Letters (correspondence)
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Elizabeth Haskell Boardman Letters
Collection Identifier: EHBRecords of the Harvard College Observatory Time Service
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
Sub-Fonds Identifier: UAV 630.377
Overview:
In 1872, under Director Joseph Winlock, the Harvard College Observatory established the world’s first public time service, which it provided as a commercial service until 1892. The Observatory sold its time service to railroads and businesses by sending hourly signals over Boston’s fire alarm system and distributing time across the region via Western Union telegraph lines; this work eventually resulted in the establishment of the country's first time zone. The Records of the Harvard College...
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.
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...