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Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

Alexander Forbes papers

Collection Identifier: H MS c22
Overview: The Alexander Forbes papers, 1827, 1835, 1848-1978 (inclusive), 1910-1946 (bulk), are the product of Forbes' teaching and research activities in the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School. The bulk of the collection falls between 1910 and 1946, and consists of Forbes' correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, and notes resulting from his reseach on neurophysiology and electrophysiology. The collection also includes correspondence, reports, notes, documents, journals, logs, maps,...

Awatovi Expedition records

Collection Identifier: 995-11, 35-126, 36-131, 38-120,39-97
Overview:

The collection documents the Peabody Museum Expedition to Awatovi (northeastern Arizona) from 1935-39, and includes historical material, financial records, field notes, diaries, photographs, drawings, correspondence, and field and artifact cards.

C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky Tepe Yahya expedition records

Collection Identifier: 2015.6.1
Scope and Contents: The Tepe Yahya expedition papers largely consist of field records and publication materials from C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky’s excavations in Tepe Yahya in Southeastern Iran. The expedition took place between 1968 and 1975, although the papers include additional materials from both before and after the excavations. He and his team recorded all items found on small finds cards, including drawings. He also...

David I. Bushnell, Jr. collection records

Collection Identifier: 41-72
Scope and Contents:

The papers primarily consist of Bushnell and the Bushnell estate's correspondence with dealers, artists, museum professionals and other collectors; Bushnell's fieldnotes from his work with the Choctaw and archaeological expeditions; and, manuscript drafts and notes for his many publications.

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001
Scope and Contents: The Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives is a collection of over 6278 individual items of textual materials, drawings, and photographs that document the creation and development of the Dumbarton Oaks Garden, Washington, D.C. between 1920-1979. Robert Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss purchased the 53 acre property in 1920 known as "The Oaks" and later as Dumbarton Oaks, and within a year they hired Beatrix Farrand, a landscape gardener, to design a garden for the property that combined French,...

Evelyn Childs Rattray papers

Collection Identifier: 2016.27.1

George Grant MacCurdy papers

Collection Identifier: 995-3
Overview: George Grant MacCurdy (GGM) was an American anthropologist. He and Janet MacCurdy founded the American School of Prehistoric Research (ASPR) in 1921, which published Bulletins from 1926 onward, and became the Department of Old World Archaeology at the Peabody Museum as per his bequest in 1954. The records include correspondence; original artwork; postcards; sketch books; travel notebooks; biographical...

Harvard Medical School buildings and grounds, Longwood Avenue Quadrangle images

Collection Identifier: RG M-CL02, Series 00097b
Overview:

This finding aid describes photographs, drawings, lanterns slides, negatives, postcards, and prints depicting the Harvard Medical School Quadrange and the Longwood Medical Area.

Harvard Medical School buildings and grounds, Vanderbilt Hall, and the Seeley G. Mudd Building images

Collection Identifier: RG M-CL02, Series 00097c
Overview:

This finding aid describes photographs, lantern slides, negatives, postcards, and prints portraying Vanderbilt Hall and the Seeley G. Mudd Building at Harvard Medical School.

Mathematical theses, 1782-1839.

Collection Identifier: HUC 8782.514
Overview:

The mathematical theses consist of equations and drawings which illustrate the equations. At the time of their creation, the purpose of these finely executed documents on large sheets of paper was to demonstrate a student's mastery of one or more mathematical concepts, yet the enduring value of many of the them lies in the fact that they are works of art.

Hemenway Expedition records

Collection Identifier: 43-39A, 46-73, 13-26, 980-2, 2000.20,2001.7
Scope and Contents: The Hemenway Expedition Records reveal the working relationships in field correspondence between expedition members and with Mary Hemenway; the intellectual products of the work in Cushing, Bandelier, and ten Kate's ethnological manuscripts; and the raw data of site notes and cards, reports, plans, and field notebooks. The records also contain some of Margaret Magill's watercolors of archaeological artifacts. The materials are organized primarily by chronological accession and then according...

Papers of Louise E. Jefferson, 1861-1991 (inclusive), 1943-1980 (bulk), undated

Collection Identifier: MC 1147
Overview:

Maps, correspondence, and artwork of African American artist, cartographer, graphic designer, author, and photographer Louise E. Jefferson.

Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1884-1962) papers, 1922-1962.

Collection Identifier: III JFR
Abstract:

This collection is comprised of publications, field notes, photographs, and correspondence by Joseph Francis Charles Rock. Rock worked as a botanist, anthropologist, explorer, linguist, and author for various agencies while travelling in Asia. Rock’s affiliation with the Arnold arboretum was that of a researcher in China and Tibet from 1924-1927. The bulk of this collection consists of correspondence, records, and images developed during that visit

Papers of Donald Howard Menzel, 1931-1986

Collection Identifier: HUG 4567
Overview: Donald Howard Menzel (1901-1976) taught astronomy at Harvard, and was director of the Harvard College Observatory from 1952 to 1966. According to the National Academy of Sciences' Biographical Memoir, "Menzel was one of the first practitioners of theoretical astrophysics in the United States and pioneered the application of quantum mechanics to astronomical spectroscopy." These papers chiefly document Menzel's professional life of research, writing, and participation in professional...

Milton Morris Pinkus photographs and papers concerning World War I ambulance corps service

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 3182
Overview:

Milton Morris Pinkus photographs and papers relating to World War I.

Papers of Agnes Mongan, 1914-1993

Collection Identifier: SC 1
Overview:

Correspondence, photographs, writings, and other papers of Agnes Mongan, Curator of Drawings at Harvard's Fogg Museum and the first woman director of a major art museum in the United States.

Papers of Caroline Iverson Ackerman, 1927-2004 (inclusive), 1939-1949 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 572: Vt-157: MP-57
Overview:

Photographs, writings, correspondence, and work files of pilot, journalist, travel expert, and professor Caroline Iverson Ackerman.

Papers of Eloise Bittel Cohen, 1898-2005 (inclusive), 1928-2003 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 819: MP-76: T-525
Overview:

Correspondence, diaries, writings, photographs, and home movies of Eloise Bittel Cohen, political and civic volunteer.

Papers of the Holt-Messer family. 1809-1962

Collection Identifier: A-148
Overview:

Papers of Joseph Burt Holt and Julia Evelyn Rollins Holt, who homesteaded in Minnesota and were instrumental in founding the town of Champlin; aided freedmen in Jackson, Mississippi; they taught school in Atlanta, Georgia; and worked on Indian reservations in Lac Court d'Oreilles, Wisconsin, and Los Pinos, Colorado.

Papers of Ida Pruitt, 1850s-1992

Collection Identifier: MC 465
Overview:

Correspondence, writings, photographs, and papers of Ida Pruitt documenting her life and family in China and United States.

Records of Silent Spring Institute, 1970-2011

Collection Identifier: MC 712: T-454: Vt-233
Overview:

Contracts and proposals; correspondence; minutes; presentation files; project and research files; reports and publications; air and water test sample results; work plans and budgets; photographic and audiovisual material; etc.; of Silent Spring Institute's work on the Cape Cod Breast Cancer and Environment Study, the Newton Breast Cancer Study, and Long Island, New York Breast Cancer Study.

Records of the Fishermen's Wives of Gloucester, 1950-2009 (inclusive), 1977-2004 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 595: CD-51: T-359: VT-165
Overview:

Records of the Fishermen's Wives of Gloucester (Association), activists for the New England fishing industry, fishermen, and their families.

Records of the March for Women's Lives, 1988-2004 (inclusive), 2003-2004 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 738
Overview:

Minutes, reports, correspondence, budgets, notes, schedules, and contracts related to the planning, organizing, and executing of the March for Women's Lives, held in Washington, DC, on April 25, 2004.

Records of the Boston Committee of Sauvegarde de l'art Français, 1925-1938

Collection Identifier: SC 6
Overview:

This collection includes the meeting minutes, correspondence, and financial records of the Boston Committee of Sauvegarde de l'art Français ("Protection of French Art") from the years 1925-1938. Also included are maps, floor plans, publicity and notes of the French town of Larressingle, which this committee raised money to purchase and restore.

Somerville High School Film Collection

Collection Identifier: hfa00030
Overview: Consisting of 385 educational films produced for classroom use between the 1930s and 1980s, the Somerville High School Collection provides a representative sample of the subjects and genres of educational media used in classrooms during this period. Though collected by Somerville High School, the films are aimed at students from primary grades through high school and cover a variety of subjects including art, math, music, science, health, and social studies. A highlight of the collection is...