My colleague the Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts just got something amazing—a Spanish technology encyclopedia from the 1910s full of multilayer plates to see inside all the machines.
John Overholt
John Overholt
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Curator of Early Books & Manuscripts, Houghton Library, Harvard University. Opinions are my own. He/him/his
PSA: I’m turning 55 next month, and there’s an issue with people who got vaccinated for measles around the same time I did as a kid having waning immunity. I got tested and it turned out I had no immunity, so I got revaccinated this week. Don’t listen to the science deniers: measles is not a trivial disease if you’re 5 or 55 and we can no longer rely on herd immunity.
A week after Pearl Harbor, an Italian professor at Penn details the Fascist persecution that forced him to flee the country.
“My Desire of Breathing a Free Air”: Giorgio Levi Della Vida Letter as an “enemy alien,” December 1941 – Unique at Penn
My brain woke me up to tell me that everyone’s very clever in the Canny Valley.