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The U.S. Army's 24th Infantry Regiment, an African-American regiment, arriving at Camp Wikoff in Montauk, New York, 1898
Roosevelt Class No. 560.3, Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
A Houghton Library project to digitize thousands of African-American records and artifacts
7.15.20
Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
Photograph courtesy of the Brigham and Women's Hospital Archives
Fall semester interrupted, a century ago
6.23.20
This 1895 map of New York City was created by socialist activist Walter Vrooman, who hoped that by showing the "concrete socialism" of every street, park, school, public building, and public dock in red (and allowing private enterprises to recede into the white background), he might persuade readers that the rest of the map should be socialist as well.
From the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center/Boston Public Library
Curator Garrett Dash Nelson ’09 on the Boston Public Library’s exhibition of “persuasive cartography”
6.17.20
Permission to reproduce image from the Earhart Papers granted by the Earhart family. Image courtesy of Schlesinger Library
A wartime life together—cut short
July-August 2020
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(1 of 4) Crabapple specimens, with views of Boston, on Peters Hill
Photograph by Jon Hetman/Courtesy of the Arnold Arboretum
Summertime at the Arnold Arboretum
July-August 2020
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(1 of 5) Untitled, Toni Morrison, 2006 by Robert McCurdy
© Robert McCurdy/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Gift of Ian M. and Annette P. Cumming
Alumnus-commissioned paintings of global luminaries are now a landmark gift to the National Portrait Gallery.
5.27.20
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(1 of 3) Lawman Captain Harry Love and two of his California Rangers (the state’s first law-enforcement agency), circa 1853
Photograph courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum
“Gold Rush: Daguerreotypes of Early California,” at the Peabody Essex Museum
May-June 2020
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(1 of 3) Exhibits, like this replica of a textile-mill floor, reveal long days of grueling work on dangerous mill machinery.
Photograph courtesy of the Museum of Work & Culture
Woonsocket’s historic French-Canadian community
May-June 2020
