Treasure
Miniature Worlds
How “paper peepshows” brought distant realms to life
by Nina Pasquini
The Table Is Set
For the installation of its twenty-seventh president, Harvard displayed on a stage set up at the front of Tercentenary Theatre various sacred...
Down East Dazzlers
One day in 1820 amateur naturalists Elijah Hamlin and Ezekiel Holmes were poking around on a hill in Paris, Maine, in the southwestern part...
Ball of Mystery
The United Fruit Company planted huge quantities of bananas in Costa Rica in the 1930s. Workers clearing tropical forests in the Diquís...
Saved from the Flames
"Last night Harvard College suffered the most ruinous loss it ever met with since its foundation," begins a broadside printed in...
A Roomful of Masterworks
Museum masterpieces
Show-offs
Bejeweled wings
The Crimson Party
Braced for the outcome
Musick Makers
From Hurdy-gurdy to the serpent's voice
"Chinese" Wilson, Shutterbug
The legendary explorer was at home behind the camera. Barging on the seine this summer? Don't forget your plant-hunting gear and your...
Enduring Duck
This rare bird is a bronze ewer made in China in the Warring States period (481-221 B.C.), a time so called because the Zhou dynasty had lost...