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  2. Harvard Library - Wikipedia

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    Harvard Library's online catalog, HOLLIS, [13] a bacronym for "Harvard On-Line Library Information System", is named after him. In 1841, with space limited in Harvard Hall, the library was moved to Gore Hall in 1841. In 1912, the library moved again after Gore Hall became unsuitable, and the library was moved into multiple buildings with some ...

  3. Tozzer Library - Wikipedia

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    Tozzer Library and the Peabody Museum remained closely connected and are still connected to this day. In the early 1980s, Tozzer Library began entering bibliographic records into HOLLIS, Harvard’s online library catalog, and in 1986, the Library completed the transition from card catalog to HOLLIS. The separate subject cataloguing system ...

  4. Villa I Tatti - Wikipedia

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    Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies is a center for advanced research in the humanities located in Florence, Italy, and belongs to Harvard University. It houses a collection of Italian primitives, and of Chinese and Islamic art, as well as a research library of 140,000 volumes and a collection of 250,000 photographs.

  5. Thomas Hollis (1659–1731) - Wikipedia

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    In 1726, he also endowed the Hollis Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy with the same amount. Hollis also convinced his younger brothers, John and Nathaniel, to contribute substantially to Harvard and thus helped establish a legacy of civil and religious liberty across the Massachusetts Bay Colony decades before the American Revolution.

  6. Widener Library - Wikipedia

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    The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, housing some 3.5 million books, [2] is the centerpiece of the Harvard Library system. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Hollis - Wikipedia

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    USS Hollis, a US Navy destroyer escort; Hollis Chair of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy, an endowed professorship at Harvard University; Hollis Professor of Divinity, an endowed chair at Harvard University; HOLLIS, acronym for Harvard Library's online catalog

  9. Thaddeus William Harris - Wikipedia

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    His father, Thaddeus Mason Harris, was a Unitarian minister who served at the church on Meeting House Hill and had also for a time served as librarian of Harvard. Harris himself received his undergraduate degree at Harvard in 1815, and then went on to study medicine there, receiving his M.D. in 1820. He went into medical practice with Amos ...