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End Notes: And Then There’s Mauve Eleanor H. Gustafson Photograph by Caitlin Cunningham Photography; all photographs © President and Fellows of Harvard College. Did you know that the color mauve, or, rather, the pigment, was discovered in 1856 by an eighteen year- old student experimenting with the hydrocarbons in coal tar from street lamps in an attempt to discover a cure for malaria? He failed in that endeavor, but he did find a beautiful purple residue in his flasks. His is just one of the stories others involve lice, roots, shellfish, bones, and cow urine, to name a few curious sources told in “A History of Color: An Audio Tour of the Forbes Pigment Collection,” recently launched by the Harvard Art Museums and available at harvardartmuseums.org. Narrated by Narayan Khandekar, senior conservation scientist and director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at Harvard, and conservation coordinator Alison Cariens, the tour offers a fascinating and

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