houghton library
April 12, 2019
Each semester, the Houghton Library at Harvard University hosts a series of workshops on letterpress printing.
May 8, 2018
In 1870, the eccentric American transportation entrepreneur George Francis Train took a trip around the world in eighty travel days (with a two-month stopover in Paris), so when Jules Verne publish
January 25, 2018
Should your travels bring you to Cambridge, Massachusetts, this spring, chart a path toward Harvard's Houghton Library, where Landmarks: Maps a
August 10, 2017
Looking forward to the fall season, there are several major exhibitions of books and art to put on your schedule.
December 30, 2016
Harvard University's Houghton Library usually buzzes with scholars engaged in research, but on the day before Christmas Eve the space exuded
June 24, 2016
Late June is always hectic around here: Half-days at school throw off daily routines, and packing my daughter for camp is often a multi-day, multi-sensory experience that fails to disappoint.
June 9, 2016
Harvard's Houghton Library recently acquired the complete archive of Jean de Brunhoff's preparatory materials for his 1934 alphabet b