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- catalog abstract "Correspondence consists chiefly of letters to Wright's husband John Henry Wright, her parents, and her children, Austin Tappan Wright, Elizabeth Tappan Wright, and John Kirtland Wright. The letters concern family news, depictions of daily life, discussions of furnishings and clothing, household finance and business, and raising children, as well as ideas for stories and depictions of life at Harvard. Some letters include photographs. The collection also includes autograph and typescript short stories, notes for works, and novel fragments. Many compositions are based on college life, including "The Murder of Hillyer and its Consequences," a murder mystery set on the Harvard campus. Her diary concerns home and social life at Harvard, descriptions of travel, and includes correspondence and travel photos from Europe.".
- catalog abstract "A carbon copy of a typescript transcript of a diary kept by Wright during the summer of 1911, together with copies of a few letters by Wright. The diary and letters concern a field trip made by Wright, then a Harvard undergraduate, along the east coast (from the Altamaha River in Georgia to Nantucket, Mass.) while serving as assistant on the Shaler Memorial Expedition under the leadership of Professor Douglas W. Johnson. The expedition was part of a larger comparative study of coastal formation and processes.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of 121 letters (25 August 1917-3 December 1918) from Wells to his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Frank Wells. Written from London, the letters constitute a journal of Wells's World War I activities with the American Red Cross and the office of the American Military Attaché, London.".
- catalog abstract "Letters (including carbon copies of Marquand's replies) consist of correspondence with literary associates, friends, and publishers. There are letters from readers of Marquand's works as well as subject files on a few of Marquand's activities, notably the Book-of-the-Month Club, United China Relief, and Writer's War Board.".
- catalog abstract "Chiefly letters to the Wards from relatives, friends, and business associates; also some letters by them, a few poems by Samuel Ward, and a diary, 1845-1852, and commonplace book of Anna Ward. The chief correspondent represented is Ralph Waldo Emerson. Others include Joshua Bates, John Murray Forbes, Margaret Fuller, Otto and Jenny Lind Goldschmidt, Augustine Heard, Henry James (the father), Fanny Kemble, Charles Eliot Norton, Elizabeth Peabody, Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Charles Sedgwick, Elizabeth Buckminster Dwight Sedgwick, Celia Laighton Thaxter, and Sarah Butler Wister. Also includes 1 watercolor drawing by Julian Hawthorne, [Floral design], [1859], inscribed by Anna Hazard Barker Ward, "Painted by Julian Hawthorne and given me by him in Rome. 1859." Anna Ward's commonplace book includes 18 pencil, watercolor, and pen and ink drawings by Ward and others, of birds, children, ships, County Sligo (Ireland), and the Rhone River.".
- catalog abstract "Compositions including lectures, articles, short stories, drafts of Equality (a sequel to Looking Backward), and notebooks. There are also writings about Bellamy by John Hope Franklin, Arthur E. Morgan, and others.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of letters and a few manuscripts and documents of prominent literary figures, statesmen, and politicians from the United States and Europe. The bulk of the collection dates from the late 18th century to the early 20th century.".
- catalog abstract "Includes 14 letters to Forbes from various correspondents and 32 letters to Sarah Forbes Hughes, daughter of John Murray Forbes, relating chiefly to her biographical work on her father, Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes (1899).".
- catalog abstract "Letters to Bynner from various correspondents. Includes 29 letters from D. H. Lawrence, 24 letters from Edna St. Vincent Millay, and 4 letters from William Butler Yeats.".
- catalog abstract "Letters, manuscripts of poems, clippings, and photographs. Includes 4 letters to William Sumner Appleton and 11 letters to Eleanor Robson Belmont. Also includes 5 photographs of Sevenels, Amy Lowell's home in Brookline, Mass. and other papers.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of 179 letters from Adams to his niece Mabel Hooper La Farge, together with some letters to her sons Bancel La Farge Jr. and Henry Adams La Farge; copies of poems by Adams; and printed and manuscript material concerning Adams and the Adams memorial by St. Gaudens in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.".
- catalog abstract "Letters by Henry Adams to various people and one folder of typescripts of poems, original and translated. Larger groups of letters include 35 to Henry Lee Higginson, 17 to Henry Osborn Taylor, and 8 to William Roscoe Thayer.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of 27 letters, chiefly from literary figures, some concerning writings for magazines Blake worked on and others concerning Blake's own writings. Correspondents include William Rose Benét, Van Wyck Brooks, Vachel Lindsay, and Romain Rolland.".
- catalog abstract "Chiefly letters and manuscripts of American and British writers collected by James T. Fields and completed by his wife Annie Adams Fields. Most are accompanied by portrait engravings or photographs.".
- catalog abstract "Contains ca. 244 letters, general orders, and printed ephemera pertaining to the strike. Includes responses, both positive and negative, to the behavior of the guardsmen on police duty.".
- catalog abstract "Chiefly letters to Gay from booksellers, mainly concerning Gay's collection of the works of the English poet and dramatist John Gay.".
- catalog abstract "Includes wills, estate inventories, accounts of distributions and other legal papers. Also includes contracts with Houghton Mifflin and other publishers for books by Annie Fields as well as royalty statements from Houghton Mifflin and Small, Maynard & Company. There are also some documents pertaining to Sarah Orne Jewett, including the contract for her books, The Mate of the Daylight and Friends Ashore.".
- catalog abstract "This collection centers on Lawrence's tenure as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the U.S. in London. It contains transcripts of official dispatches between Lawrence and Secretaries of State, John Middleton Clayton and Daniel Webster; Lawrence's private correspondence, also on matters of state; and invitations and cards he received while in England. Included (see index in each vol.) is much discussion of plans for a joint U.S.-British interoceanic canal through Central America. Also (in vol. 4) copies of speeches and letters, 1837-1842, on the protective tariff.".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence of George Edward Woodberry, together with manuscripts of books, poems, lectures, addresses, and essays. There are large groups of letters from editors, notably Thomas Bailey Aldrich of The Atlantic Monthly, Wendell Phillips Garrison of The Nation, and Richard Watson Gilder of The Century. A long run of letters from E. C. Stedman is concerned chiefly with an edition of the works of Edgar Allan Poe edited by Stedman and Woodberry. Book-length manuscripts include The Appreciation of Literature, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne: How to Know Him, and The Inspiration of Poetry.".
- catalog abstract "Chiefly letters to Bynner from literary friends and associates such as Mary Austin, Minnie Maddern Fiske, Robert Frost, Kahlil Gibran, Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell, William Sydney Porter (O. Henry), E. A. Robinson, Carl Sandburg, Sara Teasdale, and many others, on American literary criticism. Mary Austin's letters compliment Bynner's works and contain critical interpretations of their peer's works. The correspondence from Willa Cather divulges information about her youth as the starting point for her knowledge of western life. Frost's letters are personal in nature and inquire about family life while reminiscing on past encounters. Many letters from Laurence Housman discuss his own works, particularly the creation of his brother's (A.E. Housman) Memoirs. Laurence often discusses American politics, particulary the Second World War. Amy Lowell's letters discuss Bynner's reviews in The New Republic.".
- catalog abstract "Manuscripts of biographical and historical works by Thayer: "Cavour and Bismarck," 1906 (including some printed versions); The Dawn of Italian Independence, 1892; A Short History of Venice, 1903; Life and Letters of John Hay (printer's copy), 1915; and Life and Times of Cavour (printer's copy), 1911. Also includes The Master's Calendar, 1887, an anthology of verse compiled by Thayer.".
- catalog abstract "Chiefly letters to Henry Oscar Houghton, together with a few letters by him and letters to other family members. Also includes genealogical notes on the Houghton family; correspondence and photographs relating to the celebration in 1876 of Houghton's 40th anniversary in the printing business; clippings and other ephemera. Correspondents include family members, friends, authors published by Houghton, Mifflin, and others connected with Houghton's publishing business.".
- catalog abstract "Includes notes, two drafts, and the final version of a short story, The Shade of New Pine; and notes and drafts leading to the finished poem Sleeping.".
- catalog abstract "Contains lectures Cornelius Felton delivered at Harvard and elsewhere, a few poems by him, manuscripts and diaries of European trips by Felton women, probably his daughters, some family correspondence, and a photograph.".
- catalog abstract "Letters by Frost to his friend, the author Nathan Haskell Dole, among other correspondence. Compositions include drafts and fair copies of poems and a television script.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of 39 of Rumford's drawings in pen and watercolor of his inventions; 24 drawings for him by Georg von Reichenbach, a Bavarian army engineer; maps; and engravings including some of the English Garden in Munich designed by Rumford and of plans for a military post near Dublin. Rumford's drawings are of a hackney carriage with wooden springs, coffeepots, portable stoves, fireplaces, chimneys, and mantelpieces. Reichenbach's drawings are of flint-lock muskets and other small firearms, field cannons, and military uniforms. Also contains drawings and engravings of miscellaneous scientific and architectural apparatus, by various hands, possibly not connected with Rumford.".
- catalog abstract "Contains Robinson's letters to his friend, Smith, together with one photograph of Robinson while in high school.".
- catalog abstract "This autograph collection focuses on European music in the 18th and 19th centuries. It contains letters by various composers, pianists, singers, poets, and European aristocrats; musical scores; and an engraved portrait.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of 22 letters by Amy Lowell together with a few manuscripts of prefaces, reviews, and essays. Most of the letters are to William Stanley Braithwaite, editor, critic, and anthologist. Also includes a manuscript of Braithwaite's introduction to his 1921 Anthology of Magazine Verse.".
- catalog abstract "Papers relating to Hooper's military service during the Civil War in South Carolina and in New York. Chiefly financial reports, invoices, receipts, and other papers documenting Hooper's term of service from 1862 to 1865. Includes a few letters, among them three from Edward L. Pierce to Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, concerning work with the freedmen at Port Royal, S.C.".
- catalog abstract "Letters to Frederick Coykendall from various correspondents relating to his book collecting interests. Includes 156 letters from the London bookseller James Bain and 16 letters from A. J. A. Symons. Also includes printed ephemera having to do with the Cuala Press and the Talbot Press.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of 107 letters from William Huntington to his family, chiefly to his sister Ellen. The bulk of the letters were written during the Civil War and detail Huntington's experiences with the 8th Connecticut Volunteers in service chiefly in Virginia. A few letters after the war were written from California where Huntington was in the lumber business.".
- catalog abstract "The Palfrey family papers document the varied activities of four generations of a New England family over the course of 150 years. The bulk of the collection consists of the papers of John Gorham Palfrey, including correspondence, diaries, manuscripts and page proofs of his History of New England as well as manuscripts of shorter writings, sermons, lectures, account books, school books, and legal and financial papers. The papers of William Palfrey include detailed records of shipping transactions in England, Virginia, and Boston, and a large number of invoices showing the distribution of government funds to the army during the Revolution. John Palfrey's papers include correspondence and a journal, 1807-1814, detailing work done on his Louisiana plantation. Papers of John Carver Palfrey and Sarah Hammond Palfrey include correspondence, articles, poems, and other writings. Throughout the collection there are long runs of family letters, particularly between John Gorham Palfrey, his wife, and their children.".
- catalog abstract "Includes 16 letters from Selig to Jackson Mathews, 6 poems by Selig, 3 letters from Mary O'Hara Selig after her husband's death, and an exchange of letters between Mathews and Eugene Walter.".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence (including 18 letters from Stephen Spender), manuscripts of poetry and prose, notebooks and diaries, college notes and term papers. Includes correspondence of Peter Levi and his materials relating to the posthumous publication of Selig's poems, including proof copies of the book published in 1962. Also a few poems by others, including one by William Carlos Williams.".
- catalog abstract "Consists chiefly of manuscripts of articles published in the North American Review, nos. 95-118 (July 1836-Jan. 1843) during John Gorham Palfrey's editorship. Also includes letters and notes accompanying articles, ca. 60 unpublished articles submitted to the Review, two subscription books, and one bundle of clippings relating to the North American Review. Authors of the manuscripts, which were published anonymously, include Charles Francis Adams, Francis Bowen, Henry Russell Cleveland, Cornelius Conway Felton, Enoch Hale, George Stillman Hillard, John Gorham Palfrey, James Handasyd Perkins, William Hickling Prescott, John Langdon Sibley, and Charles Sumner.".
- catalog abstract "Contains correspondence of Reed, the bulk with his Harvard classmate, Edward Eyre Hunt; poems, plays, and articles by Reed; and letters about him after his death. Included are manuscripts by Reed on radicalism at Harvard; letters he wrote to Hunt from jail after his arrest for working with the International Workers of the World to support the silk workers' strike in Paterson, N.J. in 1913; material on the pageant about the strike performed by the silk workers in Madison Square Garden in 1913; a letter from Louise Bryant to his mother written three days after his death; letters concerning his papers, the biography of him by Granville Hicks, and the activities of the Harvard Alumni John Reed Committee to raise funds for a portrait of Reed by Robert Hallowell, and the Hicks biography; copies of Metropolitan Magazine with articles by Reed; and pamphlets, photos, and clippings on Reed and the labor movement.".
- catalog abstract "Collection of cabinet cards and cartes de visite, mainly portraits, but some events and locations.".
- catalog abstract "Records contain photographs which include about 175,000 35mm negatives as well as contact and standard prints, and 95,000 35mm slides documenting the excavation and finds at Sardis. Images record sites, sectors within those sites, and objects. Architectural plans and elevations, excavation and reconstruction methods and techniques, expedition members, seminars, visitors, camps and camp life are also depicted. Other materials which record the excavated finds of the Expedition include: 800 field books; field reports; 35 recording books; site plans; and 16 published volumes, to date; manuscripts of the publications, and related correspondence. Also journal articles, dissertations and a bibliography pertaining to the Sardis Expedition are available.".
- catalog abstract "Records contain materials generated by five Butler Expeditions, 1910-1914, conducted by Howard Crosby Butler at Sardis. Includes about 100 photographic prints, ca. 1910 to 1940, and related correspondence, notes and reports.".
- catalog abstract "Collection contains photographs by 20th-century photographers, including Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Lewis Balz, Margaret Bourke-White, Anne Brigman, Harry Callahan, Paul Caponigro, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edward S. Curtis, Judy Dater, Imogen Cunningham, Walker Evans, Andreas Feininger, Bea Nettles, Wallace Nutting, Man Ray, Edward Ruscha, Lucas Samaras, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, and Weegee.".
- catalog abstract "Collection contains a diversified representation of materials, ranging from ambrotypes to tintypes, by 19th-century photographers including Eugène Atget, Samuel Bourne, Mathew Brady, Julia Margaret Cameron, Thomas Eakins, Roger Fenton, Alexander Gardner, Josiah Johnson Hawes, David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson, Gertrude Kasebier, Eadweard Muybridge, Nadar, and Timothy O'Sullivan.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of photographs taken by the American photographer, Ben Shahn. Includes several taken for the Farm Security Administration between 1935 and 1938, documenting both rural and urban United States.".
- catalog abstract "Records pertain to the more than one thousand portrait paintings, sculpture, and works of art on paper, which are located in some hundred buildings at Harvard. Each file in the records typically contains: record of acquisition, physical description, often a photographic print, correspondence, record of inter-institutional loans, and in some instances, bibliographic references. Also included are a small number of views of Harvard University buildings.".
- catalog abstract "Includes the correspondence of Grenville Winthrop, patron of the Fogg Art Museum; his class notes, 1885-1886, for Harvard Fine Arts courses taught by Professor Charles E. Norton; account books, 1927-1942, documenting the purchase of works of art by Winthrop; photographs of the Winthrop residence at E. 81st Street in New York City and of Groton Place in Lenox, MA; clippings; and appointment calendars, 1931-1936. Significant correspondents include Bernard Berenson, Martin Birnbaum, Frederick Rathbone, Paul J. Sachs, Royal Cortissoz, S.C. Bosch-Reitz, Paul Manship, Albert Sterner, and Augustus Vincent Tack. Also included are three card indexes containing Winthrop's own catalog of his collection.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of 66 letters from David Smith to Lois Orswell, articles on Smith and his work, photographs, and exhibition catalogues.".
- catalog abstract "Unpublished brief notes from the French artist Soutine to M. Henri Seronya (occasionally spelled Seroya), chiefly concerned with making or cancelling visits with M. Seronya. Most contain only a few lines. The letters are undated by Soutine, except for an occasional day of week, though dates have been added and span from 18/3/30 to 5/7/37.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of diaries documenting Ross' travels in Europe, East Asia and Central America from 1865 to 1934; six sketchbooks of drawings Ross made while living in Italy in the late 19th century; notebooks; a few letters; and miscellaneous items.".
- catalog abstract "Includes curatorial files containing primarily correspondence and photographs relating to the acquisiton, display and research of the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants. Major correspondents include the creators of the glass flowers, the Blaschkas; the donors, Elizabeth and Mary Lee Ware; museum directors George Lincoln Goodale and Oakes Ames; and various individuals relating information, or with inquiries about the collection. Photographs include about 50 glass plate negatives of some of the flower models in the Collection; a research collection of about 500 slides, dating from the 1950s when the models were used as a teaching collection at Harvard; and portraits of the Blaschkas, Wares and Museum staff and photographs of the Blaschka models, in black and white and color, and including negative as well as positive images. Other material includes a diary, 1931, of Louis Bierweiler, documenting his trip to Hosterwitz, Germany as curator of the museum to visit Rudolf Blaschka; a folder of receipts and bills, 1892; information about the 1974 travelling exhibit of glass flowers to Japan and museum publications on the models; and biographical files on museum staff.".
- catalog abstract "The library collection consists of material both generated and collected by ACT. This material includes - annual reports; speeches and published articles by staff members; legal documents including petitions and complaints filed before the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission and ACT's testimony in various court cases; reports from studies commissioned by ACT; conference agendas and programs; press releases; periodical clippings; and ACT publications including books, handbooks, and periodicals, document the work of the organization. Also included in the collection are materials acquired by ACT, such as research reports, videotapes and subject files of periodical clippings, brochures and other ephemera. The subject files relate to a wide variety of subjects including: children and television, advertising and children, the commercial networks, public television, and cable TV.".
- catalog abstract "Records pertain to Harvard Forest and surrounding land in Petersham. Included are forest inventories and soils studies, 1909-present; unpublished manuscripts of forest surveys, soils classification, etc., 1904-present; and maps and building plans, 1909-present. Types of maps are topographical maps, forest stand maps, base maps, and maps pertaining to specialized studies. Related materials include photographs and motion pictures.".
- catalog abstract "The collection consists of 28 manuscripts, 81 letterpress volumes, and 11 lithographic volumes, recording approximately 1,350 individual texts, primarily religious literature of the Shiite Ismaili community of the Indian subcontinent. The strength of the collection is the Isamili ginan literary texts. A genre of Indo-Muslim literature written in several Indian vernacular languages, gināns are poems recited during Ismaili religious services. Revered as sacred texts, they are believed to have been composed between the 13th and early 20th centuries by Ismaili missionaries, though not recorded until perhaps the 19th century. Their purpose was to spread the Ismaili form of Islam among the subcontinent's non-Muslim population, and to instruct new converts. Approximately 70 percent of the collection is in the Khojki script, a script peculiar to the Ismailis of Indo-Pakistan which was used to confine religious literature within the community in order to avoid persecution and foster a sense of common identity. Also included are a copy of a history of the community written in Gujarati, compilations of hagiographic stories of charismatic religious personalities, and polemic works defending the community's religious doctrines.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of manuscripts in Arabic, mainly on religion, grammar, and law.".
- catalog abstract "Contains early 20th century handwritten Moroccan court documents, mainly property deeds, all from Marrakesh.".
- catalog abstract "The collection, which consists of Höltzer's written record on Iran: diaries, travelogues, correspondence, documents and notes, reflects the social and economic history of Iran in the late 19th century. Included are a travelogue of a journey into the mountains of the Bakhtiari and Qashqai tribes, descriptions of occupations and professions in Isfahan, details about the major buildings and sites of Isfahan, and a description of the construction of the telegraph line in Iran. There are no photographs.".
- catalog abstract "Collection contains typed travel letters Craig wrote while traveling in the Middle East, including the Sinai. Also translations of Homeric hymns, notes on travel, a painting, a photograph of Craig, and a sketch.".
- catalog abstract "Collection contains professional and personal correspondence, an unpublished autobiography, lecture notes, and articles. The material pertains to his studies of the economic history of the Middle East and his life in the United States.".
- catalog abstract "Contains ca. 130 hours of videotape (3/4" cassette) of the lecture series on teaching, and ca. 300 hours of videotape (1/2" and 3/4" cassette and reel to reel) of classroom teaching and workshops on teaching skills.".
- catalog abstract "Includes technical reports and reprints by members of the Division of Applied Sciences and for the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory; Acoustics Research Laboratory; Center for Earth and Planetary Physics; Combustion Tunnel Laboratory; Computation Laboratory; Cruft Laboratory; Department of Engineering; Division of Engineering and Applied Physics; Engineering School; Graduate School of Engineering; Jefferson Physical Laboratory; Physical Laboratories; United States Radio Research Laboratory, Harvard University. Subject areas include acoustics, aeronautics, computers, decision and control, electronics, energy, engineering, environment, mechanics, meteorology, oceanography, physics, radio, soil mechanics, technology, water resources.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of two indexed volumes of Derby's personal and professional outgoing correspondence.".
- catalog abstract "Includes correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports and reprints concerning the Foundation for Vision, Inc.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of correspondence, biographical information, and reprints. Correspondents include Grover Cleveland (1887) and William Holland Wilmer (1924-1925).".
- catalog abstract "Photographs relate to the history of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and people, places, events, and practices associated with it. Included are both group and individual portraits of staff, physicians, and patients; pictures of infirmary events, exhibitions, equipment, practices, and procedures; general views of the Boston medical area; exterior views of specific buildings, including construction scenes; interior views of clinics, operating rooms, wards, and laboratories. Videotaped interviews of ophthalmologists David G. Cogan and Paul Chandler are also part of the collection.".
- catalog abstract "The collection is composed of the administrative records of the New England Society of Ophthalmology, including correspondence, memoranda, committee minutes, programs, abstracts of papers delivered at meetings, budgets, membership lists, constitution and bylaws. The bulk of the collection is composed of correspondence to and from the Society. Topics include the discussion of agendas and admission of new members. Records document the evolution of the Society, though it contains little information on the progress of ophthalmic science. Though original papers and case studies were discussed at meetings, there is little recording of their contents. There is biographical information related to key figures in the Society, which can be found in the meeting programs. Information on public health can be found in NEOS newsletters located in the correspondence series, and in the folder labelled "Public Health and Information Committee."".
- catalog abstract "Contains personal and professional correspondence, 1894-1968; notes and reprints of Verhoeff; about 50 photographs and 10 negatives; publications of the Howe Laboratory of Ophthalmology, 1931-1940; and medical instruments and equipment. Also includes material of family members, such as: a tape recording of Verhoeff's daughter, Margaret Verhoeff Wyper and her son, reminiscing about Verhoeff; condolence letters; and diary, 1902, of Verhoeff's wife, Margaret.".
- catalog abstract "Includes correspondence, teaching and research files, original medical drawings; and 10 photographs.".
- catalog abstract "Records in the Infirmary Archives document the patient care, administrative, teaching, and medical research activities of the Infirmary. Patient care, which has changed over the years from mostly out-patient care to mostly in-patient care and back again to mostly out-patient care, is reflected in medical records, patient registers from various departments, and administrative records. As medical procedures have changed significantly in the 20th century, so have hospital administrative practices. The advent of Medicaid and Medicare, for example, has altered the way in which hospitals are managed. These changes are illustrated in the correspondence and subject files of administrators, such as Charles T. Wood, who was director from 1966 to 1982. The Infirmary is the primary Harvard Medical School teaching hospital for ophthalmology and otolaryngology. Medical education is documented in the papers of Infirmary physicians holding joint appointments, and in the records of the specialty nursing education program, which began at the Infirmary in 1896. Records of the Infirmary's social service (established in 1907), as well as those of various medical research and clinical laboratories are also included. The Infirmary Archives contains related collections of audio-visual materials, scientific instruments and equipment, and papers of physicians, and organizations affiliated with the Infirmary: for example, the archives of the Foundation for Vision and the New England Ophthalmological Society, and the papers of Hasket Derby, David Donaldson, Lucien Howe, and Frederick Verhoeff. For further information see records entered under the name of the individual or corporate body.".
- catalog abstract "Contains papers of Wood pertaining to his involvement in professional organizations, such as American College of Hospital Administrators and New England Hospital Assembly, as well as other activities.".
- catalog abstract "Includes unpublished materials such as notes on Maya archaeology, particularly the site of Chichén Itzá in Yucatán; index of ruins in the Maya area; and information on expeditions based in Belize.".
- catalog abstract "Consists of Lincoln's field notes on the Ixil Indians of the Guatemala highlands. Also miscellaneous notes on calendrics and Cofradía Organization, extracts from the Nebaj parish register, 1835-1956, and a draft of a manuscript on the Quiché calendar.".
- catalog abstract "Two books of records of directors' and stockholders' meetings, a cash book, stock ledger, ledger, a check book with half the stubs used and a bank passbook. There are letters for the years 1915 and 1916, vouchers for the years 1907-1919 and proxies of the officers of the company in Portland, Maine, to the annual meeting of the stockholders in Denver, Colorado, 1903-1915. The material gives the history of the beginning and end of the company, but practically nothing of its operations during the intervening years, the running of the ranch or prices of livestock and products. A full account is given of the organization of the company, its first officers and their successors during the 40-year period of the company's existence.".
- catalog abstract "Two ledgers and one daybook (1820-1827) of John Somes, 3rd and of his son John Somes, who were in the fish packing business in Gloucester, Mass.".
- catalog abstract "Mainly records showing charges for farm labor and sales of farm products. Includes accounts of Elijah Boardman, G. E. Chaplin, Joseph Cobb, George Deake, James Emery, Robert Getchell, Curtis Hibbard, John Jones, Ebenezer Joy, Mill Farm, Edward F. Moulton, Levi H. Pratt, diary and accounts of William Bement, diary of Gideon H. Welch. Some books include records of school teaching, legal services, storekeeping, carting, wool carding, a sawmill, and a gristmill.".
- catalog abstract "Correspondence and bills (1827-1866) relating to an iron foundry in Bangor, Maine carried on by Daniel B. Hinckley and Thomas B. Egery. Includes later records (1871-1892) relating to timber lands in Maine owned by the Hinckley family.".
- catalog abstract "Papers relating to investments of Gordon McKay (and of his estate), Frank F. Stanley (an executor of McKay's), and Nathaniel S. Shaler, professor of geology at Harvard and dean of the Lawrence Scientific School. The principal records are of the Conrey Placer Mining Company, gold mine in Ruby, Montana (1898-1928) and include lists of stockholders, by-laws, minutes of directors, journals, ledger, letter books, incoming letters, operating statements and unbound papers. Material on the Poor Farm Mining Company and the German Bar Company, both of Montana, is included. Other materials included are minute books of Bottlers Machinery Company (1900-1908), Shaler Water Power Company (1908), Stanley Manufacturing Company (1888-1919), and Wright Seam Pressing Machine Company (1887-1890), all of Portland, Maine; Cochran Ore Company, Rockmart, Georgia (1890-1918); Kentucky Iron Associates, Olympia, Kentucky (1884-1889); and Reynolds Iron Company, Talladega, Alabama (1891-1916).".
- catalog abstract "Chiefly account books and ledgers reflecting the family's varied business interests. Included are records for Simeon Stetson; George Stetson; Brown and Stetson; Emery and Stetson; Emery, Stetson and Company; Stetson and Company. Also included are records of such "outside" interests as Bruce Mills, Kenduskeag Log Driving Company, Central Market House Company, Market Bank. There are records of a few non-family stores, such as Otis Briggs, Jr. and Company, Newport, Maine; John A. Rice and Company, Rufus Davenport, and Market Mutual, all of Bangor. The family accounting series are unusually complete; there are letter books, but few incoming letters. Material after 1880 has gone to the Maine State Museum, Augusta.".
- catalog abstract "Records of a machinery manufacturer in Fall River, Mass. The papers consist chiefly of correspondence relative to the building of waterwheels of the Fourneyron type, and the beginnings in Fall River of the manufacture of looms for cotton textile mills by an independent machine company. The firm was known successively as E. C. Kilburn and Company; Kilburn, Lincoln and Son; Kilburn, Lincoln and Company; and Kilburn, Lincoln Machine Company.".
- catalog abstract "Office diaries, 1909-1943, speeches and articles, 1900-1945, and other papers, relating to Dennison's business, his ideas on industrial relations and outside interests.".
- catalog abstract "One daybook, one journal, and one ledger of a paper manufacturing firm in Springfield, Mass. W. Birnie was the senior partner, and Claudius B. Pease was the junior partner.".
- catalog abstract "Records of the New York firm which manufactured Dr. Lyon's tooth powder. Includes journals, ledgers, and cashbooks. The records are incomplete, but less so for the beginning and for the end of the business, which was sold in 1929.".
- catalog abstract "Records of a company with offices in Boston and plants at Woods Hole, Mass., and Charleston, S.C., which manufactured fertilizer from guano obtained from Pacific and Caribbean islands; together with records of various fishing businesses in the Woods Hole, Mass. area with which the Crowell family was also associated. Includes letter books and other correspondence, account books, trade catalogs, photos, and other papers. Persons represented include Prince S. Crowell and Azariah F. Crowell. Fishing interests represented include Mitchell Fish Company, Boston, Mass., Isaiah Spindel and Company, Trap Fishermen's Association, and the Woods Hole Weir.".
- catalog abstract "Records of an automobile agency in Plymouth, Mass., operated by George R. Briggs, selling Dodge, Nash, Packard, Ajax, and Austin automobiles at various times. Includes financial records (chiefly 1925-1932), tax returns, and scattered correspondence. There is some information on relations with the manufacturers and their Boston outlets.".
- catalog abstract "Five account books and one box of letters of a salt manufacturing company located in Key West, Florida.".
- catalog abstract "An extensive run of the textile firm's records (1850-1932), including minutes, general accounts, production records, and correspondence; letters of William Dwight, Edward W. Codman, George Dexter, Philip Y. De Normandie, William Amory, and Walter H. Bradley, treasurers; and William P. Haines, Henry S. Howe, Robert McArthur, and E. L. Morrill, agents. Includes subsidiary collections for Saco Water Power Co. (1741-1911; copies of deeds only before 1839; letters of W. S. Dennett, agent); Laconia Co. (1844-1911; general records and letters of Otis Holmes and August Haines, agents); Massachusetts Cotton Mills (1839-1926; stockholders' records and accounts); and the ship Pequot (records for 1852-1864). Includes records of Bliss, Fabyan & Co. as selling agent for some firms.".
- catalog abstract "Journals, ledgers, account of stock, catalogue and price lists, and some small paper-covered books containing notes on experiments and soap recipes.".
- catalog abstract "Daybooks, journals, ledgers, cashbooks, accounts, trial balances, notes and bills receivable, inventories, time books, payrolls, 12 boxes of unbound papers, including a brief typewritten history of the company, and inventories of the New York, San Francisco and Chicago offices, 1902-1918. In addition there are some 200 illustrated catalogs and 17 scrapbooks.".
- catalog abstract "Ledgers, daybook, building books, and account of stock of a chemical manufacturer of Philadelphia with a laboratory at Schuylkill Falls, Pa. Powers and Weightman succeeded the firm of John Farr and Company in 1848. Also includes records of the settlement of John Farr's estate, which came from Baker Library's Trotter Collection. (A daughter of John Farr married W. H. Trotter.)".
- catalog abstract "Letter book (1865-1866) of Stanwood and Company, Boston, agent and owner of the Adams Sugar Refinery; letter book (1868) and journal (September 1865 to April 1869) of Adams Sugar Refinery.".
- catalog abstract "Thirteen small account books of a leather worker in Boston, Mass. Oliver began work for Thomas Christy in 1832, for John B. Baker in 1836 and for Winship and Willis in 1848. He worked principally on harnesses, saddles and trunks. There is also one volume of unbound bills and miscellaneous papers.".
- catalog abstract "Daybooks, ledger, personal account-memorandum books, and unbound papers of a country shoemaker from North Berwick, Maine.".
- catalog abstract "A compilation of documents concerning the financing of a Savannah, Georgia, manufacturer of nitrate for fertilizers. Includes reports of Arthur D. Little, Inc. and material on Florida Nitrogen Company (Flanico), a wholly owned subsidiary located in Tampa, Florida.".
- catalog abstract "Ledgers of a shoe manufacturing firm in Marlboro, Mass., which began in 1863. In its later years it made cowboy boots.".
- catalog abstract "Names and numbers of locomotives built by Taunton Locomotive Manufacturing Company, Taunton, Mass., from 1847 to 1887. Notebooks (1872-1901) of D. A. Wightman, first of the Rhode Island Locomotive Works and later superintendent of Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works, containing data on the firms' engines. Records of Manchester Locomotive Works, Manchester, N.H., for 1873-1902, with specifications of locomotives no. 572 to 26744. Papers of Lockett G. Coleman of New York, concerning development of diesel engines for locomotives from 1924 to 1937. Coleman worked for Ingersoll-Rand on the project.".
- catalog abstract "Ledger and journal of a firm in Providence, Rhode Island, which manufactured shell jewelry. Some inventories and trial balance sheets are included.".
- catalog abstract "Mainly records showing charges for farm labor and sales of farm products. Includes accounts of John Baker, Jared Bartlett, Solomon Bartlett, William Bartlett, Daniel Coffin, Aaron Cook, Jeremiah Davis, Henry Eames, Nahum Fay, Abraham Howe, Joseph Hyde, Caleb Lincoln, the Metcalf family, John Nelson, Jonathan Nye, Alexander Smith, and Solomon Thompson. Some books include records of blacksmithing, shoemaking, butchering, lumber trade, and a sawmill.".
- catalog abstract "One ledger for Smith and Colgate (1807-1808) and three ledgers for Colgate and Company (1813-1826). There are accounts for Baptist missions and conventions, 1830-1838, in back of volume two.".
- catalog abstract "The Peace Dale Manufacturing Company records contain bound volumes and unbound manuscripts relating to five generations of the Hazard family's ownership and operation of a textile business located in Peace Dale, Rhode Island. The collection includes financial material, production and payroll records, correspondence, family deeds and trusts, and investments and business ventures of Hazard family members. The records highlight the progression from a small textile mill to a large manufacturing company forged built on relationships made with Southern plantation owners and their desire for custom slave clothing and shoes. Within the collection are swatches of textiles in many different colors, patterns, and thickness. Included are the records of the Narragansett Pier Railroad Company, a small railway, owned and operated by the Hazard family include administrative. The bulk of the material relates to their ownership and management of the southern Rhode Island textile manufacturing firm throughout the 19th century including general accounting and production records, orders, sales, and correspondence with firm's selling agents: S. B. and Buffum (1854), Jenkins and Huntington (1860), Fairbanks and Martin (1871), and Martin and Buffum (1885). Some of the bound volumes contain records for companies or business entities owned and operated by Hazard ancestors and their business partners. These materials were produced prior to the founding of R.G. Hazard & Co., later Peace Dale Mfg. Co. Represented in the bound volumes are Rowland Hazard I's first cousin, John Robinson, Jr. and his business partner, Peter Ayrault, both of Charleston, South Carolina. Also included is material pertaining to a store owned by Isaac Peace, Mary Peace's father; a flour mill located in Trenton, NJ, owned by Mary's grandfather, Joseph Peace; and the Hopkinton Manufacturing Co., owned by cousin Jonathan Hazard in southwestern Rhode Island. Many investment interests of the Hazard family are represented, including the Providence and Stonington and the Narragansett Pier Railroads, and the Wisconsin Central Railroad.".
- catalog abstract "An unpublished narrative of a firm of Royal Goldsmiths of London (ca. 1740-1842) written by a long-time employee of the firm around 1843.The firm was most active during the first quarter of the 19th century when it served as jeweler to George IV, first as Prince of Wales, then as King.".
- catalog abstract "One daybook (1821-1825) of D. N. Dole, Hallowell, Maine, showing the name and location of the manufacturer of the watch to be repaired; three daybooks (1867-1872, 1882-1886, 1893-1900) of James Huntington, whose shop was in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass.; one daybook (1876-1884) of D. E. Hoxie, Northampton, Mass., including ledger entries, 1875-1880.".
- catalog abstract "Administrative records, treasurer's reports, general accounts, purchase and receiving records, wage rate books, payroll records, production by employees. There are miscellaneous legal papers, advertising data, illustrated price lists and catalogues. Some records relate to the allied firm of Robbins and Appleton, which had the sales agency for Waltham watches. Includes a few papers of the patent law firm of Wright, Brown, Quinby and May; the Cadillac and Packard Motor Car Companies, and Potter Brothers, Chicago. Also includes 22 volumes of records of the Dubois Watch Case Company, 1907-1923.".