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12/31/2021

Happy New Year’s Eve! Though kissing strangers in Times Square might not be on the cards this year, photographer Dan Weiner captured this couple in 1951 as the bell struck midnight 🎆

12/30/2021

On these snowy winter days, it is helpful to remember the beauty of the springtime, especially in The Arnold Arboretum. While The Arboretum may not be a library, it does hold thousands of items in its living “reference collections.” This one is the Carefree Beauty Rose, part of the Bradley Rosaceous Collection donated in 1985 by Eleanor Cabot Bradley 🌹

The Bradley Rosaceous Collection was renovated 10 years ago into the landscape that exists today. It’s a popular place for wedding and engagement photos – as is, incidentally, the Eleanor Cabot Bradley’s former home in Canton, Massachusetts!

12/25/2021

Merry Christmas! 🎄Held in Schlesinger Library | Radcliffe Institute | Harvard University, these three Christmas cards featuring portraits of children are a part of the papers of Mary Frederika Farley, American Red Cross Nurse and the director of the New York Home Nursing Service. Learn more and check out her papers at https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/resources/5361

12/24/2021

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse...except for some puppets! Check out the costume design for the 2016 puppet production of Nikolai Gogol's “The Night Before Christmas” at the Moscow Kotofei theater held in Houghton Library 🎄

12/22/2021

From 1930 to 1960, the United States Steel Corporation commissioned photographers around the country to document the inner workings of the company and its subsidiaries as part of a national public relations campaign 📸 From the Great Depression to the war years to the post-war boom, photography served as a persuasive tool in PR campaigns focused on promoting goodwill and a favorable attitude about policies concerning the corporation’s size, labor practices, and profit margins. In the current age of converging public relations, marketing, and social media, this collection at Baker Library provides a window into the corporation’s innovative use of photography and the emerging field of PR to galvanize public opinion -- check it out at https://www.library.hbs.edu/us-steel

12/21/2021

Modern American advertising burst onto the economic and cultural landscape after the Civil War. Capitalizing on the growing industries of advertising and printing, companies with products to sell reached wholesalers, retailers, and home consumers through media of all shapes, sizes, colors, and imagery -- including trade cards! holds more than 8,000 trade cards, over 1,100 of which are available online, representing the full range of products and businesses advertised through this medium from the 1870s through the 1890s, including Acme Soap -- check out the collection at https://library.harvard.edu/collections/advertising-ephemera

12/17/2021

Today is the 118th anniversary of the Wright brothers’ famous North Carolina flight, which was the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft ✈️Pictured is their patented plan from 1908, held in The Library of Congress and highlighted in a famous Harvard Business School case The Wright Brothers and Their Flying Machines -- check out the case at https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=39728

12/16/2021

Today is the 248th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, one of the most famous political protests in American history! The protest is memorialized by the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum, pictured here in 1986 and located in the middle of Fort Point Channel along Boston Harbor. Have you visited the museum yet? ☕

12/15/2021

Happy Holidays, Harvard! A reminder that the libraries will be closed for the holiday and winter recess. We’re wishing everybody a safe and happy holiday season. For full hours across all our libraries, check our website: https://library.harvard.edu/libraries

12/14/2021

The South Sea Bubble Research Portal offers an opportunity to explore the rich resources of , which holds one of the world’s most extensive collections relating to the 1720 financial crisis. Thanks to http://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu, you can check out the entire collection (over 4000 items!) digitized and available to view at https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/south-sea-bubble

Explore items related to the life and work of Supreme Court Justice and Harvard Law School Professor Joseph Story (1779-1845).

12/13/2021

Founded in 1902, the Monroe C. Gutman Library is the hub for Harvard Graduate School of Education students. From quiet study carrels to collaborative working spaces, Gutman Library has it all 📚