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Category: Rain

Hiroshige’s Sudden Shower at Ohashi

  • Author By Julia Zacher '25
  • Categories: 19th Century, Asia, Mead Art Museum, Print, Rain, Weather and People, Weather and the Built Environment
Woodblock print of a stormy, rainy scene. Travelers walk over a bridge and try to avoid the rain falling.

Early Jurassic Slab with Raindrops

  • Author By Donovan Pitts '27
  • Categories: Beneski Museum of Natural History, North America, Prehistory, Rain, Specimen, Weather and Science, Weather and Time
A large, gray slab of rock features a mottled, undulating surface and a jagged edge.

Sarah Berman’s Rainy Street Scene

  • Author By Elizabeth Papalia '25
  • Categories: 20th Century, Mead Art Museum, North America, Painting, Rain, Weather and People, Weather and the Built Environment
Three women in brightly colored clothes and carrying umbrellas navigate a dark city street.

Edward Steichen’s The Flatiron

  • Author By Dulcie McGrath '28
  • Categories: 20th Century, Fog, Mead Art Museum, North America, Photograph, Rain, Weather and the Built Environment
A soft-focused, green toned photograph of the Flatiron building in Manhattan, NYC, at twilight. The view is foggy and blocked by a branch.

The Dresden Codex Facsimile

  • Author By Ellerman Mateo Mateo '25
  • Categories: 11th Century, Book, Central America, Climate, Frost Library Archives, Rain, Storm, Weather and Culture, Weather and Destruction
Two masked figures convene around a pedestal, one holding a headless bird

Orra White Hitchcock’s Drawing of Vallies

  • Author By Jackson Carter '25
  • Categories: 19th Century, Climate, Drawing, Frost Library Archives, North America, Rain, Weather and Amherst, Weather and Science, Weather and Time
Colored stripes undulate across a diagram and form peaks & valleys labeled subsidence, elevation, erosion, & gorge.

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