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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.

American Soldier in WWII subject index and codebooks

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 291
Overview: The collection contains the questions used to survey American soldiers during World War II by the Research Branch of the War Department’s Information and Education Division. Under the direction of Samuel A. Stouffer, later director of the Laboratory of Social Relations and professor of sociology (1946-1960) at Harvard University, the survey results provided the United States Army with information to formulate policies and procedures. The survey results were published in four volumes as...

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...

Records of the Harvard Advocate

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUD 3121
Overview:

Founded in 1866, the Harvard Advocate is Harvard University's oldest existing student literary magazine. The Advocate publishes short stories, verses, essays and articles, reviews of books, interviews, photographs, and plays. The Records of the Harvard Advocate document the history and activities of this literary group. Business and financial records are the largest part of the collection.

Records of the Board of Overseers: votes and resolutions

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAII 5.7
Overview: The collection contains official handwritten and later typewritten records of votes and resolutions enacted during the meetings of the Harvard Board of Overseers, and maintained by the Secretaries of the Board of Overseers, between circa 1700 and 1892. Chiefly consisting of recorded votes, the records also include a small number of printed Board of Overseers meeting announcements, clippings of votes and resolutions, and letters regarding recent votes. The records document the points of...

Papers of Archibald Cary Coolidge

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUG 1299
Overview:

Archibald Cary Coolidge (1866-1928), was a Professor of History (1908-1928) and the first Director of the Harvard University Library (1910-1928).

Records of the Associate Dean of Harvard College in Charge of Alumni Placement and Student Employment, 1934-1942

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Record Group Identifier: UAIII 5.76
Overview:

The office of Associate Dean of Harvard College in Charge of Alumni Placement and Student Employment existed from 1935-1943. Its only office holder was George F. Plimpton. These records document Plimpton's administrative activities which included not only alumni and student job placement but also encompassed freshman advising, administration of scholarships for German refugees, and United States Army Air Corps intelligence officer placement.

Papers of Nathan Marsh Pusey, 1860, 1907, ca. 1915-2001.

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAI 15.900
Overview:

Nathan Marsh Pusey (1907-2001) was the twenty-fourth president of Harvard University from 1953 to 1971. This collection contains material from his personal and professional life starting chiefly from after his retirement from Harvard University in 1971, to his death in 2001.

Records of the Harvard Club of Chicago

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUD 3276.7000
Overview:

The Harvard Club of Chicago, founded in 1857, is the oldest of Harvard’s alumni clubs still in existence. The Club celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2007. The records document the history, activities, and interests of the Club, and include general information, a small amount of correspondence and minutes, and directories of members.

Papers of Kenneth T. Bainbridge, 1873, 1923-1996

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUGFP 152
Overview: Kenneth T. Bainbridge (1904-1996), the first George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics at Harvard University (1934-1975), was recognized as a scientific leader in the field of physics for his design and application of mass spectrographs as research tools for mass measurements. He designed and built the first cyclotron at Harvard University, participated in the development of radar during World War II, and oversaw the test explosion of the first nuclear bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico in...

Paul M. Doty personal archive,

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 177
Overview: Paul Mead Doty (1920-2011) was the Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry (1968-1988) at Harvard University. While on the Harvard faculty Doty embraced two careers: biochemistry, in which he founded the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (1967), and arms control and international security studies, in which he founded the Program in Science and International Affairs (1973). This collection documents Doty's academic and professional career from 1938 to 2011, including his...

Samuel H. Beer personal archive, 1898-2009 and undated

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 182
Overview: Samuel Hutchison Beer (1911-2009) was the Eaton Professor of Science of Government at Harvard University from 1971 to 1982. Beer’s research focused on the government and politics of Great Britain, American federalism, intergovernmental relations, comparative government, and the history of political theory. The collection documents Beer’s involvement as a teacher, writer, advisor, consultant, and political activist, and illuminates his role as a distinguished American scholar of British...

Papers of Harlow Shapley, 1906-1966

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUG 4773.xxx
Scope of the Harlow Shapley Papers: The Papers of Harlow Shapley date from 1906 through 1966 and document Shapley's career before and during his tenure at Harvard. The collection includes biographical and genealogical information, as well as some documentation of Shapley's family life. It also includes some papers of Martha Betz Shapley (Mrs. Harlow Shapley). Documents include correspondence, manuscripts of articles and books, news clippings,...

Records of the Dean of Harvard College, 1889-1995

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAIII 5.33
Overview: The Office of the Dean of Harvard College was established in 1890 at the time of an administrative reorganization of Harvard University, which included the creation of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Prior to that time, the duties of the Dean of Harvard College had been carried out by a variety of college officers including the President of the University, the Regent, the Dean of the College Faculty, and members of the Faculty. These records, dating from 1889 through 1995, document the...

Papers of David McClelland

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUGFP 145
Overview:

David C. McClelland was a Harvard psychologist, noted especially for his work on achievement motivation. These papers chifely document his professional life.

Norman Ramsey personal archive, 1919-2010 and undated

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 189
Overview: Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. (1915-2011) was the Higgins Professor of Physics at Harvard University from 1966 to 1987 (emeritus, 1987). Ramsey’s research focused on high energy physics and his methods of investigation, especially in the field of spectroscopy, led to the development of the atomic clock and laid the foundation for nuclear magnetic resonance, whose applications include the magnetic resonance imaging (M.R.I.) technique now used for medical diagnosis. For this work, Ramsey was...

Wassily Leontief personal archive

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUG 4517
Overview: Wassily Wassilyevich Leontief (1905-1999) was an American economist of Russian descent. He won the Nobel Prize in 1973. For over twenty years, he was the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. The Wassily Leontief personal archive documents Leontief's academic and professional activity from 1928 to 2001. The material is pertinent to the history of economics, especially the application of the input-output method of economic analysis and the integration of economic theory and...

Papers of Richard Clarke Cabot

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
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.

Papers of Paul N. Ylvisaker, 1939-1992

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUGFP 142
Overview:

Paul N. Ylvisaker was a noted city planner, government official, foundation executive, and dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1972-1982. He was known for his efforts in addressing urban issues, for philanthropy, and for committing the Harvard Graduate School of Education to a public service mission. These records document his professional life, including his prolific speech-making and his career as a consultant, executive, government official, and dean.

Papers of Louis F. Fieser and Mary Fieser, 1899-1996.

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUGFP 20.xx and ‡HUGBF 461.xx
Overview:

Louis Frederick Fieser (1899-1977) and Mary Peters Fieser (1909-1997) were chemists at Harvard University. Louis was the Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry, Mary was his co-researcher and co-published with Louis. This collection chiefly covers their personal and professional lives, including honors and awards relating to career successes, but it notably lacks correspondence and research files, and has only a small amount of teaching material.

Papers of Nathan Keyfitz, 1947-2002

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUGFP 144
Overview:

Nathan Keyfitz, was Andelot Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and of Demography in the Harvard University School of Public Health from 1972 to 1983. He is a leader in the field of mathematical demography and a pioneer in the application of mathematical tools to the study of population characteristics.

Paul C. Cabot personal archive

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
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 George Arthur Buttrick

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
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...

Papers of Robert H. Anderson

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUG 4146
Overview:

Robert H. Anderson (1918-2010) was a professor in the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. The personal contents of the collection reflect Anderson's research and consulting work and his mentoring relationships with his advisees. The bulk of the material consists of records of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

Harvard student strike t-shirt formerly belonging to Samuel Lee Baker

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 373
Scope and Contents: Harvard t-shirt with a screen print from the 1969 student strike, formerly belonging to Harvard Class of 1969 student Samuel Lee Baker. The front of the item depicts the strike’s iconic red fist, and the back depicts a quote from Harvard Corporation member Hugh Calkins on the subject of the ROTC. The full quote reads, "April 16, 1969 (an interview with Hugh Calkins, of the Corporation). Student: if all of the faculty of Arts and Sciences and students voted to abolish ROTC, would you?...
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