Harvard University, Houghton Library, Modern Books and ManuscriptsHoughton Library, Harvard Yard, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138

Harvard University, Houghton Library, Modern Books and Manuscripts

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The Modern Books & Manuscripts Collection encompasses materials in all formats dating from 1800 to the present. The department has responsibility for approximately 9.5 million manuscripts and 250,000 rare books and serials, many with important associations, plus substantial numbers of printed ephemera, photographs, drawings, paintings, and objects. While the focus of the collection is on the literature and history of Europe and the Americas, it also includes large holdings of Arabic, Indic, and Syriac manuscripts. (The corresponding printed collections are largely held at Widener Library.) In addition to general strengths in American and European literature and history, there are concentrations in British, French, German, Latin American, Modern Greek, Russian, and Scandinavian literature; the history of missions, particularly those of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; the Russian Revolution; publishing history; music; and philosophy.

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Website: http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/

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Harvard University, Houghton Library, Modern Books and Manuscripts