Eighty-five Aromatic Years In Harvard Square by Catharine K. Wilder

Eighty-five Aromatic Years In Harvard Square By Catharine K. Wilder, 1968 A​ ​tiny​ island exists today in Harvard Square about which the poet Robert Hillyer, Harvard ’17, writes: Not all goes up in smoke, here smoke appears To give stability in changing years​. Leavitt & Peirce, whose name evokes a host of blue haze memories,…

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The Riverside Press by James Duncan Phillips

The Riverside Press By James Duncan Phillips Vice President And Treasurer Of Houghton Mifflin Company Read 27 April, 1926   I​n​ Hawthorne’s House of Seven Gables he makes that delightfully simple old character, Uncle Venner, say, “In two or three years longer, I shall think of putting aside business and retiring to my farm. That’s…

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Café Algiers: A hidden gem with a long history

by Ruth Hobeika After almost five decades in Harvard Square — at 40 Brattle Street, home of the Brattle Theatre — this much beloved international style coffeehouse shuttered on August 31. The final decision was reached August 25 after negotiations between the land-lord, who cancelled the lease, and original owner Emil Durzi fell through. “It…

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Cambridge, A Pioneer Home Of Electronics

By Harold B. Richmond*Read October 28, 1952 A​s​ a sort of Christmas present last year, my very good friend and a distinguished citizen of Cambridge, the late Elmer A. Noden, appeared one day in my office to inquire if I would be the next speaker at the Cambridge Club and talk on the general subject…

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Early Cambridge Newspapers

By George Grier Wright, 1928 This article can be found in the Proceedings of the Cambridge Historical Society Volume 20, from the years 1927-1929. In the fall of 1839 two school boys, Peter L. Cox, aged fifteen years, and his brother Henry S., aged twelve years, conceived the idea of publishing a weekly paper for…

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The Remarkable John “Jack” Emerson: Founder of the J. H. Emerson Company

By Daphne Abeel, 2005 When Will and George Emerson begin to talk about their family background and their father, who founded the J. H. Emerson Company, they mention somewhat offhandedly that they are descended from a brother of Ralph Waldo Emerson and that their paternal grandfather was related to the artist Maxfield Parrish. But it…

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George G Wright Collection Records, 1814 – 1930

Administrative Information Biographical Sketch Related Collections Sources Scope and Content Note Library of Congress Subject Headings Series Description and Folder Listing 5 Record Cartons, 164 bound volumes Processor: Megan Cox 41 linear feet Date: April 2006 Revised: November 2006 Acquisition: Will of George G. Wright, 1928 Access: There are restrictions on several original items in…

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