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  2. Harvard Library - Wikipedia

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    Harvard Library is the network of libraries and services at Harvard University, a private Ivy League university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard Library is the oldest library system in the United States and both the largest academic library and largest private library in the world. [4][5] Its collection holds over 20 million volumes, 400 ...

  3. Houghton Library - Wikipedia

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    Houghton Library, on the south side of Harvard Yard adjacent to Widener Library, Lamont Library, and Loeb House, is Harvard University 's primary repository for rare books and manuscripts. [1] It is part of the Harvard College Library, the library system of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The collections of Houghton Library include the ...

  4. Widener Library - Wikipedia

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    Widener Library. The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library is the centerpiece of the Harvard Library system, housing some 3.5 million books. [2] It honors 1907 Harvard College graduate and book collector Harry Elkins Widener, and was built by his mother Eleanor Elkins Widener soon after his death in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.

  5. Harvard University - Wikipedia

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    Harvard University. Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded October 28, 1636, and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Its influence, wealth, and rankings have made it one of the most ...

  6. History of Harvard University - Wikipedia

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    The history of Harvard University dates back to 1636, when Harvard College was founded in New Towne, a settlement founded six years earlier in colonial-era Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the original Thirteen Colonies. Two years later, in 1638, New Towne's name was changed to Cambridge, in honor of Cambridge, England, where many of the Colony ...

  7. Loeb Classical Library - Wikipedia

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    The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb; / loʊb /, German: [løːp]) is a series of books originally published by Heinemann in London, but is currently published by Harvard University Press. [1] The library contains important works of ancient Greek and Latin literature designed to make the text accessible to the broadest ...

  8. Tozzer Library - Wikipedia

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    Tozzer Library is the oldest library in the United States specializing in all subfields of anthropology, ethnology, and archaeology. Originally founded as the library of Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, the Library was first recognized as the Peabody Museum Library. The Museum was established in 1866 after ...

  9. Harvard Library removes human skin from book binding - AOL

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    Harvard University removed human skin from the binding of "Des Destinées de L'âme" in Houghton Library on Wednesday after a review found ethical concerns with the book's origin and history.

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