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Harry Elkins Widener remembered

10 November 2009 John Overholt Events and Exhibitions

Our newest online exhibition examines two crucial figures in the history of the Harvard College Library, Harry Elkins Widener, and his mother Eleanor, who gave Harvard both Harry’s outstanding collection of books and manuscripts, and the library that memorializes him.

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