Silver pitcher, 1905.

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The Harvard College Library used ledgers to record the loans of books from the library's collection during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The presence of what appear to be call-slips from 1823 to 1826 and the lack of ledgers for this period is unaccounted for in the literature cited in the bibliography. Late in the nineteenth century, librarians recognized that the ledger system could not provide the flexibility needed to control large collections. At the Harvard College L...

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Kiernan, Thomas J., d. 1914.

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Stone, Arthur J., 1847-1938

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Kiernan was the Superintendant of Circulation in the Harvard College Library 1877-1914. He received an honorary A.M. degree in 1892. He died 1914. Stone was a well-known silversmith who worked in the Arts and Crafts style; an emigrant from England, Stone's shop was located in Gardner, Massachusetts. From the description of Silver pitcher, 1905. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 45480089 Kiernan was the Superintendant of Circulati...