Tag: Curio
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Campus & Community
Across Harvard, art you can touch
Sculptures are dotted across campus in both public and private spaces.
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Arts & Culture
Testament to Manchukuo
A growing Harvard collection documents life and propaganda in the controversial, short-lived Asian state of Manchukuo.
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Campus & Community
Seal of approval
Harvard’s motto, Veritas, has a long — and for two centuries, invisible — history.
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Campus & Community
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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Campus & Community
Vertical Harvard
Harvard University’s early buildings hugged the ground; after two centuries, the campus began to soar.
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Campus & Community
Harry’s books
A look at the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Collection at Widener Library.
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Campus & Community
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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Campus & Community
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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Campus & Community
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.