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Lapel Pin. UPM [Undorovskii paleontologicehskii muzei]. Metal and stone, 1981-1990

(via Soviet and Post-Soviet Lapel Pins - CURIOSity Digital Collections)

[harvardfineartslib]

Today is National Sewing Machine Day! This photograph shows a Singer sewing machine salesman demonstrating how the machine works. The Singer treadle sewing machine had a cast iron base and treadle. The machine also folded down into a cabinet.

Stephen Dingilian (left), a Singer sewing machine salesman. Sirvi-HIssar. photographs c. 1899 Armenian Repository: Project SAVE Armenian Photograph Archives, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States HOLLIS number: 8000903763

This image is part of FAL’s Digital Images and Slides Collection (DISC), a collection of images digitized from secondary sources for use in teaching and learning. FAL does not own the original artworks represented in this collection, but you can find more information at HOLLIS Images (link in bio).

[hdslibrary]

Freshly Filled Stacks!

The first aisle in our newly renovated stacks space is now full. The project to transfer our special collections back from offsite storage will take many months, but we are excited to have our old friends back again. (Sound on for the soothing sound of moveable stacks!)

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📜“The wise man is always anxious to learn, and must let go his hold of everything, putting aside his ego before he can perceive his own original reality.” 📝 -Synopsis of several discourses by James Allen intended to guide others into contemplation #JamesAllen #Books #BookShelf #BookStagram #Book #bookrecommendations #booklover #bookcommunity #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #fourroses #disaronno

[accuratepicuresofanthropologists]

Katherine Dunham, via Harvard Library’s image collection.

[thejohnmyles]

Archived: The Low End Theory

Archived: The Low End Theory

Hip-hop is built from old school music. The sampling of past jazz and soulful records is what gave hip-hop its sound. From Bob Marley, to Rick James and Aretha Franklin, no one is too “classical” to be sampled in a hip-hop album. Some of the top hip-hop songs use samples from artists that many haven’t heard before. The way these artists are able to use these samples in different ways and make…

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[headinthebox]

Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, VOL. I, II

1917

[steve-needs-a-hug]

Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (1896) + lithographs by Adrien Dauzats (Interior of the Basilica of Munich, 1844 & View of the Phasaël Tower in Jerusalem, 1846)