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Benjamin Peirce personal archive

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUG 1680
Overview:

Benjamin Peirce (1778-1831), a Harvard historian and librarian, was born in Salem, Massachusetts. He earned his AB from Harvard in 1801, and was a merchant and state legislator prior to his appointment as college librarian in 1826. This collection contains personal correspondence, student papers, political writings, and manuscripts, notes, and letters relating to Peirce's work on the history of Harvard University, dated 1787-1832.

Peter Bent Brigham Hospital records

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: BWH c3
Overview:

The Peter Bent Brigham Hospital records are the product of the hospital’s administrative, fundraising, publication, and public relations activities, as well as construction projects and training programs. The bulk of the records date from 1911 through 1980.

Robert Coover papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 3151
Overview:

Personal and professional papers of author Robert Coover.

Robert Gardner Collection

FOUND IN: Harvard Film Archive, Harvard Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: hfa00026
Overview: This collection contains paper materials produced by documentary filmmaker Robert Gardner. The collection contains correspondence ranging in topics from travel, preparation and progress updates on ethnographic film projects, grant proposal plans, and more; technical information regarding the filming and editing of video and sound for his films; a wide array of materials relating to the production and promotion of many of his films; photographs documenting his travels abroad and his...

Laurance P. and Isabel S. Roberts papers

FOUND IN: Biblioteca Berenson, I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
Fonds Identifier: BER -7
Overview:

Correspondence, writings, photographs and other personal and professional papers of Laurance Roberts and his wife Isabel M. Spaulding. Laurance, Orientalist and museum curator; Assistant Curator of Chinese Art, Brooklyn Museum 1934-1938; Director, 1938-1942; Director American Academy in Rome, 1946-1960; married 1937 Isabel Spaulding (Director, Brooklyn Museum, 1943-1946).

Roderick Heffron papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c514
Overview:

The collection consists of records reflecting the work of Roderick Heffron in researching and writing on pneumonia and the treatment of pneumonia with serum therapy, particularly within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Rubén Blades recordings and papers

FOUND IN: Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library
Collection Identifier: AWM Spec Coll 100
Overview:

Commercial and privately produced sound and audiovisual recordings; periodicals; books; promotional materials, photographs, posters, correspondence, professional and business documents, scripts, ephemera and realia documenting the career of Rubén Blades, musician, actor and political figure from Panama.

Records of the Boston Committee of Sauvegarde de l'art Français, 1925-1938

FOUND IN: Harvard Art Museums Archives
Collection Identifier: SC 6
Overview:

This collection includes the meeting minutes, correspondence, and financial records of the Boston Committee of Sauvegarde de l'art Français ("Protection of French Art") from the years 1925-1938. Also included are maps, floor plans, publicity and notes of the French town of Larressingle, which this committee raised money to purchase and restore.

Sergei Marinoff School of Classic Dancing student file

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 1971
Overview:

Records for a student of the mail-order correspondence Sergei Marinoff School of Classic Dancing.

Seth Hastings and Seth Hastings, Jr. commonplace books, medical records, and papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection — Multiple ContainersIdentifier: H MS c292
Overview: The Seth Hastings and Seth Hastings, Jr. commonplace books, medical records, and papers, 1772-1830 (inclusive), contain writings, patient records, manuscript addresses, and papers of the father and son physicians. The commonplace books include transcriptions and excerpts from medical textbooks and medicinal recipes and instructions for delivering medicine and medical care to patients with occasional patient case histories from their medical practice. The manuscript addresses and other...

Lawrence G. Smith personal archive

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 260
Overview: The Lawrence G. Smith personal archive documents his academic and social experiences as a Harvard undergraduate, a graduate student, his career as a bank officer, and as a Harvard alumnus from 1955 to 2021. Records include Smith's personal correspondence, diaries, and Harvard College Class of 1959 reunion memorabilia. Lawrence George Smith was a senior bank Vice-President. He received his Harvard AB in 1959, his AM in 1964, and his PhD in the history of American civilization from Harvard in...

Smith & Winchester Manufacturing Company records

FOUND IN: Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
Collection Identifier: Mss:49 1833-1960 S642
Overview:

Smith & Winchester Manufacturing Co. was a papermaking machinery manufacturer based in South Windham, Connecticut. The collection includes records, photographs, and memorabilia documenting the financial, manufacturing, administrative, corporate, and commercial history of the company, its predecessors, and firms it acquired.

Somerville High School Film Collection

FOUND IN: Harvard Film Archive, Harvard Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: hfa00030
Overview: Consisting of 385 educational films produced for classroom use between the 1930s and 1980s, the Somerville High School Collection provides a representative sample of the subjects and genres of educational media used in classrooms during this period. Though collected by Somerville High School, the films are aimed at students from primary grades through high school and cover a variety of subjects including art, math, music, science, health, and social studies. A highlight of the collection is...

Eileen Southern personal archive

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 253
Overview:

Eileen Jackson Southern (1920-2002) was the first African-American woman to be appointed as a tenured full professor at Harvard University, where she taught from 1975 to 1987. The collection consists of correspondence, writings, and publications that chronicle her time as a Harvard College professor and as Chair of the Afro-American Department, as well as her tenure at the City University of New York, and retirement.

Southwest Africa Expeditions records Digital

FOUND IN: Peabody Museum Archives
Collection Identifier: 51-60-00-56-57-00-58-43-00
Scope and Contents: This collection comprises expedition correspondence, field note excerpts, field reports, research permits, bibliographies, news clippings, South West African government reports, and financial records (inventories, purchase lists, expense records, travel records, receipts, and cancelled checks). Of note are records related to expedition planning (including the co-sponsorship of the Smithsonian Institution starting in 1955), correspondence and reports sent from the expedition sites, and...

Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences collection of Esther Sidney Stanton, 1927-1928

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: MC 1216
Overview:

Correspondence, examinations, printed material, samplers, and feedback on assignments relating to Esther Sidney Stanton's participation in the complete dressmaking and designing course of the Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences.

Joseph LeVow Steinberg personal archive

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 335
Overview: The Joseph LeVow Steinberg personal archive contains correspondence and student materials chronicling Steinberg’s academic and social life at Harvard College from 1952 to 1959. Also included are Harvard ephemera collected by Steinberg both as a student and alumnus from 1936 to 2012 which document his participation in sport and cultural activities at Harvard College as well as his life-long interest in events at Harvard. Joseph LeVow Steinberg (born 1934), an attorney, received an AB from...

Sylvanus Fansher papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c472
Overview:

The Sylvanus Fansher papers, 1805-1846 (inclusive), consist of correspondence, manuscripts, research materials, and patient records related to Sylvanus Fansher's (1770-1846) work on smallpox vaccination, as well as personal correspondence with his family.

Taylor Stoehr papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 2954
Overview:

Taylor Stoehr's professional papers that were compiled during while writing Paul Goodman's biography, as well as correspondence with writer George Dennison, whose works Stoehr edited.

The Norman T. Newton Collection

FOUND IN: Frances Loeb Library
Collection Identifier: DES-2004-0003-012577982
Scope and Contents: The bulk of this collection is comprised of World War II files related to Norman T. Newton's work in the Sub Commission of Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (correspondence, final reports, and maps). It also includes pre- and post- WWII publications on conditions of works of art and historic monuments.The collection is comprised of World War II files of correspondence, news clippings and memorabilia, official military records, photographs (pre and during the war), and Sub...

W. W. (William White) Howells papers

FOUND IN: Peabody Museum Archives
Collection Identifier: 995-15
Overview:

This collection consists primarily of anthropometric data/ field sheets and somatotype photographs of a variety of cultures.

Edward W. Wagner personal archive

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 243
Overview: Edward Willett Wagner (1924-2001) was Professor of Korean Studies at Harvard for thirty-five years and was a pioneer in the study of Korean history in the United States. A specialist in pre-modern Korean history, Wagner's research centered on the study of the elite structure of Korea’s Yi (Chosŏn) dynasty. The Edward W. Wagner personal archive documents Wagner’s academic and professional career as a teacher, writer, and historian and highlights his role as an authority on the history and...

Warren Sonbert Collection

FOUND IN: Harvard Film Archive, Harvard Library, Harvard University
Collection Identifier: hfa00027
Overview: This collection contains the completed films, work reels, filmmaking equipment, and papers of experimental filmmaker Warren Sonbert (1947-1995), a key figure of American avant-garde cinema. In addition to preservation masters of all of Sonbert’s completed 16mm films, the collection features 26 of his original work reels. The collection’s paper holdings include Sonbert’s personal correspondence; materials relating to the exhibition of Sonbert’s work; Sonbert’s own writings as a critic and...

William Heberden papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c24
Overview: The William Heberden papers, 1740-1786 (inclusive), contain manuscripts by English physician William Heberden (1710-1801) about the use of amulets and magic in medicine, a lecture on the medicinal uses of plants, and notes and prescriptions. Also includes correspondence addressed to Heberden from Stephen Hales (1677-1761), who reports his successful use of ventilators on ships and discusses the evils of strong liquor; a few letters of others concerning cure for bladder stones; obituaries;...

William King Richardson papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Richardson 51
Overview:

Contains personal and academic papers and letters as well as materials relating to Richardson's collection of manuscripts, incunabula, and printed materials.

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