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Harvard Art Museum. Exhibition Records, 1905-2008

Title: Harvard Art Museum. Exhibition Records, 1905-2008

These records were created by museum staff in the course of planningand installing exhibitions. They pertain primarily to exhibitions held in the Fogg Museum, theBusch-Reisinger Museum and the Sackler Museum, but they also include materials related totraveling or off-site exhibitions. The records date from 1905-2008 and includecorrespondence on a wide range of topics, exhibition proposals, photographic prints andnegatives, object lists, loan forms, press releases, clippings, invitations, posters, printed labelsand wall text, memoranda, exhibition catalogues and drafts of catalogue essays.

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http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/art00018/catalog View

Cambridge Historical Society. Letter, 1875 September 27, Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, to Mrs. Joel Parker, [Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Title: Letter, 1875 September 27, Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, to Mrs. Joel Parker, [Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Informs her of a resolution passed by the Society in regard to her late husband, Joel Parker.

ArchivalResource: [3] p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5380787 View

John Chipman Gray correspondence

Title: John Chipman Gray correspondence

Correspondence of Harvard professor and lawyer John Chipman Gray. Consists chiefly of letters written to Gray and his wife, Anna Lyman Mason Gray, many of which are RSVPs to social engagements from notable Boston and Harvard figures. Other topics include John Gray's legal writings and lectures and Anna Gray's poetry. Includes two autograph letters of Daniel Webster (addressed to others), and several letters of condolence from acquaintances such as Abbott Lawrence Lowell on the occasion of John Gray's death. The collection also includes letters to other members of the Gray family and some Gray family ephemera, such as stock certificates. Items concerning Japan include a letter from Isabella Stewart Gardner describing her impressions of Japanese culture and society, a letter from Fanny MacVeagh, wife of the American ambassador to Japan, describing the landscape and culture, and a collection of letters from John Gray's former student Kentaro Kanako, a Japanese noble and diplomat, whose letters describe the politics, government, and society of Japan and express great nostalgia for Boston society. He also discusses newly published political science works and his translations of many such works. Kanako visited the United States several times and wrote to the Grays from both Japan and the United States.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear feet (2 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01090/catalog View

Roscoe Pound Papers

Title: Roscoe Pound Papers

Correspondence, writings, speeches, lectures, teaching notes, reports, minutes of meetings, legal briefs, scientific drawings, pamphlets and other printed material, newspaper clippings, maps, photos, memorabilie, miscellaneous honorary degrees, and other papers, chiefly 1910-1964. Includes material pertaining to Pound's participation in the Boston and Cleveland crime surveys (1920's), as a member of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement or Wickersham Commission (1929-1931), as a member of the American Bar Association and with various Masonic chapters, and as advisor to the Ministry of Justice in Nanking, China (1940's). Also two typed, bound journals recounting camping trips in West Virginia and to Civil War battlefields (1898, 1912-1917).

ArchivalResource: 1 collection (257 Boxes, 14 Paige boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990006015990203941/catalog View