By Michael Austin, Manuscript Cataloger, Houghton Library For this fourth installment of posts on the Castañé collection of material related to conflicts of the 20th century, held by Houghton Library, I wanted to wrap up our survey of items from the era of the Second World War as shown in parts One, Two, and Three….
2020 Philip Hofer Prize Winners
On April 8, 2020, three Harvard students were named winners of the Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting Books or Art. The Hofer Prize was established by Melvin R. Seiden, A.B. ‘52, L.L.B. ‘55, to encourage student interest in collecting. It is awarded annually to a student or students whose collections of books or works of art…
Announcing Houghton’s 2020-2021 New England Regional Fellowship Consortium Fellows
The New England Regional Fellowship Consortium consists of 30 major cultural agencies. Annually, NERFC offers about two dozen $5,000 grants so researchers in a broad array of fields can conduct a minimum of eight weeks of research at several participating institutions, which include Houghton Library, Baker Library, the Harvard Law School Library, and the Harvard University…