‘Missing’ Images for Catalogs and Finding Aids Written by Alice West This post is the sixth in a series about the Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection written by the project’s staff in the Digital Images and Slides Collections of the Fine Arts Library. Previously, we talked about an important subset…
Late Ottomania in the Fine Arts Library’s Binney Collection
Written by Gavin Moulton (Class of 2020) As a student assistant in the Fine Arts Library, I spent the Spring semester diving into the prints of the library’s recently acquired Edwin Binney 3rd Collection of Orientalist Prints. This collection is an unparalleled resource for the study of Western and Central European perceptions of the Ottoman…
Coloring Book from the Welch Collection
By popular demand, and to brighten your quarantines, the Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection has come out with a coloring book! These images are all from this fantastic open-access collection, and we hope you’ll have fun with it. Feel free to use the links in the coloring book to see the…
Stuart Cary Welch Islamic & South Asian Photograph Collection – Part 5. Overview: Islamic Art in Private Collections
This post is the fifth in a series about the Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection written by the project’s staff and student catalogers in the Digital Images and Slides Collections of the Fine Arts Library. Written by Alice West. The importance of our open access Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South…
András Riedlmayer puts this war crime on the map
“… if you really want to make a librarian mad, burn down a library.” András Riedlmayer, Bibliographer in Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard’s Fine Arts Library, made this comment when asked why he undertook his project to collect, preserve and publicize evidence of the destruction of cultural heritage in the Balkan wars of the…
Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection – Pt. 4
This post is the fourth in a series about the Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection written by the project’s staff and student catalogers in the Digital Images and Slides Collections of the Fine Arts Library. Written by Nicolas Roth The Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection is…
Announcement: Explore our Stuart Cary Welch Islamic & South Asian Photograph Collection!
You’re invited to share in a project with us here at the Harvard Fine Arts Library: a digital humanities game using images of Islamic and South Asian art, with the chance to win an art publication of your choice, worth up to $150 USD! For more information about The Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection, see…
Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection – Pt. 3
This post is the third in a series about the Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection written by the project’s staff and student catalogers in the Digital Images and Slides Collections of the Fine Arts Library. Written by Logan Heiman The Stuart Cary Welch South Asian Photograph Collection is a collection…
Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection – Pt. 2
Written by Bronwen Gulkis This post is the second in a series about the Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection written by the project’s staff and student catalogers in the Digital Images and Slides Collections of the Fine Arts Library. Before the widespread availability of high-quality digital images, patrons at the Fine…
Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection: Part I
This post is the first in a series about the Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection written by the project’s staff and student catalogers in the Digital Images and Slides Collections of the Fine Arts Library. Written by Alejandra Dean In the basement of Lamont Library, a little-known collection is poised to…