Each year, Houghton awards visiting fellowships to support scholars whose research requires the use of Houghton collections. We are pleased to announce the awarding of 26 fellowships for the 2010-11 fiscal year: [UPDATE: See the HCL News article on the Houghton fellowships.]…
Ward Collection gets a Second Life
To Move in Measure Jack & Elaine Whitehorn Memorial Library, Caledon Victoria City, Second Life Ward cataloger Andrea Cawelti provides a glimpse into the social dance world of the 19th century, under her Second Life nom de plume Leslie Weston. Using primary sources from the John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection at Houghton Library,…
Harvard’s Lincoln
Houghton’s newest online exhibition is Harvard’s Lincoln, which features selections from its extensive Abraham Lincoln collection. The exhibition was originally mounted in 2009, in celebration of the bicentenary of Lincoln’s birth. The collection was built primarily by two significant donations in the early decades of the twentieth century: the Alonzo Rothschild collection in 1916 and…
Ward Collection featured “Treasure” in Harvard Magazine
The Harvard Theatre Collection, part of Houghton Library, has been enriched in thousands of ways by the collecting zeal of William Powell Mason Professor of Music Emeritus John M. Ward and the late Ruth Neils Ward. Professor Ward is developing collections which reflect the uses of music in opera, ballet and social dance; his collection…
Thomas Hollis
Thomas Hollis is much on our collective mind these days. Houghton Library has recently published “From the Great Desire of Promoting Learning”: Thomas Hollis’s Gifts to the Harvard College Library by William H. Bond, Librarian of Houghton Library from 1965 until 1982. Bond’s checklist documents Hollis’s donations and illuminates his goal in spreading the political…
Reading
What do John Keats’s Shakespeare, Wordsworth’s library catalog, and Victor Hugo’s commonplace book have in common with primers and spellers and other historical materials on learning to read? Each item is among the 1,200 books and manuscripts–comprising more than 250,000 web-accessible pages–now discoverable online in Reading: Harvard Views of Readers, Readership, and Reading History. Developed…
Picturing Prayer featured
Houghton’s website Picturing Prayer (see this previous post) was among those featured at Harvard College Library’s recent Digital Humanities Fair, an event designed to familiarize Harvard faculty and researchers with a few of the many online resources at their disposal. The Picturing Prayer website attracted considerable interest and suggestions were made about how to improve…
Islamic Heritage Project
Hundreds of Islamic books and manuscripts from throughout Harvard University collections, including nearly 500 items from Houghton Library, have now been fully digitized and made available to scholars worldwide. The Islamic Heritage Project, one of several major digitization initiatives from Harvard’s Open Collections Program, encompasses more that 145,000 pages of material, in a wide variety…