Treasure

Two bare-knuckle boxers fight in a ring, surrounded by onlookers in 19th-century attire.

England’s First Sports Megastar

A collection of illustrations capture a boxer’s triumphant moment. 

by Nell Porter-Brown

Photograph of Edo era fan depicting Mount Fuji and Mount Tsukuba on alternate sides

An Edo-era dazzler from Harvard Art Museums exhibit

This folding fan enfolds two sacred mountains.

by Lydialyle Gibson

A drawing of students rebelling in a dining hall.

The much-shrunken class of 1823

The Class of 1823 goes rogue and gets booted.

by Jacob Sweet

Envelope of an old letter

A World War II love story from the Schlesinger Library archives

A wartime life together—cut short

by Blythe Grossberg

Margaret Mee painting of yellow trumpet tree

Rainforest flora images by Margaret Mee

Botanical bounty at Dumbarton Oaks

by John S. Rosenberg

Illuminated manuscript page

Rare books at risk

Consequences of book-breaking

by Diane E. Booton

A Hasty Pudding Theatricals poster from 1910 showing a debutante curtseying

Harvard Treasure: Hasty Pudding Posters

“Shingles” and other art of the Hasty Pudding from the Harvard Theatre Collection.

by Jonathan Shaw

A colorful Byzantine funerary tunic fragment depicts faces and vegetal patterns with a border of gemstones.

Byzantine Beauties

Textile treasures from Dumbarton Oaks

by John S. Rosenberg

A photograph of an eighteenth-century, three-inch pocket globe in its open case

A pocket globe at the Harvard Archives

Ebenezer Storer’s pocket globe

by Jacob Sweet

Jenny F. So reinterprets Harvard’s Winthrop collection

A fresh, up-close look at the Winthrop collection

by John S. Rosenberg

Clay—Modeling African Design exhibit

Pliable arts from across the continent

by Marina N. Bolotnikova