Featured series 
Tag: Curio
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Nation & World
Across Harvard, art you can touch
Sculptures are dotted across campus in both public and private spaces.
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Taking the stairs
Stairways inhabit the spaces where we live and work. Whether they’re tucked into cavities in the wall or suspended in grand ceremonial style for all to see, we travel along their treads.
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Testament to Manchukuo
A growing Harvard collection documents life and propaganda in the controversial, short-lived Asian state of Manchukuo.
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Seal of approval
Harvard’s motto, Veritas, has a long — and for two centuries, invisible — history.
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For those with a head for history
A sample in images from the abundance of hats — Panama, pillbox, porkpie, and more — in Harvard’s holdings.
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Vertical Harvard
Harvard University’s early buildings hugged the ground; after two centuries, the campus began to soar.
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Harry’s books
A look at the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Collection at Widener Library.
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Ties to the past
We all know how hard it is to get your hands around the past. So why not put the past around your neck?
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Tiny stages, grand creativity
The Harvard Theatre Collection is among the oldest and largest of its kind in the world. Within the climate-controlled subterranean reaches of Houghton Library are shelves, drawers, and boxes full of theater, dance, movie, and music items.
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Signature signatures
Long, tall, short, and small, the signatures of the famous are housed in many Harvard albums and archives.
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Taking talking leaves
There are those Harvard curios that are fleeting and ephemeral and free: principally the fallen leaves that every autumn tourists and passers-by tuck into pockets and bags as mementos of a place, Harvard Yard, that shimmers with meaning and history.
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The things they carried
We get close to long-dead great writers by reading the works they left behind. But there is another way, which can be just as electric and emotional: to see or touch or just be near artifacts from their writing lives.
