Exhibition
01. Machine as note-taker
Breathing machine
1927-1928
Harvard Medical School
20. Sermons in shorthand
Sermons of Edward Holyoke
1720-1732
Harvard University
39. Taking notes on writer's palsy
William James's class notes on lectures at Harvard Medical School
1866-1867
Harvard Medical School
58. The great work of indexing
Classified index to specific medical periodicals
1841
Boston, MA
02. "A notebook used in Brazil"
William James's Diary and Sketchbook
1865
Brazil
21. A Living note
Mosses from an Old Manse
1846-1850
New York, NY; Salem, MA
40. Interleaving for notetaking
Elementa Iuris Civilis Secundum Ordinem Institutionum
1751
Leiden, Netherlands
59. Finding what you're looking for
Rival commentators on Rollo May's "Man's Search for Himself"
1953
New York, NY
03. An indignant reader
The Trial of the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Anglesey
22. "A Female Reading Society"
Notes on Clarkson's "A Portraiture of Quakerism"
1812-1825
Charlestown, MA
42. Insincere rot?
Class notes on "French Painting"
1922-1923
Harvard University
60. Doodling, copying, penmanship
Doodling, copying, penmanship
Expositio in artem veterem Porphyrii et Aristotelis
1442
Oxford, England
04. A suffragist's reading notes
Anacharsis's Travels to Greece
23. File under "Murder"
Loffice et aucthoritie de iustices de peace
1584
London, England
43. Word and image
Sargent's Sketch of Cellini's "Perseus"
1909-1910 (ca.)
Florence, Italy
61. The future of Harvard in 1700
Increase Mather's "Queries Worthy of Consideration"
1700
Harvard University
05. Notes without words
Student drawings and color study
1905-1949
Harvard University
24. Putting a price on art
Edward Forbes Auction Sales Catalog
1914
Berlin, Germany
44. Marital collaboration
Field notebooks of André and Yedda Godard
1932
Marāgha, Iran
62. Guiding the reader
Leviticus with the ordinary gloss
1150-1175 (ca.)
Admont, Austria
06. Price list on potsherd
Second-century ostracon
(ca.) 200-300
Elephantine, Egypt
25. A looseleaf notebook
A student records a 19th-century anatomy lecture
1891
Harvard Medical School
45. Did Melville read it?
A Natural History of Melville’s Reading?
1839
London, England
63. Drawing as a language
Lecture notes on color theory
1905-1949
Harvard University
07. Found in the garbage dump
Found in the garbage dump
Papyrus listing clothes
(ca.) 275-399
Oxyrhynchus, Egypt
26. Carlyle scribbles in his sources
Voltaire in Frankfurt am Main, 1753
1846
Berlin, Germany
46. Composing in the 1980s
Sketch for Piano Concerto with Selected Orchestra
1985 (ca.)
New York, NY
64. A book designed to be written in
Bilder aus der deutschen Kulturgeschichte [Scenes from German Cultural History]
1882-1887
Leipzig, Germany;
Ithaca, NY
08. Logbook for reel-to-reel recording
Byzantine hymns and liturgies recorded in a monastery on Patmos
27. Healing chants
Office for the anointing of the sick
1450 (ca.)
Nuremberg, Germany
47. Cave paintings in China
Langdon Warner Photograph Album
1920s
Wanfo Xia, China
65. Hebrew notes in an Italian compendium
Aesop's fables and other secular works in Italian
1380 (ca.)
Italy
09. Thought and color
Sketchbook of Henri-Edmond Cross
28. Doodles and depositions
Class Notes of Frederic Dodge (1847-1927)
1868-1869
Harvard Law School
48. The cost of a Harvard education
Samuel Locke's Commonplace Book
1755-1778
Harvard University
66. A page meant to be shared
Antiphonary
1200 (ca.)
Western Germany
10. Births, deaths and inoculations
Waterhouse family Bible
1772
Oxford, England;
Harvard Medical School
29. A reusable notebook
Writing tables with a kalender for xxiiii yeres
1581
London, England
49. Passing the censor
Libro primero de las epistolas familiares del reuerendissimo señor don Antonio de Gueuara
67. The Education of Shunsuke Tsurumi
Notes on Nakazawa
1938-1942
Tokyo, Japan;
Harvard University
11. Changing the voice
Pelléas et Mélisande, “Version pour tenor”
30. Oral instruction in the arts of falconry
鷹口傳 Taka kuden
1328-1709
Japan
50. Jamaican flowers
Diary of Alice Rich Northrop
1906
Jamaica
68. What is taught and what is learned
Class notes on color theory
1905-1949
Harvard University
12. Notes on notes
George Lyman Kittredge's Commonplace Book
31. The education of Shunsuke Tsurumi
Notes on Kierkegaard
1935-1942
Tokyo, Japan;
Harvard University
51. Using math to learn science
Epitome of Mr. [Samuel] Williams's Experimental Lectures
1782
Harvard University
13. The first medical treatise printed in Hebrew
Canon medicinae
1463
Naples, Italy
32. Keeping tabs on Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Saemtliche Werke thematisch verzeichnet
1860 (ca.)
Leipzig, Germany
52. From one author to another
Edward Everett Hale’s inscriptions to Harriet E. Freeman
1887-1906
Boston, MA; New York, NY
14. Thomas Gray reads Linnaeus
Notes on Linné's Systema Naturae
1759-1762
Cambridge, England
33. Harvard Observatory Photographic Plate
Edward Pickering
Arequipa, Peru, 1897
53. Self indexing
John Hancock's Commonplace Book
1687
Boston, MA
69. Collecting in the field
Diary of A. E. Verrill
1860-1862
Harvard University
15. How a sixteenth-century student took notes
P. Vir. Maronis Georgica
1542-67
Paris, France
34. Prompts for a new stagecraft
Papers of Edward Gordon Craig
1893-1964
United Kingdom
54. Bad day again
Henry James's Date Book
1914
London, England;
Rye, England
70. Multicolored margins
Registrum brevium
1380 (ca.)
Great Britain
16. How to notate dance?
Notations and scores for the Mariinskii Theatre production of "Giselle"
1903
St. Petersburg, Russia
35. Singular opinions
Singular opinions
Outline of the Sermon Preached by Ezra Ripley at the Sixtieth Anniversary of His Ordination
1838
Concord, MA
55. Work and practice
Guide for an Exhibition on Student Art
1905-1949
Harvard University
71. At the first view of dissections
Lectures upon anatomy
1783-1785
Harvard Medical School
17. Reading notes with date
Year books (Edward IV : 1461-1470): De termino Michaelis anno primo Eduardi Quarti
1572
London, England
36. Falconry illustrated
鷹繪圖 Takaezu
1328-1709
Japan
56. Using scrap paper
Joseph Willard's notes for a Greek grammar
1781-1803 (ca.)
Harvard University
72. Slavish imitation
Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra, annotated by Sir Georg Solti
1946 (ca.)
London, England;
New York, NY
18. From field notes to film
Richard Frye documents his research in Baluchistan,1951-1952
37. Tinned or canned?
Elizabeth David's "Italian Cooking" crosses the Atlantic
1956-1958
London, England;
New York, NY
57. Glosses in Greek
Annotations to the History of the Peloponnesian War
1875-1889
Leipzig, Germany;
Cambridge, MA
73. The ultimate piece of office furniture
The note closet (from London, 1640s to Germany, 1689)
1640s-1689
London, England;
Hamburg, Germany
19. The terraqueous globe in respect to heat
Lecture on the Motion and Phenomena of Heat as it respects the Earth
1782
Boston, MA
38. Precepts put into practice
A common place book, upon the plan recommended and practised by John Locke, Esq
1822-1840
Harvard University
74. A solution to the cost of textbooks
Copied textbook at Harvard
1729
Harvard University
75. A philosopher's day job
Thoreau's Pencils
1821-1854
Concord, MA