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Andrew S. Carron collection of negatives

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 431
Overview:

This collection contains photographic negatives taken by Andrew Carron as a Harvard undergraduate from 1969 to 1972, documenting political activities among students. Andrew Sharpe Cannon (born 1951), an investment banker, attended Harvard University (BA, 1973) and Yale University (MA, 1977; PhD, 1980).

Cartes Photographiques du Ciel received by the Harvard College Observatory

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.211
Overview: In 1887, the first International Astrophotographic Congress launched the Carte du Ciel, an international astronomical project to photograph every star in the sky, and compile a catalog, known as the Astrographic Catalogue, listing the positions of stars from the fourteenth magnitude down to the eleventh magnitude, from this photographic atlas. The Cartes Photographiques du Ciel received by the Harvard College Observatory as part of the Carte du Ciel documents portions of the star mapping...

Charles Whelan Cassidy diaries and photocopies

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUD 936.11
Overview:

Charles Whelan Cassidy, advertising executive, was born on May 31, 1913 in East Orange, New Jersey, and died on June 5, 1994 in Florida; he received his Harvard AB in 1936. This collection is comprised of three diaries written by Charles Whelan Cassidy in 1936, during the second semester of his senior year at Harvard.

Records of the Cercle Français de l'Université Harvard, 1873 and 1888-1952

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUD 3272
Overview: The first organization at Harvard University to use the name "Cercle Français" was established in November 1873 to encourage the study of French language and literature. This club was in existence until 1875. A second Cercle Français was founded by Adolphe Cohn, professor of French at Harvard, in 1886 as a debating club under the name Conférence Française. The group soon changed its focus to begin producing French plays, an annual tradition that continued at least into the 1940s. The records...

Papers of Zechariah Chafee, Jr.

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUG 4273.xx
Overview: Zechariah Chafee, Jr. (1885-1957), legal scholar, civil liberties advocate, and educator, taught at Harvard Law School from 1916 to 1956. He joined the Harvard Law School faculty as an assistant professor in 1916, was promoted to full professor in 1919, appointed Langdell Professor of Law in 1938, and University Professor in 1950, retiring in 1956. His papers contain materials related to his personal life and professional career, including correspondence; student papers; commonplace books;...

Papers of Bruce Chalmers

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUGFP 1.xx
Overview:

Bruce Chalmers (1907-1990) was Gordon McKay Professor of Metallurgy at Harvard from 1953 to 1977. The Papers of Bruce Chalmers, 1952-1966, document Chalmers's teaching, committee, and professional activities while at Harvard. The collection primarily consists of Chalmers's correspondence regarding his participation on committees at Harvard and beyond, research contracts, letters of recommendations for graduate student advisees, and his publishing projects.

Jeffrey Robert Chapman personal archive

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 306
Overview: Jeffrey Robert Chapman, advertising executive, graduated from Harvard University (AB 1986), where he was a writer and issue editor for the Harvard Lampoon while studying forest ecology. The collection documents Jeffrey R. Chapman’s affiliation with the Harvard Lampoon, a school humor magazine, and includes a Lampoon letterman jacket, original artwork for Lampoon magazine covers, and a Lampoon USA Today parody...

Collection of Harvard College bills sent to Charles Augustus Chase

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUD 1851.14
Overview: Charles Augustus Chase (1833-1911) was a member of the Harvard Class of 1855. After graduating from Harvard, Chase worked for the Boston Daily Advertiser as a reporter and office editor until 1862. Chase then held several public offices, serving as treasurer of Worcester County, Massachusetts from 1864 to 1875, and then as Register of Deeds in 1876. His collection of bills demonstrates Chase's financial transactions while an undergraduate at Harvard, and...

Papers of George Henry Chase

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUGFP 5
Overview:

The Papers of George Henry Chase includes correspondence with the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece, Phi Beta Kappa, and Archaeological Institute of America, among other professional societies. The collection also contains lecture notes for Harvard courses in archaeology, fine arts, and Greek painting, circa 1907-1912.

The Henry Chauncey Collection of film and photographs from the Harvard baseball team's tour of Japan

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 187
Scope and Content: The collection consists of a scrapbook photograph album detailing the Harvard University baseball team's trip to Japan in the summer of 1934 and film reels showing footage from China, Japan, and the United States. The album, labeled “Harvard Baseball trip to Japan (Honolulu en route), July-August 1934,” contains 67 black & white and sepia-toned photographs, including group shots of the baseball team, landscape scenes, shots of Chauncey, the team aboard the M.S....

Papers of Francis James Child

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUG 1279.xx
Overview:

Francis James Child (1825-1896), Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and Harvard’s first professor of English, taught rhetoric, oratory, elocution, and English at Harvard College from 1851 until his death in 1896. His papers contain correspondence, manuscripts, reprints and publications related to Child, addresses, a scrapbook of press clippings compiled by Harvard English professor George Lyman Kittredge, and assorted papers, including school reports.

Records of the Choate Club, 1955-1967

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUD 3277.4500
Overview: The Choate Club was founded at the Harvard Law School in 1887 as a chapter of the Phi Delta Phi, a law-school fraternity. In its later years, the Club appears to have been a secret society composed of Law School students and professors, with a focus on social and intellectual stimulation outside of study of the law. The Records of the Choate Club document the history, activities, and interests of the Club. The Club should not be confused with the Law School's Choate Law Club, associated with...

Charles B. Chrisman collection of photographs, negatives, and Harvard class reunion ephemera

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 407
Overview:

Charles Benham Chrisman (1894-1966), an attorney, received his AB (1912) and LLB (1919) from Harvard University. This collection consists chiefly of photographs, negatives, and photographs printed on postcards by Charles Benham Chrisman from 1911 to 1920. Also included are ephemera such as programs, street maps, and tickets related to the Harvard College Class of 1916 fiftieth reunion in 1966 and sixtieth reunion in 1976.

Records of the Circolo Italiano dell'Universitá Harvard, 1910, 1926-1950, and undated

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUD 3285
Overview:

The Circolo Italiano dell’Universitá Harvard was founded in 1903 as the Italian Club. While membership was originally confined to those studying the Italian language,the Circolo gradually extended its sphere of interest and opened to all members of the University interested in Italian and the culture of Italy, and Italians in America. The records document the history, activities, and interests of the Circolo.

Aerial photographs of Cambridge, Mass. taken by Edward R. Cogswell, Jr.

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUV 2297.10
Overview:

This collection consists of seven black and white platinum prints taken by Edward Russell Cogswell, Jr., on September 18, 1897, from the top of the chimney of the old power house at the intersection of Boylston Street (now John F. Kennedy Street) and Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Mass. The photographs are aerial views of Harvard Square, Cambridge, Allston and the Charles River.

Collection of Edward Holyoke materials

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 312
Overview: Edward Holyoke (1689-1769) was the ninth president of Harvard College, serving for thirty-two years from 1737 to 1769. This artificial collection, dated 1721-circa 1780s, consists of an astronomy notebook and sermons written by Holyoke, a drinking tube fashioned from his watch case, a letter to Holyoke from his friend Benjamin Dearborn, and a letter to a proprietor of the Second Church of Marblehead, Massachusetts, from Overseer William Dudley related to Holyoke’s election as president of...

Papers of James Bryant Conant, 1862-1987

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 15.898
Overview: James Bryant Conant (1893-1978) was a chemist, educator and public servant. The wide variety of his interests and occupations are reflected in the title of his memoirs, My Several Lives. Conant's "several lives" included periods as a Harvard University chemistry professor, Harvard University president, national director of defense research, ambassador to Germany and as an author of critical works examining secondary education in the United States. This collection documents professional...

Papers of Kenneth J. Conant

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUGFP 21.xx
Overview: Kenneth J. Conant (1894-1984), architectural historian and educator, taught at Harvard University from 1920 until his retirement in 1955. The collection documents his personal and professional life, including his teaching, publishing, and research activities. Conant’s papers include personal and professional correspondence; materials related to University’s Harvard Hall renovations; lecture notes for his fine arts courses; class outlines for courses on architecture in Europe; and photographs...

Richard Edward Connell personal archive

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUD 915.70
Overview:

Richard Edward Connell, author of short stories, novels and screenplays, was born on October 17, 1893 in Poughkeepsie, New York, and received his Harvard AB in 1915. He died on November 22, 1949 in Beverly Hills, California. This collection consists primarily of Connell’s letters to his sisters, written while he was at Harvard; it also contains biographical information, including a photograph, biography, and bibliography.

Papers of Archibald Cary Coolidge

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUG 1299
Overview:

Archibald Cary Coolidge (1866-1928), was a Professor of History (1908-1928) and the first Director of the Harvard University Library (1910-1928).

Papers of Charles Townsend Copeland

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUG 4298.xx
Overview:

Charles Townsend Copeland (1860-1952), writer, poet, and Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, taught English at Harvard College from 1893 to 1928. The Papers of Charles Townsend Copeland chiefly consist of Copeland's lectures, speeches, correspondence, scrapbooks, and student work, and photographs documenting his teaching career at Harvard. The collection also includes a small amount of Copeland's personal letters and photographs.

Correspondence and records related to the Harvard College Plate

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUB 3790.2
Overview: The Harvard College Plate originated with the donation of the first major piece in the collection, the Great Salt, by Richard Harris, probably in 1644. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Harvard Corporation received silver as gifts from prominent alumni and donors, and from students seeking elevated status as "fellow commoners." The Plate includes several vessels created by New England silversmith John Coney, notably the Stoughton Cup, donated by acting Massachusetts Governor...

Frank Lindsay Crawford collection of Harvard photographs

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 147
Overview:

The collection consists of thirteen photographs of Harvard student groups, athletic teams, campus views, and the Harvard College Class of 1879, which were collected by Frank Lindsay Crawford. Crawford, lawyer, was born on October 14, 1856, in Poughkeepsie, New York to Morris D’Camp and Charlotte (Holmes) Crawford; he received his AB from Harvard in 1879.

Allan Rohan Crite watercolor drawings of the moving of Dana-Palmer House on Quincy Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUV 2347.2
Overview: African-American artist Allan Rohan Crite (1910-2007) was best known for his artwork depicting the daily lives of Black people in the city of Boston as well as religious themes. Crite began his career with the Federal Art Project, a New Deal program to fund the visual arts under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration, and later worked as a draftsman at the Boston Naval Shipyard for thirty years. The Allan Rohan Crite watercolor drawings of Moving Dana House on Quincy Street,...

Papers of William Croswell

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUG 1306.5
Overview: This collection contains the papers of William Croswell (1760-1834; Harvard AB 1780), a Boston cartographer, educator, and Harvard Library cataloger, dating from 1776 to 1834. A substantial portion of the collection chronicles Croswell's lifelong financial difficulties, psychological issues, and poor health, and from 1821 until shortly before his death in 1834, his repeated and unsuccessful attempts to receive financial compensation from the Harvard Corporation for his work on the...
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