Treasure

Tunic pattern

Treasure | July-August 2024

A Royal Tunic

Unraveling an Inca masterpiece’s secrets

by Max J. Krupnick

An historic photograph from Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library archives shows the 1936 exhibition on women scientists—in this case, folders of their published scholarship.

Treasure | January-February 2021

Conservative Curation

“Women in Science” on display

by Alona Bach

Photograph of Edo era fan depicting Mount Fuji and Mount Tsukuba on alternate sides

Treasure | November-December 2020

An Auspicious View

This folding fan enfolds two sacred mountains.

by Lydialyle Gibson

A drawing of students rebelling in a dining hall.

Treasure | September-October 2020

Rebelling and Expelling

The Class of 1823 goes rogue and gets booted.

by Jacob Sweet

Envelope of an old letter

Treasure | July-August 2020

Air Mail

A wartime life together—cut short

by Blythe Grossberg

Margaret Mee painting of yellow trumpet tree

Treasure | May-June 2020

An Amazon Artist

Botanical bounty at Dumbarton Oaks

by John S. Rosenberg

Illuminated manuscript page

Treasure | March-April 2020

“Cut Missal Up…”

Consequences of book-breaking

by Diane E. Booton

A Hasty Pudding Theatricals poster from 1910 showing a debutante curtseying

Treasure | January-February 2020

Pudding Pots & Parody

“Shingles” and other art of the Hasty Pudding from the Harvard Theatre Collection.

by Jonathan Shaw

A colorful Byzantine funerary tunic fragment depicts faces and vegetal patterns with a border of gemstones.

Treasure | November-December 2019

Byzantine Beauties

Textile treasures from Dumbarton Oaks

by John S. Rosenberg

A photograph of an eighteenth-century, three-inch pocket globe in its open case

Treasure | September-October 2019

It’s a Small World

Ebenezer Storer’s pocket globe

by Jacob Sweet

Treasure | July-August 2019

Jades, Reread

A fresh, up-close look at the Winthrop collection

by John S. Rosenberg