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New Workshop | Research Photo Management with Tropy
If you’ve ever returned from the archives with interesting images, but no plan as to where to preserve those images and write the proper metadata for them, Tropy is a new resource that may interest...
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Exhibit | Folklore Music Map of the United States
Folklore Music Map of the United States from the Primer of American Music Dorothea Dix Lawrence (1899–1979) New York, New York: Hagstrom Company, Inc., 1946 Brown University Library, Special...
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Exhibit | Spectacular Listening: U.S. Air Guitar
This exhibit by ethnomusicology Ph.D. candidate Byrd McDaniel displays some of the memorabilia central to air guitar playing in the United States and the U.S. Air Guitar Championships in particular....
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Announcement | Andrew Majcher, Records Manager/Digital Archivist
Andrew Majcher joined the Library in April 2018 as Records Manager/ Digital Archivist. As the University’s Record Manager, Andrew is positioned within University Archives and is tasked with developing...
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Exhibit | Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection Loan to The Watercolour World
French Garde Impériale and Garde Nationale during the Hundred Days, 1815. Denis Dighton 1792-1827 UK-based nonprofit organization The Watercolour World has added 93 items from the Brown University...
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Exhibit | Prayer (1934) by Princess Red Wing of Seven Crescents
Prayer, World Day of Prayer for Peace, February 16, 1934 Princess Red Wing of Seven Crescents Brown University Library, Special Collections Exhibit The item on display is a written prayer delivered at...
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Announcement | Brown Library Staff Recognized for Service Milestones on BEAR Day
On Tuesday, February 19, 2019, Brown University staff gathered for the annual Brown Employee Appreciation and Recognition (BEAR) Day, at which staff are recognized for milestone years of continuous...
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Announcement | The Harriette Hemmasi Exhibition Gallery and the Library...
The Brown University Library is home to a robust exhibition program, with nine exhibit spaces throughout four buildings that present a mix of permanent, temporary, and traveling exhibits, many of...
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Exhibit | Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God (“Eloit Indian Bible”)
The Holy Bible: containing The Old Testament and the New. Translated into the Indian Language, and Ordered to be Printed by the Commissioners of the United Colonies in New-England, At the Charge, and...
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Exhibit | Fort Thunder & Lightning Bolt: Old Mill / New Music
From humble beginnings as a studio space rented by four RISD guys in the fall of 1995, rose the now mythic Fort Thunder collaborative, located in a dilapidated mill building on the west side of...
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Exhibit |American Revolutionary War Prints
Hamilton, William, “The Manner in which the American Colonies Declared themselves Independent of the King of England.” (1790). American Revolutionary War PrintsLondon: Hogg, 1790Brown University...
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Exhibit | The Peterloo Massacre: A Bicentennial Remembrance
The Wanton and Furious Attack Made…,Carlile, Richard, 1790-1843 (publisher), 1819.Brown University Library, Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection Examine two prints published in 1819 following The...
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Event | Josiah Carberry Dinner
Dinner at the Brown Faculty Club On Friday, September 13, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. at the Brown Faculty Club, celebrate the venerable professor of psychoceramics, Josiah S. Carberry, and enjoy a buffet...
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The Malana Krongelb Zine Collection, 1974-2018
The Pembroke Center Archives at Brown University: women’s history is here!, 2018 Explore a sampling of this collection consisting of administrative files and zines that focus on social justice and...
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Nineteenth-Century Architecture Course Models
Examine works created by students in Professor Dietrich Neumann’s lecture course, “Nineteenth-Century Architecture,” which surveys stylistic developments, new building types, and the changing...
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Announcement | Erika Sevetson Selected as National Library of...
Erika Sevetson, Health Sciences Librarian and the Library’s Director of Academic Engagement for Health, Biomedical, and Physical Sciences The Library is pleased to announce Erika Sevetson’s selection...
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Exhibit | The Last Will of Walt Whitman
Camden, New Jersey: June 29, 1888Brown University Library, Special Collections In June of 1888, celebrated American poet Walt Whitman suffered a stroke, which left him partially paralyzed. Fearful he...
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Exhibit | Thanksgiving-Day, November 24, 1864, United We Stand
Harper’s Weekly, December 1864; Brown University Library, Special Collections Created by famous political cartoonist Thomas Nast, these eight vignettes depict a “state of the Union” featuring...
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Exhibit | Collecting with Distinction: Faculty Insights into Recent Acquisitions
Peruse the gallery and discover what is new and unique about Special Collections at the Hay Library. Explore recent acquisitions from the 14th century to the present through the lens of renowned...
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Exhibit | Paul Revere’s Buried with Him by Baptism, c. 1770s
BUL Special Collections, Drowne Collection Thought to be designed and engraved by Revere, this print depicts the baptism of Christ, by full immersion. John the Baptist is shown holding Jesus in the...
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