Treasure
Miniature Worlds
How “paper peepshows” brought distant realms to life
by Nina Pasquini
Headquarters
Artemas Ward, A.B. 1748, A.M. '51, lay ill in bed on April 19, 1775, as embattled farmers fired the shot heard round the world. But when a...
A Box of Pox
Benjamin Waterhouse, M.D. (hon.) 1786, called smallpox the "devouring monster." Today it is the only naturally occurring disease...
Ladakhi Ladies
These figures of women, each about 18 inches tall, hail from Ladakh, a region of Kashmir and one of earth's highest places. Wearing traditional...
Korean Gentleman
"Korean scholars of Korean art consider our newly acquired Bamboo through the Four Seasons to be the most important Korean literati screen...
A Place Like Home
Nettie Naumburg died in 1930 and left to Harvard Rembrandt's Portrait of an Old Man, a Franz Hals, a Rubens, a Holy Family by Murillo, a small...
Superlative Surfaces
A Muslim performs ritual prayer, the salåt, five times a day, and pays attention to certain prescribed obligations while doing so...
Love Story
"Was introduced to Miss Kate Loring, a most charming and lovely girl....I danced with her twice or three times, and found her very...
Why Do Yellow Birds Sing?
A plant of modest beauty and legendary elusiveness, Shortia galacifolia, called Oconee bells or little coltsfoot, is a woodland, evergreen...
Arctic Art
How Cape Dorset became the Inuit art capital of the world
Women, Working
When Harvard Business School's Baker Library amassed the bulk of its manuscript collection in the first half of the twentieth century, curators...