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Harvard Collections and World History

an overview of Harvard University's material object collections

Alphabetical List of Material Object Collections

  • Andover-Harvard Theological Library*
  • Archives for Women in Medicine
  • Arnold Arboretum
  • Artemas Ward House
  • Baker Business Library
  • Busch-Reisinger Museum
  • Cabot Library
  • Center for the History of Medicine
  • Concord Field Station
  • Countway Library of Medicine
  • Dumbarton Oaks Library
  • Economic Botany Collection
  • Ernst Mayr Library
  • Fine Arts Library*
  • Fischer Museum at Harvard Forest
  • Fogg Art Museum
  • Fung Library*
  • Gordon McKay & Blue Hill Libraries
  • Harvard Art Museum
  • Harvard Botanical Museum
  • Harvard College Observatory
  • Harvard Film Archive
  • Harvard Map Collection
  • Harvard Museum of Natural History
  • Harvard University Archives
  • Harvard University Herbaria
  • Harvard University Portrait Collection
  • Harvard-Yenching Library 
  • Historical Scientific Instruments Collection
  • Houghton Library
  • Lamont Library*
  • Loeb Music Library
  • Minerological and Geological Museum
  • Museum of Comparative Zoology
  • New England Primate Research Center
  • Parry Collection of Oral Literature
  • Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
  • Sackler Museum
  • Schlesinger Library
  • Semitic Museum
  • Tozzer Library*
  • Villa I Tatti
  • Ukrainian Research Institute*
  • Warren Anatomical Museum
  • Wolbach Library
  • Widener Library*
*These institutions specialize in recent books and periodicals, but house small collections of other material objects.
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Collections Containing . . .

  • architecture (3)
  • biological specimens (12)
  • books (23)
  • ceramics (8)
  • decorative arts (9)
  • drawings (13)
  • film (5)
  • glass (4)
  • machines (3)
  • manuscripts (11)
  • maps (3)
  • minerals (2)
  • music (4)
  • musical instruments (1)
  • paintings (12)
  • periodicals (17)
  • photographs (26)
  • prints (15)
  • scientific instruments (9)
  • sculpture (9)
  • textiles (3)