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RECORD GROUP Identifier: UAV 827.x

Records of the Tercentenary Celebration Office, 1934-1937

Overview

These records by the Tercentenary Celebration Office as it planned, organized, and managed the celebrations for the 300th anniversary of the founding of Harvard College/Harvard University.

Dates

  • Creation: 1934-1937

Creator

Extent

50 cubic feet (81 boxes, 37 folders, 3 volumes, 126 phonograph records, 13 audio cassettes, 13 reel-to-reel audio tapes, 3 CDs)

These records encompass all the activities of the Tercentenary Celebration Office.

Biographical / Historical

Planning for the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the founding of Harvard College began in 1930 with the appointment of a Tercentenary Committee jointly by the Harvard Corporation (President and Fellows of Harvard College) and by the Board of Overseers. The Alumni Association was represented on this committee beginning in 1931, along with the Tercentenary Historian (Samuel Eliot Morison) and the Director of the University Library. In 1934, Jerome D. Greene was appointed Director of the Tercentenary Celebration.

The Tercentenary Celebration Office planned, organized, and managed the celebrations for the 300th anniversary of the founding of Harvard College/Harvard University.

Related Material

The Harvard University Archives holds much more material related to the Tercentenary than is listed in this inventory. Most of Harvard's administrative units worked on special projects related to the Tercentenary or were substantially effected by it; it is in their records that researchers will find information relating to those activities.

Much, but not all, of the Tercentenary material that was published or widely distributed is held by the Harvard University Archives and classified in HUA 936.xx. Such material is cataloged in HOLLIS, Harvard's on-line library information system. HOLLIS also contains catalog records for Harvard University Tercentenary Gazette a serial that was published by the Tercentenary Celebration Office, and for Tercentenary-related books, ephemera, exhibition catalogs, conference proceedings, and archival material in other archives at Harvard.

Separated Material

The Harvard University Archives holds documents containing Mrs. Elizabeth Schlesinger's observations relating to the Harvard Tercentenary,1936, which are to be opened during the Quadricentenary in 2036 (UAV 827.219).

Inventory update

This document last updated 2023 April 19.

Processing Information

This finding aid was encoded in September 2004 by Kate Bowers. She compiled this document from the following sources of information: HOLLIS records, paper shelflists, the Archives locator database, and one folder list for box 45 of the director's records. This inventory lacks folder lists for the majority of the textual records.

Title
Harvard University. Tercentenary Celebration Office. Records of the Tercentenary Celebration Office : an inventory
Language of description
und
EAD ID
hua22004

Repository Details

Part of the Harvard University Archives Repository

Holding nearly four centuries of materials, the Harvard University Archives is the principal repository for the institutional records of Harvard University and the personal archives of Harvard faculty, as well as collections related to students, alumni, Harvard-affiliates and other associated topics. The collections document the intellectual, cultural, administrative and social life of Harvard and the influence of the University as it emerged across the globe.

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