Harvard University

Overview: In addition to texts, motion picture films play an integral role in communicating information and explaining complex ideas. For this reason films were often used in classrooms to supplement traditional course material. This 16mm film collection from the Harvard Science Center features educational science films from 1933 to 1998 focusing on a variety of scientific subject matter including physics, chemistry, biology and astronomy. The intended audiences for most of these films were high...

Scope and Contents: The office files of Louis Kirstein, Vice-president of Filene's of Boston, Massachusetts, (1911-1942), contain material throughout on the professional role of his secretary; correspondence with women working for charities; material on women working at Filene's; and personal correspondence with his sister, wife, and daughters. Although there are some papers relating to Filene's store, the focus is on business interests of Kirstein, his philanthropic and community activities, the Associated...

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Includes travel sketchbooks, professional drawings, correspondence and photographs by and about Herbert Langford Warren, and architectural renderings from the office of Smith & Warren. It also includes watercolors for a Proposed Press at Harvard. Although the bulk of the collection is the work of H.L. Warren there is also correspondence and a diary from the Warren family, primarily written by Winifred Warren.

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This collection includes over 600 publicity posters from a range of Harvard University and Boston-area literary reading series and venues.