# Exhibit: Houghton Library Lobby Gallery, Fall 2022 #### calendar\_today Date and Time **September 8 - December 9, 2022** All day #### pin\_drop Location **Lobby, 1st Floor Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138** ### Open to the public. ### Curious about Houghton's Collections? Houghton Library is world renowned for its rich collection of rare books, manuscripts, and archives, but it also holds a surprising number of curious objects. This fall, the lobby gallery presents a selection of objects with stories of the cultures and individuals that produced them, including: - An epigraphical impression (called a squeeze) from Augustus Caesar’s Res Gestae - A 17th century hornbook and a 19th century craft kit used for teaching children - A wood carved griffin from a 17th century printer’s shop - Sculptor Eric Kennington’s bronze maquette for his effigy of T.E. Lawrence - A 17th century brass astrolabe made in Persia (Iran) - A key to Napoleon’s bedroom during his exile on St. Helena - A bundle of graphite pencils made by Henry David Thoreau’s father - A sample of Sea Island cotton grown by a formerly enslaved man on his own land during the Civil War - Ribbons worn by guests in honor of Hawaii’s Queen Kapi‘olani on her 1887 visit to Boston - A bronze statuette presented by magician Harry Houdini to the French actress Sarah Bernhardt More Information: See also:- [ Exhibit ](/event-categories/exhibit) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://bookhistory.harvard.edu/node/1651740/event-feed.ics) Copy link link