Baker Library Historical Collections
Address:
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road
Boston, MA 02163
Contact:
Katherine Fox
Associate Director, Public Services
Telephone:
617.495.6411
Fax:
617.495.5957
Email:
Repository website URL:
http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/
Description of repository / collection image holdings:
Baker Library Historical Collections holds more than 22,000 images of factories, equipment, techniques, processes, and people at work in industrial settings ranging from automobile plants to paper mills. Researchers will find photographs relating to U.S. industry as well as business operations in Central and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Particular strengths include 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.
In addition, Baker Library holds a rich array of visual materials within its Advertising Ephemera Collection, which includes posters, trade catalogs, trade and business cards, and scrapbooks.
The Harvard Business School Archives has also contributed over 400 photographs to VIA including portraits of faculty, campus construction and buildings, student social life and classroom activities. Search "HBS Archives"
What we have in VIA:
Baker Library Historical Collections has an extensive collection of trade cards, posters, engravings, and images of American currency available in VIA. There are also photographs depicting various industrial and commercial processes, portraits of business leaders and images of the Harvard Business School.
Reproductions
Images in VIA are for personal research use only. Please contact Baker Library Historical Collections' Public Services Unit to inquire about obtaining high-qualify reproductions:
Email: histcollref@hbs.edu
Telephone: 617-495-6411
Fax: 617-495-5957
Information about offered photographic services can be found at: http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/services/photographic.shtml
Copyright and Permissions:
The material in this collection is owned or held by Baker Library Historical Collections. Some of the images, text and other content in VIA (collectively, the "Content") is protected by copyright law. In some cases, the copyright is owned by other parties, and Harvard is making the Content available to you under license or under the fair use doctrine.
The Content is provided for your personal, noncommercial teaching and research use. You may not copy, publish, post, distribute, display, perform, or otherwise make available any of the Content protected by copyright, except as may be permitted under fair use or another copyright law exemption. If you wish to make any such use of the Content, you must obtain permission from the copyright holder, which may be Harvard or another party. Please contact the Associate Director, Public Services.
Some of the Content may be subject to other restrictions - for example, those imposed by a license agreement. You must comply with any other restrictions and terms of use that are identified in connection with particular Content.
In accessing VIA, you agree to use the Content only in accordance with copyright law and any other identified restrictions, and you assume all liability for any copyright infringement caused by your use. Some information on copyright law and fair use for members of the Harvard community can be found at:
http://ogc.harvard.edu/copyright_docs/copyright_and_fair_use.php