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The Harvard Art Museums are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: [2] [3] the Fogg Museum (established in 1895), [4] the Busch-Reisinger Museum (established in 1903), [4] and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (established in 1985), [4] and four research centers: the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis (founded in 1958), [5] the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art (founded ...
The Ivy League nude posture photos were taken in the 1940s through the 1970s of all incoming freshmen at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania (which are members of the Ivy League) and Seven Sisters colleges (as well as Swarthmore), ostensibly to gauge the rate and severity of rickets, scoliosis, and lordosis in the population.
The Museum of Comparative Zoology (formally the Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology and often abbreviated to MCZ) is a zoology museum located on the grounds of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is one of three natural-history research museums at Harvard, whose public face is the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Harvard MCZ ...
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts is the only building designed primarily by Le Corbusier in the United States [2] —he contributed to the design of the United Nations Secretariat Building—and one of only two in the Americas (the other being the Curutchet House in La Plata, Argentina). [3]
In 1936, when Harvard invited the public to tour the campus in honor of its tercentenary, a New York Times reporter taking the tour commented "Tercentenary or no, the chief focus of interest remains the famous glass flowers, the first of which was put on exhibition in 1893, and which with additions at intervals since, have never failed to draw ...
A photo from 1924 of members of the Ku Klux Klan casually posed in full garb on the campus of... View Article The post Student journalist discovers Harvard KKK photo, racist history appeared first ...
Phineas Gage Skull of Phineas Gage. The Warren Anatomical Museum, housed within Harvard Medical School's Countway Library of Medicine, was founded in 1847 by Harvard professor John Collins Warren, [1] whose personal collection of 160 [2] unusual and instructive anatomical and pathological specimens now forms the nucleus of the museum's 15,000-item collection. [3]
Adolphus Busch Hall is a Harvard University building located at 27 Kirkland Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is named for brewer and philanthropist Adolphus Busch, former president of the Anheuser-Busch company, who contributed $265,000 to its building fund. The hall was designed by architect German Bestelmeyer to house Harvard's Germanic ...