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Botanical and Cultural Images of Eastern Asia, 1907-1927
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:bciedigi
Over 4,500 botanical and cultural images of Eastern Asia by John George Jack (1861–1949), Ernest Henry Wilson (1876-1930), Frank Nicholas Meyer (1875-1918), William Purdom (1880–1921), Joseph Hers (1884–1965), and Joseph Charles Francis Rock (1884–1962) from the Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library.
Bracton Online
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:bractono
A digital presentation of Bracton: De Legibus Et Consuetudinibus Angliæ (Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England), the first comprehensive attempt to rationally articulate English law. The 13th-century document is commonly attributed to the English judge and scholar Henry of Bratton. Here the Latin original and an English translation can be searched and viewed individually or side by side.
Jacques Burkhardt Collection & Papers of Thayer Expedition to Brazil (1865-1866)
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:mczburkc
The Jacques Burkhardt Collection's 976 scientific drawings of fish and miscellaneous vertebrates and invertebrates consist of watercolors and pencil drawings, almost half of which are from the Thayer Expedition to Brazil (1865-1866). The Thayer Expedition Papers include field notes, specimen lists, correspondence, diaries, sketches, photographs, and other materials.
Chinese Rubbings Collection
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:chinrubc
The Chinese Rubbings Collection includes 1,945 rubbings from the Fine Arts Library's collections. The rubbings were made from ancient stone stelae, tomb tablets, Buddhist and Daoist scriptures on stelae and rocks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Coin and Conscience: Popular Views of Money, Credit and Speculation
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:coindigi
An online presentation of an exhibition catalog issued by Baker Library (Harvard Business School) in 1986 with digital images of prints from the Bleichroeder Collection. The collection includes more than 1,000 woodcuts, engravings, etchings, and lithographs ranging in date from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Many prominent artists are represented in the collection, including Breughel, Goltzius, Rembrandt, Hogarth, and Gillray.
Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:contagio
With over 500,000 pages of textual materials and 10,000 pages of manuscripts and early printed books from ten contributing Harvard libraries and archives, the collection is organized around nine significant "episodes" of contagious disease. The collection also includes two image collections from the Center for the History of Medicine/Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.
Daguerreotypes at Harvard
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:daguerre
Images of more than 3,500 daguerreotypes from photograph collections used in research and instruction throughout the University.
A “Daring Experiment”: Harvard and Business Education for Women, 1937-1970
http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/daring/
This online resource features a wide array of historic documents, photographs, publications and oral history interviews from both the Radcliffe College Archives and the Harvard Business School Archives.
Digital Scores and Libretti
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:digiscor
Hundreds of digital scores and libretti from the Harvard Library collections, including first and early editions and manuscript copies of music from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by J.S. Bach and Bach family members, Mozart, Schubert and other composers, as well as multiple versions of nineteenth century opera scores, seminal works of musical modernism, and music of the Second Viennese School.
Dying Speeches and Bloody Murders: Crime Broadsides
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:dyingspe
Digital images collected by the Harvard Law School Library of more than five hundred broadsides--styled at the time as "Last Dying Speeches" or "Bloody Murders"--that were sold to the audiences that gathered to witness public executions in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. The examples digitized span the years 1707 to 1891 and include accounts of executions for such crimes as arson, assault, counterfeiting, horse stealing, murder, rape, robbery, and treason.
Harvard Map Collection Digital Maps
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:harvmapc
Descriptions and links to over 1,000 digitized maps and atlases from the Harvard Map Collection. Many are georeferenced for use in a GIS. Highlights include maps of Boston, Cambridge and other Massachusetts towns, New England, London, China, pictorial maps by Ernest Dudley Chase, fire insurance and real property atlases, and maps of the Revolutionary War.
Harvard/Radcliffe Online Historical Reference Shelf
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:hronhirf
More than 100,000 full-text searchable pages of frequently consulted sources on the history of Harvard and Radcliffe, including annual reports, narrative histories, writings, statistics, founding documents, Massachusetts legislation concerning Harvard, Harvard songs sung at football games and other ceremonial occasions, serial publications, and media coverage.
Hedda Morrison Photographs of China
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:morrison
More than 5,000 photographs from the Harvard-Yenching Library (Harvard College Library) taken by Hedda Hammer Morrison (1908-1991) during her residence in Beijing from 1933 to 1946. Her photographs document lifestyles, trades, handicrafts, landscapes, religious practices, and architectual structures that in many cases have all but disappeared from modern China.
The Human Factor
http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/hf/
More than 2,100 photographs collected at Harvard Business School during the 1930s. The photographs illustrate plants, equipment, techniques, processes, and people at work in a wide variety of industries from automobile manufacturing to paper mills.
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:immigrat
Selected historical materials from Harvard's library, archives, and museums documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression. The collection includes approximately 1,800 books and pamphlets, 6,000 photographs, 200 maps, and 13,000 pages from manuscript and archival collections. By incorporating diaries, biographies, and other writings capturing diverse experiences, the collected material provides a window into the lives of ordinary immigrants.
Islamic Heritage Project
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ihp
The Islamic Heritage Project is a multi-disciplinary collection of high-quality digital reproductions on a wide range of subjects of more than 270 Islamic manuscripts, more than 300 published texts, and 58 maps from Harvard's renowned library and museum collections.
Joseph Berry Keenan Collection
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:jobekedc
Manuscript materials and photographs that offer researchers invaluable insight into the Japanese War Crimes Trial – one of the most important trials of the 20th century. The Papers consist primarily of correspondence written during Keenan's work as Chief Counsel in the International Prosecution Section. Most of the correspondence relates directly to the trial. The Visual Materials Collection spans the years of 1945-1947 and includes photographs of Keenan, military ceremonies and figures in Japan, Japanese people and scenery, and aerial views of the Japanese landscape following the atomic bomb drops of 1945.
Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:latampdc
More than 5,000 titles including many scarce and unique Latin American pamphlets published during the 19th and the early 20th centuries. Chile, Cuba, Bolivia and Mexico are the countries most heavily represented in this collection.
Legal Portraits Online
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:portrait
More than 4,000 portrait images of lawyers, jurists, political figures, and legal thinkers dating from the Middle Ages to the late 20th- century drawn from the Harvard Law School's Legal Portrait Collection. These prints, drawings, and photographs depict legal figures prominent in the Common Law as well as those associated with the Canon and Civil Law traditions.
Mercator Globes at the Harvard Map Collection
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:mercator
A presentation of images of the Mercator Globes at the Harvard Map Collection (Harvard College Library) with zooming and navigation. Mercator was a prolific publisher of maps and atlases. He also produced one version of a globe pair: a terrestrial globe in 1541 and a matching celestial globe in 1551. Surviving examples of the Mercator globes are rare; Harvard's is the only known matched pair in America.
A New and Wonderful Invention: The 19th-Century American Trade Cards
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:tradecds
More than 1,000 images of 19th-century advertising trade cards selected from the Historical Collections at Baker Library ( Harvard Business School). As one of the most popular forms of advertising in the 19th-century, and as indicators of consumer habits, social values, and marketing techniques, trade cards are of interest to scholars of business history, American studies, graphic design and printing history, and social and cultural history.
Nuremberg Trials Project -- Case 1 Medical Trial
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:Nurember
Thousands of images of pages of Case 1 trial documents and analytical data for all trial documents from the Harvard Law School Library. The collection includes trial transcripts, briefs, document books, evidence files, and other papers related to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and to the twelve trials of other accused war criminals before the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT).
The Rev. Claude L. Pickens, Jr. Collection on Muslims in China
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:pickens
Over 1000 photos of Muslims and Christian missionaries working among them in Western China in the 1920s and 1930s form the core of this collection, which is supplemented by several hundred books, pamphlets, broadsides, etc., in several languages.
The Singer Continues the Song: Text and Music from the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:parrycol
Selected audio recordings and text files of oral literature made by Professor Milman Parry of the Department of the Classics at Harvard University from 1933 to 1935 in Yugoslavia,as well as epic texts collected by Professor Albert B. Lord in 1950 and 1951; and an exhibition of photographs. The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature is the largest single repository of South Slavic heroic songs in the world.
South Central China and Tibet: Hotspot of Diversity
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:chinatib
Images and text of thousands of photographs and manuscripts from Harvard's historical and contemporary ethnographic and natural history collections related to South Central China and Tibet. The collections, brought together by the Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library, include plant and bird specimens, as well as photographs of the region's landscape, architecture, and people.
Studies in Scarlet: Marriage & Sexuality in the U.S. & U.K., 1815-1914
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:sscarlet
Drawn from the Harvard Law School Library's trial collections, Studies in Scarlet presents images of the texts of more than 450 trial narratives printed in the United States or the United Kingdom from 1815 until 1914. The narratives include trials for murder, rape, divorce, domestic violence, adultery, bigamy, breach of promise to marry, and the custody of children.
Sunk in Lucre's Sordid Charms -- South Sea Bubble Resources in the Kress Collection at Baker Library
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:ssbubble
Digital images and full text from pamphlets, books, broadsides, prints, and ephemera focusing on the South Sea Bubble stock market crisis in the early part of the 18th-century. The resources are found in the Kress Collection and additional materials at Baker Library (Harvard Business School).
Women Working, 1800-1930
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:ocpwwork
More than 500,000 pages of historical documentation focusing on the role of women in the United States economy. The sources include books, pamphlets, manuscripts and images selected from Harvard's library and museum collections.
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