Treasure
Miniature Worlds
How “paper peepshows” brought distant realms to life
by Nina Pasquini
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...
Phantom Lowell
Photographs Courtesy of Harvard University Archives. Photograph of Bronze Statue Courtesy of the Harvard Univerxity Portrait Collection, 2003...
To the Victor...?
The curator of the Lee Family Hall of Athletic History, at the Murr Center, is Warren M. "Renny" Little ’55, a track man in his youth...