in Massachusetts in the second half of the 19th century who was known for his photographs of graduating college classes and for cartes-de-visite views of Massachusetts towns. This collection consists of 16 cartes-de-visite views of Harvard University buildings and environs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, taken by Warren in 1860.

Correspondence and reports by John Collins Warren, Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Surgery

Collection Identifier: UAI 15.975
Overview:

The records in this collection document the teaching and administrative activities of John Collins Warren, Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Surgery and Dean of the Harvard Medical School from 1816 to 1827 and also provide an overview of Warren's supervision of the anatomy room and museum at Harvard.

Papers of Samuel Webber

Collection Identifier: UAI 15.878
Overview:

Samuel Webber (1759-1810) was President of Harvard University from May 6, 1806 to July 17, 1810. The Papers of Samuel Webber touch on some of his activities as President of Harvard University and also include materials related to Webber's son, John, and his wife, Rebecca.

Photographs of Harvard University buildings and grounds taken by Paul J. Weber for the News Office, approximately 1929-1931 and 1939

Collection Identifier: HUV 2329
Overview:

Black and white photographs of Harvard University buildings taken by Paul J. Weber, a Boston-based architectural photographer. Weber was hired by the University to take a series of photographs of University buildings and grounds for the News Office. Taken circa 1929-1931 and 1939, these photographs document exterior and interior views of University buildings and grounds.

Records of the Erving Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy kept by John White Webster

Collection Identifier: UAI 15.991
Overview:

This collection documents the teaching and administrative activities of John White Webster, Erving Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy, and provides an overview of Webster's supervision of the Harvard chemical laboratory and use of scientific instruments and drawings in experiments and lectures at Harvard from 1824 to 1835.

Lisa Weiss personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUM 422
Overview: Lisa Ann Goldman Weiss (born 1952), a concert pianist, received her AB from Harvard University in 1974. The collection documents Weiss' performances as a pianist for the Harvard Chamber Orchestra and Harvard Summer School Chamber Players from 1974 to 1999. The collection also contains records and audio recordings detailing the careers of Leon Kirchner (1919-2009), Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor at Harvard University and director of the Harvard Chamber Orchestra and Harvard Chamber Players...

Gordon B. Wellman student notebooks

Collection Identifier: HUM 274
Overview: The collection consists of ten student notebooks kept by Gordon B. Wellman (AB 1910) while a student at Harvard College (1906-1910), New College at the University of Edinburgh (1910-1911), at the Andover Theological Seminary (1914-1916) and the Harvard Divinity School (1916-1918). The notebooks reveal the work completed by Wellman during years as an undergraduate and graduate student on subjects related to history, economics, philosophy, religion, and theology. Also included is a copy of...

Papers of Barrett Wendell

Collection Identifier: HUG 1876.xx
Overview:

Barrett Wendell (1855-1921), educator and scholar of English literature, taught at Harvard University from 1880 until his retirement in 1917. His papers contain manuscripts of published works, including fiction, essays, plays, and translations, as well as correspondence and teaching materials, such as lecture notes and notes on student themes from the Harvard Annex, which later became Radcliffe College.

Papers of Harold Malcolm Westergaard

Collection Identifier: HUG 4876.5
Overview:

Harold Malcolm Westergaard (1888-1950), civil engineer and engineering scientist, was the Gordon McKay Professor of Civil Engineering at Harvard University from 1936 to 1950. The Papers of Harold Malcolm Westergaard chronicle his contributions to the field of engineering from 1920 to 1950.