Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z, and unidentified.

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Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z, and unidentified.

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The file indexes ownership/provenance information found in printed books within Houghton Library that were cataloged prior to 1992. A very few manuscript codices are also included. It does NOT include books transferred from Widener Library and still classed under their Widener call numbers (ca. 75,000 titles), or books accessioned but not fully cataloged (ca. 35,000 titles).

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In 1938 Keyes D. Metcalf, Librarian of Harvard College and Director of the Harvard University Library (1937-1955), proposed a separate library building for rare books and manuscripts. Through the generosity of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Harvard Class of 1929, Harvard became the first American university to construct a separate research facility for the housing and study of rare books and manuscripts. The Houghton Library, dedicated and opened in 1942, won major architectural awards and became a mo...