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Frank Henry Westheimer personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUM 388
Overview: Frank Henry Westheimer (1912-2007), chemist, taught at Harvard University from 1953 to 1983. Westheimer’s papers document his personal life, his career as a chemistry professor at the University of Chicago and Harvard University, as well as his professional activities, including his time serving on the President's Science Advisory Committee under Lyndon Johnson's administration. The bulk of the collection consists of Westheimer's correspondence, as well as scrapbooks, photographs, awards,...

James Rignall Wheeler personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUM 408
Overview:

James Rignall Wheeler (1859-1918) was a scholar of Greek language, literature, art, and archaeology, and professor of Greek and Latin at Harvard University, the University of Vermont, and Columbia University. His personal archive consists primarily of approximately 50 undated blue books containing Wheeler’s lecture notes on a variety of topics, including Classical authors, art and archeological topics, and unidentified manuscripts with handwritten notes in Greek and English.

Papers of William Morton Wheeler

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 87.xx
Overview: William Morton Wheeler (1865-1937), entomologist and myrmecologist, taught applied biology at Harvard University from 1908 to 1934, served as Dean of the Faculty of the Bussey Institution, and was Associate Curator of Insects at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. The collection reflects Wheeler’s professional activities, including correspondence, student and research notes, manuscripts for published and unpublished works, illustrations for publications, travel and zoological fieldwork...

Papers of Fred Lawrence Whipple, 1929-1997

Collection Identifier: HUG 4876
Overview:

Fred Lawrence Whipple, Phillips Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University (1950-1977) and former director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (1955-1973), is a world renowned expert on comets. He is the independent discoverer of six comets.

Papers of George Chandler Whipple

Collection Identifier: HUG 1876.3000
Overview:

George Chandler Whipple (1866-1921) was the Gordon McKay Professor of Sanitary Engineering at Harvard University (1911-1924), and best known as a co-founder of the Harvard School of Public Health (1922). The Papers of George Chandler Whipple document his activities as a civil engineer in the field of sanitary microbiology, as well as family life from 1860 to 1941.

Papers of Daniel Appleton White

Collection Identifier: HUM 11
Overview: Daniel Appleton White (1776-1861) was a Massachusetts lawyer, legislator, and judge. These papers document his activities as a student and his early career as a teacher in Massachusetts from 1793 to 1803. They include materials from his time as a student at Atkinson Academy in New Hampshire in 1793 and as an undergraduate at Harvard College from 1793 to 1797, as well as documents created while teaching at the grammar school in Medford, Massachusetts from 1797 to 1799 and as a tutor at...

Papers of T. H. White

Collection Identifier: HUM 1.10
Overview:

Theodore H. White (1915-1986) was an American journalist. These papers cover every aspect of his 48-year career.

Papers of Alfred North Whitehead

Collection Identifier: HUG 4877.XX
Scope and Contents:

This collection consists of a Student record book for Harvard and Radcliffe classes, 1924-1937, letters to La Drière about honors for Whitehead, and articles about Whitehead.

Papers of Cedric Hubbell Whitman

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 107.xx
Overview: Cedric Hubbell Whitman (1916-1979), poet and Greek scholar, taught at Harvard University from 1947 until his death in 1979. The collection documents his professional research, publishing, and teaching activities, as well as his personal life. Whitman's papers contain correspondence, teaching materials, manuscripts and unpublished writings, poems, photographs, audio recordings, family documents, and personal papers. There are also letters of Whitman’s second wife, Anne Miller Whitman...

Papers of Leo Wiener

Collection Identifier: HUG 1876.6500
Overview:

Leo Wiener (1862-1939), a philologist and historian of Yiddish language, literature, and folklore, taught in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University from 1895 to 1930. The Papers of Leo Wiener document his professional career chiefly from 1884 to 1939.

Papers of Joseph Willard

Collection Identifier: UAI 15.876
Overview: Joseph Willard (1738-1804) was a Congregational minister, a scholar of ancient Greek, astronomy, and mathematics, and the twelfth president of Harvard College, serving from 1781 to 1804. This collection primarily documents Willard’s religious work, as it contains over two hundred of his sermons. It also contains two pieces of Willard’s student work as a Harvard undergraduate, correspondence regarding his clerical responsibilities, a few letters to family members, administrative...

Samuel Willard letters to family members

Collection Identifier: HUD 803.2
Overview: Samuel Willard, minister, educator, and musician, was born on April 18, 1775 in Petersham, Massachusetts, the seventh child of eleven children, to Deacon William Willard and Katherine (sometimes spelled “Katharine” or “Catharine”) Wilder Willard. This collection consists of letters that Willard wrote to his parents and various siblings throughout different stages of his life. The correspondence begins while Willard is teaching and studying in Lancaster, Massachusetts, continues while he is a...

Papers of Gordon Randolph Willey

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 119
Overview:

Gordon Randolph Willey (1913-2002), archaeologist, taught at Harvard University from 1950 to 1987. The bulk of Willey’s papers consists of correspondence with other archaeologists, much of it written during Willey's time at Harvard. The collection also includes memoranda, reports, lecture and research notes, a bibliography, and other papers relating to his archaeological interests and associations, spanning from the 1930s to the 1990s.

William Ellery Westman Harvard memorabilia

Collection Identifier: HUM 374
Content Description: The collection is composed of Harvard memorabilia collected by William Ellery Westman (Harvard Class of 1922). Included are a Harvard Handbook Calendar, Class day and Commencement event programs, Alpha Phi Sigma dance cards and menus, and a newsletter regarding the 1968 Harvard-Yale football game. Other items include programs and flyers for the 1936 Harvard University Tercentenary. The collection also contains alumni publications, including The ’22 Repeater...

William Wells collection of books

Collection Identifier: HUM 354
Overview: William Wells (1773-1860) was a bookseller and educator in Massachusetts. He emigrated from England to Boston with his family in June 1793, settling in Brattleboro, Vermont, and entered the junior class of Harvard in the fall of 1795. This collection consists of books owned by Wells, including Richard Price’s A review of the principal questions in morals (1787), inscribed by Harvard President Joseph Willard and given to Wells as a Detur Prize in 1795; Volume 2 of...

William Winthrop Collection

Collection Identifier: HUM 26
Overview: William Winthrop (1753-1825 Harvard AB 1770, AM 1773) was a prominent member of the Cambridge community, a benefactor of Harvard College, and a biographer of Harvard alumni. The collection holds the correspondence and research notes compiled by Winthrop, often in the form of annotated Harvard Triennial Catalogues, as he attempted to create comprehensive biographical histories of all of Harvard's graduates. The collection reflects information Winthrop collected from alumni, published local...

Correspondence between Samuel E. Morison and Charles Mallory Williams regarding the Harvard College land grants of the 1650s

Collection Identifier: HUM 423
Overview: Samuel Eliot Morison (1887-1976) was the Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard, Harvard University tercentenary historian, and a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. Charles Mallory Williams (1872-1951) was a professor of dermatology and general practitioner. A descendant of an early Connecticut shipping family, Williams was the president of the Stonington Historical Society. The collection consists of correspondence between Samuel E. Morison, Charles Mallory...

Papers of Donald Cary Williams

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 53
Overview:

Donald Cary Williams (1899-1983) received an AM in 1925 and PhD in 1928 in philosophy from Harvard and taught philosophy at Harvard from 1939 to 1967. The collection documents Williams’s academic and professional activities from 1922 to 1977. Materials include correspondence, student papers, manuscripts, and teaching materials.

Peter W. Williams class notes, essays, and examinations

Collection Identifier: HUM 385
Scope and Contents: Collection of syllabi, class notes, exam books, and reading notes from Peter W. Williams from his time as a Harvard undergraduate from 1961 to 1965. The material from Williams’ time as an undergraduate contains class notes written by Williams, annotations of class readings, essays, completed exam booklets, along with syllabi and reading guides written by his professors. Williams’ material covers 18 classes, which include: Latin Ra, Latin 1b, Spanish 10, Italian 120, Humanities 6, Humanities...

Papers of Samuel Williams

Collection Identifier: HUM 8
Overview: These papers of professor, scientist, minister, editor, author and publisher Samuel Williams (1743-1817) document his teaching, research, and preaching activities. The collection contains a journal about theology, written in 1762 while Williams was a student at Harvard College; manuscripts of scientific lectures delivered while Williams was Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard from 1780 to 1788 and after his subsequent move to Vermont; a series of illustrated...

George Williamson personal archive Digital

Collection Identifier: HUM 126
Overview:

George Williamson, a member of the Harvard College Class of 1905, was the first Harvard alumnus to die while serving in the First World War. The archive consists of letters Williamson wrote while a Harvard undergraduate, military medals awarded to him, and letters documenting his wartime service.

Papers of Thomas J. Wilson

Collection Identifier: HUGB W462.xx
Overview: Thomas James Wilson (1902-1969) served as Director of the Harvard University Press from 1947 until his retirement in 1967. The Papers of Thomas J. Wilson chiefly consist of correspondence, primarily from friends and professional associates concerning Wilson's retirement from Harvard University Press in 1967, and additional correspondence, itineraries and records pertaining to Wilson's business trips in the 1950s and 1960s for Franklin Publications, Inc. The collection also contains speeches...

Thomas T. Winant collection of Harvard postcards

Collection Identifier: HUY 214
Overview:

Collection of 231 postcards, collected by Thomas T. Winant, chiefly depicting exteriors of Harvard and Radcliffe buildings, as well as Harvard landmarks, Cambridge views, and Harvard's graduate schools. Most of the postcards are blank, but some were mailed and contain writing. Postmarks for the latter suggest that the bulk dates from 1904 to 1908; however, there are about 20 postcards that are probably from the 1990s.

Papers of George Parker Winship

Collection Identifier: HUG 4879.xx
Overview: George Parker Winship (1871-1952), librarian, educator, and author, was a librarian at Harvard University’s Widener Library from 1915 until his retirement in 1936. The collection documents his career as a librarian at Harvard’s Widener Library, as well as his involvement with professional organizations, particularly the Bibliographical Society of America. The bulk of the collection contains correspondence, as well as an account book for the Widener Collection, 1915 to 1926, manuscripts of...

David C. McClelland collection compiled by David G. Winter

Collection Identifier: HUM 270
Overview:

David G. Winter (born 1939) is a Professor of Psychology (emeritus) at the University of Michigan. David C. McClelland (1917-1998), was a psychology professor at Harvard University (1956-1987) and known for his wide-ranging research on personality and motivation. The collection consists chiefly of biographical materials from the 1920s to 2012 about David C. McClelland compiled by David G. Winter, a former student, colleague, and research associate of McClelland.