Archives of Harvard students, alumni/ae, and organizations provide a detailed look at student scholastic and extracurricular interests, as well as their family and social lives.

Centered on the papers of physicist Andrei Sakharov, with extensive material on Sakharov's scientific career, personal life, and human rights activities, as well as the papers of other human rights activists.

The Fine Arts Library and Harvard-Yenching Library holds rubbings of objects that date from the Qin Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty.

The world’s largest private collection of material on altered states of mind.

This collection includes a variety of materials from selected expeditions between 1626 and 1953.

A unique resource for the study of modern Iranian history.