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The Emily Dickinson Collection

Houghton Library's Emily Dickinson Collection preserves more than 1,000 autograph poems and some 300 letters.

Digital Scores and Libretti

Loeb Music Library's digital collection of scores and libretti, selected for their rare or unique natures and their popularity as objects of research and teaching.

Women at Harvard Collections

Personal and professional archives documenting the impact and impressions that women have made at Harvard and beyond.

Middle East and Islamic Photographs

The Fine Arts Library's Middle East and Islamic photo collection documents Islamic art and architecture, as well as ethnographic views that provide cultural context.

Harvard's Institutional History and Records

Over four centuries of archival and manuscript documentation of Harvard’s intellectual, cultural, social, religious, and administrative history.

The Gutenberg Bible

The first major work printed in Europe with movable metal type.
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Tour of Widener Library

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Thursday, Jun 20th, 2019
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Main Lobby, Widener Library

A Dedicated Life (Zenshin shosetsuka)

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Sennan Asbestos Disaster

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Colonial North America: Portals to the Past

Selections from Colonial North America at Harvard Library
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(Our Humanity Is) Unbroken by Bars

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New Acquisitions Spotlight: Ellen Knudson, “Intrusion”

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June 12, 2019

Colonial North America at Harvard Library

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April 18, 2019

A renovation to make Houghton Library “open to all”

Two years after its seventy-fifth anniversary, Houghton Library will have something else to celebrate: the largest renovation project in its history.

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