These “heavenly scented” towelettes are just one example of recently cataloged objects found in the Fredric Woodbridge Wilson Collection of Theater, Dance, and Music in the Harvard Theatre Collection. In addition to hot pepper candy and a rubber pencil other examples include…
Let’s Go to the Hop
[Thanks to Ward Project Music Cataloger Andrea Cawelti for contributing this post] You know your Friday afternoon is looking up when you open a 19th century dance treatise and stumble across the phrase “first, give all the ladies a vegetable….” An early donation by the late John Milton Ward, Charles Périn’s wonderful guide to the…