Frog-effigy pendant, C. 850–1150 CE

Hohokam, Tucson Province

"The word “Hohokam” is used by archaeologists as a name for the groups who inhabited the desert regions of southern Arizona prior to the arrival of Europeans (c. 500–1450 CE). It is a variation of the O’odham term “Huhugam,” which refers to people, such as relatives or ancestors, who are no longer living.

Among the Hohokam, shell was a relatively common and widely distributed material. Hohokam craftspeople were major fabricators of shell ornaments, including elaborate pendants, bracelets, and mosaics of stone and shell."

Slides were used to teach history of art and architecture since around 1880s until they were replaced by digital modes such as PowerPoint. Since the founding of the Fogg Art Museum in 1895, the Fine Arts Library has served the needs of teaching faculty, art museum staff, undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and historians at Harvard and around the world. By 1920s, many universities had slide libraries, including Harvard. Since then, over the decades, FAL has acquired over 600,000 slides, mainly from the courses taught by Harvard faculty for teaching.

In the past couple years, the Fine Arts Library’s Digital Images and Slides Collection has been engaged in a large-scale move of our 35 mm slides to off-site storage at the Harvard Depository. 

This collection of over 600,000 slides documents the history of world art and architecture up to the early 2000s. Access for retrieval of items needed by future researchers is being provided through creating HOLLIS records. We have digitized most of the slides, but the archiving of this significant teaching format, nearly in its original arrangement, will serve as a valuable record both of the past art historical interests of faculty and students, and as a tangible reminder of bygone classroom teaching practices.

wuthering heights (1847) - emily brontë

Manifest the career you deserve with a simple spell jar:

• Cinnamon — for speed, action, and motivation

• Citrine — for success and financial prosperity

• Rosemary — for remembrance and luck

• Petition — write your career goal on a small piece of paper

Place all ingredients into a jar. Seal it with green wax to lock in the energy for growth and manifestation.

it’s okay to use your turn signal when you’re changing lanes

it’s okay to use your turn signal when you’re taking an exit

it’s okay to use your turn signal when you plan on turning (can even be done sooner than 2 seconds before you’re about to turn)

you have a turn signal. in your vehicle. two of them in fact.