Harvard University Gallery

Human brain microscope slides

Human brain microscope slides. Microscope slides of stained sections of human brain. These slides are from the Harvard Brain and Tissue Resource Centre, USA. This is the largest brain bank in the world. It stores over 3, 000 brains, which are available to researchers studying disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia

© VOLKER STEGER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Photograph of Aaron Molyneaux Hewlett, gymnasium coach of Harvard University, 1859-1871

This photographic print depicts Aaron Molyneaux Hewlett, the first African American gymnasium coach at Harvard University. Hewlett is seated and is surrounded by a variety of exercise equipment. He wears a striped three-piece suit and a dark necktie. The print is cut in an oval shape and mounted on thick pasteboard that is tinted a light tan around the print. The text "Warren Phot." is printed in the lower left corner of the tinted paper. Written in the top left corner of the reverse in blue ink is the text, "1866-BOSTON / "HARVARD"

© Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Landscape view towards stelae unexcavated mounds

Landscape with view towards stelae and unexcavated mounds, Edmund Lincoln miscellaneous papers relating to the excavation of Maya ruins, circa 1880-1900, Expedition to Copan, Guatemala, Lincoln, Edmund, 1870-, Albumen, between 1892 and 1893, Photograph taken during Harvard University's Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology's second archaeological expedition to Copan, Guatemala in 1892-1893. Pages numbered in pencil

© Liszt Collection