In the fall, the Harvard Library community welcomed newly inaugurated Harvard University President, Lawrence S. Bacow, with an exhibit at Widener celebrating the people, moments, and movements that have shaped the university.
Pulling from Harvard Library’s Special Collections and Archives, the exhibit displays an array of materials that span space and time. An anti-war poster of women soldiers in Vietnam hangs next to the Graduate School of Design’s first student publication, giving viewers a glimpse into the breadth and scope of materials housed across the library.
For the duration of the exhibit, the Widener Library Gallery will showcase images of 16th century illuminated manuscripts, 17th century legal proceedings, 18th century ship logs, 19th century photographs, and 20th century scientific observations, among many other archival materials on display.
Images are drawn from the following library collections: Arnold Arboretum Library, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Berenson Library, Countway Library of Medicine, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Harvard University Archives, Harvard Law School Library, Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Baker Library, and Frances Loeb Library.
The extraordinary treasures housed by these libraries can be used in person and increasingly online.
“As a historian, as fun as it is to find stuff that no other scholar has ever seen before, you don’t want that stuff to be lost to other scholars." Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper’ 41 Professor of American History
![Image of Emerson-White's illuminated "Book of Hours," for the use of Rome [from Valenciennes, Bruges and Ghent] ca. 1480](/sites/default/files/styles/content_embed/public/%20Emerson-White%20Hours%2C%20for%20the%20use%20of%20RomeHoughton.jpg?itok=aBpk40pg)
