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Papers of J.O. Brew

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 28.xx
Overview:

John Otis “J.O.” or “Jo” Brew (1906-1988), archaeologist, worked at the Harvard Peabody Museum and taught as Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology, spending his career at Harvard from 1928 until his retirement in 1972. The collection includes correspondence and related papers, teaching materials, research and subject files, biographical materials, and reprints and pamphlets.

Professional papers of J.O. Brew

Collection Identifier: HUM 405
Overview: John Otis “J.O.” or “Jo” Brew (1906-1988), archaeologist, worked at the Harvard Peabody Museum and taught as Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology, spending his career at Harvard from 1928 until his retirement in 1972. Beyond teaching, he was actively involved in "salvage archaeology," working with a number of domestic and international organizations, including the National Park Service Advisory Board, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Human Relations Area Files, Inc.,...

Papers of Percy Williams Bridgman, 1905-1982 (inclusive)

Collection Identifier: HUG 4234
Overview:

The collection contains the professional papers of Percy Williams Bridgman (1882-1961), Nobel laureate in physics, whose chief contributions to physics were in the area of the effects of high pressures on materials and their thermodynamic behavior.  The papers consist chiefly of professional and research material.

Papers of Harvey Brooks, 1930s-1980s

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 128
Overview:

Harvey Brooks (1915-2004) was Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard University. His career merged science with public policy. This collection encompasses documents from his activities as a member of numerous university, scientific, and government committees and contains a small amount of student, teaching, and personal material.

Helen L. Brooks collection relating to the Harvard University Underwater Sound Laboratory and the Harvard University Division of Engineering and Applied Physics Wives Committee

Collection Identifier: HUM 315
Overview: Helen Lathrop Brooks (1917- ) worked as an editorial secretary at the Harvard University Underwater Sound Laboratory from March 1942 to July 1945. In 1958, Brooks founded and chaired the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics Wives Committee, which served as a social organization for the department's faculty members and their wives until 1977, when the group formally disbanded. The collection contains photographs of the Harvard Underwater Sound Laboratory, as well as employee rosters...

Papers of Phillips Brooks

Collection Identifier: HUG 1235
Overview:

Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) was a prominent Episcopal minister. He was a member of the Harvard College Board of Overseers (1870-1889), preacher to Harvard University (1881-1891), and a member of the Board of University Preachers to Harvard University (1886-1891).

Phillips Brooks correspondence and ephemera

Collection Identifier: HUM 406
Overview:

Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) was an Episcopal preacher at Harvard University from 1881 to 1891 and a member of the Board of University Preachers from 1886 to 1891. He also served as a member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers from 1870 to 1891. The collection contains six letters written by Phillips Brooks to friends and colleagues from 1875 to 1886 and a small amount of ephemera related to Brooks.

Papers of Reuben A. Brower

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 30
Overview: Reuben Arthur Brower (1908-1975) was Cabot Professor of English at Harvard University. Brower received a Bachelor’s degree from Amherst College in 1930; a Master’s degree from Christ’s College, University of Cambridge; and a Ph.D. from Harvard. Brower studied English and Greek literature and literary criticism. The Papers of Reuben Brower, circa 1951-1977, document Brower’s research, teaching, administrative responsibilities, and other professional activities. The collection contains...

Papers of Roger W. Brown, 1954-1997

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 149
Overview:

Roger W. Brown (1925-1997) was a social psychologist who pioneered in the study of psycholinguistics, particularly the acquisition of language in children. These papers document the professional activities of Roger W. Brown. They contain little that illustrates his personal life.

Papers of Jerome Seymour Bruner

Collection Identifier: HUG 4242
Overview: Jerome Seymour Bruner (1915-2016) was an American psychologist and educator whose work on cognitive psychology, learning, and memory in young children influenced the American educational system. He received a PhD from Harvard University in 1941 and was a professor of psychology at Harvard 1952-1972 and director of the Center for Cognitive Studies 1960-1972. The collection contains correspondence, reports, notes, and other materials related to Bruner's professional activities, including...

Heinrich Brüning personal archive and Brüning family archive

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 93
Overview: Heinrich Brüning (1885-1970) was Chancellor of Germany from March 1930 until May 1932. After losing political power in Germany, Nazi threats pushed him to leave the country and he became an academic. From 1939 to1952 he was Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Government in the Graduate School of Public Administration at Harvard, and he later held an appointment as Professor of Political Science at the University of Cologne from 1951 to 1956. The Heinrich Brüning personal archive and Brüning...

Papers of Paul Buck

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 9.xx
Overview: Paul Buck (1899-1978), Dean of the Faculty and Arts and Sciences and University Provost at Harvard and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, was associated with Harvard as a graduate student, professor, and administrator for over four decades. The Papers of Paul Buck, 1913-circa 1975, document Buck's personal life aside from his activities as a professor and an administrator at Harvard University. The collection chiefly consists of Buck's personal correspondence, appointment books, writings,...

Student essays of Joseph Stevens Buckminster

Collection Identifier: HUC 8799.386.10
Overview: This collection contains five handwritten essays composed by Joseph Stevens Buckminster (1784-1812; Harvard AB 1800) when he was an undergraduate at Harvard College in 1798 and 1799. Buckminster, an influential Unitarian minister of the Brattle Street Church in Cambridge, was instrumental in disseminating German biblical criticism in New England. Buckminster's student essays follow a format typical for late 18th century Harvard undergraduate essays and delve into themes of greed, the role of...

George Bosworth Burch personal archive, 1919-1943

Collection Identifier: HUC 8919.300.10
Overview:

George Bosworth Burch, professor of philosophy, was born on July 12, 1902 in Hartford, Connecticut, to George Washington and Mary (Bosworth) Burch. He earned his Harvard AB in 1923, his Harvard AM in 1927, and his Harvard PhD in 1939. The collection chiefly documents the more than twenty years Burch spent as an undergraduate and graduate student at Harvard, as well as at the University of Geneva and the Collège de France in Paris.

Burgis View of Harvard Collection

Collection Identifier: HUY 24
Overview:

The Burgis View of Harvard Collection consists of reproductions of a view of Harvard College, drawn by William Burgis in 1726, and five related views, published between 1743 and 1833.

Papers of George Arthur Buttrick

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 90
Overview: George Arthur Buttrick (1892-1980) was Preacher to the University and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard University from 1954 to 1960. He held positions as minister at numerous churches throughout the United States, including the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City (1927-1954), in which position he became known as one of the most effective and eloquent Protestant preachers in the country. Buttrick was also active on social and political issues, including the...

James MacGregor Byrne collection on the Harvard Columbus Expedition

Collection Identifier: HUM 367
Overview: James MacGregor Byrne (1909-1979), lawyer and diplomat, was part-owner of the Capitana and accompanied Samuel Eliot Morrison on the 1939 Harvard Columbus Expedition to follow Christopher Columbus' route from Spain to the New World. The collection, which contains correspondence, maps, photographs and a photograph album, lectures and slides, and newspaper clippings, documents Byrne’s participation in the Expedition and his continued engagement with the...

Paul C. Cabot personal archive

Collection Identifier: HUM 379
Scope and content: Collection contains a scrapbook and loose material consisting of correspondence, publications, interviews, and other material relating to Paul Codman Cabot (1898-1994), who served as Harvard Treasurer from 1948 to 1964. The scrapbook contains news clippings, photographs, and several hand-written notes and typed letters from University administrators, including Harvard president Nathan Pusey and Donald David, and local businessmen, including Ralph Lowell, George Cutler, Roy...

Papers of Richard Clarke Cabot

Collection Identifier: HUG 4255.xx
Overview:

Richard Clarke Cabot (1868-1939) was a physician and medical educator whose interests included social work, religion and medicine, and medical ethics. The Papers of Richard Clarke Cabot document both his professional and family life.

Records of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, 1952-1974

Collection Identifier: UAV 257
Overview:

These records provide detailed and comprehensive account of the activities of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator. In so doing, they document research in experimental high-energy physics from 1962-1974.

Records of the Cambridge Scientific Club, 1842-2015, bulk dates 1846-1945.

Collection Identifier: HUD 3257
Overview:

The Cambridge Scientific Club was founded on November 14, 1842 as a small informal dining club consisting chiefly of members of the Harvard University faculty who met to exchange ideas on a wide variety of topics including religion, music, the natural sciences, political economy, the law, ancient history, and the fine arts. The records document the Club's founding, organization, and administrative activities.

Papers of Annie Jump Cannon

Collection Identifier: HUGFP 125
Overview:

The collection documents both the personal and professional life of Annie Jump Cannon, the first astronomer to systematically classify the stars.  It contains diaries, autobiographical writings, correspondence, manuscripts, and photographs, relating to her life and career.

Papers of Frank Carney, 1877-1948

Collection Identifier: HUG 1264
Overview:

Frank Carney (1861-1949) was an employee of the Harvard College Library from the time he was thirteen until his retirement at the age of seventy. Carney was an amateur photographer and enjoyed an active social and cultural life outside of his work. The majority of the collection concerns his activities outside of work. Photographs from the late 1890s illustrate social life and costume of the period.

Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter records related to the construction of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

Collection Identifier: HUM 418
Overview: Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter (1881-1974), a horticulturist and philanthropist, was educated at Harvard University (AB, 1905). A gift of $1.5 million to Harvard in 1957 from Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter and his wife, Helen Bundy, led to the construction of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts as part of the “A Program for Harvard College” fundraising campaign to strengthen the liberal arts at the College. The collection documents Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter's donation to Harvard and the...

Papers of Wendell Robert Carr

Collection Identifier: HUM 90
Overview:

Wendell Robert Carr, professor and lawyer, received his Harvard A.M. in 1962 and his Ph.D. in 1967; he taught for several years in Harvard's history department after receiving his Ph.D. The collection documents his graduate study and teaching activities at Harvard, as well as his professional writing activities.