Triennial Catalogues Collection
Series: Harvard in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Collections of the Harvard University Archives
Published: 1674
Language: lat
Subjects: Education; History; Registers; Biography; Alumni and alumnae; Harvard University
Other titles: Johanni Leveretto armigero, Massachusettensis Coloniæ gubernatori: cæterisque coloniarum Nov-Anglicæ gentis dicæarchis colendissimis ... : Hasc sobolis Harvardinæ, per trium & triginia annorum spatium ad gradum aliquem in artibus admissæ catalogum
Description: The collection includes Triennial Catalogues published in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Triennial Catalogues represent the College's earliest attempt to compile a comprehensive record of its graduates for a public audience. The collection includes originals and photostat copies of Triennial Catalogues held in other institutions. Annotated Triennial Catalogues are not included in the collection.
Notes: Harvard University. Triennial Catalogues Collection, 1674-1794. HU 20.35.1, Harvard University Archives.

The Triennial Catalogues were published by the College in Latin every three years to record the names of Harvard's alumni, beginning with the Class of 1642 and continuing through Harvard's most recent graduates. The Catalogues were published as broadsides from the first in 1674 through 1773. In 1776, the Triennial Catalogue evolved into an octavo pamphlet and was published through 1875 when it was replaced with a five-year Quinquennial Catalogue that was published through 1930.

Detailed inventory available on paper in the Harvard University Archives or electronically: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:hua16010