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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

McKean, Joseph Borden, 1764-1826. Oration delivered at University of Pennsylvania, 1782.

Title: Oration delivered at University of Pennsylvania, 1782.

The question addressed by McKean, in the negative, is whether the profession of law is, or is not, "for the safety and happiness of Society." This was part of a forensic disputation during commencement excerises, March 21, 1782. Volume was formerly assigned manuscript call number 370.4.N193.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/216929943 View

Bayard, Mabel,. Collection, 1777-1831.

Title: Collection, 1777-1831.

This small collection contains a letter from George Washington to Thomas McKean, October 10, 1777, mentioning a proposed attack on Wilmington, Del. The other papers are the marriage license of Joseph Borden McKean and Hannah Miles, 1786, and the baptismal certificate of M. Miles, 1831.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122524372 View

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIb, 1807-1825

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIb 1807-1825

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives.IIb-ead.xml View

Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887,. Autographs collection, 1682-1972.

Title: Autographs collection, 1682-1972.

The collection contains engraved portraits, letters, and autographic documents by notable American, French, and European politicians, presidents, and military leaders including Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; James T. Austin and Samuel Hoar; Henry Ward Beecher; Nicholas Biddle; Senator Frank Church; Geoffrey Clarke; Cowper Phipps Coles; Tench Coxe; George William Curtis; John Dickinson; Maria Dickons; John Adams Dix. Also, Frederick William III, King of Prussia; Andrew Hamilton; Pultenay Malcolm; Cardinal Mario Mattei; Joseph Borden McKean; Sir Edward Macnaghten; George Henry Moore; 5th Duke of Norfolk; Sir Robert Peel; Richard Peters; Franklin Pierce; Gifford Pinchot; George Ramsay; Thomas B. Reed; Benjamin Rush; Lord John Russell; Charles Emory Smith; H. Warington Smyth; Ambrose Spencer; Thaddeus Stevens; William Tilghman; Lawrence Augustine Washington; Gideon Welles; Arthur Wellesley Wellington. Documents signed by A.E. Borie, John Dickinson, Charles Fox, Nepoleon I, John Nicholson, Isaac Brown Parker, Omer Pasha, John Penn, Richard and Thomas Penn, Charles Stuart de Rothesay, William Howard Taft, and Queen Victoria. Includes a forged promissory note from Zachary Taylor, petition from Northampton County, Pa. to Thomas Jefferson, and a portrait of John Penn.

ArchivalResource: 0.45 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49254375 View

Thomas Addis Emmet collection, 1483-1876 (bulk:1700-1800)

Title: Thomas Addis Emmet collection, 1483-1876 (inclusive), 1700-1800 (bulk)

The portion of the Emmet Collection housed in the Manuscripts and Archives Division consists of approximately 10,800 historical manuscripts relating chiefly to the period prior to, during, and following the American Revolution. The collection contains letters and documents by the signers of the Declaration of Independence as well as nearly every prominent historical figure of the period.

ArchivalResource: 30.83 linear feet; 108 boxes, 21 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/927 View

Houghton Library. Houghton Library printed book provenance file, L-Q. 1942.

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, L-Q.

Index to ownership/provenance information primarily from printed books at Houghton Library.

ArchivalResource:

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990120831020203941/catalog View