CURIOSity Digital Collections

Harvard Digital Collections

Artemas Ward House and Its Collections

This collection provides online access to over 6,000 images of the house, furnishings, manuscripts, photographs and related published sources, providing the opportunity … to study an important figure of the American Revolution, a nineteenth-century farm family, and a twentieth-century museum.

Chinese Rubbings Collection

More than 2000 digital images of Chinese rubbings that capture Buddhist and Daoist scriptural texts dating from the Qin Dynasty (221-207 BCE) to the Ming Dynasty … (1368-1644 CE) that were carved on stone slabs, cave walls, bronze vessels, jade, ceramics, roof tiles, and other materials. The rubbings themselves date from the Ming Dynasty to about 1940 and are highly accurate.

Contagion

This online collection offers important historical perspectives on the science and public policy of epidemiology today and contributes to the understanding of the … global, social–history, and public–policy implications of diseases.

Daguerreotypes at Harvard

Introduced by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre in 1839, the daguerreotype was the first publicly announced photographic process. This digital collection provides access to … over 3,500 daguerreotypes in libraries, museums, and archives across Harvard.

Digital Scores and Libretti

Loeb Music Library's digital collection of scores and libretti, selected for their rare or unique natures and their popularity as objects of research and teaching.

English Crime and Execution Broadsides

This collection of nearly 600 broadsides highlights crime and capital punishment, primarily in England, as seen through the popular press in the 18th and 19th century. … The examples digitized span the years 1707 to 1891 and include accounts of such crimes as arson, assault, counterfeiting, horse stealing, murder, rape, robbery, and treason.

Expeditions and Discoveries

Expeditions and Discoveries delivers maps, photographs, and published materials, as well as field notes, letters, and a unique range of manuscript materials on selected … expeditions between 1626 and 1953.

Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930

This collection documents voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the start of the Great Depression. By incorporating … diaries, biographies, and other writings capturing diverse experiences, the collected material provides a window into the lives of ordinary immigrants.

Iranian Oral History Project

The Iranian Oral History Project (IOHP) is a unique resource for the study of modern Iranian history. The collection consists of the personal accounts of 134 … individuals who played major roles in or were eyewitnesses to important political events in Iran from the 1920s to the 1980s.

Islamic Heritage Project

A multi-disciplinary digital collection of Islamic manuscripts, published texts, and maps from across Harvard's libraries and museums.

Jacques Burkhardt Scientific Drawings

Illustrations of fishes and miscellaneous vertebrates and invertebrates drawn by Louis Agassiz’s personal artist, Jacques Burkhardt, mostly produced during the Thayer … Expedition to Brazil (1865-1866).

Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection

This collection contains more than 5,000 scarce and unique pamphlets, primarily from Chile, Cuba, Bolivia and Mexico, published during the 19th and early 20th … centuries.

Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Houghton Library's collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts represents a significant resource for the study of the literature, art, history, music, … philosophy, and theology of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Western Europe.

Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature

The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature (MPCOL) provides a guide the heroic songs, conversations, and stories in the Parry Collection (1933-35), and the entire … contents of the Lord Collection (1950-51). These collections form part of MPCOL, a unique archive of materials relating to South Slavic and other Balkan oral traditions.

Reading

This collection explores the intellectual, cultural, and political history of reading as reflected in the historical holdings of the Harvard's libraries.

Scanned Maps

This collection includes thousands of the Harvard Map Collection's maps and atlases from around the world in hi-res, many of which are georeferenced.

Studies in Scarlet

Drawn from the Harvard Law School Library’s extensive trial collections, Studies in Scarlet features over 420 trial narratives involving the crimes and passions of both … renowned and ordinary people.

Women Working, 1800-1930

This collection is an exploration of women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression.

Archived Harvard University Online Course Catalogs (A-Cats) - Calendars

This database lists the academic calendars for Harvard schools from Fall 2005 forward.

Archived Harvard University Online Course Catalogs (A-Cats) - Faculty

This database lists faculty who taught courses from Fall 2005 forward. It is not a comprehensive list of all faculty at Harvard.

Archived Harvard University Online Course Catalogs (A-Cats) - Courses

This database lists courses taught at Harvard from Fall 2005 forward.

Index to Ming Dynasty Chinese Paintings

The Ming dynasty Chinese painters and paintings index is a searchable dataset that continues James Cahill's print publication "An index of early Chinese painters and … paintings: T'ang, Sung, and Yüan." The database contains artist biographies and artwork descriptions from the mid-fourteenth through mid-seventeenth centuries in China.

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