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An illustration of a wearied author celebrating the completion of his book, from the final page of Henry Bristow’s A glossary of mineralogy (1861).

Full text available here.

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For the fiscal year 2020-21, Houghton Library is focusing its digitization efforts on a project called “Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom,” making accessible rare books and manuscripts from our collection on Black American history. Now that we’re several months in to the project, we’ll be sharing some items have been fully digitized.

Steward, Austin, 1794-1860. Twenty-two years a slave, and forty years a freeman; embracing a correspondence of several years, while president of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West. Rochester, N.Y., W. Alling, 1857.

US 5274.106

Houghton Library, Harvard University

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Screencaps from A Man Called Adam (1966). Starring Sammy Davis Jr., Louis Armstrong, Ossie Davis, Cicely Tyson, Frank Sinatra Jr., Peter Lawford, Mel Torme and Lola Falana. Leo Penn, dir.

A jazz trumpeter deals with bigotry in society and his personal demons. So very moving.

Illustrations courtesy of loveless422, classicladiesofcolor, sammydavisjunior and phasesphrasesphotos

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#RIPCicelyTyson

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Greta Garbo.

Anna Karina.

chop chop chop – animated by Obarski / @nicesausages

Pierre de Hangest, Les Omelies Saint Grégoire pape, Bruges c. 1470

BL, Royal 15 D V, fol. 26r

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I love Discarding Images. They’re on Instagram, too: @discardingimages.

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book of hours, Metz c. 1295

Metz, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 1588, fol. 139v

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Some notable works by John Singer Sargent - from top:

El Jaleo (1882);

Fumee d'Ambre Gris (Smoke of Ambergris), (1880);

Nonchaloir (Repose), (1911);

The Israelites Oppressed, (1895) - Mural outside the Abbey Room at the Boston Public Library.

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Reposting because I love Sargent’s work.

#John Singer Sargent #El Jaleo #Boston Artists

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The procession of the months: the verses by Beatrice Crane; the designs by Walter Crane, [1889].

Typ 8302.89.10

Houghton Library, Harvard University.

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What is whiteness? Naima Lowe uses simple text to pose complex questions about race. How do we understand whiteness and how is whiteness framed?

This artists’ book entitled “Thirty-nine [39] questions for white people” examines the construct of racial identity and perception by shifting the perspective from the minority to the majority.

Thirty-nine [39] questions for white people Author / Creator: Lowe, Naima N. [1st edition]: Published: Olympia, WA: Danger Dot Publishing : Printed at Community Print, 2013. 40 index cards ; 13 x 20 cm. + in portfolio Summary “[A]rt piece and rare book that insists that readers reflect on the complexity of race, and the privilege to not have to notice it”–Danger Dot Publishing website, viewed on October 20, 2014. English

Each page of this limited edition, forty-page, loose-leaf book, was hand inked and hand typed at a small collectively run print shop in Olympia, WA. Limited edition of 40 sets signed and numbered by the artist.