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Sketchbook depicting Dussehra festival in India
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0728
Abstract
Dussehra (also known as Desara or Dasara) is the most famous event of the Chhattisgarh State, historically known as the Bastar region. It is a major Hindu festival celebrating the victory of good over evil in the worship of the goddess Durga, also known as Vijayadashami. This item is a 24-sheet cloth-covered sketchbook of drawings depicting participants in the Bastar Dussehra festival and includes 19 sketches in colored chalks and watercolor, while 9 are in pencil--many with descriptive...
Dates:
circa 1900
Found in:
Special Collections
The Roseanne Klass collection on Afghanistan and the Soviet-Afghan War
Collection
Identifier: MS-0470
Abstract
Roseanne Traxler Klass was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. From 1980 to 1991 Klass founded and headed the Afghanistan Information Center at Freedom House in New York, NY.The papers document the various aid groups and human rights organizations involved in the Afghanistan war from the 1970s to the late 1990s. Support groups include the Afghanistan Relief Committee, Free Afghanistan, and Medicines san Frontieres.
Dates:
1970s-1990s
Found in:
Special Collections
Victorian-era scrapbook collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0575
Abstract
Personal assemblages illustrating the Victorian preoccupation with collecting and arranging pictures, 1876-1896.
Dates:
1876-1896
Found in:
Special Collections
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