Autobiography and scrapbooks, 1937-1948

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Autobiography and scrapbooks, 1937-1948

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Autobiography and scrapbooks document Eisenstein's life at Harvard. The autobiography offers an intensely detailed account of all aspects of academic and social life at Harvard from wardrobe and dating to classes and current events. The scrapbooks include newsclippings, invitations, ticket stubs, programs and administrative and social correspondence. Photographs in the scrapbooks are chiefly of Eisenstein's Sheldon Fellowship trip through the western United States in 1941.

1 typed mss. and 3 v. in 2 flat boxes (ca. 0.5 cubic foot)

Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard University Archives.

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