Treasure
A Harvard Art Museums Painting Gets a Bath
Water and sunlight help restore a modern American classic.
"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...
Landmark Globes
"The northern hemispheres were almost black from dirt," says David A. Cobb, head of the Harvard Map Collection, referring to a...
Genji in Love
Photograph courtesy of Harvard University Art Museums © President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeJust as a pair of Mandarin ducks, a symbol...
Lapeliana
Five hundred and ninety-nine buttons, pins, badges, and ribbons, the cinders of old strife, lie at Houghton Library in three linear feet of...
Wintergreen for President
Images courtesy of the Harvard Theatre Collection When the Harvard Band trots onto the football field at halftime this fall, it will...
Immortal Hands
The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute possesses this plaster cast of two clasped hands, a woman's and a man's. The plaster bears...
The Great Refractor
On a commanding hillock less than a mile northwest of Harvard Square sits the Harvard College Observatory and the Great Refractor, shown here...
Snug in Seal
The inhabitants of Japan's northernmost island enjoy cold that pierces and snow that blows, but the indigenous Ainu woman who possessed this...
Royal Digits
How did the Historical Collection in Radiology at the Countway Library of Medicine come to include the x-rays shown here of a man with a...