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Letters to Charles Eliot Norton and other papers, 1702-1952

Title: Letters to Charles Eliot Norton and other papers, 1702-1952

Possibly an autograph collection of letters from famous literary, cultural, and political figures, some of which are addressed to Charles Eliot Norton. Others are addressed to a variety of correspondents. Also includes cut signatures, books, pamphlets, clippings and other printed material.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00335/catalog View

William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Title: William Roscoe Thayer papers, 1762-1927 (inclusive), 1872-1921 (bulk)

Correspondence (chiefly letters received), articles, poems, speeches, book reviews, diaries and journals, miscellaneous notebooks, scrapbooks, clippings, and other printed material. Correspondence concerns Thayer's writings, particularly in the area of Italian history, and his connections with Harvard as editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine and later as an overseer. Also included are some miscellaneous papers of William Warland Clapp, a Boston journalist; and some papers of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, chiefly from a European trip made by Higginson in 1872.

ArchivalResource: 48 linear feet (96 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00563/catalog View

Forbes, Paul Revere, 1860-1940. Papers, 1837-1953, bulk: 1929-1937.

Title: Papers, 1837-1953, bulk: 1929-1937.

Letters of Paul R. Forbes to his cousin Ethel Forbes concern the acquisition of genealogical papers relating to the Forbes family. There is also some correspondence about stock investments and the financial status of various Forbes family members. Also included is correspondence relating to the estate of Charles S. Forbes and an 1893 letter from John Murray Forbes to Secretary of the Treasury Charles S. Hamlin about the depressed U.S. ship-building industry.

ArchivalResource: 1 narrow box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17881793 View

Photographic Portrait File

Title: Photographic Portrait File

ArchivalResource:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7j49n8zt View

Charles S. Hamlin Papers, 1869-1968, (bulk 1880-1938)

Title: Charles S. Hamlin Papers 1869-1968 (bulk 1880-1938)

Lawyer, politician, assistant secretary of the treasury, and governor of the Federal Reserve Board. Correspondence, diaries, manuscripts of writings and speeches, biographical notes, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, printed matter and other papers relating chiefly to Hamlin's service in the United States Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve System, his civic affairs, and his family's social life in Washington, D.C.

ArchivalResource: 3,380 items; 371 containers; 38.4 linear feet; 224 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009205 View

Grover Cleveland Papers, 1743-1945, (bulk 1885-1908)

Title: Grover Cleveland Papers 1743-1945 (bulk 1885-1908)

President of the United States, governor of New York, and lawyer. Correspondence, diaries, messages to Congress, speeches, writings, printed matter, and other papers primarily relating to the Cleveland presidency and presidential campaigns.

ArchivalResource: 108,200 items; 627 containers plus 1 oversize; 235.8 linear feet; 164 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008094 View

Edison Sheet Music Collection, 1830-1958, (bulk 1890-1940)

Title: Edison Sheet Music Collection 1830-1958 (bulk 1890-1940)

The collection consists chiefly of American sheet music published in the United States between the years 1830-1930. While a significant minority of the music in the collection is instrumental music, the vast majority is for voice and piano. Notable in this collection are imprints from California dating from before 1850, first editions by Irving Berlin and others, and many European imprints among the instrumental pieces.

ArchivalResource: circa 13,000 items; 148 containers; 444 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu002003 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Autograph letters and documents of American political and military leaders collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 28 boxes (14 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01499/catalog View

Adolph Caspar Miller Papers, 1913-1947

Title: Adolph Caspar Miller Papers 1913-1947

Economist, educator, author, and member of the first Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, proceedings, writings, reports, speeches, notes, press releases, printed material, memorabilia, and other papers relating chiefly to Miller’s service as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1914-1936.

ArchivalResource: 10,000 items; 34 containers; 13.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012008 View

Wendell family papers

Title: Wendell family papers

Correspondence, business papers, and compositions by members of the Wendell family, a prominent merchant family from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

ArchivalResource: 46 linear feet (93 boxes and 1 folder)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01421/catalog View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Autograph letters and documents of American political and military leaders collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 28 boxes (14 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01499/catalog View

Borah, William Edgar, 1865-1940. Papers of Robert Baylor Tunstall and Virginia Hunter Lyne Tunstall [manuscript], 1803-1972, bulk 1868-1972.

Title: Papers of Robert Baylor Tunstall and Virginia Hunter Lyne Tunstall [manuscript], 1803-1972, bulk 1868-1972.

Papers of the Tunstalls contain correspondence, clippings, photographs, scrapbooks and memorabilia. Topics include the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk; the Pewter Platter Club; St. Paul's Church, Norfolk; trips abroad; the University of Virginia law class of 1902; the legal firm of Grimball and Tunstall; poetry; and Norfolk in 1796. Correspondents include men who replied to invitations for the Pewter Platter Club "Old Colony" dinners, 1910-1912.

ArchivalResource: 265 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647826814 View

Glass, Carter, 1858-1946. Papers of Carter Glass [manuscript], 1858-1946, and n.d.

Title: Papers of Carter Glass [manuscript], 1858-1946, and n.d.

Papers of Glass consist of personal and professional papers including correspondence, speeches, notes and memoranda, documents, printed matter, photographs, clippings and miscellaneous material. Much of the collection centers on banking and currency legislation, in the enactment of which Glass was active while in both Houses of Congress and while serving as Secretary of the Treasury. Subjects include: the Federal Reserve Bank Act and Federal Reserve system; the Federal Farm Loan Act; branch banks; currency [reform] bill of 1913; Emergency Banking Act, 1933; the Banking Act of 1933 (Glass-Steagall Act) to establish the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; the Bank Bill of 1935; opposition to the National Industrial Recovery Act; the National Labor Relations Act; the Bank Holding Company Bill; and the Office of Price Administration; Additional topics include World Wars I and II, particularly their domestic economic aspects; the League of Nations; the World Court; Democratic Party platforms and policies; the presidential elections of 1912, 1920, 1924, 1928, and 1940; Senator Huey P. Long; Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal; the attempted packing of the Supreme Court , 1937; neutrality legislation; disarmament; regulation of the coal industry; child labor; anti-lynching law; immigration restriction (especially Chinese in Hawaii); Muscle Shoals; trade with Russia; diplomatic relations with the Vatican; Four-Power Treaty; soldiers' bonus bill; tariffs and protectionism; and national defense. Virginia topics of concern to Glass or his constituents include poll tax elimination; Negro suffrage; highways; the University of Virginia Board of Visitors; patronage requests from Lynchburg, Roanoke, and Bedford, Campbell, Floyd, Montgomery, and Roanoke Counties, Va.; the Woodrow Wilson Foundation; a national Patrick Henry shrine at "Red Hill"; the gubernatorial election of 1924; Bishop James Cannon, prohibition and the Anti-saloon League; the Skyline Drive; Spotsylvania Battlefield Park; the Woodrow Wilson Foundation; the Virginia Fight For Freedom Committee; and operation of the Lynchburg News and Advance. Miscellaneous items of interest include a letter describing the early life of Booker T. Washingrton, election tickets for 1848, a 1906 recipe book, and letters concerning Glass' belief in the Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship. In addition to speeches by Glass there are speeches by Edwin A. Alderman, Harry Byrd, Sr., George M. Coffin, Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Henry Cabot Lodge, Francis Pickens Miller, Al Smith, and Henry St. George Tucker. Among the many correspondents are : Edwin A. Alderman, Newton Baker, Ray Stannard Baker, Alben Barkley, Bernard Baruch, William E. Borah, Chester Bowles, John Stewart Bryan, William Jennings Bryan, Harry F. Byrd, Richard E. Byrd, Calvin Coolidge, John W. Daniel, Josephus Daniels, Colgate W. Darden, Westmoreland Davis, F. A. Delano, the Democratic National Committee, Marriner S. Eccles, James A. Farley, Douglas Southall Freeman, James A. Garfield, Samuel Gompers, Cary Grayson, Charles S. Hamlin, W. P. G. Harding, Warren G. Harding, J. Edgar Hoover, Herbert Hoover, Edwin M. House, Cordell Hull, Harold Ickes, Hugh S. Johnson, Jesse Jones, Joseph P. Kennedy, Walter Lippmann, Huey Long, William G. McAdoo, G. Walter Mapp, Andrew Mellon, Eugene Meyer, Andrew J. Montague, R. Walton Moore, Henry Morgenthau, Robert L. Owen, George C. Peery, John G. Pollard, A. Willis Robertson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dave E. Satterfield, C. Bascom Slemp, Rixey Smith, Billy Sunday, Claude A. Swanson, Harry S. Truman, Joseph P. Tumulty, Oscar W. Underwood, Samuel Untermeyer, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Robert F. Wagner, Henry A. Wallace, Paul Moritz Warburg, Richard S. Whaley, William Allen White, John Skelton Williams, H. Parker Willis, Edith Bolling Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, Clifton A. Woodrum, and Walter Wyatt.

ArchivalResource: 215,000(ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647902109 View

David Franklin Houston papers, 1891-1930 (inclusive), 1913-1921 (bulk).

Title: David Franklin Houston papers, 1891-1930 (inclusive),1913-1921 (bulk).

Papers of American educator, cabinet officer, and business executive David Franklin Houston.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00937/catalog View

Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits, ca. 1852-ca. 2004

Title: Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits. ca.1852-ca.2004.

Photographs of individuals associated with Harvard University: faculty, students, administrators, staff, honorees, and habitués of Harvard Square. For those whose lives pre-date the era of photography, the contents of the folders are often photographic reproductions of other image types, such as etchings, paintings, or drawings. In a few cases, the images themselves may be original etchings or sketches.

ArchivalResource: 50 cubic ft.; 20,000 photographs; 10,000 folders.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua04006/catalog View

Papers, 1911-1944 (inclusive), 1929-1937 (bulk).

Title: Papers, 1911-1944 (inclusive), 1929-1937(bulk).

Papers of American biographer, editor, historian, and poet MarkAnthony de Wolfe Howe.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00947/catalog View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Autograph letters and documents of American political and military leaders collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 28 boxes (14 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01499/catalog View

Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/504 View

Immigration Restriction League (U.S.) records, 1893-1921

Title: Immigration Restriction League (U.S.) records

Records of the Immigration Restriction League (U.S.), especially those of Prescott F. (Farnsworth) Hall, one of the founders and executive secretary from 1896-1921.

ArchivalResource: 12.4 linear feet (24 boxes and 17 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00163/catalog View

Thomas Bailey Aldrich papers, 1837-1926.

Title: Thomas Bailey Aldrich papers, 1837-1926.

Correspondence and other papers of the American writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

ArchivalResource: 19 boxes (7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00327/catalog View

Williams, George Fred, 1852-1932. George Fred Williams papers, 1869-1898.

Title: George Fred Williams papers, 1869-1898.

Dedham, Massachusetts schoolteacher, reporter, lawyer and congressman. Six boxes of correspondence and sixteen boxes of newspaper clippings and miscellaneous printed matter relating to Williams' political career as state representative, congressman and Democratic gubernatorial candidate. Subjects discussed or described include: Grover Cleveland, James G. Blaine and the 1884 presidential campaign, the Massachusetts Committee of One Hundred, free coinage of silver, tariff and civil service reform, investigation of Boston's West End Railway Company, and the 1891 speakership contest between Charles F. Crisp and Roger Q. Mills in the House of Representatives. Among the correspondents are: Edward Atkinson, Samuel Bowles, Charles R. Codman, Charles P. Greenough, Charles S. Hamlin, Nathan Matthews, Josiah Quincy, Carl Schurz, Moorfield Storey, Winslow Warren and Henry M. Whitney.

ArchivalResource: 9 cartons (stored offsite)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9891014 View

Mills, Ogden Livingston, b. 1884. Papers of Ogden Livingston Mills, 1920-1939 (bulk 1926-1933).

Title: Papers of Ogden Livingston Mills, 1920-1939 (bulk 1926-1933).

Correspondence, galley proofs, memoranda, speeches, statements, clippings (some mounted in scrapbooks), and other printed matter dealing primarily with taxation, foreign debts, the Federal Reserve System, the tariff, and other financial matters. Includes bills considered by the House (1921-1927); speeches made by Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alfred Landon and others; material gathered for use in lectures at the New School for Social Research (1936-1937) and for an unpublished book. Correspondents include Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Frank B. Kellogg, Henry L. Stimson, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Charles Hamlin, Eugene Meyer, and Owen D. Young.

ArchivalResource: 60,000 items.206 containers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71009862 View

Hamlin, Charles S. (Charles Sumner), 1861-1938. Charles Sumner Hamlin papers, 1894-1904.

Title: Charles Sumner Hamlin papers, 1894-1904.

This collection contains Hamlin's notes on Alaska (1894), notes from conferences attended (1897), his letters, and a diary (1887-1904). Those papers pertaining to Alaska are mainly concerned with the pelagic killing of seals in the Bering Sea.

ArchivalResource: 1 ms box .40 cu. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42064741 View

Russell, William E. (William Eustis), 1857-1896. William Eustis Russell papers, 1846-1920; bulk: 1888-1896.

Title: William Eustis Russell papers, 1846-1920; bulk: 1888-1896.

ArchivalResource: 24 boxes, 22 vols., and 10 extra tall vols.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8440801 View

Robert Grant papers

Title: Robert Grant papers

Papers of Robert Grant (Harvard AB 1873), an American novelist and lawyer.

ArchivalResource: 18 boxes and 7 volumes (7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00080/catalog View

Oswald Garrison Villard papers

Title: Oswald Garrison Villard papers

Papers of American author, journalist, editor, and social reformer Oswald Garrison Villard. Includes materials that are unsorted and uncataloged.

ArchivalResource: 37 linear feet (169 boxes and 9 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00082/catalog View

Charles S. Hamlin Letters, 1893-1925

Title: Charles S. Hamlin Letters 1893-1925

Incoming letters sent to the American lawyer and first Chairman of the Federal Reserve.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (SC)

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/h/hamlin_cs.htm View