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Portraits of a Vanished Life
Two photo albums at Tozzer Library contain more than one thousand rare images of 19th century Native Americans, offering insight into a fading America.
Phone-a-Poem
From 1976-96, Harvard Square pedestrians entered the Phone-a-Poem installation, dialed and heard poems read by Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman and others recorded on an answering machine.
Mirror with a Memory
A University Archives exhibit explores Harvard in the Civil War through the lens of photographic processes developed in the 1860’s.
The Awesome Box
Returning something awesome to the Harvard Library? Put it in the Awesome Box. Funded by the Library Lab, the Awesome Box allows the community to see what others have found helpful, entertaining or mind-blowing.
Discover Daguerreotypes
Harvard’s photographic holdings include more than 3,500 daguerreotypes, which are gathered together in this online collection.
Edward Lear's Natural History
Edward Lear, best remembered as a whimsical nonsense poet, is revered in scientific circles as one of the greatest natural history painters who created work that informs and astonishes with a blend of scientific rigor and artistic finesse.
Harvard's Best Listeners
The Library audio team are Harvard's best listeners, who make high-end digital copies of audio artifacts, some in fragile or rare formats.
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