Currently on Exhibit, John Hay Library:

Culture and Art from the Divine Land: An Exhibition of Chinese Collections
来自神州大地的文化艺术—布朗大学中文馆藏特展

February 6 – April 19, 2012
John Hay Library exhibit locations: Gammell Gallery, North Gallery, Lobby Case and Reading Room Glass Cases
20 Prospect Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02912

Open to the Public
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Culture and Art from the Divine Land, an exhibit which is part of Brown’s Year of China, presents China through a “touching” approach. The exhibit displays not only books and pictures but also museum objects, bringing visitors in contact with the people and culture in China’s “divine land.” Museum objects on display are selected from the Library’s East Asian Collection, Chinese Writers Signature Collection, Military Special Collection, and Curator Li Wang’s private collection. By highlighting features which especially link Brown to China, this exhibit explores the cultural exchange and understanding between the peoples from two great nations.

Currently on Exhibit, John Hay Library, 3rd Floor Military Collection Room:

Stamp Printing Formats, 1934–2012

May 1 – August 31, 2012
John Hay Library
3rd Floor Military Collection Room
20 Prospect Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02912

Open to the Public
» Library Hours

Examples from 1934 through 2012 of stamp printing formats, including 2012 stamps commemorating the anniversary of the Titanic's sinking and a Canadian uncut press sheet showing the ship in all its glory.

Currently on Exhibit (by appointment):


Lincoln, Drawn from Life:
Five Artists, Six Portraits

Lincoln Rooms
John Hay Library
20 Prospect Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02912
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This Lincoln Bicentennial exhibit allows the viewer to compare and contrast six oil-on-canvas portraits of Lincoln created by five different artists who made first-hand observations and drawings of Lincoln during his lifetime.

The exhibition is open by appointment.

For further information contact hay@brown.edu

Library Exhibits on the Web:
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• Señor Americanus
  Lincoln's Man in Peru, 2011
  
  
• Early American and British Popular Amusements
  An exhibit from the personal collection of Professor Emeritus Don B. Wilmeth, supplemented by items from Brown's Special Collections, 2010
  
  
• Melchor Pérez de Soto, a Book Collector Faces the Inquisition
  Sponsored by Brown University Library, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the John Carter Brown Library., 2010
  
  
• Mel B. Yoken Archives
  A sampling of letters and several posters from prominent individuals, 2010
  
  
• Windows into Early Science and Craft
  Selections from the Persian Manuscripts of the Minassian Collection, 2010
  
  
• East Asian Book Art
  China, Japan, and Korea, are not only proud of their long history of paper production and book printing, but also of their development of wonderful book design and binding art., 2009
  
  
• Beyond the Moon
  400 Years of Astronomical Observation, 2009
  
  
• BATTLE DOGS
  A Selection of War Dog Art from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, 2009
  
  
• Early Italian Books from the Brown University Library
  An Exhibition in Honor of Romano Prodi, 2009
  
  
• In Celebration of GLBT Pride
  The Richard G. Katzoff Collection, 2009
  
  
• Aimé Césaire Memorial Symposium and Exhibit
  commemorating the life and work of Aimé Césaire, the foremost Black French intellectual-statesman-writer of the 20th and 21st centuries, 2009
  
  
• Environmental History of Hispaniola
  An exhibit curated by Dominique Coulombe and Patricia Figueroa in collaboration with Patrick Sylvain, Max Clermont, Deborah Saint-Vil and Kona Shen, 2009
  
  
• John Hay's Lincoln and Lincoln's John Hay
  Shaping Identity and Public Memory in 19th Century America, 2008
  
  
• Jews and American Comics
  An Exhibition of Popular Art, 2008
  
  
• Child's Play: Abraham Lincoln in Games, Toys and Stories
  A Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibit, 2008
  
  
• Adventures in Boxmaking
  Unusual boxmaking challenges faced by Conservation Technician, Erica Saladino, 2008
  
  
• Views and Re-Views: Soviet Political Posters and Cartoons
  Drawn from a private collection of 20th century propaganda and mounted in the David Winton Bell Gallery and the John Hay Library, 2008
  
  
• The Demon of Melancholy: Genealogies, Modernities
  An exhibit was sponsored by the Department of French Studies, 2008
  
  
• The Politics of Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Public Memory of Abraham Lincoln
  An exhibition in the Rockefeller Library of materials from the Lincoln and Harris Collections, 2008
  
  
• Machado de Assis: Reading the Brazilian Master, Then and Now
  An exhibit sponsored by the Department of Portuguese & Brazilian Studies and the Center for Latin American Studies, 2008
  
  
• Disturbances: An Exhibit of Select Materials from the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archives
  A Celebration of Women's History Month 2008 by the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, 2008
  
  
• Notes of Praise, Notes of Dissent: Lincoln and his Political Career in Song
  An exhibition at the Orwig Music Library of materials from the Lincoln Collection, 2008
  
  
• Re-opening the 17th century: Reading and Spectacle in the French Court
  A student project by Maha Atal '08 and Sara Damiano '08 in partial fulfillment of requirements for FREN 1040C "Lire et voir le XVlle siècle aujourd' hui.", 2008
  
  
• Positivism in Brazil
  An exhibition curated by Rex Nielson and Patricia Figueroa, 2007
  
  
• Baudelaire & the Arts
  An Exhibition in Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Publication of Les Fleurs du mal, 2007
  
  
• Selling in Wartime: Advertisements in The Sphere, 1914-1918
  An exhibition from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, 2007
  
  
• Rediscovered Map Collection of the John Hay Library
  Providence Journal Article, 2007
  
  
• Venus in Chains: Representations of Sex and Slavery in the Caribbean Basin
  Exhibit Essay, 2007
  
  
• Don Quijote de la Mancha: 1605-2005
  A celebration of the 400th anniversary of the publication of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de La Mancha, 2005
  
  
• Broadway: The American Musical
  An Exhibition from the Collections of the John Hay Library, 2005
  
  
• Remembering Fritz Pollard and the African American Experience at Brown
  An Exhibition in Honor of Pollard's Induction into the Professional Football Hall of Fame, 2005
  
  
• Queen Victoria's Christmas Gift to John Brown, 1870
  Focus on the Collections, No. 9, 2004
  
  
• Street Scenes of Paris in the 19th Century: from the Comic to the Tragic
  An Exhibition from the collections of the John Hay Library, 2004
  
  
• Remains of a Medieval Italian Antiphonal
  Focus on the Collections, No.8, 2003
  
  
• Celebrating 125 Years of Brown Football
  Items from the Edward North Robinson Collection of Brown Athletics and the Brown Athletic Department, 2003
  
  
• Cultural Essence Over the Centuries
  An Exhibition from the East Asian Collection, 2003
  
  
• The Church Collection
  An Exhibition from holdings of the John Hay Library, 2003
  
  
• Teaching the Arts of the Book
  Work by students of Walter Feldman 1980-2003, 2003
  
  
• Brown Seniors 'Crack' Cuneiform Tablets
  Focus on the Collections, No.7, 2002
  
  
• Landino's Horace - Tasso's Horace - Horace at Brown
  Focus on the Collections, No.6, 2002
  
  
• Yiddish Sheet Music
  From the collections of Brown University Library, 2002
  
  
• Khrushchev and Khrushchev: From the Kremlin to Brown University
  Photographs, memoirs, and publications of Nikita and Sergei Khrushchev, 2002
  
  
• Langston Hughes: The Black Bard at 100
  An exhibition from the collections of Brown Univesity Library in celebration of Black History Month, 2002
  
  
• Remembering 'Herblock': An original drawing by Herbert Block in the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection
  Focus on the Collections, No.5, 2001
  
  
• Dupee Fireworks Collection: Recent Additions
  Focus on the Collections, No.4, 2001
  
  
• Carriers' Addresses in Nineteenth Century America
  Focus on the Collections, No.3, 2001
  
  
• Remembering Brown Sports
  Items from the Edward North Robinson Collection of Brown Athletics, 2001
  
  
• Education for Everybody
  Brown's Innovation and Influence in Collegiate Education
  An exhibition celebrating Ruth J. Simmons Inauguration as Brown's 18th President, 2001
  
  
• George Orwell Materials at Brown University
  An Exhibition from the Collection of Daniel J. Leab & The Manuscript of Orwell's 1984, 2001
  
  
• Leaves of an Hour
  Developing Literary and Popular Culture Collections at Brown University Library, 2001
  
  
• 40 Years of Burning Deck Press
  An exhibit from the Burning Deck Archives & the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, 2001
  
  
• The Robert S. and Margaret A. Ames Collection of Illustrated Books
  Nineteenth century illustration techniques & the literature of travel and exploration, 2001
  
  
• The Art of Yank Magazine: The World War Two Drawings of Robert Greenhalgh
  Focus on the Collections, No.2, 2000
  
  
• The Library's First Book, William Williams & the Williams Table
  Focus on the Collections, No. 1, 2000
  
  
• The Quintessential G.B.S.
  Selections from the Sidney P. Albert - George Bernard Shaw Collection, 2000
  
  
• Imamu Amiri Baraka
  An Exhibition from the Collections of the John Hay Library, 2000
  
  
• From Euclid to Newton
  An Exhibition in Honor of the 1999 Conference of the Mathematical Association of America, 1999
  
  
• Draner's Military Caricatures
  Military caricatures after designs by Jules Draner, 1998
  
  
• Three For Three Million
  Fireworks, Mexican History, Digital Reference Collections, 1997
  
  
• The Night Before Christmas
  An exhibition from the collections of the John Hay Library, 1997
  
  
• Celebrating Harper
  An exhibition in honor of Michael S. Harper, 1997
  
  
• "Of the Poison Brand"
  Two Centuries of Sources for The Study of Alcohol and Alcoholism, 1997
  
  
• Dreams of the Past
  19th Century Color Lithographic Sheet Music Covers, 1996
  
  
• She is More to be Pitied than Censured
  Women, Sexuality and Murder in 19th century America, 1996
  
  
• Artists in Uniform
  The World War II Experience, 1995