Early Catalogs and Shelflists of the Harvard College Library, 1723-1822.

Harvard college library

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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...

Harvard University

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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...

Paine, Robert Treat, 1731-1814

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Robert Treat Paine (March 11, 1731 – May 11, 1814) was an American lawyer, politician, and Founding Father of the United States who signed the Continental Association and the Declaration of Independence as a representative of Massachusetts. He served as the state's first attorney general, and served as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the state's highest court. Paine was also a founding member of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society and had always opposed slavery. ...

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...

Library of Congress

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The Library of Congress was established by an act of Congress in 1800 when President John Adams signed a bill providing for the transfer of the seat of government from Philadelphia to the new capital city of Washington. The legislation described a reference library for Congress only, containing "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress - and for putting up a suitable apartment for containing them therein…" The original library was housed in the Washington, DC until August 1814, ...

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Smith, Isaac, 1749-1829

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Isaac Smith (1749-1829), a Harvard Librarian from 1788 to 1791, was born in Boston on May 7, 1749. He received an AB from Harvard in 1767 and an AM in 1770. In 1774, he became a tutor at the College and served until 1775 when he traveled to England. In England, Smith was ordained as the minister of the Sidmouth Presbyterian chapel. In 1784, Smith returned to Massachusetts and preached for two years in eastern Massachusetts before being appointed to a three-year term as Harvard College Librarian....

Diman, James, 1707-1788

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Shapleigh, Samuel, 1765-1800.

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Samuel Leighton Shapleigh (1765-1800) was born in Kittery, Maine on July 9, 1765. He was left an orphan when both his parents, Mary Leighton Shapleigh and Tobias Shapleigh, died in 1769. He was subsequently cared for by his uncle and guardian, Major Samuel Leighton. Shapleigh attended Harvard College, entering in 1785 and graduating with the class of 1789. Following graduation he worked briefly as a school keeper for the town of Cambridge. Afterwards he pursued legal studies and rec...

Gee, Joshua, 1698-1748

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Adams, Amos, 1728-1775

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Adams was ordained pastor of the First Church in Roxbury, 12 Sept. 1753. From the description of Sermons : manuscript, 1761-1775. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612865240 ...

Yale university. Library

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Eli Whitney was born in Westborough, Massachusetts in 1765. Even as a child he showed an aptitude for mechanical work, repairing violins and taking on other mechanical work as it presented itself. Whitney set up shop making nails and when the demand for nails declined, he changed his business to manufacture hat pins, a commodity with increasing demand. Whitney eventually enrolled at Yale College in May 1789, and graduated three years later. He intended to further his education and become a lawye...

Hancock, John, 1702-1744

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Eliot, Andrew, 1744-1805

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Winthrop, James, 1752-1821

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Christian Mentzel was a German physician, naturalist, and philologist. From the guide to the Chinese lexicon, 1806, 1806, (American Philosophical Society) Judge, librarian. James Winthrop was a jurist and a librarian of Harvard University. From the description of Letter, 1876-1884. (Florida State University). WorldCat record id: 50693791 James Winthrop (1752-1821), son of Harvard Professor John Winthrop, served as Bu...

Fleet, Thomas, 1732-1797

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The Boston Evening Post, published on Monday evenings, was a continuation of Jeremiah Gridley's Weekly Rehearsal, renamed in August 1735 after Thomas Fleet (1685-1758) became its printer and editor. The newspaper was published by Fleet until his death in July 1758, and thereafter by his sons, Thomas Jr. and John. Its final issue was published on April 24, 1775, during increasing instability in pre-Revolutionary Boston. From the guide to the Boston Evening Post letters, 1769-1778, (Wi...

Langdon, Samuel, 1723-1797

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Congregational clergyman and president of Harvard. From the description of Sermon on the character of a parent [manuscript], ca. 1790. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 642177271 Samuel Langdon (1723-1797) was the thirteenth President of Harvard College from October 14, 1774 to August 30, 1780. He presided over the college during the American Revolution. From the description of Papers of Samuel Langdon 1745-1790, 1902. (Harvard University). WorldCat record ...

Batchelder, Samuel, 1784-1879

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Bigelow, William Sturgis, 1850-1926

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Bigelow (Harvard M.D. 1874) was briefly an instructor in surgery at the Harvard Medical School. From 1881 to 1888 he studied art in Japan, and later donated his collections of Oriental art to the Boston Museum of Fine Art. From the description of Buddhist notes : typescript, 1922 January-February. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612790985 Bigelow (Harvard, M.D. 1874) was briefly an instructor in surgery at the Harvard Medical School. From 1881 to 1888 he studied ar...

Fleet, John, 1734-1806

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The Boston Evening Post, published on Monday evenings, was a continuation of Jeremiah Gridley's Weekly Rehearsal, renamed in August 1735 after Thomas Fleet (1685-1758) became its printer and editor. The newspaper was published by Fleet until his death in July 1758, and thereafter by his sons, Thomas Jr. and John. Its final issue was published on April 24, 1775, during increasing instability in pre-Revolutionary Boston. From the guide to the Boston Evening Post letters, 1769-1778, (Wi...

Parsons, Samuel Holden, 1777-1811,

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Green, Bartholomew, 1699-1751

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Gilman, Francis B.,

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Harris, Thaddeus Mason, 1768-1842

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Thaddeus Mason Harris (1768-1842) was a Unitarian clergyman in Dorchester, Mass., author, and antiquarian. He was also librarian of Harvard College, 1791-1793, and librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1837-1842. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 207142240 Unitarian minister, naturalist and antiquarian. From the description of Letter, 1797, Jan. 27 : Dorchester, Mass., to Rev. W. Bentley. (Duke University). WorldCat recor...

Mayhew, William, 1746-1785.

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Draper, John, 1702-1762

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Harvard College (1636-1780)

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Samuel Mather (1677-1746) was a member of a prominent Connecticut family. He was born in Branford, Connecticut in 1677; his parents were the Reverend Samuel and Hannah (Treat) Mather. When Samuel was four, his family moved to Windsor, Connecticut. He attended Harvard College, receiving an A.B. in 1698 and an A.M. in 1701. He began studying medicine in 1698 and by 1702 he was admitted "to be a Practitioner of Physick and Chyrurgy." He was quickly successful, and in 1710 was appointed a surgeon to...

Packard, Hezekiah, 1761-1849

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Hollis, Thomas, 1720-1774

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Thomas Hollis was a British literary editor and early donor to the Harvard College Library. Timothy Hollis was his relative. From the guide to the Correspondence with Timothy Hollis, 1770-1779., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Thomas Hollis was a British literary editor and early donor to the Harvard College Library. From the description of Correspondence with Timothy Hollis, 1770-1779. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122...