Archival Collections: Faculty

Papers of Annie Jump Cannon, 1863-1978 (HUGFP 125.xx).
Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941) was the first astronomer to systematically classify the stars. In 1895, Cannon began her study of astronomy at Radcliffe College, joining the Harvard College Observatory staff in 1897, where she remained for the rest of her life. She became Curator of Astronomical Photographs in 1911; in 1940, just two years before her retirement, she was finally awarded the rank of professor as the William Cranch Bond Astronomer. The papers of Annie Jump Cannon document both her personal and professional activities, containing diaries, autobiographical writings, correspondence, manuscripts of writings and speeches, notes, photographs, and memorabilia (including scrapbooks, guest books, autograph books, clippings, diplomas, and ephemera).

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Video recordings of course lectures by Eleanor Duckworth, 1993 (HUM 244).
Eleanor Duckworth (born 1935) is a cognitive psychologist, educational theorist and constructivist educator. She earned her PhD in 1977 at the Universite de Geneve in Geneva, Switzerland, and retired as Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2013. The thirteen videocassettes document Duckworth's Harvard Graduate School of Education course T-150, Curriculum Based on Understanding.

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Eleanor Ruth Duckworth personal archive [accessions], 1991-1998 and undated (Accession 19665).
Eleanor Ruth Duckworth (born 1935) is a cognitive psychologist, educational theorist and constructivist educator. The accession documents the Harvard Graduate School of Education-Outward Bound Project, a program designed to foster research and understanding of the experience-based theories developed by Outward Bound as they apply to classroom teachers and administrators who pass through the Graduate School of Education.

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Journal of Williamina Paton Fleming, 1900 Mar. 1-Apr. 18 : curator of astronomical photographs, Harvard College Observatory (HUA 900.11 -  Fleming).
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming was an astronomer. She worked for Edward C. Pickering at Harvard University for 17 years. In 1898, she was appointed curator of astronomical photographs at Harvard. Contains diary entries made chiefly during March 1900; however, on leaf 22, Fleming wrote an additional note dated April 18, 1900.

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Papers of Williamina Paton Fleming, 1905-1909 (HUG 1396.xx).
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming was an astronomer. She worked for Edward C. Pickering at Harvard University for 17 years. In 1898, she was appointed curator of astronomical photographs at Harvard. Her collection consists of correspondence with Louise and Margaret Carnegie, 1905-1909, and a scrapbook of clippings about Fleming.

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Papers of Hilda Geiringer, 1900-1973 and [undated] (HUG 4574.1xx).
Hilda Geiringer (1893-1973), Austrian-American mathematician and pioneering geneticist, was an Assistant Fellow in mathematics at Harvard University from 1955 to 1959. The collection documents her teaching career at various academic institutions, including Harvard; publishing activities; work relating to husband Richard Von Mises; mathematics and genetics research; and personal life. It contains correspondence, teaching materials, such as notebooks and lecture notes, manuscripts of published and unpublished works, and biographical materials.

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Patricia Albjerg Graham personal archive [accessions], 1925-2016 (Accessions 19075, 2018.049).
Patricia Albjerg Graham (born 1935) is the Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education, emerita, at Harvard University. Accession 19075 includes Graham’s resource and subject files (clippings, reprints, notes) on topics related to women in education. Accession 2018.049 consists of Graham’s professional activity files from 1977 to 2016, relating to her work with organizations and institutions.

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Alice Gordon Gulick personal archive, 1900-1901, 1910 (HUM 360).
Alice Gordon Gulick (1847-1903), missionary, was the Dean of Women for the Harvard Cuban Summer School of 1900. The Cuban Summer School held at Harvard University in 1900 was one of the largest cultural exchanges between the United States and Cuba. The collection documents Gulick’s work as the Dean of Women for the Harvard Cuban Summer School of 1900 and the friendships she made with Cuban teacher participants, and primarily includes letters and writings from Cuban teachers to Gulick, as well as Cuban Summer School memorabilia and photographs.

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Jennifer L. Hochschild personal archive [accessions], 1972-2015 (Accessions 2017.633, 18541, and 18806).
Jennifer L. Hochschild (b. 1950) is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard College. Hochschild also holds lectureships in the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate School of Education at Harvard. Accession 18006 contains research and subject files relating to Hochschild's testimony in the school desegregation case of Yonkers Board of Education v. New York State, 1983-1989. Accession 18541 includes course materials (lectures, syllabi, examinations, and seminar materials), articles and reviews written by Hochschild, conference materials, research files, and general correspondence with colleagues. Accession 2017.633 contains Harvard-related course materials on race, ethnicity, and politics in the United States; draft manuscripts, and articles by Hochschild.

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Papers of Florence Kluckhohn, 1940-1985 (HUGFP 81.xx, HUH 491).
Florence Kluckhohn (1906-1986) was a teacher in the Sociology department at Wellesley College from 1940 to 1947, and lecturer in Sociology at Harvard from 1947 to 1948. The papers contain papers spanning Kluckhohn's professional career at Wellesley College and Harvard University. It includes general academic and personal correspondence between Kluckhohn and friends, colleagues, and institutions; book reviews, addresses, and other presentations relating to Kluckhohn's study on Value Orientations; an apparently unpublished study of Westport, Massachusetts; photocopies of grant proposals, progress reports, sample questionnaires and interview transcriptions pertaining to research collaborations with John Spiegel; and miscellaneous instructional materials used in Harvard Social Relation courses 103 and 266.

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Harvard College Observatory astronomical notebook kept by Henrietta Swan Leavitt, 1912-1919 (UAV 630.412).
The notebook, kept by Harvard College Observatory astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt, is a handwritten research notebook containing her astronomical notes from 1912 to 1919. It has 56 pages of chronological notes, dating from August 1912 to September 1919, with most of the entries from 1912 to 1916. The notebook contains research plans, comments, progresses, measurements, discoveries, calculations, and some notes for assistants. The topics of the notebook include variables, the relationship between brightness and period of variables, Cepheid variables, Magellanic Clouds, and photographic plates.

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Barbara Kiefer Lewalski personal archive [accessions], 1954-2010 (Accession 2019.047).
Barbara Kiefer Lewalski (1931-2018) was an American academic and authority on Renaissance literature particularly the works of English poet John Milton. Lewalski was the first woman to be tenured in the English departments of Brown and Harvard Universities. The accession documents Lewalski’s studies of Renaissance scholars John Milton and John Donne, women writers of Jacobean England, and seventeenth-century Protestant poets. Chronicled is Lewalski’s teaching career at Brown and Harvard Universities, including her mentorship of women students and scholars; and her editorship of the Norton Anthology of English Literature. The bulk of the accession consists of teaching materials including lecture notes, syllabi, examinations, and assigned readings.

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Christie McDonald personal archive [accessions], 1965-2016 (Accession 2018.727).
Christie McDonald (born 1942) is the Smith Professor of French Language and Literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. From 2000 to 2006, she served as Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and served as co-Master of Mather House from 2010 to 2017. The accession documents McDonald’s research, writing, and teaching at Harvard University and the University of Montreal, as well as her administrative work at Harvard, which includes service as Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Head of the Romance Languages Sections, and Chair of the FAS Caucus of Chairs. It contains research files, teaching materials, manuscripts, lectures, conference papers, seminar materials, and posters.

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Papers of Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin, 1924, circa 1950s-1990s, 2000 (HUGBP 182.xx).
Celilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979) taught astronomy at Harvard. She began working at the Harvard Observatory in 1923 and was the Phillips Astronomer at the Harvard Observatory in 1938, Professor of Astronomy, 1956-1966, Chair of the Astronomy Department, 1956-1960 (the first female department Chair at Harvard) and Phillips Professor of Astronomy, Emerita, from 1967. The collection contains correspondence, biographical material, Gaposchkin’s autobiography, photographs, and a needlepoint.

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Kay Lehman Schlozman personal archive [accessions], 1989-2017 (Accession 2019.167).
The accession documents the lengthy professional collaboration of political scientists Kay Lehman Schlozman, J. Joseph Moakley Endowed Professor of Political Science at Boston College, and Sidney Verba, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University, in research on American citizen participation in the political process. The accession consists of manuscripts and writings, research notes and data, correspondence, and planning documents related to books co-authored by Schlozman and Verba.

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Papers of Judith N. Shklar, 1950-1992 (HUGFP 118).
Judith Nisse Shklar was an eminent political theorist and a pioneering female faculty member at Harvard University. Her papers consist chiefly of teaching materials and lecture notes, which cover Shklar's prolific career in the Dept. of Government at Harvard, and provide evidence of her strong emphasis on scholarship. Although only a small amount of biographical material appears in this collection, it reveals the high amount of admiration and respect Shklar inspired during her career.

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Eileen Southern personal archive, 1936-1993 (HUM 253).
Eileen Jackson Southern (1920-2002) was a professor of Afro-American Studies and Music at Harvard University from 1974 to 1987. Southern was the first African-American woman to be appointed as a tenured full professor at Harvard, and is considered a preeminent authority on Renaissance and African-American music. The collection predominantly documents Southern’s professional life, research, and scholarship during her tenure at Harvard, consisting of personal and professional correspondence and publications over the course of Southern’s career as a Professor of Afro-American Studies and Music at Harvard University and early retirement, from 1959 to 1993.

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Susan Rubin Suleiman personal archive [accessions], 1960-2016 (Accessions 2019.166, 2019.315, 2018.052).
Susan Rubin Suleiman (born 1939) is the C. Douglas Dillon Professor of Civilization of France (1997- ) and professor of comparative literature at Harvard University. The accessions include personal and professional correspondence, professional activity files, research files, teaching records, and records of Harvard’s Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Department of Comparative Literature.

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Hue-Tam Ho Tai personal archive, 1970-2014 and [undated] (HUM 381).
Hue-Tam Ho Tai (born 1948), was the Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History at Harvard University. Tai joined the Harvard faculty as an associate professor in 1989 and was named the Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History in 1990. Tai’s personal archive includes manuscripts and writings, photocopies of chapters in books, correspondence; talks; research/subject files and bibliographies, including press reports, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings on Vietnam and Indochina, as well as photocopies of archival documents (possibly from an archival repository in Provence, France) used by Tai in her research.

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Helen Hennessy Vendler personal archive [accessions], 1940-2017 (Accessions 13753, 17751, 17976, 2019.109).

Helen Hennessy Vendler (born 1933) is an American literary critic and a professor English at Harvard University. In 1990, she was appointed the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor, the first woman to hold this position. The accessions include talks and lectures, course files and teaching materials, NEH related materials, correspondence, drafts of writings, biographical information, photographs, memorabilia, recordings of Vendler’s classroom lectures, and more.

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Papers of Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule, 1946-1996, 2001 (HUGFP 151).
Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule was a professor of classical philology and archaeology at Harvard University from 1970 to 1994. The Papers of Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule document her studies and research in the classical archaeology of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world. These papers consist of correspondence between Vermeule and her colleagues, friends, students, university officials, and professional associations.

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