Description:
Photographs are found primarily in the records of the Divinity School, in the papers of its faculty members, and in the archives of the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Unitarian and Universalist Service Committees. Those relating to the Divinity School include about 1,000 images of faculty, staff, activities, events, and buildings, ca. 1880-present; among the faculty papers is the Paul Tillich Archive, which contains about 500 photographs documenting Tillich's life. The Unitarian and Universalist archives contain about 4,000 photographs from the early 1840s onward, depicting ministers, lay persons, church exteriors and interiors, church organizations, and missionary activities.

Arrangement:
Photographs are kept in separate boxes but arranged with manuscript collections or institutional or organizational archives of which they are a part. Divinity School images are arranged alphabetically by name and subject.

Finding Aids:
Photographs are listed in registers prepared for each collection.

Description:
A botanical and horticultural record begun in the 1880s as an adjunct to the Arboretum's living collection, library, and herbarium, the photographs document the living collection; the areas of the world from which plants were collected; the plant collectors and their expeditions; and horticultural and botanical techniques and practices. Photographs also record the development of taxa in the Arboretum, a landscape designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Charles Sprague Sargent. The historic collection has about 15,000 prints of living plants from all over the world, ca. 1880-1940. The contemporary collection also includes images of individual taxa, including about 5,000 prints of plants in their native habitats as well as images of plants growing in the Arboretum and views of specific collections. People, events, and customs are depicted in many of the landscapes, among them China, Tibet, Australia, Japan, India, Turkey, Cuba, and England. About 600 images of U.S. and foreign arboreta, gardens, and parks date from 1890-1940. Smaller collections include botanist J. G. Jack's approximately 100 pictures taken in Colorado, 1898; botanist Susan Delano McKelvey's approximately 300 pictures of the southwestern U.S., particularly habitat images of yucca plants; the 500 images in the Herbert W. Gleason collection of Arboretum genera and views from 1924-1933; the Frank Meyer collection, 1905-1916, of 1,500 images of agricultural techniques in China, Korea, Siberia, and Turkestan; plant explorer Ernest Henry Wilson's approximately 7,700 images, primarily from East Asia, of collecting expeditions in 1907 - 1922; the plant explorer Joseph Rock's 650 images mounted on boards and 400 images of flora in Burma, China, France, and Hawaii in albums. A lantern slide collection includes all botanical and horticultural subjects, and about 2,500 35mm slides show views at the Arnold Arboretum and plants and views at other arboreta and botanic gardens. The Arnold Arboretum's collection of botanical and cultural images of Eastern Asia, consisting of 4,636 images taken between 1907 - 1927 have been digitized and are available on VIA.  The collection includes: Frank Meyer Collection, 1,350 images; Ernest Henry Wilson Collection, 2,488 images; Joseph Rock Collection, 962 images; John George Jack Collection, 172 images; William Purdom Collection, 173 images; Joseph Hers Collection, 68 images. 1,144 historic images of the Arnold Arboretum living collections have also been digitized and are on VIA. Search for "Living Collections" and limit repository to Arnold Arboretum Horticulture Library.

Arrangement:
Historic collection by genera, species, location; views collection, alphabetically by location; Arnold Arboretum slides, alphabetically by genera and/or subject; portraits, alphabetically; arboreta, gardens, and parks by state or country; lantern slides by family, genera, species; 35mm slides by genera.

Finding Aids:
Card index for the historic collection. Finding aids for some collections; HOLLIS; VIA; OASIS.

Description:
Collection contains photographs directly relating to the family home and descendents of General Artemas Ward, First Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army. Ward commanded the colonial militia besieging Boston from April, 1775 until the appointment of George Washington. Subsequently he served in the Provincial and Continental Congresses, the second and third U.S. Congresses, and as chief justice of Worcester County. Photographs depict the evolution of the family property from a working farm to a historic house museum. Included are photographs of objects and monuments relating to the Ward family.

Arrangement:
Boxed by general subject.

de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163
website: http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/
e-mail: histcollref@hbs.edu

Description:
The photographs collections at Baker Library contain over 22,000 images of factories, equipment, techniques, processes, and people at work and serve as a documentation of the history of industry in the United States and an important resource for scholars across many disciplines. Within these rich primary sources is historical evidence relating to studies such as the history of business, history of photography, architecture, anthropology, women’s studies, and international relations.

The collections’ particular strengths include stunning examples of industrial photography between the World Wars, extensive photographic records of the United Fruit Company in South and Central America, advertising images from automobile manufacturers in the 1930s and 40s, nineteenth-century commercial and city views of Boston, and an extensive portrait file of prominent business leaders collected in the 1930s and 40s. The collections also include a number of photograph albums documenting individual companies representing the power and light, telecommunications, transportation, mining, and manufacturing industries.

In addition to the photographs collections, the Harvard Business School Archives Photographs Collections include approximately 10,000 photographs depicting Harvard Business School faculty, staff, students, buildings, events, and activities. Various Business Manuscripts Collections also contain significant photographic material.

Arrangement:
Photographic collections are arranged by discrete collection name. The Industrial Photograph Collection and the General File photographs are arranged by industry category and number. Portraits are arranged alphabetically and geographic locations are arranged alphabetically by country, then city or state.

The photographic materials in the HBS Archives Collection are organized by subject and chronologically. Faculty photographs are arranged alphabetically.

Finding Aids:
Detailed finding aids outlining the contents of individual photograph collections are available in the de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room.

There is a basic inventory for the photographs in the HBS Archives Collection arranged by subject then chronologically. There is a listing of faculty photographs arranged alphabetically.

Description:
In 1902 a store front clinic called Mount Sinai opened in the west end neighborhood of Boston. It was an answer to the need for health care for a burgeoning population of Jewish immigrants flooding in from Eastern Europe. It was so successful in its mission that it was forced to move to larger space within a year of its opening. However, the persistent need for in-patient facilities remained. It was the women of the community who propagandized for a hospital that would be more inclusive of all their needs. By 1916 enough money had been raised to purchase and equip a mansion on Townsend Street in Roxbury. In 1917, the first patient was admitted. In 1928, the Beth Israel relocated to its present location, and was able to formalize a relationship with Harvard Medical School. A portrait file contains photographs of administrators, physicians, trustees and philanthropists; views of building exteriors and construction scenes; Nursing school photographs, 19l6-present, show student nurses in training and informal scenes of student life; images also document fund-raising efforts from 19l0 forward. In 1996, Beth Israel and the Deaconess Hospital merged. The archives acquired a large number of photographs pertaining to the organization and activities of the Deaconess from its founding in 1896 to the present. Many of these images are uncatalogued at this time.

Arrangement:
Corresponds with the organization of the hospitals.

Finding Aids:
Indexed according to subject.

Description:
The photograph collection of the Fototeca Berenson consists mainly of images of Italian paintings, drawings, and miniatures from the thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries, plus significant but smaller groups of photos of Italian sculpture, architecture, and other art forms. There are also sizable or important sections on the painting, sculpture, and architecture of other European countries, on classical art, on east and south Asian art, and on Islamic art and architecture. The Berenson Archive contains photographs of Villa I Tatti and of the family, friends, and household of Bernard and Mary Berenson.  Recent significant acquisitions include 1,500 photographs of the frescoes in the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi taken before the 1997 earthquake, and 900 images of Giotto’s frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. Since 2002 we have been carrying out a specially commissioned campaign to photograph the entire collection of the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence.

Arrangement:
There are several different systems of arrangement depending on the subject. Italian paintings and drawings, the largest category, are arranged by school of painting, as defined by Bernard Berenson (Florentine, Sienese – Pisan – Lucchese , Central Italian, North Italian, Lombard, Venetian), and within school, chronologically by artist. Miniatures are organized by location. Non-Italian paintings and drawings are arranged by country and then alphabetically by artist. Other subject sections are organized by location and/or by artist.

Finding Aids:
A card file, arranged by location, for Italian paintings and drawings (1200-1600), incomplete and not kept current; Bernard Berenson's published lists of painters and their works. At present, the creation of an electronic finding aid to the entire collection is underway.  A project to catalog approximately 12,000 photographs of so called “Homeless” Italian paintings and drawings, works of art whose current location is unknown, is in progress.

Description:
The Botany Libraries houses the collections of five research libraries, which are managed collectively as the Botany Libraries. They include the Library of the Arnold Arboretum, the Economic Botany Library of Oakes Ames, the Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany, the Library of the Gray Herbarium, and the Oakes Ames Orchid Library.

The Library of the Arnold Arboretum houses botanical images providing visual reference to type specimens of various herbaria, including about 4,000 photographs of woody plants from the Herbarium Leveillé in Edinburgh.

The Economic Botany Library collection is primarily a teaching collection containing photographs relating to plants and plant products and their uses in human affairs. With an emphasis on areas of food, drugs, and fuel, images show plants and people in native settings throughout the world and provide a visual history of farming and cultivated plants. Included are 2,500 prints of habitats, 1875-1920, and another 2,500, 1920-1950; about 1,200 lantern slides, many hand-colored; and nearly 1,000 35mm slides. About 100 prints of the Botanical Museum include views of exhibition installations and other interiors.

The Farlow Reference Library of Cryptogamic Botany materials relate to the study of lower (non-flowering) plants, including fungi, lichens, mosses, liverworts, and algae, and to botanists associated with the field. Included are individual and group portraits of cryptogamic botanists; photographs of field trips; and a group of negatives of the William G. Farlow home. Sets of teaching slides and negatives of plant specimens are among the holdings, but are not yet accessible.

The Gray Herbarium primarily houses a collection of nineteenth and twentieth-century botanical subjects. Included are portraits of botanists, pictures of field trips, photographs documenting the history of the Gray Herbarium and the Botanic Garden, and photographs of other botanical institutions, plants, and scenery. About 1,000 portraits of botanists are in the Gray portrait file, about 800 in albums compiled by Mrs. Asa Gray; there are also daguerreotype, ambrotype, tintype, and pannotype portraits and formal group portraits from botanical congresses. Documentation of field work is in the following collections: Leonard John Brass, about 210 photographs of the Second Archbold New Guinea Expedition, 1936-1937; Edith Henry Scamman, about 320 color slides, mostly of Costa Rica, 1951-1956; James Franklin Collins, 8,000 images, 1900-1935, including photographs of expeditions to Quebec with M. L. Fernald, 1904-1907 and 1923, of amateur botanical outings, and also of Providence, R. I., small towns in Maine, and elsewhere. Amateur botanical outings are also represented in the Gray Herbarium portrait file, as are botanists at work in the field. There are about 270 photographs of Gray Herbarium and Botanic Garden staff, and some of other botanical institutions. The Earl Edward Sherff collection includes over 4,000 photographs of herbarium specimens, 1913-1956; the George Edward Davenport papers, some 30 of New England ferns; the James Franklin Collins papers, many of trees, tree parts, tree diseases, and herbarium specimens; the Carleton E. Watkins collection, photographs of trees and Western scenery. There are also views of Yellowstone by William Henry Jackson, a view of Yosemite by Eadweard Muybridge, some 100 stereoscopic views, and 500 aerial photographs of the Labrador coast taken by the Alexander Forbes Expedition, 1931.

Arrangement:
Varies from collection to collection.

Finding Aids:
Indexed Photographs in manuscript collection described in inventories. Index that provides access to photographs in the portrait file and other collections by subject, photographer, and, format. The Gray and Sherff albums have finding aids.

Description:
Photographs in the Library support teaching and document research in the field of geological sciences.  Important groupings, formerly housed in the Kummel Library for the Geological Sciences, were integrated into the Cabot Science Library in 2005. They include the Gardner Fund collection, about 2,000 prints, ca. 1880, of physical geography (formerly worldwide, now primarily New England); a geomorphology series, about 600 aerial views, ca. 1938-1963; the Tozier Fund collection, about 2,000 images, ca. 1940-1955, of U.S. land formations and thin slices; the Stuart H. Perry collection, about 1,500 photo micrographs of meteoric ions, ca. 1953; a crystallographer portrait collection, about 50 photos, ca. 1890-1920.

Arrangement:
Gardner collection alphabetically by state; geomorphology aerial views by topic; Tozier collection, chronologically; Perry collection in 9 bound volumes by sector; crystallographer collection by last name of person.

Finding Aids:
Tozier collection entry listing includes description and location name. Partially completed finding aid for Gardner collection. No other finding aids available.

Description:
The research collection consists of images in historical and modern formats of scientific instrumentation and its users in the fields of astronomy, physics, psychology, geography, meteorology, computing and scientific imaging. Special collections include images documenting work at the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory circa 1880-1930; the Harvard College Observatory, circa 1890s; and Harvard's physics labs, circa 1940-1950. Other collections include images detailing the construction and use of the MARK I-IV computers; and photographs, slides, and motion picture material documenting psychology experiments carried out in Harvard's departments of philosophy and psychology, circa 1890-1960. We also have lantern slides for scientific teaching and research, with hand-painted ones dating from circa 1790 up to the early days of photography, followed by photographic lantern slides from the second half of the 19th century to the mid-20th century. For collection management purposes we also maintain a large inventory of record images of the objects held by the museum.

Arrangement:
Photographs are located by accession number.

Finding Aids:
Collection database.

Description:
Photographs relate to all aspects of the history of medicine worldwide and to the history of the Harvard medical community. A file of about 4,000 images, ca. 1840-1950 (some later), depicts individuals associated with the medical profession, especially physicians and scientists, throughout the world but with an emphasis on New England and Boston; formal portraits as well as images of persons performing operations, experiments, procedures, and photographs of professional and patient groups. A file of about 1,000 images, ca. 1850-1980, records medical buildings and facilities throughout the world. A subject file covers medical topics such as dentistry, pharmacology, public health, surgery, and also specific events, equipment, and techniques. About 3,500 images relating to the Harvard Medical School, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and the Harvard School of Public Health, ca. 1870-present, show general views, building exteriors and interiors, activities, procedures, equipment, events, Harvard Medical School sponsored projects, faculty portraits, and reunion photographs. Significant groups of images are in the collection of the Boston Medical Library which joined with the Harvard Medical Library to operate the Countway Library in 1960; about 1,000 images, 1875-1964, portraits, institutions, and other pictures relating to the history of medicine; the Oliver Wendell Holmes collection, ca. 1846-1890, about 300 images of Holmes, his family, friends, associates, and residences; about 100 images from the University of Breslau, ca. 1880, showing conditions of the skin. Ca. 5,000 images, mostly drawn from the images of the Harvard schools, Boston Medical Library, and Harvard Medical School faculty, have been described at the item level in OASIS finding aids. 1,200 of these images have been digitized; thumbnails are embedded in finding aids.

Arrangement:
Portraits and subjects, alphabetically; Harvard medical community by school, then portraits, places, subjects, alphabetically.

Finding Aids:
Card catalogue; finding aids for some collections; HOLLIS; VIA; OASIS.

Fung Library, Social Sciences Program
Harvard College Library
Knafel Building, Concourse Level
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
phone: (617) 495-4030

website: http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/#fung
e-mail: hrepina@fas.harvard.edu

Description:
The Soviet Information Bureau Photograph Collection of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies is comprised of approximately 5,000 black and white photographs of everyday life in the Soviet Union at the very beginning of the Cold War, during an era that has come to be known as High Stalinism. Topics range from glamour shots of celebrities (famous doctors, scientists, artists, politicians) to photos of ordinary people from all parts of the Soviet empire (including from non-Russian-speaking republics and Eastern Europe) pursuing their occupations (industry, transportation, agriculture), hobbies, sports, and leisure activities. There are several series of photos of special historical interest (Battle of Stalingrad, VE-day parades, Stalin’s 70th birthday celebration) as well as such topics as idealized visions of Soviet motherhood. The uniqueness of this collection lies precisely in this variety of topics, as well as in its broad geographic coverage. Photographs have typed captions (mostly in English, ca. 1947-1949) and are stamped “SIB Photoservice, Moscow” and “World News Service, Toronto” and some “Approved by Censor” on the verso. The photos were originally taken by professional photojournalists employed by the Soviet Information Bureau (SIB), the main propaganda arm of the Soviet state during World War II. They were intended for distribution and publication in English-speaking media outlets as pro-Soviet propaganda. This particular set of photos appears to have served as the working collection of the staffs of the Moscow and Prague bureaus of World News Service, McGraw-Hill, Inc..

Arrangement:
Photographs are kept in four separate boxes, only two of which are arranged according to the topics devised by the staff of the Moscow office of McGraw-Hill's World News Service.

Finding Aids:
Brief provisional record (Number 008862577) in HOLLIS. Four boxes of uncataloged photos currently housed in the Davis Center librarian’s office and accessible for browsing only by appointment.

Description:
The photograph collection documents art, architecture, and archaeology relating to the Byzantine era and the Mediterranean and Near Eastern world from the late classical through the medieval, Late Byzantine, and Islamic periods. Photographs are organized into the following major groups: over 185,000 black and white prints of monuments, architecture, sculpture, wall painting, mosaics, and small objects; over 20,000 black and white prints of manuscript illumination; a Census of objects of Early Christian and Byzantine art in North American collections, about 15,000 images; over 55,000 negatives documenting the Center for Byzantine Studies' field work and research projects; 41,000 35mm color slides and large format color transparencies of monuments and portable (decorative and minor) arts available for study and lecture purposes.

Arrangement:
Black-and-white prints by medium, then by country, then site or city; images of illuminated manuscripts by city, collection, manuscript number; census photographs by medium, stylistic or chronological order, region or culture; field work contact positives by site (negatives by number); color slides: monuments by country, city or site, medium; portable arts by medium, city, collection, accession number, or alphabetically.

Finding Aids:
Card index to print collection by site or city with references from alternative names; card index to illuminated manuscript images; document sheets for census objects, alphabetically by city of present location, with collection and accession number.

Description:
Over 6,200 photographs document the approximately 650 objects in the Pre-Columbiancollection, showing some of the achievements of native peoples of the New World before the arrival of Columbus. Museum objects include murals, pottery, figurines, stone carvings, mosaics, gold ornaments, textiles, and jewelry from the Olmec, Teotihuacan, Maya, Classic Veracruz, and Mixtec/Aztec cultures of Mesoamerica, and from Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, and Andean South America. About 12,000 color slides show Classic Maya vases and Paracas textiles not in the Museum collections. Over 1,500 photographs document historical expeditions to Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru.

Arrangement:
By collection, subdivided by culture and then by material.

Finding Aids:
Catalogue descriptions; EmbARK.

Description:
Visual resources relating to all aspects of the history of gardens, including theory and practice of design, garden views, plans, and botanical illustration. Extensive archival photographic collection of the Dumbarton Oaks Garden including early historic lantern slides of the property when it was a farm; black-and-white photos of Beatrix Jones Farrand's work at Dumbarton Oaks, including full scale mock-ups of proposed designs, garden ornaments and plantings; a collection of color photographs, taken by Peter Fink, of the garden in the 60s; as well as a slide collection shot from some of the titles in the Rare Book Collection.

Arrangement:
Garden photos are arranged by the section of the garden to which they relate; slides by geographic location and then by subject or site.

Finding Aids:
Slide collection: card catalog by geographic location and then by subject, by artist for botanical illustrations; shelflist; accession books by accession date, with description; classification, and source.

Description:
Photographs documenting the history of the Museum and its collections; the scientific work of its staff and students and of their colleagues at similar institutions worldwide. The Museum papers contain about 500 pictures, ca. 1859-1945, of staff and students, personal photographs, and scientific illustrations. About 300 photographs in departmental records, ca. 1880-present, relate to research in ichthyology, ornithology, herpetology, and other fields, with emphases on Africa, the Caribbean, New England, and the North Atlantic. About 50 images in the Museum records document the museum building, 1859-ca. 1940, exterior, exhibitions, classrooms, and laboratories. There is also a file of about 1,000 portraits, ca. 1845-present. Photographs in the papers of individuals include Alexander Agassiz, about 200 photographs, ca. 1859-1910, portraits, pictures of oceanographic expeditions including informal shipboard and shore scenes, coral reefs, the Newport Laboratory; Louis Agassiz, about 50 photographs, 1854-1872, portraits and a few pictures of the Hassler Expedition, 1872; William Brewster, about 300 photographs, 1851-1919, of family, friends, Brattle Street household, bird habitats, New England towns and villages, Nuttall Ornithological Club, Lake Umbagog in Maine, the southeastern U.S., and Europe.

Arrangement:
As part of institutional and departmental records or of manuscript collections. Portraits, alphabetically.

Finding Aids:
Shelf list refers to photographs at group level by name. Card catalog derived from shelf list with added entries.

Description:
The collections document works of art, architecture and material culture from the ancient world to the present and reflect the teaching and research of the History of Art and Architecture faculty and the Harvard University Art Museum’s curatorial staff during the first half of the 20th century. Image formats include photographic prints, lantern slides, 35mm slides, postcards, facsimiles and albums. Areas of strength include Western art and architecture (particularly medieval architecture and Renaissance and Baroque painting), Islamic art and architecture, and Asian art and architecture. The collection includes many nineteenth-century images that are of interest as historic photographs themselves. The core of the collection is represented by cataloged photographs arranged by medium (architecture, sculpture, painting, decorative arts), then by culture or country, location, and/or artist.  Some collections have been acquired and maintained as archives of the work of distinguished photographers including Wayne Andrews, Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Clarence Kennedy, Ralph Lieberman, Arthur Kingsley Porter, Josephine Powell, Judith Hancock Sandoval and Langdon Warner.  Other collections amassed by scholars are maintained as separate collections.

Notable western collections include:

• Corpus Photographicum of Drawings (Gernsheim), over 175,000 black-and-white photographs of drawings in European collections
• Courtauld Photographic Survey of Private Collections, 25,000 black- and-white photographs of art in English country houses and private collections
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Reference Collection, 30,000 black and white photographs from MFA's collections arranged by department
• Decimal Index to the Art of the Low Countries (D.I.A.L.), 12,000 black and white photographs of Dutch works of art, arranged by Iconclass number
• Reproductions of photographs in Bernard Berenson’s photographic archive at Villa I Tatti, 37,000 black and white photographs from the reference collection of Bernard Berenson

Microforms: A large collection of image collections is also available on microform, including the Witt Library photographic collection, the Conway Library photographic collection, the Alinari archive, and the Marburger Index.

Middle East: Special Collections of photographs documenting the Middle East in the Fine Arts Library are particularly notable for their variety and depth.  Most prominent is the Harvard Semitic Museum Photographic Archives, developed at the Semitic Museum between 1891 and 1992, and transferred to the FAL in 1995.  The Archives have 103 constituent parts, and comprise ca. 38,500 images in a wide variety of formats, including thousands of 19th c. professional photographs in and out of albums.  130 other special collections contain a further 55,000 images, whose geographical reach embraces Granada in the 1850s, late 19th c. Ottoman Bosnia, and Samarkand in the 1890s.  They include exceptional collections of photographs by prominent 19th c. photographers such as Maison Bonfils and Antonio Beato; and important early photographs of Istanbul and Athens by James Robertson (1851-1854), of Palestine and Egypt by James Graham (1853-1857), and of Palestine by Robertson and Beato (1857).  Their variety is exemplified by an album of postcard proofs documenting Fez (1920); the Lowell Thomas Photograph Album documenting his trip from Peshawar to Kabul (1921); the Leo Lapidus Collection of photographs of Khorramshahr, Tehran, Basra, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem (1943-1945); and the incomparable Josephine Powell Archive, 36,000 images documenting architecture, museum collections and ethnographic subjects from Italy, Greece and the Balkans to Bangladesh, Uzbekistan, and Morocco, but most notably of Afghanistan and the Kabul Museum (1950s-1970s).

Arrangement:
The cataloged collection is arranged by medium. In-house finding aids are available for some special collections, others are self-indexing with finding aids in process.  HOLLIS and VIA records for most collections are available.

Finding Aids:
HOLLIS and VIA records for most collections are available, the card catalog provides access to the cataloged collection and in-house finding aids.  Some materials are cataloged individually and available digitally in VIA.  For Islamic materials, a detailed description is available at:  http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/finearts/collections/semitic.html. Clicking on “Access to the Archives” will lead to the link for the complete inventory report on the Archives.

Description:
Reproductions of art and architecture from pre-historic times to the present, used to support the study and teaching of the history of art and architecture.

Arrangement:
By classification number.

Finding Aids:
Card catalog and VIA.

324 North Main Street
Petersham MA 01366
phone: (978) 724-3302
website: http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/
e-mail: hflib@fas.harvard.edu

Description:
The Harvard Forest archive photograph collection includes over 10,000 photographs, slides, lantern slides, and aerial photos related to the institution’s research in forest ecology and land-use history. Landscape change represents a significant dynamic in many Harvard Forest research projects, and well-documented historical images offer critical information. Subjects include views of Harvard Forest’s land base of over 3,000 acres in central Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire; scenes of the 1938 Hurricane; microscope photographs of tree physiology and biology research; current and historical aerial photographs of research sites; and photographs of directors, researchers, staff, students, and conferences.

Arrangement:
Photographs and slides are filed with their related project or land information file whenever possible. A collection of well-documented historical photographs and negatives is stored independently. Lantern slides and aerial photographs are sorted by subject and/or geographic coverage. A small general photographs collection consists of images of staff, buildings, conferences, etc.

Finding Aids:
Local databases and paper indexes, with assistance from the Archivist.

Description:
The collection represents the people, places, and procedures associated with the legal profession in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries worldwide. About half of it predates 1925. Subjects include courthouses and courtrooms; crimes and criminals; evidence; executions; individual and group portraits of individuals associated with the legal profession; prisoners and prisons; punishment; and university law schools. In addition, the collection documents the activities, alumni, buildings, events, faculty, staff, and students of the Harvard Law School. Special groups of photographs include the Oliver Wendell Holmes collection, ca. 1850-1935: images of Holmes, his associates, family, friends, households in Cambridge, Boston, Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, and Washington D.C.; cabinet cards, cartes de visite, and daguerreotypes; Civil War pictures, some by Mathew Brady; the Felix Frankfurter collection of photographs of Frankfurter, family, friends, and associates; images of women associated with the legal profession; pictures in the files of the Harvard Law School Bulletin, the Harvard Law School Yearbook, and the Harvard Law Record.

Arrangement:
Alphabetically by subject.

Finding Aids:
Many legal portraits are now available on VIA. Some finding aids for the Law Library's Art & Visual Materials Collection are available on OASIS and a small number of unpublished finding guides are available at the repository. Records for collections can also be found using HOLLIS.

Description:
Mainly photographs of staff members of the Harvard Medical School, School of Dental Medicine, and School of Public Health; also images of buildings, exterior, interior, and under construction; events, especially commencements.

Arrangement:
Alphabetically by people, events, place.

Finding Aids:
Alphabetical by name.

Description:
The main collection consists of 500,000 glass plate negatives of sky sections, 1883-1989, representing continuous photographing of the Northern and Southern hemispheres. The photographic records are used to document and verify astronomical change and variation. Other significant groups include about 200 historical images, ca. 1840- 1950, of places and people, about 16 of which are daguerreotypes; about 800 collodion wet-plate negatives of astronomical subjects, 1857-1870s; the Gould plates, about 1,100 collodion negatives of star clusters, 1870- 1881; about 4,500 lantern slides of astronomical subjects, observations, equipment, and sky photographs, formerly used for teaching.

Arrangement:
Astronomical plates, chronologically or by sky section.

Finding Aids:
Card catalog for plates, incomplete electronic catalog of plates available online.

Description:
The Solar and Stellar Physics Division retains images of the sun, recorded by the extreme ultraviolet spectrometer from the Apollo telescope mount onboard Skylab, the first orbiting solar observatory in 1973 -74. The data are used for comparative analysis with Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and for studying changes in the solar atmosphere. The 120,000 ultraviolet images are stored on microfiche.

Arrangement:
Chronological.

Finding Aids:
A logbook contains entries by date, then observation and scientific objective.

Description:
Consists of photographic reproductions of red-sensitive and blue-sensitive photographs of 935 different fields of the sky above declination -33 degrees yielding a total of 1870 photographs. Limiting magnitude for red-sensitive photographs: 20.0. Limiting magnitude for blue-sensitive photographs: 21.1.

Arrangement:
Plates filed in order by declination and right ascension.

Finding Aids:
Catalogue of Plates.

Description:
In keeping with its mission, the University Archives holds photographs that document most aspects of University life. While at least half of the photographs are organized in three separate collections, many archival and manuscript collections contain photographs integrated with predominately textual materials. The three photo collections focus on portraits, subjects, and places. The portrait collection contains photographs of Harvard graduates, officers, and employees, as well as people peripherally associated with the University, such as honorary degree recipients and visiting lecturers. The subject collection includes student life, military training, athletics, commencement ceremonies, and club activities. Places include views of University buildings and environs including the campuses and the city of Cambridge. Archival and manuscript collections containing a high proportion of photographs include the records of the University News Office, the Athletic Association, the graduating classes, the Harvard College Observatory, and the Cruft Photographic Laboratory, which documented research in Department of Physics and Division of Applied Sciences. Some collections contain fewer photographs that are nonetheless noteworthy for their format or photographer. Class albums, 1852-1900, for example, contain original photographic prints by George Warren and the Notman Studios that help document the early history of photography in the Boston area.

Arrangement:
Photo collections: portraits and subjects are organized alphabetically; places are organized geographically.The arrangement of photographs in record groups (e.g. Corporation Records) or manuscript collections (e.g. papers of faculty members) reflects the arrangement of the record group or collection as a whole.

Finding Aids:
Accessible via the web: Collection-level records in HOLLIS, for approximately half the Archives' holdings; Full- text, detailed inventories in OASIS for 1% of the Archives' holdings; 171 records, or .05% of Archives holdings in VIA for individual images of high interest. On-site only: Card file of portraits and lists of subjects and places for separate photo collections; database of News Office photographs; paper finding aids for manuscript and archival collections; and a comprehensive paper shelf list representing all of the Archives' holdings.

Description:
Records of the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM), as well as materials in Special Collections include photographs relating to the history of HUAM (Busch-Reisinger Museum, the Fogg Art Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum); its buildings (exterior and interior); exhibition installations and openings; benefactors, directors, curators, other staff, donors, students and some donor residences.

Arrangement:
Photographs are filed within administrative record groups or exhibition files; or in the vertical files pertaining to HUAM history.

Finding Aids:
A small but growing number of collections are cataloged in HOLLIS and/or OASIS; there are also in-house finding aids for some collections.

Description:
Most of the photographs date from or since 1958, when the present Archaeological Exploration of Sardis began. About 180,000 35mm negatives with 5,500 corresponding contact sheets and 96,000 35mm slides document the excavation and finds at the capital of Lydia, located in the west of modern Turkey. Images record the site, excavation areas (sectors) within the site, and objects: architectural fragments, bone, coins, flint, gems, glass, inscriptions, jewelry, lamps, metals, mosaics, pottery, sculpture and other stone, seals, terracotta, and wood. Architectural plans and elevations, excavation and reconstruction methods and techniques, expedition members, seminars, visitors, camps, and camp life are also depicted. About 730 prints, ca. 1910-1922, document earlier excavations, the remainder of this material being at Princeton University. 700 8x10 negatives of architectural plans and object drawings. Since 2004 documentation of the site has been done digitally, so we currently have approximately 6900 digital images (with an average of 2000 more to come each year). 

Arrangement:
Slides and prints, chronologically, then by sector/subsector, alphabetically; objects, alphabetically; images of camp life, visitors, expedition members, seminars, and other views, at the end of each year.

Finding Aids:
Card catalog for objects, most with images. Photograph log in binders lists objects and sectors by year. Since 1988 photographs in databases by year.