Dried Flowers Make A Library Bloom

The Purpose of Art (#2)

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Source for the story: Scroll ( series of articles on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on publishing, curated by Kanishka Gupta

Pressed flowers sourced from Emily Dickinson's Herbarium, available online on Harvard Library's website.

The Purpose of art is a short series on lesser known stories of art and its many uses.

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