Photographs : slides taken by the News Office, ca. 1955-1976 (inclusive).

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Photographs : slides taken by the News Office, ca. 1955-1976 (inclusive).

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Color slides (approx. 3000 35mm slides) of Harvard University events, views, and people. Events depict Commencement Day activities from 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1971, and 1976; student activities; and athletics. Events also cover the 1956 fire of Memorial Hall tower, as well as slide presentations of "Future Harvard" and "Research at Harvard." Views include models and construction of buildings, such as Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Loeb Drama Center, Undergraduate Science Center, Mather Hall, Peabody Terrace (married student housing), and the Cambridge Electron Accelerator. People include alumni and faculty, such as Konrad Bloch, Louis Frederick Fieser, José Luis Sert, and B. F. Skinner.

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Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University Archives.

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Skinner, B. F. 1904-1990.

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Fieser, Louis F. (Louis Frederick), 1899-1977

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Bloch, Konrad Emil, 1912-

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Born in Neisse Germany on 21 January 1912. Died in Burlington Massachusetts on 15 October 2000. Education: Chemical Engineering, Technisches Hochschule, Munich (1934) ; Ph.D. Biochemistry, Columbia University (1938). Employment: 1934-1935 Schweizerisches Hohenforschung's Institute, Davos, Switzerland ; 1939-1946 Columbia University ; 1954- Harvard University ; 1982- Oxford University. From the description of Oral history interview with Konrad E. Bloch, 1993 March 22 (Chemical Heritag...

Sert, José Luis (1902-1983).

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Josep Lluis Sert received a degree in architecture in 1929 from Barcelona's ESA in the 1930s. Among the leading young Spanish architects in the 1930s, he gained an international reputation with his design for the Spanish Pavilion built for the 1937 Paris Exposition. Emigrating to the United states in 1941, he was from 1941-1958 a founding partner in Town Planning Associates and in 1955, he opened his own firm, Sert Jackson, & Associates, in Cambridge, MA. SJA's work included residences, muse...