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Howe, E. W. (Edgar Watson), 1853-1937. Edgar Watson Howe papers, 1872-1960

Title: Edgar Watson Howe papers, 1872-1969

Includes correspondence, compositions, and drafts of novels written by American author and newspaper editor E. W. Howe.

ArchivalResource: 55 boxes (52.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01036/catalog View

Papers of Earnest A. Hooton, 1926-1954.

Title: Papers of Earnest A. Hooton 1926-1954.

The Earnest A. Hooton papers include correspondence and manuscripts relating to Hooton'sresearch activities as curator at the Peabody Museum and member of the Department ofAnthropology.

ArchivalResource: 28 document boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/pea00021/catalog View

Myron Bement Smith collection, circa 1910-1970

Title: Myron Bement Smith collection

The Myron Bement Smith collection consists of two parts, the papers of Myron Bement Smith and his wife Katharine and the Islamic Archives. It contains substantial material about his field research in Italy in the 1920s and his years working on Islamic architecture in Iran in the 1930s. Letters describe the milieu in which he operated in Rochester NY and New York City in the 1920s and early 1930s; the Smiths' life in Iran from 1933 to 1937; and the extensive network of academic and social contacts that Myron and Katharine developed and maintained over his lifetime. The Islamic Archives was a project to which Smith devoted most of his professional life. It includes both original materials, such as his photographs and notes, and items acquired by him from other scholars or experts on Islamic art and architecture. Smith intended the Archives to serve as a resource for scholars interested in the architecture and art of the entire Islamic world although he also included some materials about non-Islamic architecture.

ArchivalResource: 192 Linear feet

https://sova.si.edu/record/FSA.A.04 View

Papers of John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan, 1909-2006

Title: Papers of John Coolidge and Agnes Mongan, 1909-2006

These papers of Fogg Art Museum directors John Coolidge and AgnesMongan document their administration of the museum and related professional activities. Mostof Coolidge's papers were created during his administration, from 1948 to 1968; most ofMongan's papers are from her tenure as acting director and then director (1968 to 1971). Thepapers consist primarily of correspondence, including Coolidge's correspondence with artdealers, and also include photographs, memoranda, reports, meeting minutes, blueprints, printedmaterial, letters of recommendation, page proofs, financial documents, sketches and grantproposals.

ArchivalResource: 152 file boxes + oversize materials

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/art00017/catalog View

Sheldon Glueck papers

Title: Sheldon Glueck papers

Includes papers relating to Glueck's literary interests as well as material on Glueck's career in criminology and administration of criminal justice, especially the Harvard Law School Survey of Crime and Criminal Justice in Boston,1926-1933, war crimes and criminals, Glueck's work on the Model Penal Code of the American Law Institute, membership on two advisory committees on Federal rules of criminal procedure (1941-1942,1960-1966), and his study (1926-1938) of the Belgian Ministry of Justice. The bulk of the collection consists of professional correspondence (1920's-1972), chiefly with professional organizations, public and private agencies, and their respective officials.

ArchivalResource: 129 boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00073/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

Papers of Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss, ca. 1860-1969 (inclusive)

Title: Papers of Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss, ca. 1860-1969 (inclusive)

Robert Woods Bliss (1875-1962) and his wife, Mildred Barnes Bliss (1875-1969) were prominent art collectors and the founders of Dumbarton Oaks, an estate which they developed and conveyed in 1940 to Harvard University as the Center for Byzantine Studies. Contains personal, philanthropic and United States Foreign Service-related papers.

ArchivalResource: 58.22 cubic feet (174 containers)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua26003/catalog View