Executive files, 1911-1982 (bulk 1965-1977).

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Executive files, 1911-1982 (bulk 1965-1977).

The Harvard Medical School (HMS) Executive Files Series provides a record of the administrative activities of the Dean of Harvard Medical School, in the years 1965-1977, under the tenure of Dean Robert Higgins Ebert (1914-1996). Record types consist of correspondence, meeting minutes and agendas, memoranda, reports, proposals, committee files, and a smaller number of handwritten notes, receipts, article reprints, press releases, photographs, flyers, programs, newspaper clippings and other printed material.

22 cubic feet in 19 record cartons, 5 document boxes, 2 half document boxes, 1 half legal document box, and 1 oversized flat box.

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