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Orderly Living
A medieval manuscript illuminates monthly guides to diet and health.
2.17.12
Tiny Brontës
Miniature manuscript books by Charlotte Brontë
12.16.11
Envy in Hand
Is this a dagger which I see before me…? Not primarily.
10.19.11
Nightmares
A new Archives website offers today’s undergraduates a useful perspective on Harvard homework, and life, in the old days.
9.1.11
Unwhole
Dysfunctional sink with body parts
6.16.11
Gilded Nut
A coconut with Bible stories
4.17.11
Out of Place?
An exhibition asks the meaning of things.
2.23.11
Good Dogs
For centuries, a simple technology permitted people to survive the Arctic.
12.16.10
Y Is for “Yell”
A sampler from the Harvard University Library’s online collection Reading: Harvard Views of Readers, Readership, and Reading History.
10.19.10
Don’t Eat Amanitas
The Farlow Library’s new online exhibits highlight the death cap mushroom and mycological illustration.
8.19.10
Click and Ka-ching
Corporate culture embraces photography.
7.1.10
Martian Grass
What lead, chromium, and oxygen can do
5.1.10
Dancing School
A professor’s passion reveals how one learned to dance in Jane Austen’s day.
3.1.10
War and Peace
A stained-glass window in Harvard’s Memorial Hall