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February is also National Embroidery Month, and we’re excited to show you some cool items we have in the Special Collections. The first one is a hand-embroidered canvas book made by Candace Hicks who collects coincidences from the books she reads and gathers them in her artists’ books and installations.

Hicks created a variant series of hand-embroidered books, copying the form and design of dime-store "composition" books. In this volume, Hicks kept a record of coincidences in the books she was reading and noted every time the word “coincidence” occurred.

Common threads : Volume 28 Hicks, Candace [Austin, Tex. : C. Hicks,] 2011. English HOLLIS number: 990128839780203941

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Archive of 9 Cuban Newspapers Reporting on Fidel Castro’s Death

La Habana, 2016

Fidel Castro’s death at 90 rocked the island which he had thrust onto the world stage. One of the newspapers, Granma, is named after the yacht that carried Fidel Castro to Cuban shores in 1956 to launch the Cuban Revolution. Castro remained in power for decades and defied 11 American presidents. The newspapers provide a snapshot into the political climate surrounding Castro’s death as well as detailed accounts and images of how his supporters in Havana mourned their beloved leader. The state-run publications tout the leader’s merits and successes throughout his time as commander in chief of the Caribbean island.

Text in Spanish, English, French, German, Italian

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I had an amazing visit with family in Boston this weekend. I also got a chance to visit Harvard. Here's a shot coming out of one of the libraries. I was too chicken to take a pic of the Gutenberg Bible, but did get to see it. . . . . #library #harvardlibrary #booksonvacation #readersofinsta #bibliophile

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houghtonlib Critics lowered their eyebrows after watching John Lithgow, a 6’4” American, transform into the stout British Bulldog in the 2016 @Netflix series ‘The Crown.’ This watercolor of Lithgow as Winston Churchill was painted by the actor himself and is featured in our current exhibit, John Lithgow: Actor as Artist, on display through July 29. 2016MT-55 Courtesy of John Lithgow @thecrownnetflix #johnlithgow #thecrown #thecrownnetflix #netflix #winstonchurchill #harvardtheatrecollection #houghtonlibrary #harvardlibrary

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Harvard Libraries are restarting on-campus services, and 10,000+ returned items were waiting to be processed by the social-distancing, PPE-wearing @HarvardLibrary staff members when they arrived back on campus pic.twitter.com/XuumJVPSeK

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June is National Pollinator Month, brining attention to the importance of relationship between pollinators and plants, and our dependency on plants for oxygen and as primary food source.

This engraving was created by the artist Paul Revere in 1774. Revere was a silversmith, engraving artist, and prosperous Bostonian who was also a military officer and industrialist. He became famous for his role in a midnight ride in 1775 to alert nearby minutemen of the approach of British troops at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War in Massachusetts.

Bees [from Royal American Magazine, Vol. I, No. XVIII] Revere, Paul, 1735-1818, American [artist] engraving 6 7/8 x 4 3/8" 1774 HOLLIS number: olvwork169866

This image is part of FAL’s Digital 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.

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@geoinquiets: RT @HarvardLibrary: This @HarvardMapColl exhibition, on view through June 10 in Pusey Library, explores the places where 🍺 and 🗺️meet. https://t.co/zag9GCSHMv

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Peronism, Children’s Literature and Political Propaganda

Privilegiados : libro de lectura inicial

Las hadas buenas : libro de lectura para primer grado inferior

Niños felices : libro de lectura para primer grado superior

El hada buena : libro de lectura para segundo grado

Buenos Aires: 1953-1955

Following the emblematic motto “the only privileged people are the children,” constantly repeated by Perón and Evita, a number of methods were developed to indoctrinate children in the ideology of the Peronist movement.  One of these methods was the publication of school textbooks that offered children a simplified and didactic version of the government’s program and tenets of “national doctrine.”

From a graphic point of view, these manuals are excellent examples of what could be termed “Peronist aesthetic,” in which the omnipresent images of Evita and Perón were displayed throughout the texts.

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Tall, Cool, Refreshing, Beveridge

Since you can’t enjoy a beverage in the Reading Room, how about a Beveridge? No ice, but if you are into English bishops you may find them cool!

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Throughout history, millions of books worldwide have gone up in flames -- set on fire as a means of control and erasure of cultural identity. Hear true stories of "censorship by fire" during a 12 pm talk tomorrow at @hlslib, part of #BannedBooksWeek: https://t.co/VtiVwFEo0N pic.twitter.com/srPxSBlEaJ

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The tintype was an early photographic process that produces a direct positive image on a thin sheet of lacquered iron (not tin). These are unique images produced without the need for a negative. Tintypes were extremely popular from the 1850s through the early 1910s. 

Hand-colored tintype of unidentified sitter by unidentified photographer.