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Christmas Cheer from a Lean Year: The 1950 Holiday Cards of Langston Hughes

by Allison Meier December 15, 2017December 20, 2021

The Beinecke Library at Yale University is exhibiting Hughes’s typewritten 1950 Christmas postcards, along with holiday cards he received from friends.

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Langston Hughes’s Collection of Rent Party Cards from Harlem

by Allison Meier April 4, 2017April 4, 2017

Yale University’s Beinecke Library is displaying Langston Hughes’s collection of rent party cards, which advertised fundraising gatherings in an era of discriminatory Harlem rent.

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A Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance in Maps, Manuscripts, and Art

by Allison Meier March 31, 2017March 31, 2017

Gather Out of Star-Dust at Yale University’s Beinecke Library is a building-wide exhibition of over 300 rare artifacts from the Harlem Renaissance.

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Facsimile of the Voynich Manuscript Now Available to Citizen Cryptographers

by Allison Meier November 25, 2016November 25, 2016

Yale University released a book that recreates through photographs the enigmatic medieval Voynich Manuscript in its full form.

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Ephemera from the East German Underground

by Allison Meier March 5, 2015March 8, 2015

Through zines sneaked hand-to-hand and punk performances in private apartments, an underground art movement formed beyond the censors in East Germany.

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