Tag: Melissa Banta

  • Nation & World

    Artfully at rest

    A selection of Mount Auburn Cemetery’s evocative funerary sculptures and monuments is the subject of a new book by Meg Winslow and Harvard’s Melissa Banta.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Picturing Harvard’s past

    An exhibit at Pusey Library demonstrates how the first Harvard class photograph albums evolved. In the antebellum 19th century, photography was young, image technologies were changing fast (often with Boston practitioners in the lead), and Harvard students began adding the visual to the repositories of memory that for centuries had been dominated by text.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The talented Georges Doriot

    Exhibition at Harvard Business School’s Baker Library celebrates the rich career of one of the School’s most influential faculty members, Georges Doriot.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The rise, ruin of China trader

    An exhibit and companion website developed by Harvard Business School’s Baker Library shines light on the early days of trade between China and the United States.

    5 minutes