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Harvard Student Life Collections: Arts, Sports, Politics and Social Life

Archives of Harvard students, alumni/ae, and organizations provide a detailed look at student scholastic and extracurricular interests, as well as their family and social lives.
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Judaica Digital Collection

The Judaica Collection's many digital materials document the life and culture of the Jewish people, with particular focus on life and culture in Israel.
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Chinese Rubbings Collection

The Fine Arts Library and Harvard-Yenching Library holds rubbings of objects that date from the Qin Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty.
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Middle East Posters

View more than 6,000 posters from the Middle East that offer a glimpse of twentieth century life and culture in the region.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Collection

An artist, philosopher, novelist, suffragist, and journalist, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) worked against women's inequality inside and outside the home. She wrote about the social changes she deemed necessary to achieve gender equality.
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Confronting Anti-Black Racism: Space and Design
We're highlighting content on topics relating to anti-Black racism. See the newest entry, which explores how American racial inequality is rooted in policies of displacement, exclusion, and discrimination in urban and residential spaces.
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