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Winthrop, James, 1752-1821. Papers of James Winthrop, 1765-1826.

Title: Papers of James Winthrop, 1765-1826.

James Winthrop (1752-1821), son of famous colonial scientist John Winthrop, served as Butler and Librarian of Harvard College, Justice of the Peace of Middlesex County, Register of Probate, and Judge in the Court of Common Pleas, among other roles. This small collection contains a notebook on logarithms he created as a student at Harvard around 1765, a journal created after his death to record the division of books he bequeathed to Thaddeus Mason Harris and Harriet H. Peck, and a notebook he kept about cases he heard as Justice of the Peace between 1784 and 1795. This notebook contains valuable information not only about the nature of the crimes being committed in post-Revolutionary Cambridge, but also the names and occupations of those accused and their victims.

ArchivalResource: .06 cubic feet (one flat box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/697961473 View

Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Contracts (with associated materials) of the Houghton Mifflin Company publishing house of Boston, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (48 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00239/catalog View

Bishko, Charles Julian. Papers of Julian Bishko, 1930-1989.

Title: Papers of Julian Bishko, 1930-1989.

The papers of [Charles] Julian Bishko contain general correspondence with faculty, students, scholars, and friends; family correspondence; academic papers and class notes from graduate study at Harvard University; and material on professional meetings. University of Virginia Corcoran history department papers include committee assignments, reports, correspondence, personalia, awards and honors, lecture notes, outlines, and student gradebooks. Harvard class notes are from the lectures of Charles Holt Taylor, Charles Howard McIlwain, George LaPiana, and Sidney Bradshaw Fay. General topics include Spanish, Portugese and Latin American studies and particularly his specialties in Spanish and Portugese history of the Middle Ages, the Iberian background of Latin American history, the history of the medieval frontier, the Reconquista, and Spanish Cluniac monasticism. Topics of University of Virginia interest include service as a World War II Civil Defense warden, the "Gooch report" on athletics at the University of Virginia, the "Finger report" of the Faculty Self-Study evaluation program, minutes and report of the Special Committee on the Admission of Women to the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Committee on Contractual Relations of the Assembly of Professors, the Farmington Country Club controversy, and the case of Liberty Hill Subdivision vs University of Virginia. Correspondents include C.R. Boxer, Gary Dunbar, Hilda Grassotti, Lewis Hanke, Harry W. Hazard, Owen Lattimore, Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz, Sylvia L. Thrupp, and the editors of the Hispanic American Historical Review, the American Historical Review and various monographs.

ArchivalResource: 20,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55224996 View

Taylor, Charles Holt, 1899-. Papers of Charles H. Taylor, 1942.

Title: Papers of Charles H. Taylor, 1942.

Includes some correspondence and other material.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76973198 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

Carr, Wendell Robert. Papers of Wendell Robert Carr, 1960-1969.

Title: Papers of Wendell Robert Carr, 1960-1969.

The collection documents Carr's graduate study at Harvard University in 1960-1962 as well as his teaching activities at the University in 1967-1968. The collection chiefly consists of course notes, syllabi, examinations, and student papers for courses in history, humanities, government, church history, and English taken by Carr while pursuing a master's degree. The courses were taught by Bernard Bailyn, Crane Brinton, Giles Constable, Donald Fleming, Frank Freidel, Myron Gilmore, Oscar Handlin, H. Stuart Hughes, Howard Mumford Jones, William L. Langer, Perry Miller, Reinhold Neibuhr, Heiko Oberman, Charles H. Taylor, and Paul Tillich. The collection also includes annotated reading assignments for Social Sciences 3 used by Carr while teaching the course in 1967-1968. In addition, the collection documents Carr's professional writing activities, including two of his printed articles.

ArchivalResource: 1.2 cubic feet (3 document boxes, 1 half document box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/727480922 View

Records of the Department of History, 1891-1976.

Title: Records of the Department of History, 1891-1976.

Consists of minutes and other records, 1891-1966, of the History Department and earlier History and Government Department; correspondence files of department chairmen; records relating to Overseers Visiting Committee, 1956- 1976; correspondence and other records relating to appointment, evaluation, research interests, and other matters concerning faculty members. Also committee reports for committees on admission, history exams, courses, and placement.

ArchivalResource: 47 containers

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990006040010203941/catalog View

William Ernest Hocking papers

Title: William Ernest Hocking papers

Correspondence of Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking, his wife, Agnes Hocking, the Hocking family, and others.

ArchivalResource: 144 linear feet (110 boxes)

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01777 View

Buckminster, Joseph, 1666-1747. Deed of sale for property in Framingham, Massachusetts, from Joseph Buckminster to Moses Haven, March 6, 1706.

Title: Deed of sale for property in Framingham, Massachusetts, from Joseph Buckminster to Moses Haven, March 6, 1706.

In this deed of sale, dated March 6, 1706, Joseph Buckminster agrees to sell one hundred and thirty-two acres of land in Framingham, Massachusetts to Moses Haven for the price of forty pounds. The deed, signed by witnesses Ben Bridges and John Swift, as well as Justice of the Peace Thomas Browne, describes the land as: "a certain tenement consisting of upland, swampland, intervale land & meadow, and in the township of said Framingham being situated." The deed specifies that one hundred twenty-two acres of the land are upland, swampland and intervale, while the remaining ten acres are meadow. Some of the text is obscured. The document is signed by both Joseph Buckminster and his wife, Martha (Sharp) Buckminster.

ArchivalResource: .01 cubic feet (1 document).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/655298144 View

Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Title: Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk).

Contracts (with associated materials) of the Houghton Mifflin Company publishing house of Boston, Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes (48 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00239/catalog View

Taylor, Charles Forbes, 1899-. Papers, 1913-1966.

Title: Papers, 1913-1966.

Chiefly correspondence, and scrapbooks of clippings, photographs, and printed material relating to the career of Charles Forbes Taylor and his father, the English evangelist Charles Taylor. Also featured prominently in the collection is Charles Taylor's brother, Laurie, who was also a minister, pianist, and composer who often accompanied Charles Forbes Taylor on evangelistic crusades. Much of Charles Forbes Taylor's work was for Baptist churches in the U.S. Includes a calendar of Taylor's engagements in 1982-1983.

ArchivalResource: 156 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34015073 View