Tangible Things
by Harvard Department of History of Science and the Program in General Education
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Description
Tangible Things brings together roughly two hundred objects, natural and artificial, drawn from Harvard’s massive collections. The exhibit, which is housed in the second floor Special Exhibitions Galleryof the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments Collection and at other sites around the university, is open to the public and to Harvard students all through spring semester. Based on research conducted by our students over the past eight years, it is an effort to energize Harvard’s extraordinary collections in new ways and prompt fundamental questions about knowledge claims in relation to them. This audio tour allows those who cannot see the collections in person to enjoy and learn from anywhere. Download the PDF Tour Guide and listen as each track corresponds to a page of the guide.
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| 1 | Tangible Things Tour Guide | -- | 5/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Palette used by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Silver band for a Passamaquoddy (Peskotomuhkati) woman's hat, Maine, USA or New Brunswick, Canada, c. 1875 | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Skull of a helmeted Hornbill (Rhinoplax vigil); Sumatra, Borneo, or the Malay peninsular, the casque carved in China | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Campfire-style dress, belt, and beads by Sarah Jenney Gilbert Kerlin, 1947-1950 | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Miniature Globe, James Ferguson, c. 1757 | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Walking plow, Massachusetts, late 18th century | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Floriform Vase, Louis Comfort Diffany, Corona, NY, c. 1900 | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Calculus formed from oxalate of lime, uric acid and phosphate of lime, USA, late 19th century | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pencil that belonged to Henry David Thoreau, Concord, MA, c. 1850s | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Patent medicine bottle, Macamoose, the Great Indian Tonic, containing the dessicated body of a house mouse, USA, c. 1865 | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Die-cut tin blue bird sign, Massachusetts, 1915 | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dog paw print in a mud brick Nuzi, Mesopotamia, 1500-1300 BC | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mounted carved coconut goblet decorated with scenes from the story of Samson, Hans Peter Muller Breslau, Germany, c. 1600 | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Framed dress fragment, said to have belonged to Priscilla Mullins, 17th century | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The President's Chair, turned three-square great chair, Britian, c. 1550-c. 1600, with later American handgrips | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Corn cob pipe, USA, 1919 | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Norma and Normman, Abram Belskie, USA, c. 1945 | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bottles of chemicals marked "Medical College of Alabama," Rousseau Freres, Paris, c. 1862 | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bedspread for Harvard Graduate Center Anni Albers, Cambridge, MA, 1949 | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mask, Teotihuacan, Mexico, 3rd-7th centuries | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Double weave basket, Up Across and Down design Clara Darden, Chitimacha people, Louisiana, USA, c. 1900-1910 | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Beetle necklace or bracelet, Naga people, India or Myanmar, 1913 or before | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Textile fragments from Spiro Mounds Muscogee people (Spiro, Oklahoma, USA), before c. 1450 | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Portrait of Eliza Kellog, Radcliffe College AB 1962 | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Slate with "Spirit Writing" | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Painted pottery plate Nock-ko-ist (Bear's Heart), Southern Tsistsistas (Cheyenne people), c. 1887-1894 | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Molly Rogers, Delia's Tears: Race, Science, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America (New Haven, 2010) | -- | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 28 Episodes |
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