Tag: FDR Suite Renovations

  • The World Turned Upside Down

    The World Turned Upside Down

    Tradition holds that as the defeated British soldiers retired off the field at Yorktown, their regimental band struck up an ancient march, The World Turned Upside Down: If buttercups buzz’d…

  • New Views of the Suite, November 2012

    New Views of the Suite, November 2012

    I was at the Suite yesterday, the day after Thanksgiving, beginning what’s going to be a three-month intensive effort to catalog the objects in the collection for inclusion in our…

  • Recent Acquisitions and News - July 2012

    Recent Acquisitions and News – July 2012

    Hello Everyone! Well I don’t need to tell you how warm it’s been in Cambridge, because chances are you’ve been as warm or warmer. Still, despite the heat and the…

  • Six Buildings

    Six Buildings

    Ladies and Gentlemen: As you know, we have been working madly away on a joint project with the HAA, Six Buildings That Shaped Harvard History. Well, our work is finally…

  • Recent Acquisitions & News

    Recent Acquisitions & News

    Hello everyone! Well spring has certainly sprung in Cambridge, and while our weather wildly swings between days in the 80’s and nights in the teens, I thought I would take…

  • The Ad World

    The Ad World

    It’s been said you can tell an age by its advertising, and to the extent we possess the records, the adage seems to be true: ancient graffiti on the walls…