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December 7, 2006
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Treasured anew
Harvard's Peabody Museum is home to roughly 600 plaster casts of Central American monuments. At the time the casts were made, they were considered a poor second choice to securing the original, a step above a photograph. Now many of the originals have been lost to looters and weather, and the Peabody is at the forefront of a new movement to recover and preserve the knowledge the casts contain. (Staff photo Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard News Office)
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HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES
Casts of monuments preserve fading treasures
Harvard collection turns historical afterthoughts into valued resource
Emily Dickinson's childhood herbarium published
Facsimile edition makes fragile Dickinson item available to scholars, public
Fried: The boundaries of the self, the impositions of society
Undergraduate essay contest on 'Literature that Changed My Life'
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