| The Archives collects materials that document the student experience at
Harvard. These can include documents that are contemporary with an individual's
status as a student, as well as later recollections or reflections on the
student years. Topics of interest include academic, athletic, artistic, social,
and political activities.
Types of materials that the University Archives collects:
- Diaries, memoirs, commentaries, and fictional or humorous accounts of
student life
- Expense books
- Correspondence
- Scrapbooks
- Lecture notes and course assignments
- Lab notebooks
- Still images - photographs (analog and digital), drawings, and
paintings of campus scenes and life, including interior views of dormitories
and student rooms, and pictures documenting student dress
- Motion pictures - films and video recordings (analog and
digital)
- Sound recordings (analog and digital)
- Web sites
Ephemera and memorabilia for student events and activities
- Posters, flyers, announcements, tickets, programs
- T-shirts
- Buttons, pins, medals
- Certificates of membership in student organizations
Materials that the University Archives generally does not collect:
- Trophies and plaques
- Diplomas
All materials are subject to review by University Archives staff. In
addition, the University Archives reserves the right to decline materials when
their physical composition or condition may be hazardous to the health or
safety of Archives staff or holdings (e.g. cellulose nitrate film or
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Donation information
Please contact the
Associate University Archivist for Collection Development,
at 617-495-2461.
Leavitt & Peirce, view of storefront with Harvard students, 1947
(HUP-SF Leavitt & Peirce (1))
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