Posts Tagged ‘Harvard Square’
Printing In Cambridge Since 1800
by Norman Hill White, Jr., 1920 This article can be found in the Proceedings of the Cambridge Historical Society Volume 15, from the years 1920-1921. From 1692, when Samuel Green retired as manager of the college press, there was no printing done in Cambridge for over a hundred years, except that done by the brothers…
Read MoreEighty-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,…
Read MoreCafé 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…
Read MoreSeries I: John Hicks House
Links to all the Postcard Collection gallery pages and the Finding Aid can be found by clicking here. *Postcard was used.
Read MoreSeries I: Harvard Square
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Read MoreSeries I: First Unitarian Church
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Read MoreSeries I: Christ Church
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Read MoreSeries I: Larz Anderson Bridge
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Read MoreThe Harvard Square Defense Fund Records, 1979−2007
This collection has been transferred to the Cambridge Historical Commission. For more information about accessing the collection, please contact them at 617-349-4683. Administrative information Historical Sketch Sources Scope and Content Note Library of Congress Subject Headings Series Descriptions and Folder Listings Extent: 20 cartons6 linear feetProcessors: Andrew Pennison, Spring 2017 Acquisition: The Harvard Square…
Read MoreCommentary on Radical Protests in the 1960s
by Stephen Kaiser, reprinted from Cambridge Day If the really radical protesting began in 1967, here we are having an historical reunion of sorts fifty years later. In Cambridge, I was the editor of the Catalyst, the newspaper of the Graduate Student Council at MIT. I covered two of the Harvard Square riots, as I…
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