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Houghton Library, MS Gr 3, f. 283. Although Harvard Library’s collections date back hundreds of years, it was not until the late 18th century that the first medieval manuscripts entered the collection. Before 1819, Harvard's library included only a few early manuscripts. Harvard purchased its first manuscripts in 1819, when Edward Everett ...
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The origins of the Harvard Public Library date back to the late eighteenth century when the Reverend William Emerson, father of Ralph Waldo, started a social library association. The organization languished after his departure in 1799, but in 1808, shareholders organized the Social Library of Harvard with shares assessed at $2.00. The librarian/custodian was chosen yearly, the honor going to ...
Welcome to Worlds of Change, a collection of more than 700,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript materials in the Harvard Library that relate to 17th- and 18th-century North America. This material was digitized as part of a multi-year project, formerly known as Colonial North America at Harvard Library. Read about the project.
Feb 2, 2006 · Harvard’s anthropodermic history seems to have begun in 1933. A Crimson article from that year reports that Winthrop House hosted an exhibition of “the finest collection of miniature books in ...
Apr 16, 2024 · A Book Bound With Human Skin Spent 90 Years in Harvard’s Library. Now, the Binding Has Been Removed. In the late 19th century, a French physician took the skin, without consent, from a female ...
Sep 20, 2024 · “Harvard Textbooks and Reference Books of the Seventeenth Century,” (Find It @ Harvard) by Arthur O. Norton. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts , XXVIII (1935), 361-438. Harvard University History of Named Chairs: Sketches of Donors and Donations, 1721-1991 (Find It @ Harvard) by William Bentinck-Smith.
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The Harvard University Archives holds records and publications produced by more than 800 administrative, academic, and research units at Harvard over the course of nearly four centuries. Handwritten list of graduates, including Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, the first Native American to graduate from Harvard. College Book 1, 1639-1795. The collections ...
