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Harvard School of Public Health. Office of the Dean records

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: P-DE01, Series 00322
Overview:

The Harvard School of Public Health Office of the Dean executive administrative files, 1913-1996 (inclusive) are the product of the administrative activities of Deans’ offices through the history of the Harvard School of Public Health.

Records of the Harvard Bicentenary Celebration

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 20.836.xx
Overview:

The records document some of the activities related to the Harvard Bicentenary Celebration held on September 8, 1836. Materials include extracts listing the votes of the Corporation about the 1836 celebration, a plan for the evening illumination of Holworthy Hall, a volume of autographs signed by Harvard graduates and guests, blank tickets for the “Dinner of the Alumni” held during the celebration and letters from Harvard alumni confirming their attendance at the dinner.

Hell Gap Expedition records

FOUND IN: Peabody Museum Archives
Collection Identifier: 63-38
Scope and Contents: The expedition records contain evidence of the many activities that were carried out on site. Series include field notes, site cards, clippings, correspondence,personnel records, manuscripts and...

Hemenway Expedition records

FOUND IN: Peabody Museum Archives
Collection Identifier: 43-39A, 46-73, 13-26, 980-2, 2000.20,2001.7
Scope and Contents: The Hemenway Expedition Records reveal the working relationships in field correspondence between expedition members and with Mary Hemenway; the intellectual products of the work in Cushing, Bandelier, and ten Kate's ethnological manuscripts; and the raw data of site notes and cards, reports, plans, and field notebooks. The records also contain some of Margaret Magill's watercolors of archaeological artifacts. The materials are organized primarily by chronological accession and then according...

Henry Pickering Bowditch papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c5
Overview:

H. P. (Henry Pickering) Bowditch (1840-1911) established the first physiological laboratory at Harvard Medical School and taught at the school for 35 years. The collection consists mainly of correspondence but also includes family research records, personal papers including military records, lectures, writings, and manuscript materials.

Hyman Morrison papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c339
Overview:

The Hyman Morrison papers (1899-1970) consist of personal and professional correspondence, records of research activity, and miscellaneous records from the career of Hyman Morrison as a physician, an active member of the Boston, Massachusetts Jewish and medical communities, and a medical historian.

Ian Graham papers

FOUND IN: Peabody Museum Archives
Collection Identifier: 2004.15.2
Scope and Contents: These papers mainly consist of the professional activities of British Mayanist Ian Graham, including the activities and recording methods of CMHI, or the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphics program at Harvard University as well as Graham’s MacArthur Fellowship. It also contains personal material and correspondence, as well as Graham’s address book. Some other topics and activities represented in these files are fieldwork permits, publications records, antiquities trade articles, magazines, DVDs,...

James Jackson Putnam papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c4
Overview: The James Jackson Putnam papers consist of records either created or collected by Putnam during his life or collected by his widow, Marian Cabot Putnam, after his death. The bulk of the collection is correspondence, most of it either from or to James Jackson Putnam. Correspondents include members of the Putnam, Morse, Shattuck, Cabot, and Jackson families as well as Sigmund Freud, Ernest Jones, Carl Jung, Boris Sidis, and Morton Prince, among other medical colleagues in the United States and...

Jeanne Beauvais scores, correspondence, and other material, 1927-1988.

FOUND IN: Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library
Collection Identifier: Ms. Coll. 127
Overview:

The collection includes autographed letters, photographs and theatrical ephemera associated with her career. The bulk of the collection consists of print and manuscript scores by composers Virgil Thomson, Ned Rorem, Leonard Bernstein, Theodore Chanler and others; many of these are personally inscribed.

Jeffries Wyman papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c12
Overview: The Jeffries Wyman papers, 1826-1936 (inclusive), 1849-1874 (bulk) are the product of Wyman's research, teaching, professional, and publishing activities throughout his career as a naturalist and scientific researcher with positions as the Hersey Professor of Anatomy at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; curator of what is now the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University; curator of the Lowell Institute, Boston; and as a professor of anatomy and...

John B. Little papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c302
Overview: Records in the collection were created or collected by John B. Little during the course of his professional and research activities at Harvard Medical School, the Harvard School of Public Health, and Massachusetts General Hospital. Record types include correspondence, reports, grant applications, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, meeting minutes, agendas, photographs, contact sheets, negatives, slides, 3.5” and 5.5” diskettes, and X-rays. Topics include student activism at Harvard during the...

John E. Hoopes papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c407
Overview: The John E. Hoopes papers, 1940-2012 (inclusive) are the product of Hoopes's professional, research, writing, teaching, and administrative activities throughout his career. The materials result from his time as an Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery and later Chairman, Plastic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and founding Chairman of the Johns Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic as well as the Chairman, Plastic Surgery Division, Washington University School of Medicine,...

John W. Vinson papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c479
Overview:

The John William Vinson papers, 1923-1979 (inclusive), 1961-1979 (bulk), are the product of Vinson’s research and professional activities during his career at Harvard School of Public Health (now Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) as Associate Professor of Microbiology.

Karl G. Heider papers on New Guinea

FOUND IN: Peabody Museum Archives
Collection Identifier: 2011.22.1
Overview: Karl Heider was a member of the Harvard-Peabody Expedition to New Guinea, spending an additional twenty-one months observing the Dani people on his own after the other members had departed. The purpose of the expedition and Heider’s work was to holistically capture the lives of the Dani people before the changes of the modern era began to infiltrate their preliterate, “Stone Age” culture. The records include field notebooks, tape...

Katherine Rodgers Denckla collection of records about George C. Cotzias

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c184
Overview:

The Katherine Rodgers Denckla collection of records about George C. Cotzias, 1960-1979 (inclusive), consists of writings and publications collected by Denckla related to Cotzias' research on Parkinson’s disease and its treatment using L-dopa, a drug Cotzias developed. Denckla was a princial funder of Cotzia's research.

Albert M. Knight papers

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
Collection Identifier: Mss:766 1863-1872 K69
Scope and Content Note:: The Albert M. Knight papers consist of letters written by Albert to his fiancée Abigail Jane Knight, “Jennie,” from 1863 to 1872, and includes one letter written in 1872 from Abigail to Albert (Folder 12). From 1863 to 1865 Albert lived in the Boston area and the letters describe his daily activities, his health, his spiritual beliefs as a member of the New Church congregation, working for his father, textiles and fashion, and current events such as his being drafted (and exempted) for the...

Evro Layton personal archive

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 332
Overview: Evro Layton (1924-2005) was a bibliographer at the Harvard College Library from 1958 to 1968, where she was instrumental in improving the university's Modern Greek collection. Layton published various articles and books related to the history of Greek printing, particularly during the 16th century. The bulk of the collection includes photocopied reference materials, some with handwritten annotations, many of which are Greek language; these document Layton's research activities, particularly...

Letters to "Miss Manners," 1978-1998

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: MC 584
Overview:

Selection of letters to "Miss Manners" (Judith Martin) from her readers, 1978-1998.

Letters to Monroe Engel

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 3163
Overview:

Personal and professional letters addressed to Monroe Engel.

Frank A. Loda personal archive

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 286
Abstract: Frank Aloysius Loda, Jr., (born 1934), physician and professor, received his AB (1956) from Harvard University and his MD (1960) from Vanderbilt University (four years in medical school and one year as an intern in pediatrics). The collection contains approximately 550 letters and postcards from Loda to his family in Texarkana, Arkansas. The letters and postcards document Loda’s experiences as an undergraduate student at Harvard University from 1952 to 1956, and his post-graduate studies...

Lorna Marshall research papers Digital

FOUND IN: Peabody Museum Archives
Collection Identifier: 2018.9.1
Scope and Contents: This collection includes research material collected and produced in part by Lorna Jean McLean Marshall regarding the Marshall family’s eight journeys to Namibia, Botswana and Angola to research the lifeways of African hunter-gatherers, primarily the G/ui and Ju/’hoansi. Of note are detailed itineraries; files organized by subject matter; chronological files; correspondence; notes by other scholars who accompanied the Marshalls on their expeditions, including Robert Dyson, J. Otis Brew,...

Daniel T. Lothrop papers

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
Collection Identifier: Mss:766 1810-1871 L882
Overview:

Shipping and family papers of Captain Daniel T. Lothrop.

Louis Charles Christopher Krieger glass plate negatives

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: far00020
Scope and Content:: This collection consists of glass plate negatives used by Krieger while illustrating “Icones Farlowianae.” Some negatives are clearly labeled with the photographer’s name. Some labels are unclear and may indicate the collector of the specimen rather than the photographer. Negatives are numbered; however, it is unknown if the numbers indicate a series of negatives or samples or correspond to plates in the finished work. The collection also contains related correspondence....

Lyman Spalding papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c2
Overview: The Lyman Spalding papers, 1793-1965 (inclusive), 1793-1820 (bulk), contain correspondence of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, physician Lyman Spalding (1775-1821), his lecture notes on anatomy and surgery, Spalding's patient case histories and case reports, essays on medicine and meteorology, and tickets of admission to medical lectures at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. There are also botanical specimens Spalding collected in Portsmouth, and a small amount of twentieth century...

Letters from Francis P. Magoun, Jr. to Rudolf Hertz

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 331
Overview: The collection contains correspondence from Francis P. Magoun, Jr. to his friend Professor Rudolf Hertz from 1946-1953. Most of the letters discuss personal and family matters, while some letters include Magoun’s comments on the political volatility that existed during the Cold War in the 1950s, particularly the Cold War with the Soviet Union and United States involvement in the Korean War. Little in these letters chronicle Magoun’s teaching at Harvard University. Francis Peabody Magoun,...
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