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Boston (Mass.)

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Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

Arthur Freedman Collection

Collection Identifier: hfa00028
Overview:

The Arthur Freedman Collection at the Harvard Film Archive consists of over two thousand hours of recorded rock performances, recorded on VHS, Hi8, 8mm video, and Mini DV. There are associated materials including fliers and set lists for some of the tapes.

Arthur Freedman Collection, 1976-2000.

Collection Identifier: C 37346 - C 37816
Overview:

The Arthur Freedman Collection at the Loeb Music Library contains audio recordings of primarily Boston-area rock and punk bands, most of which were recorded live between the late 1970s and the mid-1980s. The collection richly documents this era of Boston rock history, and contains many unique recordings unavailable elsewhere.

Bank of the United States (1791-1811). Boston Branch (Boston, Mass.) records

Collection Identifier: Mss:781 1792-1794 U58
Overview:

Two volumes of financial records, dated 1792-1794, of the Boston branch of the first Bank of the United States (1791-1811.)

Records of the Beacon Hill Reading Group, 1957-2020

Collection Identifier: MC 1107
Overview:

Reading lists, discussion questions and papers, membership lists and related materials of the Beacon Hill Reading Group.

Benjamin Waterhouse papers

Collection Identifier: H MS c16
Overview: The Benjamin Waterhouse papers, 1738-1955 (inclusive), 1778-1837 (bulk), contain correspondence to Waterhouse from Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Edward Jenner, Sylvanus Fansher, Peter Oliver, and others, frequently about smallpox vaccination; copies of Waterhouse's outgoing correspondence; manuscripts containing notes for lectures he delivered at Harvard Medical School and other places; his writings on medicine and botany; and some correspondence and manuscripts...

C. Miller Fisher papers

Collection Identifier: H MS c230
Overview:

Records in this collection were created by Charles Miller Fisher during his practice as a neurologist in Montreal, Canada, and Boston, Massachusetts. The collection includes patient notes and records, research notes, manuscript drafts, X-rays, slides, photographs, and memorabilia. Topics in the collection include dementia, transient ischemic attack, normal pressure hydrocephalus, transient monocular blindness, stroke, hemiplegia, headache, vasospasm, and arterial dissection.

Elizur Wright business papers

Collection Identifier: Mss:797 1845-1916 W947
Overview:

Correspondence and papers of Elizur Wright relating to insurance matters, 1845-1885, and a smaller group of papers of his son, Walter C. Wright, consulting actuary, 1884-1916.

Harvard School of Public Health. Harvard Prevention Research Center records

Record Group Identifier: RG P-DT08.01, Series 00598, 00599
Overview:

The Harvard School of Public Health Harvard Prevention Research Center records, 1992-2003 (inclusive), 1994-2003 (bulk), are the product of research projects and educational interventions developed and implemented by the HPRC under the direction of Steven L. Gortmaker, particularly the Planet Health curriculum and Play Across Boston. The records are arranged in two series: I. Planet Health Records (1992-1997); and II. Play Across Boston Records (2000-2003).

Harvard University, 1986

Item Identifier: HUV 2386.4, HUV 2386.4 (PA 3)
Depicted:

Taken from Holyoke Center, this photograph presents a bird's-eye view of Cambridge, the Charles River, and Boston. Within that field of view are chiefly buildings belonging to Harvard University including the river houses, the Harvard Stadium, and the Harvard Business School.

Henry Jacob Bigelow papers

Collection Identifier: H MS c439
Overview:

The Henry Jacob Bigelow papers, 1840s-1856 (inclusive), 1848-1855 (bulk), principally consist of draft and final or close to final draft medical illustrations, some accompanied by case or specimen notes. Drawings are in pencil, ink, and watercolor. Subjects include a wide variety of pathological conditions, mostly tumors, including epitheliomas, cheloids, cysts, and cancerous growths.

Hyman Morrison papers

Collection Identifier: H MS c339
Overview:

The Hyman Morrison papers (1899-1970) consist of personal and professional correspondence, records of research activity, and miscellaneous records from the career of Hyman Morrison as a physician, an active member of the Boston, Massachusetts Jewish and medical communities, and a medical historian.

Neighborhood and Community collection

Collection Identifier: I A-9
Scope and Contents note:

This collection contains studies completed by various municipal and state agencies concerning transportation and park issues affecting the Arboretum as well as reports, news clippings, pamphlets, correspondence, proposals, surveys, and studies related to the relationship between the Arnold Arboretum and the communities of and personalities associated with Jamaica Plain, Boston, Roslindale, Brookline, and Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

New England Bond and Mortgage Company records

Collection Identifier: Mss:784 1922-1933 N544
Overview:

Financial records of New England Bond and Mortgage Company of Boston, Massachusetts, 1922 to 1933.

Philip Batstone manuscript scores and other material, 1953-1980

Collection Identifier: Ms. Coll. 158
Overview:

Manuscript scores and sketches by the twentieth-century American composer

Samuel Morse Felton business records

Collection Identifier: Mss:7 1832-1851 F327
Overview:

The Samuel Felton Morse business records contain papers relating to road building, railroad construction, engineering papers, and family deeds.

Records of the Saturday Evening Girls, 1915-1991 (inclusive), 1915-1959 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 1081
Overview:

Clippings, histories, correspondence, and photographs of the Saturday Evening Girls, a social group for working class young women in early-mid 20th century Boston, Massachusetts.

Sohier and Welch records

Collection Identifier: Mss:83 1838-1883 S682
Scope and Contents:

Records of a Boston, Mass. law firm composed of Edward D. Sohier and Charles A. Welch. Includes supplemental Welch family business papers; pleadings and evidence collected by Sohier and Welch for cases in which they were counsel, appearing in state and federal courts, circa 1836-1888.

Steve Livernash collection of Boston-area movie theater ephemera and film catalogs

Collection — Multiple ContainersIdentifier: hfa00039
Overview:

Collection of long time Boston-area film projectionist Steve Livernash consisting of ephemera related to Boston area movie theaters, including program calendars and documents relating to film projection in each cinema such as union contracts, licenses, and projectionist-written operating notes. Also included are a set of non-theatrical film catalogs from the 1960s and 1970s.

Suffolk Bank (Boston, Mass.) records

Collection Identifier: Mss:781 1818-1904 S46
Overview:

Records of the Suffolk Bank of Boston, Mass., 1818-1904.

Waterhouse family papers

Collection Identifier: H MS c17
Overview:

Waterhouse family papers, 1780-1894 (inclusive), 1811-1818 (bulk) principally consist of the correspondence of Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846) and John Fothergill Waterhouse (1791-1817) with family members. Also included are medical, subject, and lecture notes; writings; a journal; and a biography of Benjamin Waterhouse.

Woodberry Poetry Room collection of posters for Harvard and Boston-area literary readings

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 3419
Overview:

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