Correspondence and other records, 1960-1979 (inclusive).

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Correspondence and other records, 1960-1979 (inclusive).

Includes primarily correspondence of the chairs relating to administration of the department, as well as to their projects and committee activities. Correspondence also concerns identification of paintings, and photographs of these paintings often are included. Records include memoranda, proposals and reports on core curriculum; applications for I Tatti fellowship and Mellon faculty fellowship; and mailing lists for the Committee to Rescue Italian Art. Department chairs during this period were Seymour Slive, Sydney Joseph Freedberg and James S. Ackerman.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8184443

Harvard University Archives.

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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...

Ackerman, James Stokes

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James S. Ackerman (1919- ) was appointed professor of fine arts at Harvard University in 1960 and was chairman of the Fine Arts Department 1963-1968. From the description of Papers of James S. Ackerman, 1963-1975 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76976132 Art historian; Cambridge, Massachusetts. Born 1919. From the description of James S. Ackerman interview, 1991 Jan. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220210018 James Ackerman (1919- ...

Harvard University. Dept. of Fine Arts.

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Freedberg, S. J. 1914-

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Slive, Seymour, 1920-....

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