Houghton Library
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Houghton Library
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Houghton Library
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Harvard College Library. Houghton Library
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Harvard College Library
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Houghton Library
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Harvard University. Houghton Library
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Harvard University
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Houghton Library
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Harvard University. Library. Houghton Library
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Harvard University
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Biographical History
In 1938 Keyes D. Metcalf, Librarian of Harvard College and Director of the Harvard University Library (1937-1955), proposed a separate library building for rare books and manuscripts. Through the generosity of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Harvard Class of 1929, Harvard became the first American university to construct a separate research facility for the housing and study of rare books and manuscripts. The Houghton Library, dedicated and opened in 1942, won major architectural awards and became a model for other such research libraries.
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https://viaf.org/viaf/155530939
https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n80097499
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n80097499
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Books
Libraries
Manuscripts, Syriac
Manuscripts, Welsh
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Welsh poetry
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Americans
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Massachusetts--Cambridge
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