CURIOSity Digital Collections

Explore the intersections of fashion and law, both historic and modern.

Explore a pivotal moment in Black theater history through production photographs and portraits by New York Times photographer Alix Jeffry.

Materials related to Coptic language, culture, history, and the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt, ranging from 4th-century papyri and medieval chronicles to early-printed psalmodies and modern magazines.

An archival initiative to centralize serial publications of Black educator organizations during Jim Crow.

Photographs of the Women's Movement by Bettye Lane and Freda Leinwand.

Explore manuscript materials in the Harvard Library that relate to 17th- and 18th-century North America.

Rare and unique materials from Houghton library by and about Black people in the Americas, from the 18th through the beginning of the 20th century.

An exploration of women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression.

This digital collection includes scripts, musical scores, photographs, and other materials documenting Anna May Wong’s years abroad and her emergence in 1930s theatre and cinema as a global icon.

Baker Library’s collection of over 700 pieces of paper money ranging in date from 1709 to 1878.

This exhibit showcases a selection of Andrew Garrett's (1823-1887) drawings and manuscript specimen sheets of Pacific Ocean region mollusks, fish, corals, echinoderms and other invertebrates.

The first commander-in-chief of the Patriot forces.

The beauty of botany and the importance of scientific accuracy come together at the Harvard University Herbaria.

Learn about the Law Library’s Japanese collection dating from the 12th century through the 19th century.

This exhibit explores and celebrates Houston’s connection with Harvard Law School.

With over 9,600 items, Harvard-Yenching's rare book collection is one of the largest of its kind in the Western world.

The Fine Arts Library and Harvard-Yenching Library holds rubbings of objects that date from the Qin Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty.

Cities and city maps have changed dramatically over the last 500 years. Explore maps of urban design and urban planning for cities around the world from the 16th century to the present.

Celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Harvard Law School by exploring how the Harvard Law School Library preserves the school’s history.

This 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.

Explore the Law School’s connection to the Bauhaus and its role in shaping campus life.

Access more than 3,500 daguerreotypes from libraries, museums, and archives across Harvard.

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.

An online collection of more than 40 souvenir photograph albums and illustrated publications from across three Harvard libraries.

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.

This collection includes a variety of materials from selected expeditions between 1626 and 1953.

A collection documenting the French presence in the Americas from the early 16th century through the 19th century.

Discover the history and science of early photography through a collection of photographs and other materials.

Documenting voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the start of the Great Depression.

A unique resource for the study of modern Iranian history.

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

Illustrations of fishes and miscellaneous vertebrates and invertebrates drawn by Louis Agassiz’s personal artist, Jacques Burkhardt.

Explore items related to the life and work of Supreme Court Justice and Harvard Law School Professor Joseph Story (1779-1845).

Scarce and unique pamphlets, primarily from Chile, Cuba, Bolivia and Mexico, published during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Largely told in their own words, learn about the experiences of Harvard Law students outside of the classroom from the mid-1840s to the 2010s.

Delve into the literature, art, history, music, philosophy, and theology of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Western Europe found Houghton Library's collection.

A unique repository of Balkan oral traditions.

Glimpse U.S. history through Harvard's collection of political buttons featuring candidate campaigns, political demonstrations, and social movements.

Exploring different approaches to researching queer history.

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

Learn the history of the Harvard Law School’s first shield, from its complex and troubling origins to its retirement.

Thousands of the Harvard Map Collection's maps and atlases from around the world are available online in hi-res.

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.

Explore the diaries, correspondence, and memorabilia of suffragist Susan B. Anthony.

Explore the rich resources of Baker Library, which holds one of the most extensive collections in the world relating to the first international stock market crash.

Explore the power of images to change minds about the death penalty.

Learn about four British prison reformers of the 18th and 19th centuries who worked to make prisons more humane and reformatory.

Diaries, journals, correspondence, and photographs documenting ornithologist William Brewster's years exploring the woods, fields, rivers, and lakes of New England.