Treasure
Miniature Worlds
How “paper peepshows” brought distant realms to life
by Nina Pasquini
Audience Response
George Pierce Baker had been teaching playwriting in English 47 when he had an epiphany: No critical comment from a professor could possibly be...
Shots in the Dark
The Z closet in Houghton Library is called that because Z is not used in the accession codes for the ordinary run of items in the collection:...
Hope in Jars
Photographs by Jim Harrison Herbs, roots, spices, ointments, lohochs, electuaries, syrups, aromatic waters, et cetera, et cetera—the...
Money Rules
The legend on the engraving Gellt Zeucht die Weltt, below, sums up the message of the exhibition Coin and Conscience: Popular Views of Money...
Cosmopolitan Horse
Photograph courtesy of Harvard University Art Museums Vital, handsome, standing four-square, its tail raised, neck arched, head lifted...
Word to Live By
Hiram S. Hunn ’21 came to Cambridge in 1931 to celebrate his tenth reunion. In Harvard Yard he discovered workmen razing Appleton Chapel...
In Bronze for Posterity
A bust of Werner Jaeger (1888-1961) presides over the common room of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. He is...
The Body, Revealed
One of the most consequential and beautiful medical books ever published, Andreas Vesalius’s De Humani Corporis Fabrica (“On the...
"More News to Come..."
John James Audubon described the stentorian voice of the ivory-billed woodpecker in his Ornithological Biography, prose descriptions of the...
Life in Shadows
The Harvard Theater Collection has recently acquired from a London dealer a unique set of 124 miniature Indonesian shadow puppets and the gongs...