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American Unitarian Association. Summer Meetings Association. Isles of Shoals Papers, 1732-1923.

Collection Identifier: bMS 376
Overview:

Papers related to the American Unitarian Association's Summer Meetings in the Isles of Shoals, including correspondence, a lease, history on the Isles of Shoals, and a missionary journal. The papers span 1731-1923.

American Unitarian Association The Ministers' Institute records

Collection Identifier: bMS 628
Scope and Contents:

Records consist of one notebook which contains minutes of meetings, newsclippings, announcements of lectures, and records of financial donations. According to the first entry in this notebook, it was "At a meeting of the Council of the National Conference held in Boston, Nov. 2, 1846 a Committee...was appointed to make arrangements for a Ministers' Institute to be held on alternate years with the Conference."

American Unitarian Association Unitarian Sunday School Society records

Collection Identifier: bMS 77
Scope and Contents:

The files in this collection are arranged into eight series: I. Record books (boxes 1-5); II. Notices of meetings and anniversaries (boxes 6-8); III. Administrative and historical records (boxes 9-11); IV. Financial records (boxes 12-14); V. Correspondence (boxes 15-16); VI. Education and curriculum materials, (boxes 17-20); VII. Manuscript submission records (boxes 21-23); VIII. Scrapbooks and photographs (boxes 24-27).

American Unitarian Youth records

Collection Identifier: bMS 427
Scope and Contents:

During the years covered by these records, the AUY was known as the Young People's Religious Union.

American vaudeville collection

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 630
Overview:

Primarily playbills and programs from American vaudeville shows.

Records of the Harvard Chapter of the American Veterans Committee, 1946-1951

Collection Identifier: HUD 3140.3000
Overview:

The Harvard Chapter of the American Veterans Committee was established in 1946. It ran seminars for veterans, organized social events, and campaigned against the University's decision to cut all subsidized housing for married students. The records document the history, activities, and interests of this group.

Americana scrapbook

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 889.435
Overview:

19th-century scrapbook featuring clippings, signatures, and letters from and about notable Americans.

Ames, Charles Gordon. Correspondence, 1891-1910.

Collection Identifier: bMS 74
Overview:

Letters written during the time that New England Transcendentalist Charles Gordon Ames, D.D. (1828-1912) was minister of the Church of the Disciples in Boston and Clara Bancroft Beatley in charge of the church school. The letters refer to many church school matters. Includes two addresses by Ames, one entitied A Century's Retrospect, the other given at the Unitarian Festival, May 25, 1906.

Ames family historical collection, 1762-2006

Collection Identifier: MC 773
Overview:

Correspondence, diaries, financial papers, etc. of multiple generations of the Ames, Lesley, and Lyman families.

Papers of Fisher Ames and the Ames and Fowler families

Collection Identifier: HUM 96
Overview: Fisher Ames (1758-1808) was a lawyer and Federalist statesman from Massachusetts. Ames received an AB from Harvard in 1774, and he later served in the United States Congress from 1789 to 1797. This collection contains an embroidered pocketbook, three pieces of correspondence, and a handwritten political speech related to Fisher Ames and the Ames family, and a brief handwritten genealogy of the Bayley family, two cabinet card portraits, and a child's glove. The Ames family was related to the...

Papers of Oakes Ames, 1897-1967

Collection Identifier: HUG 4139.xx
Overview:

 Oakes Ames (1874-1950) graduated from Harvard in 1898, taught botany at Harvard and was director of the Botanical Museum.  His papers document his personal and family life, and the field of botany, including teaching, research, and administration of the Botanical Museum.

Amicable Fire Society (Cambridge, Mass.) records

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 817
Overview:

Manuscript records of the Amicable Fire Society of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Amilcare Ponchielli letters and musical sketches

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 1198
Overview:

Letters from Italian composer Amilcare Ponchielli to his wife, soprano Teresa Brambilla-Ponchielli, concerning both their musical careers and personal information, with some letters from Ponchielli to others in the music industry.

Amory, Browne and Company records

Collection Identifier: Mss:761 1918-1922 A524
Overview:

The collection consists of records of orders and transfers made, chiefly for kalburnie ginghams, for Lancaster Mills of Clinton, Massachusetts.

Thomas Coffin Amory papers

Collection Identifier: Mss:766 1797-1802 A524
Overview: Thomas Coffin Amory, merchant and store owner, was born in 1767 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Thomas and Elizabeth (Coffin) Amory. The Thomas Coffin Amory papers consist of a letter book, and copies of correspondence removed from a letter book, from Amory to other merchants, ship captains, agents, and associates, most likely in the hand of a clerk, dated 1797 to 1802. Letters relate to foreign trade, import, and consignment of assorted commodities and goods like New England rum, molasses,...