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Collection Highlights

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Polaroid Corporation Collection
Records from one of the most creative and innovative companies of the 20th century.
Schwartz Art Collection
Displayed throughout campus to inspire students to think creatively.
Muriel Siebert Collection
American businesswoman Muriel F. Siebert (1928-2013) was the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and the first woman to own and direct a brokerage firm that was a member of the NYSE.
Advertising Ephemera
More than 8,000 trade cards representing the full range of products and businesses advertised through this medium from the 1870s through the 1890s.

Exhibits

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Lehman Brothers 1850-2008

The story of one of the country’s oldest investment banks, its reach into nearly every sector of the American economy, and the impact of the firm’s collapse.

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From Concept to Product: Meroë Morse and Polaroid’s Culture of Art and Innovation, 1945–1969
Explores the extraordinary career of Meroë Morse—a key contributor to the development of instant photography, trusted advisor to Polaroid founder Edwin Land, and liaison to iconic landscape photographer Ansel Adams.
From Inquiry to Action: Harvard Business School & the Case Method
Since the 1920s, HBS has been an innovative leader in the development and refinement of teaching with the case method, helping to shape business education programs and business leaders around the world.
The South Sea Bubble, 1720
Explore one of the most extensive collections in the world relating to the first international stock market crash. An exhibition featuring selections from the collection provides further context for understanding the economic and social dimensions of the Bubble.