Tolman Index
Tolman Index of Early University Records
The Tolman Index, digitized in 2012, is available online.
This card index, compiled by Bertha Illsley Tolman, provides exhaustive name and subject entries for most University records from 1636 through the 1870s. (Records of the Treasurer are not included.) Each entry cites the precise location of a name or subject in the records (year/volume/page).
The table below identifies the records cited in the Tolman index and provides the corresponding call numbers.
Card View Abbreviations Title/Description Call Number
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UAI 5.30 OR Corp. Rec. |
Corporation Records: Minutes of the Harvard Corporation , 1643–1870+ |
UAI 5.30.2 |
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UAI 5.120 |
Corporation Papers, First Series, 1636–1825 |
UAI 5.120 VT for 1636–1799 |
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UAI 5.130 |
Corporation Papers, Second Series, 1826–1870+ |
UAI 5.130 |
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Coll.P.I. OR Col. Papers OR College Papers |
UAI 5.131 mf |
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Sup. to Col. Papers |
College Papers, First Series, Supplements to Vols. 1–7, 1626–1815 |
UAI 5.131.5 |
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2nd Series |
College Papers, Second Series, 1826–1870+ |
UAI 5.131.10 mf for Vols. 1–25, 1826–1858 |
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Overseers Records OR Ov. Rec. |
Overseers Records: Minutes of the Board of Overseers, 1707–1870+ |
UAII 5.5.2 |
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UAII 10… |
Reports of the committees of the Board of Overseers, 1650–1870+ |
Use call number as marked on Tolman card (for example, UAII 10.5) |
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Faculty Records OR Fac. Rec. OR UAIII.5.15 |
Minutes of the faculty, 1725–1870+ |
UAIII 5.5.2 |
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UAI 15.8… |
Papers of Harvard presidents |
Use call number on Tolman card (for example, UAI 15.884) |
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Lev. D. |
Diary, 1707–1723, kept by Harvard College President John Leverett |
UAI 15.866, Box 8 (transcript) |
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Sibley's Private Journal |
Diary, 1846–1882, kept by Harvard Librarian John Langdon Sibley |
HUG 1791.72 |
