#  Exhibition 

 



  [### 01. Machine as note-taker

 ](/01-machine-note-taker)Breathing machine

*1927-1928*  
Harvard Medical School



 

   ![This is a leaf from Philip Drinker’s laboratory notebook chronicling his research with Louis Agassiz Shaw in artificial respiration.](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/drinker_laboratory_notebook.jpg?h=ccb3299e&itok=nkQqXrgN) 

 

 

 

  [### 20. Sermons in shorthand

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/20-sermons-shorthand)Sermons of Edward Holyoke  
1720-1732  
Harvard University



 

   ![Sermons of Edward Holyoke, written in shorthand](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/archives-holyoke-1_0.jpg?itok=16X3-jIc) 

 

 

 

  [### 39. Taking notes on writer's palsy

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/39-taking-notes-writers-palsy)William James's class notes on lectures at Harvard Medical School  
1866-1867  
Harvard Medical School



 

   ![William James' notes on the lectures of Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard on writer’s palsy, reflex paraplegia, and other diseases of the nervous system](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/james_lecture_notes.jpg?itok=B2gjJY0j) 

 

 

 

  [### 58. The great work of indexing

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/58-great-work-indexing)Classified index to specific medical periodicals  
1841  
Boston, MA



 

   ![Oliver Wendell Holmes, Classified index to specific medical periodicals](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/holmes_index.jpg?itok=jqqkAACK) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

  [### 02. "A notebook used in Brazil"

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/2-notebook-used-brazil)William James's Diary and Sketchbook  
*1865*  
Brazil



 

   ![William James, Brazil, 1865](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/james-seq23_0.jpg?itok=FTyQPsmI) 

 

 

 

  [### 21. A Living note

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/21-living-note)Mosses from an Old Manse  
1846-1850  
New York, NY; Salem, MA



 

   ![Mosses from an Old Manse 1846-1850 New York, NY; Salem, MA](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/mosses_recto_front_free_endpaper.jpeg?itok=FBJYQ5Ob) 

 

 

 

  [### 40. Interleaving for notetaking

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/40-interleaving-notetaking)Elementa Iuris Civilis Secundum Ordinem Institutionum  
1751  
Leiden, Netherlands



 

   ![Bookplate, rare treatise on Roman law](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/12685197_bookplate_1.jpg?itok=1isyEGxc) 

 

 

 

  [### 59. Finding what you're looking for

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/59-finding-what-youre-looking)Rival commentators on Rollo May's "Man's Search for Himself"  
1953  
New York, NY



 

   ![Written annotations in Rollo May's "Man's Search for Himself"](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/3_rollo_may_118.jpg?itok=fB9r4BS6) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

  [### 03. An indignant reader

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/3-indignant-reader)The Trial of the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Anglesey



 

   ![The Trial of the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Anglesey](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/4021485_doc_3_folio_41_recto.jpg?itok=QzpMLuc1) 

 

 

 

  [### 22. "A Female Reading Society"

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/22-female-reading-society)Notes on Clarkson's "A Portraiture of Quakerism"  
1812-1825  
Charlestown, MA



 

   ![Notes on Clarkson's "A Portraiture of Quakerism" 1812-1825 Charlestown, MA](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/payson.jpg?itok=SvmiGJ6l) 

 

 

 

  [### 42. Insincere rot?

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/42-insincere-rot)Class notes on "French Painting"  
1922-1923  
Harvard University



 

   ![Class notes on "French Painting" 1922-1923 Harvard University](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/scottinsincererot_0.jpg?itok=s0kb2ZFZ) 

 

 

 

  [### 60. Doodling, copying, penmanship

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/60-doodling-copying-penmanship)Doodling, copying, penmanship  
Expositio in artem veterem Porphyrii et Aristotelis  
1442  
Oxford, England



 

   ![Expositio in artem veterem Porphyrii et Aristotelis 1442 Oxford, England](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/6_ms_lat_12_0005_0.jpg?itok=v2CwbcSj) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

  [### 04. A suffragist's reading notes

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/4-suffragists-reading-notes)Anacharsis's Travels to Greece



 

   ![Caroline Wells Healey Dall Papers, 1829-1956; "Notes on Anacharsis's Travels to Greece," 1837.](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/dall.jpg?itok=8Nd0mr2C) 

 

 

 

  [### 23. File under "Murder"

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/23-file-under-murder)Loffice et aucthoritie de iustices de peace  
1584  
London, England



 

   ![Loffice et aucthoritie de iustices de peace 1584 London, England](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/stc_10979_c_2_folio_16_recto_adjusted.jpg?itok=EmaoNC6e) 

 

 

 

  [### 43. Word and image

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/43-word-and-image)Sargent's Sketch of Cellini's "Perseus"  
1909-1910 (ca.)  
Florence, Italy



 

   ![Sargent's Sketch of Cellini's "Perseus" 1909-1910 (ca.) Florence, Italy](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/1937.8.33-ddc111634_0.jpg?itok=VpAuwAZB) 

 

 

 

  [### 61. The future of Harvard in 1700

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/61-future-harvard-1700)Increase Mather's "Queries Worthy of Consideration"  
1700  
Harvard University



 

   ![Increase Mather's "Queries Worthy of Consideration" 1700 Harvard University](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/archives-mather-1_0.jpg?itok=Jz2vnqzs) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

  [### 05. Notes without words

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/5-notes-without-words)Student drawings and color study  
1905-1949  
Harvard University



 

   ![Student drawings and color study 1905-1949 Harvard University](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/rathbone_color_pitcher.jpg?itok=vV1SQeHN) 

 

 

 

  [### 24. Putting a price on art

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/24-putting-price-art)Edward Forbes Auction Sales Catalog  
1914  
Berlin, Germany



 

   ![Edward Forbes Auction Sales Catalog 1914 Berlin, Germany](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/forbes_sale_page_detail.jpg?itok=A-Pro5f7) 

 

 

 

  [### 44. Marital collaboration

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/44-marital-collaboration)Field notebooks of André and Yedda Godard  
1932  
Marāgha, Iran



 

   ![Field notebooks of André and Yedda Godard, 1932, Marāgha, Iran](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/godard_field_notebook.jpg?itok=MTdwdsD0) 

 

 

 

  [### 62. Guiding the reader

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/62-guiding-reader)Leviticus with the ordinary gloss  
1150-1175 (ca.)  
Admont, Austria



 

   ![Leviticus with the ordinary gloss, 1150-1175 (ca.) Admont, Austria](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/4_ms_typ_204.jpg?itok=4Alk2_jO) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

  [### 06. Price list on potsherd

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/6-price-list-potsherd)Second-century ostracon

*(ca.) 200-300*  
Elephantine, Egypt



 

   ![Second-century ostracon (ca.) 200-300 Elephantine, Egypt](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/2_ms_ostraca_3152_0.jpg?itok=0adkhBRD) 

 

 

 

  [### 25. A looseleaf notebook

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/25-looseleaf-notebook)A student records a 19th-century anatomy lecture  
1891  
Harvard Medical School



 

   ![Harvey Cushing, Notes on a 19th-century anatomy lecture 1891 Harvard Medical School](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/cushing_lecture_notes_0.jpg?itok=xmZhZQMO) 

 

 

 

  [### 45. Did Melville read it?

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/45-did-melville-read-it)A Natural History of Melville’s Reading?  
1839  
London, England



 

   ![Beale, Thomas. The natural history of the sperm whale](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/beale_0.jpg?itok=YVDgYMDA) 

 

 

 

  [### 63. Drawing as a language

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/63-drawing-language)Lecture notes on color theory  
1905-1949  
Harvard University



 

   ![Lecture notes on color theory 1905-1949 Harvard University](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/popecolornotes_0.jpg?itok=_IxYzdOD) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

  [### 07. Found in the garbage dump

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/7-found-garbage-dump)Found in the garbage dump

Papyrus listing clothes

*(ca.) 275-399*  
Oxyrhynchus, Egypt



 

   ![Papyrus listing clothes (ca.) 275-399 Oxyrhynchus, Egypt](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/1_ms_gr_sm2214_0001_0.jpg?itok=3eg3vnaf) 

 

 

 

  [### 26. Carlyle scribbles in his sources

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/26-carlyle-scribbles-his-sources)Voltaire in Frankfurt am Main, 1753  
1846  
Berlin, Germany



 

   ![Voltaire in Frankfurt am Main, 1753 1846 Berlin, Germany](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/voltaire1_0.jpg?itok=wI_V9L_B) 

 

 

 

  [### 46. Composing in the 1980s

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/46-composing-1980s)Sketch for Piano Concerto with Selected Orchestra  
1985 (ca.)  
New York, NY



 

   ![Sketch for Piano Concerto with Selected Orchestra 1985 (ca.) New York, NY](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/harrison_archival_master_0.jpg?itok=4E9Y7POn) 

 

 

 

  [### 64. A book designed to be written in

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/64-book-designed-be-written)Bilder aus der deutschen Kulturgeschichte \[Scenes from German Cultural History\]  
1882-1887  
Leipzig, Germany;  
Ithaca, NY



 

   ![Bilder aus der deutschen Kulturgeschichte [Scenes from German Cultural History] 1882-1887 Leipzig, Germany](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/2_bilder_aus_der_deutschen_kulturgeschichte_109.jpg?itok=oCv6KtAB) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

  [### 08. Logbook for reel-to-reel recording

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/8-logbook-reel-reel-recording)Byzantine hymns and liturgies recorded in a monastery on Patmos



 

   ![Annotation of reel-to-reel tape](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-11/249937-2.jpg?itok=JvdSsccc) 

 

 

 

  [### 27. Healing chants

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/27-healing-chants)Office for the anointing of the sick  
1450 (ca.)  
Nuremberg, Germany



 

   ![Office for the anointing of the sick 1450 (ca.) Nuremberg, Germany](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/7_ms_lat_196_0007_0-adjusted_0.jpg?itok=7XrbRZ_2) 

 

 

 

  [### 47. Cave paintings in China

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/47-cave-paintings-china)Langdon Warner Photograph Album  
1920s  
Wanfo Xia, China



 

   ![Langdon Warner Photograph Album 1920s Wanfo Xia, China](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/warner_album_page.jpg?itok=vfR_ExQH) 

 

 

 

  [### 65. Hebrew notes in an Italian compendium

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/65-hebrew-notes-italian-compendium)Aesop's fables and other secular works in Italian  
1380 (ca.)  
Italy



 

   ![text](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-11/5_ms_typ_479_0202_0.jpg?itok=UG2VkDb6) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

  [### 09. Thought and color

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/9-thought-and-color)Sketchbook of Henri-Edmond Cross



 

   ![Sketchbook ](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-11/1964.15.1-79664.jpg?itok=6BdGHq_x) 

 

 

 

  [### 28. Doodles and depositions

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/28-doodles-and-depositions)Class Notes of Frederic Dodge (1847-1927)  
1868-1869  
Harvard Law School



 

   ![Class Notes of Frederic Dodge (1847-1927) 1868-1869 Harvard Law School](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/class_notes_0001_0A.jpeg?itok=lwAij89t) 

 

 

 

  [### 48. The cost of a Harvard education

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/48-cost-harvard-education)Samuel Locke's Commonplace Book  
1755-1778  
Harvard University



 

   ![Sam Locke archive 1](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-11/archives-locke-seq5_0.jpg?itok=3Fqsijhw) 

 

 

 

  [### 66. A page meant to be shared

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/66-page-meant-be-shared)Antiphonary  
1200 (ca.)  
Western Germany



 

   ![Antiphonary 1200 (ca.) Western Germany](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/3_ms_typ_962_0.jpg?itok=0rqpEDHD) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

  [### 10. Births, deaths and inoculations

 ](/10-births-deaths-and-inoculations)Waterhouse family Bible  
1772  
Oxford, England;  
Harvard Medical School



 

   ![waterhouse Bible](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-11/waterhouse_bible.jpg?itok=5YKe4ULf) 

 

 

 

  [### 29. A reusable notebook

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/29-reusable-notebook)Writing tables with a kalender for xxiiii yeres  
1581  
London, England



 

   ![Writing tables with a kalender for xxiiii yeres 1581 London, England](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/tablets-1.jpg?itok=osdmWMeP) 

 

 

 

  [### 49. Passing the censor

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/49-passing-censor)Libro primero de las epistolas familiares del reuerendissimo señor don Antonio de Gueuara



 

   ![Collection of letters](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-11/8_typ_560_49_439_0.jpg?itok=0r2X-x8K) 

 

 

 

  [### 67. The Education of Shunsuke Tsurumi

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/67-education-shunsuke-tsurumi)Notes on Nakazawa  
1938-1942  
Tokyo, Japan;  
Harvard University



 

   ![Notes on Nakazawa 1938-1942 Tokyo, Japan; Harvard University](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/tsurumi_0.jpg?itok=FoJYr29H) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

  [### 11. Changing the voice

 ](/11-changing-voice)Pelléas et Mélisande, “Version pour tenor”



 

   ![Largo](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-11/pm232_0.jpg?itok=Gz4x8fGm) 

 

 

 

  [### 30. Oral instruction in the arts of falconry

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/30-oral-instruction-arts-falconry)鷹口傳 Taka kuden  
1328-1709  
Japan



 

   ![Kuden](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-11/kuden-s2_0.jpg?itok=hsfVJCC0) 

 

 

 

  [### 50. Jamaican flowers

 ](/50-jamaican-flowers)Diary of Alice Rich Northrop  
1906  
Jamaica



 

   ![Northrop](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-11/northrop_0.jpg?itok=fUYXsoFM) 

 

 

 

  [### 68. What is taught and what is learned

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/68-what-taught-and-what-learned)Class notes on color theory  
1905-1949  
Harvard University



 

   ![Scott Color class notes](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-11/scottcolorclassnotes_0.jpg?itok=bwIHbQzA) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

  [### 12. Notes on notes

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/12-notes-notes)George Lyman Kittredge's Commonplace Book



 

   ![George Lyman Kittredge's Commonplace Book](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-11/archives-kittredge-seq195_0.jpg?itok=IJj5yjsP) 

 

 

 

  [### 31. The education of Shunsuke Tsurumi

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/31-education-shunsuke-tsurumi)Notes on Kierkegaard  
1935-1942  
Tokyo, Japan;  
Harvard University



 

   ![Kuden](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-11/kuden-s2_0.jpg?itok=hsfVJCC0) 

 

 

 

  [### 51. Using math to learn science

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/51-using-math-learn-science)Epitome of Mr. \[Samuel\] Williams's Experimental Lectures  
1782  
Harvard University



 

   ![Epitome of Mr. [Samuel] Williams's Experimental Lectures, 1782, Harvard University](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/archives-crafts-seq18_0.jpg?itok=0b6ibjTq) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

  [### 13. The first medical treatise printed in Hebrew

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/13-first-medical-treatise-printed-hebrew)Canon medicinae

*1463*  
Naples, Italy



 

   ![P. Vir. Maronis Georgica 1542-67 Paris, France](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/9_fc5_a100_b565v.jpg?itok=T28Jo2MM) 

 

 

 

  [### 32. Keeping tabs on Bach

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/32-keeping-tabs-bach)Johann Sebastian Bach’s Saemtliche Werke thematisch verzeichnet  
1860 (ca.)  
Leipzig, Germany



 

   ![Johann Sebastian Bach’s Saemtliche Werke thematisch verzeichnet 1860 (ca.) Leipzig, Germany](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/hauser_p1_archival_master.jpg?itok=jLFYOIW2) 

 

 

 

  [### 52. From one author to another

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/52-one-author-another)Edward Everett Hale’s inscriptions to Harriet E. Freeman  
1887-1906  
Boston, MA; New York, NY



 

   ![Edward Everett Hale’s inscriptions to Harriet E. Freeman 1887-1906 Boston, MA; New York, NY](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/hale2_0.jpg?itok=gQIz97QN) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

  [### 14. Thomas Gray reads Linnaeus

 ](/14-thomas-gray-reads-linnaeus)Notes on Linné's Systema Naturae

*1759-1762*  
Cambridge, England



 

   ![Notes on Linné's Systema Naturae](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-11/10_ms_eng_1512_0.jpg?itok=LKEXdqmR) 

 

 

 

  [### 33. Harvard Observatory Photographic Plate

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/33-harvard-observatory-photographic-plate)Edward Pickering  
Arequipa, Peru, 1897



 

   ![Telescopic image of the Large Magellanic Cloud, produced on a photographic plate by Harvard Observatory, Arequipa, Peru, January 24, 1897](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/photographic_plate_0.jpg?itok=zmi8qj6m) 

 

 

 

  [### 53. Self indexing

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/53-self-indexing)John Hancock's Commonplace Book  
1687  
Boston, MA



 

   ![John Hancock's Commonplace Book](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-11/11_ms_am_121.jpg?itok=wPaJss7v) 

 

 

 

  [### 69. Collecting in the field

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/69-collecting-field)Diary of A. E. Verrill  
1860-1862  
Harvard University



 

   ![Diary of A. E. Verrill](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-11/archives-verrill-seq29_0.jpg?itok=eSQI5OCv) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

  [### 15. How a sixteenth-century student took notes

 ](/15-how-sixteenth-century-student-took-notes)P. Vir. Maronis Georgica

*1542-67*  
Paris, France



 

   ![texts](/sites/g/files/omnuum10456/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-11/9_fc5_a100_b565v.jpg?itok=k6J91PiI) 

 

 

 

  [### 34. Prompts for a new stagecraft

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/34-prompts-new-stagecraft)Papers of Edward Gordon Craig  
1893-1964  
United Kingdom



 

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  [### 54. Bad day again

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/54-bad-day-again)Henry James's Date Book  
1914  
London, England;  
Rye, England



 

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  [### 70. Multicolored margins

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/70-multicolored-margins)Registrum brevium  
1380 (ca.)  
Great Britain



 

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  [### 16. How to notate dance?

 ](/16-how-notate-dance)Notations and scores for the Mariinskii Theatre production of "Giselle"

*1903*  
St. Petersburg, Russia



 

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  [### 35. Singular opinions

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/35-singular-opinions)Singular opinions  
Outline of the Sermon Preached by Ezra Ripley at the Sixtieth Anniversary of His Ordination  
1838  
Concord, MA



 

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  [### 55. Work and practice

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/55-work-and-practice)Guide for an Exhibition on Student Art  
1905-1949  
Harvard University



 

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  [### 71. At the first view of dissections

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/71-first-view-dissections)Lectures upon anatomy  
1783-1785  
Harvard Medical School



 

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  [### 17. Reading notes with date

 ](/17-reading-notes-date)Year books (Edward IV : 1461-1470): De termino Michaelis anno primo Eduardi Quarti  
1572  
London, England



 

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  [### 36. Falconry illustrated

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/36-falconry-illustrated)鷹繪圖 Takaezu  
1328-1709  
Japan



 

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  [### 56. Using scrap paper

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/56-using-scrap-paper)Joseph Willard's notes for a Greek grammar  
1781-1803 (ca.)  
Harvard University



 

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  [### 72. Slavish imitation

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/72-slavish-imitation)Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra, annotated by Sir Georg Solti  
1946 (ca.)  
London, England;  
New York, NY



 

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  [### 18. From field notes to film

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/18-field-notes-film)Richard Frye documents his research in Baluchistan,1951-1952



 

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  [### 37. Tinned or canned?

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/37-tinned-or-canned)Elizabeth David's "Italian Cooking" crosses the Atlantic  
1956-1958  
London, England;  
New York, NY



 

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  [### 57. Glosses in Greek

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/57-glosses-greek)Annotations to the History of the Peloponnesian War  
1875-1889  
Leipzig, Germany;  
Cambridge, MA



 

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  [### 73. The ultimate piece of office furniture

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/73-ultimate-piece-office-furniture)The note closet (from London, 1640s to Germany, 1689)  
1640s-1689  
London, England;  
Hamburg, Germany



 

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  [### 19. The terraqueous globe in respect to heat

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/19-terraqueous-globe-respect-heat)Lecture on the Motion and Phenomena of Heat as it respects the Earth  
1782  
Boston, MA



 

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  [### 38. Precepts put into practice

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/38-precepts-put-practice)A common place book, upon the plan recommended and practised by John Locke, Esq  
1822-1840  
Harvard University



 

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  [### 74. A solution to the cost of textbooks

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/74-solution-cost-textbooks)Copied textbook at Harvard  
1729  
Harvard University



 

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  [### 75. A philosopher's day job

 ](https://prod-cadm004.drupalsites.harvard.edu/75-philosophers-day-job)Thoreau's Pencils  
1821-1854  
Concord, MA



 

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