This book behind the window just made me laugh and want to go look it up. It's a yellow cover with the text "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies". It's maybe an inch and a half wide. It's between some other cloth bound narrower tomes that are kind of beige and one is embossed with a pattern.

Part of the "Fashion Police" exhibit includes a pair of really old books open to show their title pages. The upper one is "The Womanish Man: Being an Answer to a late Booke intituled Hie-Mulier. Exprest in a briefe Dialogue between Hiec-Vir the Womanish Man and Hic Mulier the Man Woman." There is an image that I guess is supposed to be a person on the left in what might be feminine clothing but also spurs, and what might be a woman in a male cavalier kind of outfit. The bottom book says: "Hic Mulier: or The Man-Woman: Being a Medicine to cure the Coltish Disease of the Staggers in the Masculine-Feminines of our Times Exprest in a briefe Declamation" Then there is a Latin phrase, followed by "Mistris, will you be trim'd or truff'd?" Again there's an image of characters who I guess are in gender-bending clothing, but it's hard to assess because all that period clothing coding is confusing.

The windows inside the Houghton Library where the exhibit is located. It's a cream colored painted woodwork between 5 cabinets of old books that goes to the ceiling, and what looks like storage areas also painted cream underneath each cabinet.

A reflective image of the campus of Harvard from outside of one of the buildings. The mirror-like image of the campus across from the window is unusually sharp and clear. A tall white steeple is reflected, as well as nearby brick buildings. The building itself is otherwise a flat and plain brick rectangle with a couple of stories. A tree in front, and a three foot hedge in front.

This book behind the window just made me laugh and want to go look it up. It's a yellow cover with the text "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies". It's maybe an inch and a half wide. It's between some other cloth bound narrower tomes that are kind of beige and one is embossed with a pattern.

Part of the "Fashion Police" exhibit includes a pair of really old books open to show their title pages. The upper one is "The Womanish Man: Being an Answer to a late Booke intituled Hie-Mulier. Exprest in a briefe Dialogue between Hiec-Vir the Womanish Man and Hic Mulier the Man Woman." There is an image that I guess is supposed to be a person on the left in what might be feminine clothing but also spurs, and what might be a woman in a male cavalier kind of outfit. The bottom book says: "Hic Mulier: or The Man-Woman: Being a Medicine to cure the Coltish Disease of the Staggers in the Masculine-Feminines of our Times Exprest in a briefe Declamation" Then there is a Latin phrase, followed by "Mistris, will you be trim'd or truff'd?" Again there's an image of characters who I guess are in gender-bending clothing, but it's hard to assess because all that period clothing coding is confusing.

The windows inside the Houghton Library where the exhibit is located. It's a cream colored painted woodwork between 5 cabinets of old books that goes to the ceiling, and what looks like storage areas also painted cream underneath each cabinet.

A reflective image of the campus of Harvard from outside of one of the buildings. The mirror-like image of the campus across from the window is unusually sharp and clear. A tall white steeple is reflected, as well as nearby brick buildings. The building itself is otherwise a flat and plain brick rectangle with a couple of stories. A tree in front, and a three foot hedge in front.