Records of Serials Division : Union list of serials and Harvard College Library list of subject headings, ca. 1940-1964 (inclusive).

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Records of Serials Division : Union list of serials and Harvard College Library list of subject headings, ca. 1940-1964 (inclusive).

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Contains 12 volumes of the Union List of Serials in Libraries of the United States and Canada, [Second Edition], annotated for serials titles at Harvard. Includes 9 volumes, A-Z, ca. 1940 [boxes 1-4] and 3 supplement volumes, 1941-1949 [box 5]. Supplements are to the second edition, January 1941-December 1943; Supplement 2, 1944-49, Section 1-4, A-Z; and Supplement 2, 1944-49, Section 5, A-Z. Also contains Harvard College Library Subject Headings, 1964 [2 volumes, box 6]. These are duplicate volumes annotated by Harvard catalogers.

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