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Papers and Records of Charles William Eliot : obsolete call numbers

Collection Identifier: UAI 15.894 and UAI 5.150
Overview:

This document provides a guide, or map, from the obsolete call numbers that identified Charles William Eliot material in the Harvard University Archives to the current call numbers, series, subseries, and box numbers in which this material resides.

Papers of Charles William Eliot, 1807-1945.

Collection Identifier: UAI 15.894
Overview:

Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) was President of Harvard University from March 12, 1869 to May 19, 1909. He also taught mathematics and chemistry at Harvard University (1858-1863) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1865-1869). Eliot was one of the most influential educators of his day and the innovations he introduced at Harvard University influenced higher education throughout the United States.

Papers of John Abbot Emery and the Emery family

Collection Identifier: HUM 113
Overview: John Abbot Emery was born on September 20, 1818, to Robert Emery and his third wife, Mary Lyman Emery. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire before entering Harvard College in 1839 with the Class of 1843, but died during his senior year on October 8, 1842. The collection consists of twenty-three letters relating to John Abbot Emery and the Emery family, along with the notice of John Abbot Emery's election in the Institute of 1770 and a first day of issue cover of a...

Spencer Ervin scrapbook

Collection Identifier: HUM 375
Scope and Content: This scrapbook documents Ervin's academic and social experiences as an undergraduate student at Harvard College from 1904 through 1908. The scrapbook includes photographs, notes, invitations from classmates and faculty, report cards, clippings from the Harvard Crimson, issues and programs from theHarvard Lampoon and other Harvard memorabilia. Included are invitations, playbills, and theatre programs from The Hasty Pudding...

Papers of Edward Everett

Collection Identifier: UAI 15.884
Overview:

Edward Everett (1794-1865) was President of Harvard University from February 5, 1846 to February 1, 1849. He was also a Unitarian clergyman, teacher, statesman, and a famous American orator.

Records relating to Harvard College collected by Charles Ewer

Collection Identifier: HUM 94
Overview: This collection contains ten 18th century documents relating to Harvard College and President John Leverett collected by the first president of the New England Historic and Genealogical Society, Charles Ewer. The documents primarily pertain to the Harvard Fellowship controversy between 1716 and 1723 that expanded from internal disagreements about the role of Tutors in College governance to a political battle between the Harvard Corporation, Board of Overseers, and the Massachusetts General...

Papers of John K. Fairbank

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 12
Overview:

John King Fairbank (1907-1991) was a a leading scholar in modern and contemporary China studies. Fairbank was the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History at Harvard Univeristy and Director of its East Asian Research Center. He was married to Wilma Cannon Fairbank, the author of numerous scholarly books on Chinese archeology and architecture.

Wilma Cannon Fairbank personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUM 430
Overview: Wilma Cannon Fairbank (1909-2002) was an artist, diplomat, and historian of Chinese art and architecture. Her personal archive contains correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, drafts, writings, teaching materials, and research files related to Fairbank's work as a published scholar, artist, and diplomat with the U.S. State Department and UNESCO. In particular, much of the collection relates to her research, scholarship, and personal relationships with Chinese architects Liang Sicheng...

Correspondence and faculty reports by John Farrar, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy

Collection Identifier: UAI 15.963
Overview: The correspondence and faculty reports in this collection document the activities of John Farrar, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and the Department of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard from 1810 to 1831. The records provide an overview of Farrar's attempts to modernize mathematical and scientific instruction at Harvard University and illustrate the subjects that were taught to students and the textbooks that were used in the instruction of mathematics and...

Father Abbey's Will Collection

Collection Identifier: HUG 1103.5
Overview: Father Abbey's Will, later attributed to Reverend Jonathan Seccombe (Harvard AB 1728), was a humorous poem first published anonymously in Boston in January 1732. The verses appeared after the death of the Harvard College Sweeper and Bed-maker Matthew Abdy in the early 1730s, and listed an inventory of Abdy's estate. A second poem purported to be a letter to Abdy's widow followed a month later. The poems were popular in both the colonies and England, and were...

Panoramic photographs of commencement preparations in Tercentenary Theatre

Collection Identifier: HUV 2336.3
Overview:

The collection includes two panoramic photographs of Harvard commenencement preparations in Harvard Yard during the 1930s. The photographs, both taken by Fay Foto, are shot from the steps of Memorial Church looking across Tercentenary Theatre to Widener Library.

Papers of Cornelius Conway Felton, 1841-1877

Collection Identifier: UAI 15.890
Overview:

Cornelius Conway Felton (1807-1862) was President of Harvard University from February 16, 1860 to February 26, 1862. He was also the Eliot Professor of Greek Literature from 1834 to 1860.

Papers of William Wallace Fenn, 1874-1932

Collection Identifier: HUG 1389
Overview:

William Wallace Fenn (1862-1932), Unitarian minister and Bussey Professor of Theology at the Harvard Divinity School (1900-1932) was a scholar of New England religious life and thought. He served as Dean of the Divinity School from 1906 to 1922.

Papers of Louis F. Fieser and Mary Fieser, 1899-1996.

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 20.xx and ‡HUGBF 461.xx
Overview:

Louis Frederick Fieser (1899-1977) and Mary Peters Fieser (1909-1997) were chemists at Harvard University. Louis was the Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry, Mary was his co-researcher and co-published with Louis. This collection chiefly covers their personal and professional lives, including honors and awards relating to career successes, but it notably lacks correspondence and research files, and has only a small amount of teaching material.

Penn Scholarship disbursement records

Collection Identifier: HUC 1680.2
Overview: James Penn (d. 1671), a Boston church leader, bequeathed an annual scholarship for Harvard students that was distributed by the elders and deacons of the Boston First Church of Christ from the early 1700s until 1866. This collection contains handwritten orders of payment and receipts issued by the ministers, elders, and deacons of the Boston First Church of Christ to the Penn estate-holder Penn Townsend, and later to the Sale Family. The payment orders were issued by the Church leaders, and...

Papers of Howard T. Fisher

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 62
Overview: Howard T. Fisher (1903-1979) was Director of the Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis, Professor of City Planning, and Research Professor of Theoretical Cartography at Harvard University. The Papers of Howard T. Fisher contain correspondence, memoranda, reports, designs, photographs, data, and other papers from Fisher's professional work, including his time at the Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis and his architectural firm, Howard T. Fisher and...

Donald Harnish Fleming personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUM 174
Overview: Donald Harnish Fleming (1923-2008) was professor of history at Brown University from 1947 to 1958 and professor of history at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1999. The collection documents the academic and professional career of Fleming. A valuable resource for research in American and European intellectual history and the history of science, the collection documents the strong relationships Fleming developed and maintained with students he taught, his popular lectures,...

Papers of Joseph F. Fletcher, Jr.

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 100
Overview: Joseph F. Fletcher, Jr. (1934-1984), Professor of Chinese and Central Asian History, received a B.A. in 1957 and Ph.D. in Far Eastern Languages in 1965 from Harvard. He taught at Harvard as a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows 1962-1966, Assistant Professor of Far Eastern Languages 1966-1972, Associate Professor 1971-1972, and Professor of Chinese and Central Asian History 1972-1984. The collection contains research notes, professional correspondence, teaching materials, drafts of...

Diary of Henry Flynt

Collection Identifier: HUG 1399.18
Overview: This diary of Henry Flynt (1675-1760), a Tutor at Harvard College for fifty-five years, provides a detailed account of his life in pre-revolutionary New England. Daily entries provide information about the costs of goods and services, Flynt's consumption habits, his travel, what he ate and drank, what he read, and many other aspects of daily life. The diary also contains entries related to Flynt's land holdings and other investments, as well as copies of meeting minutes from several sessions...

Bruce Willard Forbes letters to his parents

Collection Identifier: HUM 266
Overview: Bruce Willard Forbes (1921-2016) attended the University of Michigan, receiving his AB in French in 1942; in 1943, Forbes earned his MA from Harvard University. Forbes later entered the ministry and spent the next five decades as a priest at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York City. The collection contains seventy-six letters written by Forbes while he was a Harvard graduate student between January 29 and August 21, 1943. The letters document Forbes’ experiences as a student on the Harvard...

Edward W. Forbes collection of Harvard photographs

Collection Identifier: HUM 412
Scope and Contents: The collection contains two photographs documenting Edward Waldo Forbes’s experience as a student at Harvard. It includes an 1893 photograph from Forbes’s sophomore year in a theater performance, labeled “DKE Play,” likely from Delta Kappa Epsilon. The back side of the mount has a handwritten list of the play’s cast, labeled "Dramatis Personae," with the names of each actor.The other photograph is from the Harvard College Class of 1895 graduation, featuring Forbes and other...

Edward W. Forbes personal correspondence

Collection Identifier: HUM 349
Overview:

Edward Waldo Forbes (1873-1969), an American art historian, was the director of the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University from 1909 to 1944. The collection consists of ten letters written to and from Edward W. Forbes from 1923 to 1946 with his nephew William H. Forbes, his niece Margaret Forbes Schroeder, and M. Gertrude Huckins. The letters refer chiefly to personal and family matters.

Papers of Edward Waldo Forbes and the Forbes family

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 139
Overview:

Edward Waldo Forbes (1873-1969) was director of the Fogg Art Museum and lecturer in art history at Harvard University, an accomplished artist, and a world traveler. These papers document the personal and professional life of Edward Waldo Forbes and the lives of members of the Forbes family.

William Hathaway Forbes student themes and passport

Collection Identifier: HUM 411
Overview:

William Hathaway Forbes (1840-1897), businessman, was a member of the Forbes family, a wealthy extended family prominent in New England. The collection primarily consists of twelve student themes written by Forbes, dated 1858 to 1859, on subjects including history, politics, language, philosophy, literature, and religion. It also contains Forbes's passport from the Department of State.

Papers of James Ford

Collection Identifier: HUG 4402.xx
Overview:

James Ford (1884-1944), social ethicist, taught at Harvard University from 1909 until his death in 1944. Ford studied housing equality and slums within the United States, and he wrote several important works on the subject. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, research and subject files, course materials, speeches, and writings and papers.