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18th century French vignettes collected by Philip Hofer

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Typ 1245
Overview:

18th-century printed vignettes by various artists acquired by Philip Hofer.

19th century portrait albums of French actors and actresses

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: 2004MT-68
General Note:

Contents include: an album of 22 signed watercolor caricatures by Lhéritier (including comedians of the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, mid 1850s); and an album containing 42 portraits of actors and actresses (many from the Théâtre des Jeunes-Élèves, rue de Thionville).

19th century portraits of African Americans

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Multiple ContainersIdentifier: MS Am 3380
Content Description:

176 images, many hand-colored, of women, men, children, couples, and soldiers, chiefly tintypes with a smaller number of salt prints, albumen prints, and one painting. In most cases, both the photographer and the sitter are unidentified.


Subjects identifiable by annotations: June Anderson, Jackson, Morly, and Montgomery. One photographer is identified as Albert Sandoz.

83M80: Letterpress in the digital era: records

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Typ 1287
Overview:

Files, type, and other records from a project to create a movable typeface by two artists.

1090 Centre Street records

FOUND IN: Arnold Arboretum Archives
Collection Identifier: I D-3 .1090 Centre S

1934 Art and Industry Exhibition photograph collection

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: Vis:767 1934 A784
Overview:

The 1934 Art and Industry Exhibition photograph collection contains photographs that were on display in New York City and Chicago in an exhibition sponsored by the National Alliance of Art and Industry.

A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne letters to G.H. Grubb

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Volume: 1Identifier: 2006M-3

A. and G. A. Kendall and Company account book

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: Mss:766 1841-1843 K33
Scope and Contents:

This is an account book of transactions made from various firms in England, Scotland, Italy, and France with invoices of shipments to the United States. The firm imported dry goods such as broadcloth, silk, satin, velvet, and buttons. The account book was kept by Frederick A. Whitwell, a buyer for the dry goods and woolen importing and jobbing firm of A. & G.A. Kendall & Co. of Boston. The firm was located at 3 and 4 Pearl Street in Boston.

A. Boycott drawings of interiors of London theaters

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 434
Overview:

A collection of drawings of the interiors of nineteenth-century London theaters.

A. C. Wheeler letters from others

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 950
Overview:

Approximately 150 letters to A.C. Wheeler, a theater critic for the New York World, who wrote under the name Nym Crinkle.

A. Clifford Barger papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c478
Overview: The A. Clifford Barger papers reflect the professional and personal work of Clifford Barger (1917-1996), a research physiologist who spent his career at Harvard Medical School. Barger’s research interests focused on the cardiovascular and renal systems; he was involved in research which did much to elucidate the mechanisms by which sufferers from certain cardiac disorders retain fluids. The collection includes correspondence, publications files, research records, and administrative...

A. E. Coppard compositions

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Eng 1204, MS Eng 1204.1, MS Eng 1204.2
Overview:

Autograph manuscripts of Craven arms, The quiet woman, and The wife of Ted Wickham by English author Alfred Edgar Coppard.

A. E. Housman letters to Witter Bynner

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Eng 1071
Overview:

Letters from English poet A. E. Housman to American poet and translator Witter Bynner concerning their various publications.

A. J. Pischl collection of opera house and theater memorabilia

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 593

A. James (Andrew James) Casner papers

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601624
Overview:

Correspondence, notes, memoranda, and printed matter relating to Casner's activities in various professional organizations.

A. Lawrence Lowell papers concerning the Sacco and Vanzetti case

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 2383
Overview:

Papers collected by Harvard University president A. Lawrence Lowell as a member of the 1927 advisory committee (the "Lowell Commission") for Massachusetts governor Alvan T. Fuller's clemency review of the sentences of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

A. Lawrence Lowell papers for the Commission on Second-Class Mail Matter

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 2940
Overview:

Papers assembled by Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell in his capacity as a member on the Commission on Second-Class Mail Matter.

A. Morris & Co. ledger

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Item Identifier: H MS c277
Scope and Contents:

Manuscript business ledger for a company specializing in the sale of a wide variety of drugs, leaches, medicines, herbs, oils, and chemicals, as well as medical instruments and equipment.

A. Tillman Merritt Papers, 1932-1972

FOUND IN: Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library
Collection Identifier: Ms. Coll. 172
Scope and Contents:

The collection consists of research and teaching materials, chiefly transcriptions, generated by Merritt during his long career. N.B. Scrapbooks and gradebooks of A.T. Merritt were sent to Harvard University Archives.

A Tribute to Lewis Mumford

FOUND IN: Frances Loeb Library
Collection Identifier: DES-1998-0001-008170002
Scope and Contents: Organizational files, including invitations, correspondence, photographs and the texts of tributes to Lewis Mumford, assembled by Charles M. Haar and Jerold S. Kayden. Haar and Kayden were organizers of the events celebrating Mumford as the first recipient of The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Award.The collection includes correspondence and announcements related to the award dinner, the texts of tributes contributed by guests, and photographs of the dinner/award ceremony....

Aaron and William Walcott Rhoades day books

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: Mss:77 1809-1884 R474
Scope and Contents: Collection consists of three day books and one postcard of the Rhoades House in East Walpole. Volume 1 covers 1809 to 1812, and includes debts for a variety of products principally rum, tobacco, cordials, wine, soap, biscuits, butter as well as boots and shoes presumably kept by Aaron Rhoades. Volume 2 covers 1812 to 1867, and includes debts arranged by debtor in the first part of the volume kept by Aaron Rhoades and then turns to lists of sales or repairs of boots and shoes kept by William...

Aaron Brooks family papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: 83M-70
Summary:

Includes: Visitors book of the Brooks family law office in Petersham, New Hampshire; sheet music by John Fiske, 1 volume, 1 folder; and 1 rolled photocopy of sheet music by Henry Vaughan, Calvary.

Aaron Copland transcripts for Music in the 20s

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 2377
Overview:

Transcripts taken from unedited filmed interviews with American composer Aaron Copeland, recorded at the WGBH studios in Boston, Massachusetts. These tapes formed the basis for the later television series, Music in the 20s.

Aaron Everett account book

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: Mss:83 1797-1826 E93
Scope and Contents: Account book of estate administrator Aaron Everett (1748-1824), of Foxborough, Massachusetts, primarily recording credits and debits for legal services from 1795 to 1817. The first part of the ledger consists of accounts of Wrentham, Massachusetts, day laborer John Fairbanks, Jr., dated 1788-1795, and settlement by Aaron Everett of outstanding debts owed to Fairbanks' estate after his death in 1795. The remainder of the volume contains Everett's charges for writing wills and administering...

Aaron Kramer papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 2061
Overview:

Papers of American poet and professor, Aaron Kramer.

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