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Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture. Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture records, 1792-1963.

Title: Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture records, 1792-1963.

Records of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, including correspondence, financial records, membership and trustee records, committee reports, petitions for premiums, records of awards, 150th anniversary materials, records of charitable contributions, Middlesex Agricultural Society papers (1819-73), and Middlesex Society of Husbandmen and Manufacturers papers (1819-50). The MSPA, incorporated 1792, introduced new breeds of stock, sponsored research in animal diseases and pest eradication; supported 4-H Club activities, Arnold Arboretum and Harvard University, the Botanic Garden (Cambridge, Mass.), and other horticultural stations; worked with other Mass. agricultural societies; ran the Brighton Cattle Show (1816-35) and participated in many other exhibitions and fairs. (cont) They offered prizes to farmers for farms, machinery, products, animals, inventions, experiments, domestic manufactures, orchards, salt-marsh reclamation, and horticultural produce. Among the many correspondents are Francis H. Appleton, Peter C. Brooks, Edward Everett, Benjamin Guild, Levi Lincoln, Thomas Motley Jr., Elias Phinney, William Prescott, James R. Reynolds, and George S. West.

ArchivalResource: 32 boxes, 6 narrow boxes and 3 oversize boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19371593 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

Santayana, George, 1863-1952. Miscellaneous papers, 1886-1952.

Title: Miscellaneous papers, 1886-1952.

Letters by Santayana to various correspondents, together with a few manuscripts and memorabilia. Includes letters to Francis Henry Appleton, Benjamin Apthorp Gould Fuller, Bruno Lind, and Richard C. Lyon. Manuscripts include To German Americans, Introduction to Hamlet, More about Philosophers in America, and some occasional verse. Also includes diplomas from Harvard, a photograph, and papers written in Santayana's Philosophy 12 course at Harvard by Harry Austryn Wolfson with comments by Santayana.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122581287 View

Appleton, Francis Henry. Francis Henry Appleton, Jr., letter to the Salem Evening News, after 1880.

Title: Francis Henry Appleton, Jr., letter to the Salem Evening News, after 1880.

In a letter dated 19 Oct. no year, from Peabody, Mass., the author asks the Salem Evening News to publish an enclosed announcement [not extant] as soon as possible.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50217901 View

Appleton, Francis Henry. Francis Henry Appleton Letters, 1906.

Title: Francis Henry Appleton Letters, 1906.

Collection consists of four letters written to Francis Henry Appleton from George P. Lawrence, Charles E. Littlefield, Asa P. French, and Melvin O. Adams, about speaking at the Essex Club

ArchivalResource: 1 envelope ( .25 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/646831600 View

Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits, oversize, ca. 1829-1985

Title: Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits, oversize, ca. 1829-1985

Oversized 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: 8 cubic feet; 34 boxes; 880 photographs

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua01009/catalog View

Autograph File, S, 1556-1996.

Title: Autograph File, S, 1556-1996.

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 15.5 boxes (7.7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01442/catalog View

Miscellaneous papers, 1886-1952.

Title: Miscellaneous papers, 1886-1952.

Correspondence and compositions by the philosopher, poet, and authorGeorge Santayana.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01352/catalog View

Washburn, Frederic A. The Frederic A. Washburn papers, 1898-1922.

Title: The Frederic A. Washburn papers, 1898-1922.

Contains the following type of materials: personal correspondence. Contains information pertaining to the following wars and time periods: Spanish-American War -- United States (U.S.), -- Caribbean; Philippine Insurrection; World War I (WWI) -- U.S., -- Western Front. Contains information pertaining to the following military units and organizations: 6th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment; 26th United States Volunteer Infantry Regiment; United States Volunteer Medical Corps at Aparri and with 16th United States Infantry Regiment, Military Division of the Philippines; 6th Base Hospital, Base Section 3, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), London; chief U.S. surgeon in England in World War I; director, Massachusetts General Hospital. General description of the collection: The Frederic A. Washburn papers include medical officer's correspondence with family and friends at Camp Alger and in Puerto Rico, 1898; Luzon (with 26th, 1899-1901, and at Aparri with 16th, 1901-1903); in United States, western France, and London, 1917-1919; father-in-law, General Francis H. Appleton is a correspondent; letter to him reveal attitudes in New Bedford and Boston in those three conflicts.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49764174 View

Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

Title: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

A collection of images, manuscripts, and printed material, mostly relating to the Massachusetts soldiers and regiments in the American Civil War. Some material relates to other Union regiments and the Confederate States of America.

ArchivalResource: 47 linear feet (143 boxes, 2 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00124/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

Appleton, Francis Henry, 1847-1939. Papers, 1893-1934.

Title: Papers, 1893-1934.

Collection includes twenty-three typed, handwritten, or printed items.

ArchivalResource: 23 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57383791 View

Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1863-1879

Title: SIA RU000026, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary, Correspondence, 1863-1879

This series consists mostly of correspondence addressed to Joseph Henry, much of which received his personal attention; also included are some copies of Henry letters, occasional returned original Henry letters, and a considerable number of letters to Spencer Fullerton Baird.

ArchivalResource: 59.56 cubic feet

https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_216640 View

Proprietors of the Locks and Canals on Merrimack River. Records, 1792-1947 (inclusive), 1825-1900 (bulk).

Title: Records, 1792-1947 (inclusive), 1825-1900 (bulk).

Includes an extensive bound series of incoming letters and papers, a series of letter books, general accounting records, and payrolls. There are records for construction of canals, for collection of tolls, for kyanizing of lumber, and for a grist mill. There are papers of James B. Francis, engineer and agent, Uriah A. Boyden, hydraulic engineer, Col. James Francis, William Badger, Hiram F. Mills, Patrick T. Jackson, Kirk Boott, and George W. Whistler. Companies represented by material include Merrimack Manufacturing Company, Bigelow-Hartford Manufacturing Company, Ipswich Mills, Middlesex Company, Nashua Manufacturing Company, Saco-Lowell Shops, Pepperell Manufacturing Company, and Tremont and Suffolk Mills.

ArchivalResource: 13 linear ft. (355 v., 2 cases, 1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17267180 View