Historical Collections
Collections
Harvard Business School Archives
- Includes published and unpublished materials that trace the history of HBS from its founding in 1908 to the current day
- Rich in photographs that vividly capture HBS, including faculty members, students, the campus, and special events
Baker Old Class Collection
- Unique arrangement of the collection brings together books, periodicals, and pamphlets organized by industry
- Includes trade publications, government documents, corporate histories and publications, and business directories from ca. 1840 to 1971
- Includes the Human Relations Collection which consists of a wide variety of works on personnel management, industrial psychology and personality.
Business Manuscripts Collection
- Approximately 1,400 collections of original business manuscripts from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries
- Subjects include agriculture, transportation services, manufacturing industries, and marketing and financial services
Kress Collection of Business and Economics
- Rare books, pamphlets, broadsides, manuscripts, and prints, from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries with traditional strengths in economic philosophy, political economy, commerce, and business history
- Digital facsimile images of a portion of the Kress Collection available through The Making of the Modern World
- Includes the personal papers of H.S. Foxwell, lecturer and teacher of political economy and a book collector of economic literature
Historic Corporate Reports Collection
- Includes annual reports, prospectuses, proxies, registration statements, and miscellaneous items such as brokerage-house reports and unpublished corporate histories from 1820 to the present day
- Documents approximately 20,000 companies
Photograph Collections
- Over 22,000 images of factories, equipment, techniques, processes, and people at work in industrial settings
- photographs relating to U.S. industry as well as business operations in Central and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia
R. G. Dun & Co. / Dun & Bradstreet Collections
- First commercial credit reporting agency in America
- R. G. Dun & Company manuscript credit reports on individuals and firms from the United States, Canada, and some foreign countries, 1840s-1890s. Information on the duration of the business, net worth, sources of wealth, and the character and reputation of the owners, their partners, and successors.
- Dun & Bradstreet records including correspondence, legal records, financial and administrative records, publications, and audio-visual materials concerning Dun & Bradstreet and its predecessor companies, 1840s-1990s