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Additional Images

Here you can find all the images used throughout the online exhibit to supplement the featured items. These images do not come from scans of the…

Lauryn Hill, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

This vinyl record of Lauryn Hill's legendary 1998 album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is part of Classic Crates, a collaboration between the Hiphop…

Rubén Blades, Antecedente and the 1989 Grammy Awards

While the original version of this exhibition exclusively featured memorabilia from Rubén Blades's appearance at the 1989 Grammy Awards, such as the…

Stephen Blum, recordings from Iranian Khorāsān

Pictured are labels for a cassette featuring recordings of four men performing songs and improvised poetry, made at Stephen Blum’s house in Mashhad,…

Lithograph portrait of Maria Malibran and Laure Cinti-Damoreau; Maria Malibran, "Au bord de la mer"

French soprano Laure Cinti-Damoreau (1801-1863) and Spanish mezzo-soprano Maria Malibran (1808-1836),two of opera’s most admired bel canto singers of…

Hanns Eisler and Bertolt Brecht, "In Praise of Learning"

"In Praise of Learning" is one of three rare 78s of leftist songs recorded around the time of Hanns Eisler’s first visit to the United States in early…

Copy of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro

An early manuscript copy in several hands of Mozart's 1786 opera Le Nozze di Figaro (the unusual misspelling “nozzi” on the cover is repeated on the…

Broadway Melody of 1940, draft screenplay and dialogue cutting continuity

Shown here are documents from the beginning and end of production of the MGM musical Broadway Melody of 1940: a draft screenplay with revisions…

Benny Carter, "Myra"

The Harvard Jazz Band commissioned this piece from saxophonist Benny Carter in honor of Myra Mayman, director of Harvard’s Office for the Arts from…

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Six Easy Keyboard Sonatas (Wq. 53)

This collection of six “easy” pieces, composed between 1762 and 1766, was the last of C.P.E. Bach’s seven Berlin sonata collections, and one of…