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Henry David Thoreau Concord, MA, 1821-1854 Ubiquitous in modern American note-taking, pencils are less common in other times and places. The English term dates from the 14th century to designate a fine painter's brush, a usage that persisted into the...

Charles Morton Charles Frost Harvard University, 1729 Gift of Samuel Eliot Morison, 1955. Latin. Paper. Houghton Library. MS AM 1353. HOLLIS Catalog: 010114479

Anonymous London, England, 1581 These Writing tables with a kalender for xxiiii yeres published in London in 1581 seem at first like a printed calendar, unusual only for its oblong format. But in the middle of the printed work there are ten special pages...

Nikolai Sergeev St. Petersburg, Russia, 1903 Dance notation for the Mariinskii Theatre production of Giselle, for Pas de deux from Act I for Agrippina Vaganova and Anatolii Obukhov. Also includes piano reduction score (manuscript) for the scene. In 1892...