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Mira Nair Archives
Radcliffe Institute

Filmmaker Mira Nair Donates Archive Collection to Harvard's Schlesinger Library

Filmmaker and director Mira Nair ’79 donated her professional archive — including photographs, film scripts, and journals —  to the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study’s Schlesinger Library.

Houghton Library
Libraries

Harvard Library Reopens Physical Spaces to Non-University Affiliates

The Harvard Library reopened its physical spaces to visiting researchers and special borrowers last week for the second time since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Appleton Chapel, ca. 1879
Memorial Church

Appleton Chapel, ca. 1879

Appleton Chapel circa 1879. The Chapel was built in 1858, and stood for 73 years until its razing in 1931 to make space for today's Memorial Church.

Soviet Archives 1
Libraries

Soviet Archives 1

Soviet Archives 2
Libraries

Soviet Archives 2

SJP Sanders Theatre
Archives

SJP Sanders Theatre

A chorus pounded the walls of Sanders Theatre: “U.S. out of Southeast Asia; butchers out of Harvard!”

SJP Counter Teach-In Advertisement
Archives

SJP Counter Teach-In Advertisement

Laszlo Pasztor Jr. ’73, another SJP member, advertised the event in The Crimson as “an attempt to combat the overwhelming prevalence of ‘force-fed’ antiwar feeling at Harvard.”

SJP Cartoon
Archives

SJP Cartoon

A political cartoon published a couple days after the Counter Teach-In in the Boston Herald Traveler.

SJP Headband
Archives

SJP Headband

A headband worn by SDS members at the Counter Teach-In

Schlesinger Library
Harvard Law School

Grandson of Famous Korean Activist Withdraws Archival Donation Plans in Protest of Professor’s ‘Comfort Women’ Paper

The grandson of a Korean independence activist withdrew his offer to donate family historical archives to Harvard’s Schlesinger Library in anger over the University’s failure to respond to a professor’s controversial paper on the issue of “comfort women.”

Prototype of Patient Isolation Hood
Archives

Prototype of Patient Isolation Hood

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital tested a prototype of a Patient Isolation Hood designed and constructed by Graduate School of Design faculty and staff, in coordination with the MGB Center for COVID Innovation.

UC Headspace Partnership
Archives

UC Headspace Partnership

The Undergraduate Council voted to fund a partnership with the meditation and mindfulness app Headspace. The body will be providing free 1-year subscriptions to 1,030 students to help the student body cope with the difficult circumstances created by COVID-19.

Old Image of Harvard Yard
Archives

Old Image of Harvard Yard

In an old photograph of Harvard Yard, University Hall and various First-year Dorms can be observed.

Painting of Masked People
Archives

Painting of Masked People

Cambridge resident Emily Ottinger submitted several paintings to the collection, including this one, she created based on photos of masked people around Cambridge and Boston.

JFK Visits Proposed Site for Library
Politics

JFK Visits Proposed Site for Library

President John F. Kennedy ‘40 motions with his arm towards the proposed site of his future Presidential Library, along the banks of the Charles River in Boston, with Eliot House and Dunster House visible in the horizon.

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