Physical Archives
Harvard Archival Collections
Houghton Library — The primary repository for Harvard’s rarest books. A particularly great resource for early modern research.
Cambridge and Somerville Archives
MIT Institute Archives and Special Collections
Tufts University Manuscript Collections
Other Boston Area Archives
Healey Library at UMass-Boston (OPEN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY)
Holds documents about female asylum inmates, Boston-area hospitals, other public health initiatives
Holds documents about the work of the City of Boston Public Health Commission
National Archives at Boston (Waltham, MA)
Holds documents about:
- World War II era research projects at Harvard University (Harvard Radio Labs) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Rad Lab)
- Arms manufacturing and research at the Watertown Arsenal and the Springfield Armory
Online Archives
PLEASE NOTE: ONLINE SOURCES ARE NOT PERMISSIBLE “ARCHIVES” FOR RESEARCH KICKSTARTER TASK 2.1
History of Science in Latin America and the Caribbean (Visual Archive)
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical
Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics
Images from the History of Medicine
National Library of Medicine Digital Collections
UC-San Diego Guide to Online Primary Sources in the Sciences
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