A selection of Harvard Library digital collections.
Botanical and Cultural Images of Eastern Asia
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More than 4,500 botanical and cultural images of Eastern Asia by John George Jack (1861–1949), Ernest Henry Wilson (1876–1930), Frank Nicholas Meyer (1875-1918), William Purdom (1880–1921), Joseph Hers (1884–1965) and Joseph Charles Francis Rock (1884–1962) from the Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library.
Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England
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A digital presentation of Bracton: De Legibus Et Consuetudinibus Angliæ (Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England), the first comprehensive attempt to rationally articulate English law. The 13th-century document is commonly attributed to the English judge and scholar Henry of Bratton. Here the Latin original and an English translation can be searched and viewed individually or side by side.
The Jacques Burkhardt Collection and Thayer Expedition Papers
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The Jacques Burkhardt Collection of 976 scientific drawings of fish and miscellaneous vertebrates and invertebrates consist of watercolors and pencil drawings, almost half of which are from the Thayer Expedition to Brazil (1865–1866). The Thayer Expedition Papers include field notes, specimen lists, correspondence, diaries, sketches, photographs and other materials.
The Chinese Rubbings Collection
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The Chinese Rubbings Collection includes 1,945 rubbings from the Fine Arts Library collections. The rubbings were made from ancient stone stelae, tomb tablets, Buddhist and Daoist scriptures on stelae and rocks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Coin and Conscience
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An online presentation of an exhibition catalog issued by Baker Library in 1986 with digital images of prints from the Bleichroeder Collection. The collection includes more than 1,000 woodcuts, engravings, etchings and lithographs ranging from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Many prominent artists are represented in the collection, including Breughel, Goltzius, Rembrandt, Hogarth and Gillray.
Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics
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With more than 500,000 pages of textual materials and 10,000 pages of manuscripts and early printed books from ten contributing Harvard libraries and archives, the collection is organized around nine significant "episodes" of contagious disease. The collection also includes two image collections from the Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.
Daguerreotypes at Harvard
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Images of more than 3,500 daguerreotypes from Harvard's photograph collections.
