This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Whole Grains is a book edited by Art Spiegelman and Bob Schneider that is composed entirely of quotes. Even the introduction is just another collection of quotes without any explanatory prose. The book is made up of four Read More
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Wesley’s War Tableaux
While cataloging American Civil War broadsides, I found this playbill advertising Wesley’s War Tableaux, to be presented in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the Lyceum Hall from February 23-25 [1863]. Moving panoramas were large painted scenes on rolls of canvas, framed by a proscenium to hide the mechanism; they were unwound from one roll to another, to Read More
Houghton Participates in School-to-Work Program
For the third consecutive year, we have had the opportunity to hire a paid intern from the Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School (CRLS) to learn about our work by helping end-process our collections. Through this program the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) coordinates with the Cambridge Office of Workforce Development, Harvard Read More
Hidden Collections: sheet music
I’m delighted to report that Houghton has just received a grant to survey sheet music collections across the Harvard Library system. This welcome support comes to us through Harvard’s “Open Your Hidden Collections” program, funded by the Arcadia Foundation. Regular readers of our blog will sense the glee behind this announcement: as I’ve written here Read More
Freaks, Geeks, and Strange Girls
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Whether you think of sideshow banners as art or advertisement there is no denying their “wow” factor. Freaks, geeks & strange girls : sideshow banners of the Great American Midway is an anthology of perspectives on the Read More