Discover on this page Baker Library resources with a connection to Native American culture and identity. Want to learn more about certain materials? Contact infoservices@hbs.edu

 

A banner that says "Native American Heritage Month" with the bell tower of Baker Library. Additional text says "Informed Leaders Start Here".

QUICK LIBRARY RESOURCES

SELECT TITLES ON NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE

Baker and Harvard Libraries have a variety of diverse titles. The inclusion of these works in our collections is closely tied to principles of equity, inclusion, belonging, and anti-racism.

 

Four book covers and titles with a connection to Native Americans

 

Use this interactive visualization of Baker and Harvard Library materials to browse select resources. Click on a book cover to request—or learn more about—the item via the library catalog, HOLLIS.

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND ARCHIVES

Special Collections and Archives collects and makes available the records of business dating from the 14th century to the present and the records of the Harvard Business School since its founding in 1908.

 

Frontispiece from Henry Villard photograph album, 1883. Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School, olvgroup12715.

SEEN AND UNSEEN: Representations of Native Americans in Art, Advertising, and Commerce

This web resource was created in connection with an exhibition curated by Kabl Wilkerson (Citizen Potawatomi Nation and PhD Student, Department of History, Harvard University) that was on view at Baker Library from November 2022-February 2023. The exhibition Seen and Unseen explored representations of Native Americans in the popular imagination through a selection of advertising trade cards, currency, illustrations, and sculpture from Baker Library Special Collections and the HBS Art and Artifacts Collection. Seen and Unseen looks at how companies, advertisers, and artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries used images of “the Indian” to promote the railroad, market specific messages, or sell a range of products that included coffee and “medicinal” remedies.

Frontispiece from Henry Villard photograph album, 1883. Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School, olvgroup12715.