Papers of Harold Jefferson Coolidge, 1904-1985 (inclusive) [microform].

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Papers of Harold Jefferson Coolidge, 1904-1985 (inclusive) [microform].

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Contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes, memoirs, speeches, publications, proposals, maps, certificates, awards, commendations, book reviews, diaries, journals, notebooks, illustrations, financial statements, newspaper clippings, medical statements, tape-recordings, photographs, scrapbooks, expedition accounts, and other papers relating to Coolidge's wide-ranging interests in science, conservation, the environment, administration, and academia. Includes papers relating to the administration of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN); various conservation organizations and preserves, such as the World Wildlife Fund, Serengeti National Park, Coolidge Center for Environmental Leadership, Pacific Science Board (of which Coolidge was executive director); personal and biographical items relating to Coolidge's family, education, friends, colleagues, clubs, finances, travels, and property interests; commissions on ecology, education, legislation, national parks, landscape planning, and survival service; expeditions, including the Kelley-Roosevelts Expedition to Indo-China, the Harvard Primate Expedition, and the Harvard African Expedition; Coolidge's World War II activities, including the Office of Strategic Services; Coolidge's position as assistant curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard; primates; the kouprey; museums; Coolidge's personal library; and other topics and concerns. Related publications and reference material available in repository.

73.8 cubic feet in 223 containers.

Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology

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Kelley-Roosevelt-Field Museum expedition, 1928-1929.

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