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Harvard Theatre Collection’s Lincoln Assassination Playbills

15 April 2021 Posted by HL Blog Staff Collections in Focus

By Matthew Wittmann, Curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection Rather unfortunately, an evening performance of Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 is perhaps the most remarked upon theatrical event in American history. Harry Hawk, who played the “cousin” character Asa Trenchard, delivered this risible line in Act II: “Don’t know the manners Read More

A Stellar Intern

17 September 2020 Posted by HL Blog Staff Collections in Focus

By Vicki Denby, Manuscript End Processor, Technical Services Department, Houghton Library This past spring, Houghton Library Technical Services had the superluminous pleasure of working with Zoe Padilla, a senior at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS). This is the seventh consecutive year we been able to hire a paid intern from CRLS to learn about Read More

An “Old Prayer Book”, Yet Not “a ‘dull’ one”: The Liber ordinarius of Nivelles

18 August 2020 Posted by HL Blog Staff Collections in Focus Research

  By Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Department of Art & Architecture, Harvard University Edmund Bishop, the famous historian of Catholic liturgy, once posed the question: “Is the subject ‘An Old Prayer Book’ a ‘dull’ one?” Tongue-in-cheek, he replied that he would prefer the dullest form possible, namely, a tabulation of its contents, adding that “any subject Read More

Longfellow Rides Again

30 July 2020 Posted by HL Blog Staff Collections in Focus Events and Exhibitions

By Vicki Denby, Houghton Library Technical Services A Houghton Library manuscript, on loan as part of the exhibition Beyond Midnight: Paul Revere, will once again be on public view when the Concord Museum reopens on August 6, 2020.

Houghton From Home: Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Candle-lightin’ Time

17 June 2020 Posted by HL Blog Staff Collections in Focus

Paul Laurence Dunbar is one of the most celebrated American poets of the late 19th century. Dunbar was raised in Dayton, Ohio by formerly enslaved parents who were emancipated after the Civil War. He began writing poetry at the age of six and published his first poem at 16. Though he died young, Dunbar published Read More

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