Photographic portraits of eleven individuals selected for the honor of a University Professorship at Harvard in the 1960s. "University Professorships" were instituted in 1935 and differ from many professorships at Harvard in their goal of facilitating scholarship that bridges traditional fields of study or departmental boundaries.

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.