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This exhibit features a variety of visual images from the library's
collection:
- Two antireligion posters from a collection of 52 posters on the topic
"religion or science?" published in Kharkiv, Ukraine, by the government of Ukraine
in the mid-1920s.
- Twenty-two photos of Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909), a Unitarian minister
and popular author and speaker, along with one of his hats. Most of
the photos and the hat were collected by Harriet E. Freeman (1847-1930),
Hale's personal assistant. Also displayed is a sketch of Hale by his
daughter, Ellen Day Hale (1855-1940), an oil and mural painter and
etcher.
- Linoleum cut prints by Samuel Howard Miller (1900-68), the minister of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church in Cambridge
(1935-59) and Dean of Harvard Divinity School (1959-68). A leader in the worship and the arts movement, Miller himself worked in several mediums; he used his linoleum block prints on cards and programs.
- A lithographic illustration by Otto Dix
(1891-1969), a German painter, printmaker and watercolorist, of the
betrayal of Jesus, from a
German translation of the Gospel of Matthew printed in Berlin by Käthe Vogt
Verlag in 1960.
- A wood engraving by Elfriede Abbe (b. 1919), a sculptor, printer, printmaker, and scientific
illustrator, depicting the third day of creation ("Let the earth
bring forth grass, herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding
fruit") from The Creation: Lines from the Old Testament and
From Paradise
Lost by John Milton as Told to Adam by the Archangel Raphael (Manchester Center, Vt.:
1977).
- A large service book (Office de toute l'anneé) with plainsong notation
produced by multicolor stenciling in 1822 for the Sisters of the Nativity of Our Lady, a religious order under the Augustinian rule founded in Saint Germain-en-lay near Paris in 1818.
- A limited edition of The Book of Common Prayer, designed by Charles Robert Ashbee
(1863-1942), an architect, designer, and social reformer, for Edward
VII in 1903.
- A bound handwritten manuscript of the four Gospels in Armenian
produced in 1504, open to the beginning of the Gospel of Mark and
including an illumination of Mark on vellum and the title page.
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Photo of Edward Everett Hale wearing
his hat.
Linoleum cut print "Down to the
Sea-Provincetown" by Samuel H. Miller.
Illumination depicting Mark writing
his Gospel from a 1504 Armenian manuscript of the four Gospels. |
