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Elizabeth Haskell Boardman Letters

FOUND IN: Monroe C. Gutman Library, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: EHB

Eva Neer papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c391
Overview: The Eva Neer papers, 1960-2000 (inclusive), 1980-1999 (bulk) consist of records created and collected by Eva Neer (1937-2000) throughout the course of her career as a researcher in biochemistry and cytology. Neer held positions at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Biochemistry and at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the cardiovascular division. Together with David Clapham, she was responsible for the discovery of which G protein α subunit activated the ion channel responsible for...

Evelyn Childs Rattray papers

FOUND IN: Peabody Museum Archives
Collection Identifier: 2016.27.1

Bruce Willard Forbes letters to his parents

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
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...

Francis Weld Peabody letters to his father

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c649
Content Description:

Accession consists of thirteen letters and one enclosure written from Francis Weld Peabody (1881-1927) to his father during Peabody's time serving in World War I. Most are sent from Neufchâteau, France. Letters describe Peabody's experience traveling to Europe, his illness with influenza, and experience working in a field hospital. The letters--most of which are handwritten--are accompanied by typed transcripts.

Fred Edgcumbe collection on the publication of Letters of Fanny Brawne to Fanny Keats

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection — Box: 1Identifier: MS Eng 1888
Overview:

Contains materials relating to the publication of Letters of Fanny Brawn to Fanny Keats, including typescript copies of the letters, a draft of the published version, biographies of each woman, as well as additional materials relating to the publication of the letters and the families' histories.

Frederic Ward Putnam papers

FOUND IN: Peabody Museum Archives
Collection Identifier: 999-24
Overview:

This collection of Putnam papers were formerly part of the Ralph Dexter Papers at Kent State University Archives. They include FW Putnam family correspondence, professional papers and ephemera.

Frederick P. Li papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c616
Overview:

The Frederick P. Li papers, 1961-2016 (inclusive), are the product of Li’s research and professional activities during his education and career at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as Head of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Control, the Harvard School of Public Heath as Professor of Clinical Cancer Epidemiology, and the National Cancer Institute as Head of the Clinical Studies Section of the Clinical Epidemiology Branch.

George Grant MacCurdy papers

FOUND IN: Peabody Museum Archives
Collection Identifier: 995-3
Overview: George Grant MacCurdy (GGM) was an American anthropologist. He and Janet MacCurdy founded the American School of Prehistoric Research (ASPR) in 1921, which published Bulletins from 1926 onward, and became the Department of Old World Archaeology at the Peabody Museum as per his bequest in 1954. The records include correspondence; original artwork; postcards; sketch books; travel notebooks; biographical...

Audio letters from Tove Gerson to Elena Dodd, 1985-1995

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: T-579
Overview:

Audiotape letters from Tove Gerson to her friend Elena Dodd.

Hall Jackson papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c14
Overview:

The Hall Jackson papers, 1771-1810 (inclusive), undated, principally consist of correspondence from Hall Jackson (1739-1797) between 1771 and 1790 to his patients and other physicians regarding medical cases and remedies. There is also a small number of nineteenth century records generated by Dr. William Perry (1788-1887), a Harvard College and Harvard Medical School graduate who was in possession of the Jackson papers.

Harold Amos papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c476
Overview: The Harold Amos papers, 1951-2003, are the product of Amos’s professional, research, and teaching activities throughout his career. Amos is known for his research into bacterial metabolism and animal and bacterial virology, including the use of bacterial RNA to program higher cell protein synthesis, enzyme inductions, insulin, serum, temperature effects, ribosomes, phosphoproteins, RNA metabolism, as well as glucose starvation and glycerol and hexose metabolism. The papers are arranged in...

Thaddeus Mason Harris personal archive

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUG 1445
Overview:

Thaddeus Mason Harris (1768-1842) was a Harvard librarian, Unitarian minister, and author in Boston. This collection contains correspondence, sermons, and commonplace books of Harris, dated 1746-1846.

Harry Chick collection of railroad photographs and ephemera

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
Collection Identifier: Vis 27
Overview:

The Harry Chick collection of railroad photographs and ephemera contains postcards, photographs, stereographs and ephemera pertaining to locomotives and railroads. The materials were collected by railroad enthusiast Harry Chick.

Frederick Hartt papers

FOUND IN: Biblioteca Berenson, I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
Collection Identifier: BER -4
Overview:

Notes and drafts for writings, correspondence, and clippings by Frederick Hartt.

Letters to Lemuel Shaw

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUD 200.505
Overview:

This collection contains letters to Lemuel Shaw, dated 1798-1857, from five other members of the Harvard College class of 1800: Timothy Boutelle, Timothy Flint, Abiel Holbrook, William Sawyer, and Daniel Kimball. A folder enclosed with the correspondence indicates Shaw was on a committee to collect biographical information on the class of 1800, and these letters, which date from their college days until late adulthood, may have been used to compile a class book.

Records of Harvard College Observatory Director Joseph Winlock

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.10
Overview: Joseph Winlock (1826-1875) was an astronomer and mathematician who served as the third director of the Harvard College Observatory from 1866 until his death on June 11, 1875. The records document Joseph Winlock's tenure as director, and primarily consist of Winlock's incoming and outgoing correspondence files. The letters relate to Observatory publications, relationships with other scientific institutions, and discussions of astronomical and meteorological information. The records also...

Records of the Harvard College Observatory Chronometric Expedition

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.349
Overview: In the mid-nineteenth century, the Chronometric Expedition was carried out by the Harvard College Observatory, under the direction of William Cranch Bond and in conjunction with the United States Coast Survey. The expedition used chronometers that were made by William Bond & Son, the Bond family's private business, to determine differences of longitude between the observatories in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Liverpool, England. The records primarily consist of notebooks, data sheets,...

Records of Harvard College Observatory Director George Phillips Bond

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.6
Overview: The Records of Harvard College Observatory Director George Phillips Bond, consisting of correspondence and subject files, manuscript drafts, and astronomical data, chiefly document the research activities of the Harvard College Observatory from 1859 to 1865. Chronicled are observations of planets, including Mars and Jupiter; efforts to determine the brightness of stars; and the detection of comets, eclipses, and other astronomical phenomena. George Phillips Bond (1825-1865), an astronomer,...

Records of Harvard College Observatory Director William Cranch Bond

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.2
Overview: The Records of Harvard College Observatory Director William Cranch Bond document the founding, growth, and scientific research of the Harvard College Observatory primarily from 1840 to 1859. Also chronicled is the Observatory’s participation in advances made in astronomy, stellar photography, meteorology, continental exploration, and technological improvements in astronomical instruments in the early nineteenth century. William Cranch Bond (1789-1859), American astronomer and instrument...

Records of the Harvard College Observatory Time Service

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Sub-Fonds Identifier: UAV 630.377
Overview: In 1872, under Director Joseph Winlock, the Harvard College Observatory established the world’s first public time service, which it provided as a commercial service until 1892. The Observatory sold its time service to railroads and businesses by sending hourly signals over Boston’s fire alarm system and distributing time across the region via Western Union telegraph lines; this work eventually resulted in the establishment of the country's first time zone. The Records of the Harvard College...

Harvard-MIT School of Public Health. Department of Industrial Hygiene executive administrative files

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: P-DT11, Series 00908
Overview:

The Harvard-MIT School of Public Health Department of Industrial Hygiene executive administrative files, 1915-1982 (inclusive), 1915-1934 (bulk), are the product of departmental activities, especially relating to the founding of the department around 1922.

Harvard School of Public Health. Department of Maternal and Child Health executive administration files

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: 00872
Overview:

The Harvard School of Public Health Department of Maternal and Child Health executive administration files, 1914-1976 (inclusive), 1944-1976 (bulk), are the product of departmental activities. Files include correspondence, subject files, and reprints.

Harvard School of Public Health. Department of Physiology records

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: P-DT12, Series 00851, 00871
Overview:

The Harvard School of Public Health Department of Physiology records, 1917-1956 (inclusive), are the product of departmental activities. The bulk of the materials were created by Cecil K. Drinker in the course of his duties as Chair of the Department of Physiology.

Harvard School of Public Health. Department of Tropical Medicine program establishment, management and review records

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: P-DT14, Series 00852
Overview:

The Harvard School of Public Health Department of Tropical Medicine program establishment, management and review records are the product of the founding and early development of the department, including its origin within Harvard Medical School as the Harvard School of Tropical Medicine.

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