#  Presentation: Open House 75: Houghton Library Staff Select 

 



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 **May 16, 2017** 

 04:00PM - 07:00PM EDT 

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 **Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library, Harvard Yard**  



 

 



 

 Please join us for the opening of  
Open House 75: Houghton Library Staff Select  
Discover Houghton Library through the eyes of the people who know it best  
Tuesday, May 16, 4-7pm  
Houghton Library, Edison and Newman Room  
  
   
Exhibition on view May 8 – August 19  
Houghton Library, Edison and Newman Room  
   
Houghton Library staff celebrate the library’s 75th anniversary with an open house-inspired showcase of its outstanding collections.  
   
Fifty archivists, conservators, curators, librarians, specialists, and student workers who make up “Team Houghton” share memorable items encountered during careers at the library that range from four months to over forty years. Gained through providing access to over 600,000 printed books and six miles of manuscript and archival materials that comprise the Houghton collection, the staff’s encyclopedic knowledge of the library comes to the fore in this exhibition.  
   
A microcosm of Houghton in breadth and depth, highlights from Open House 75 range from a Renaissance letter written by Michelangelo and a missive stained by Hemingway’s sweat, to a moving instance of gay fandom and women writers on domesticity and revolution. Among the notable “firsts” represented are the diary of the first American meteorologist and an Edison lightbulb that illuminated America’s first electrified theater. Cultural treasures from Liberia and Japan are presented alongside everyday objects such as a Roman coin and a Panama hat; taken together, these and other objects in the exhibition suggest the rich variety of human experience housed within Houghton’s walls.  
   
Visit Open House 75 to discover Houghton Library through the eyes of the people who know it best.



 

 



 

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