Collections A-Z
In addition to general collections and online subscription databases, journals, and ebooks, the Library holds more than 500 named collections which are distinguished by their specialized subject matter, age, uniqueness, or value. Most of the listed collections on this page are located in the John Hay Library. To locate digitized collections, see the list available at the Center for Digital Scholarship site and search the Brown Digital Repository.
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Links to collections organized alphabetically
# |A |B |C |D |E |F |G |H |I |J |K |L |M |N |O |P |Q |R |S |T |U |V |W |X |Y |Z
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- AA Grapevine
- Abbott (Edwin Abbott) Materials from Thomas Banchoff
- Abu-Jamal (Mumia)
- ACT UP Rhode Island
- Adams (George James)
- Africana Studies / Rites and Reason Theatre
- Agarwal (Yukti)
- Akerman and Company
- Albert (Sidney P.) George Bernard Shaw
- Alcoff (Linda Martin)
- Alcoholism and Alcoholics Anonymous
- Aldrich
- Allison (Thomas M.)
- Alpha Delta Phi
- Alphabet Stones
- Alumnae Association
- American Association of People with Disabilities
- American Chemical Society
- American Mathematical Society
- Ames (Robert S. and Margaret A.)
- Anaesthesia
- Analog: Science Fiction and Fact
- Anderson (Daniel J.)
- Anne S. K. Brown
- Anne S.K. Brown Military
- Annmary Brown Memorial
- Annmary Brown Memorial Library
- Antarctic
- Anthony (Richard H.)
- Anti-Imperialism
- Anti-Saloon League
- Archibald (Raymond Clare)
- Argentine Zine Collection
- Atwood (Mary Anne)
- Audubon's Birds of America
B ↑
- Backus (Isaac)
- Bailey (William Whitman)
- Bakst (M. Charles)
- Bal (Mieke)
- Banchoff (Thomas) Materials relating to Edwin Abbott Abbott
- Baptist
- Baptist Biographies
- Barbour (Clarence A.)
- Barker (Elsa)
- Barker (Sarah Elizabeth Minchin)
- Barlow (Tani E.)
- Barr (Morris Abner)
- Barrett (Ellen M.)
- Bartky (Sandra Lee)
- Bayberry Hill Press
- Beckwith (David)
- Benhabib (Seyla)
- Benjamin (Jessica)
- Berlant (Lauren)
- Berube (Kenneth) (Class of 1966) Vietnam oral history
- Bhabha (Jacqueline)
- Bianchi (Martha Dickinson)
- Bing Ling's Gift Books
- Birds of America
- Birri (Fernando) Archive of Multimedia Arts
- Black Lavender Experience
- Blake (Damon)
- Blake (Eli Whitney) (1867-1902)
- Blake (Howard Milton)
- Bloomingdale, Lyman G.
- Blossom (Barbara) Play Scripts
- Boghosian (Heidi)
- Bookplate
- Books at Brown
- Borland (Mary)
- Bornstein (Kate)
- Botta (Anne Charlotte Lynch)
- Brasiliana
- Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA)
- Brennan (Joseph Payne)
- Brennan (Teresa)
- Brethen (Bob)
- Brickman (William W.)
- Broadsides
- Brodkin (Karen)
- Bromsen (Maury A.) Confederate Etchings by Adalbert Volck
- Bromsen (Maury A.) Lincoln
- Brooks (Jessica) papers on the Brown-Tougaloo Partnership
- Brooks (William H.) Family
- Brown (Anne Seddon Kinsolving)
- Brown (Ben W.)
- Brown (Charles Wilson) collection of Brown and Wilson family
- Brown (Harcourt)
- Brown (Harold)
- Brown (J. Carter)
- Brown (John Nicholas) (1861-1900)
- Brown (John Nicholas) family photographs
- Brown (John Nicholas), (1900-1979)
- Brown (Natalie Bayard)
- Brown (Wendy)
- Brown ACLU
- Brown Alumnae Club of Kent County
- Brown Corporation Committee on Agricultural Lands Records
- Brown Daily Herald
- Brown University Archives
- Brown University Archives - Biographical Files
- Brown University Archives - Photograph
- Brown University Archives - Prints
- Brown University Archives - Scrapbooks
- Brown University Archives - Theatre
- Brown University Archives - World War I Correspondence
- Brown University Corporation Committee
- Brown University Dept. of Mathematics Meeting Minutes
- Brown University Graduate School registration
- Brown University Herbarium
- Brown University Library Russian Exchange
- Brown University Miscellaneous
- Brown University Websites Archive
- Brown University women's athletics ephemera
- Brown University. President's Office. Survey of alumni.
- Brown-Ives Shakespeare
- Brown-Tougaloo Exchange
- Brownell (Henry Howard)
- Bryson Dance
- Bryson Dance ephemera
- Buc (Nancy L.)
- Buchan (John)
- Bullard Napoleon
- Burges, Tristam
- Burlingame (Katharine DePew)
- Burning Deck
- Butler Hospital
C ↑
- Cameron (William H.) Civil War
- Canfield (Eli Hawley)
- Canner (Carol)
- Cape Verde
- Capone, Clifford
- Carby (Hazel)
- Carley (Michael J.) (Class of 1962) Vietnam Oral History
- Carriers Addresses
- Carroll (Michael R.)
- Carvely (Andrew)
- Caswell (Alexis) papers
- Ceard (Henry) and Emile Zola
- Chace (Elizabeth Buffum)
- Chambers Dante
- Chapin (Charles V.)
- Chapin (Charles V.)
- Chapman (Abraham)
- Cherkofsky (Naomi)
- Chesler (Ellen)
- Chinn (Susan)
- Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive
- Church (Dave)
- Church (George Earl)
- Ciaraldi Comics
- Ciardi (John)
- Civic Convocation (1955)
- Civil War Manuscripts
- Clark (John Laing)
- Clements (Dawn)
- Cohen (Louis)
- Cohen (Robert F., Jr.)
- Cohen, Peter F. Oral history interviews concerning ACT UP
- Commission on Freedom of the Press Documents and Reports
- Committee on Arnold Fellowships
- Committee on Diversity
- Committee on Retirement
- Community Organizer Genealogy Project oral history interview
- Community Organizing
- Conjunctions Magazine
- Cooke (Miriam)
- Corbett (Scott)
- Corliss (George H.)
- Corporation Committee
- Corthell (Elmer L.)
- Cover-to-Cover
- Cox (Samuel Sullivan)
- COYOTE Rhode Island
- Cramer Silver
- Crawford (John Jr.)
- Crosby (Christina)
- Crosby (Harry)
- Crost (Lyn)
- Cserr (Helen F.)
- Cuban Slavery Documents
- Currency collection
- Curtis (Minerva G.) diaries
- Cushman (Asa) Plays in Parts and Prompt Copies
- Cutter (Bloodgood H.)
D ↑
- Damon (S. Foster) Festival
- Damon Occult
- Dance Company Press Kits
- Dante
- Dard Hunter
- Dated Book
- Davenport
- Davis (Sonia H. and Nathaniel A.)
- De Jong (David Cornel)
- Dealers' Catalogs
- Dealey (James Quayle) photographs of China trip
- Dean of the College Files
- December Press
- deCoudres (Rhea Maxine)
- DeJean (Joan E.)
- Denison (Frederic) Baptist Biograpies
- Dexter (Robert C. and Elisabeth A.)
- Dickerman Egyptology
- Dickinson Family
- Dickson (James C.)
- Digitized Special Collections Project Websites
- Dirt Palace ephemera
- Dixon (Nathan Fellows) Family
- Doane (Janice L.)
- Doane (Mary Ann)
- Doonan (Lesley C.)
- Dorr (Thomas Wilson)
- Dotter (Earl)
- Douglass (Frederick)
- Downs (T. Nelson)
- Downs Family
- Dr. Bob
- Dreyfus Affair Periodicals
- Drowne Family
- duCille (Ann)
- Dupee Fireworks
- Dupee Mexican History
- Dupree (Anderson Hunter) papers
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F ↑
- Fales family letters
- Farnham
- Faunce (William Herbert Perry)
- Fausto-Sterling (Anne)
- Federici (Silvia)
- Fells Library
- Feminist Press
- Feminist Theory Archive
- Fenner (Edward)
- Ferguson (Margaret W.)
- Ferguson, (Mary Anne)
- Fernández (Johanna)
- Fireworks
- Fisher (Rudolph)
- Flax (Jane)
- Fortunati (Leopoldina)
- Foster
- Fox (Mary Borland Thayer)
- Fradkin (Irving A.)
- Francis Family correspondence
- Franklin, Oliver St. Clair African American Book
- French American Charitable Trust (FACT)
- Friedman (Susan Stanford)
- Frost (Edwin Collins) and William Henry Frost
- Frost Currency
- Fuller (William O.)
G ↑
- Galdston (Kenneth A.)
- Gardner
- Garibaldi
- Gato Negro Zine Collection
- Gay Paperbacks
- Gay Pulp Fiction
- Gaylactic Network
- Gerrish (Willard P.)
- Giddings (Paula)
- Gilman Land Company
- Glass (Jodi L.)
- Gleeson (Alice Collins)
- Glicksman, Maurice Professorial
- Global Curatorial Project: Unfinished Conversations
- Goff family papers
- Gonzalez (Xochitl)
- Gorham
- Gorton (Arlene E.)
- Grapevine (AA periodical)
- Green (Eleanor Burges)
- Green (T.F.)
- Greene (Josiah)
- Greene Memorial
- Greenfield Review Press
- Greenough (Jenine Bates)
- Grewal (Inderpal)
- Grolier Club
- Grotius
- Guild (Emmons Dexter)
- Gund (Catherine)
- Gurney (Warren S.)
H ↑
- H.G. Wells
- Haggadot
- Hall-Hoag
- Hamilton (Henry D.)
- Hamilton (Mary) Letters
- Hamm Etchings
- Hanna (Muriel Marjorie Boos)
- Harding (Sandra G.)
- Harper Square Press
- Harris (Louise)
- Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
- Harrison (Jane Fiske)
- Hartland-Thunberg (Penelope)
- Hartsock (Nancy C.M.)
- Hawkes (John)
- Hawkins (Rush)
- Hay (John Milton)
- Hay (John Milton)
- Hay (John Milton) and family Fells Library
- Hay (John,1915-2011)
- Heath (Dwight B.)
- Heath (Royal Vale)
- Hedges (Elaine)
- Heffner (Ray L.) Papers
- Held (Virginia)
- Herbarium (Brown University)
- Herlihy (David)
- Heroic life and career of Garibaldi
- Hersey, Mayo Dyer
- Hill (Walter Nickerson)
- Hinrichs (Albert Ford)
- Hirsch (David H.)
- Hirsch (Marianne)
- Historical Properties Survey
- History of Science
- Hitler
- Hoffman (William Henry) Napoleon I
- Holden (Wheaton)
- Honig (Edwin)
- Horace
- Hornig (Donald F.) Papers
- Hovan (John)
- Howard (Jean E.)
- Howard Foundation
- Howe (Florence)
- Howe, William D.
- Hughes (Donna M.)
- Humanities Forum of Rhode Island
- Humphrey (James)
- Hunt (E. Howard)
- Hunter (Dard)
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J ↑
- Jackson (James)
- Jaggar (Alison M.)
- James, Patrick J.
- Janet Mansfield Soares Dance
- Janet Shaffer papers on the Brown-Tougaloo Partnership
- Japanese LGBTQ+ Magazine
- Japanese Literature and Zen Buddhist Philosophy
- Jenckes (Thomas Allen)
- Jennings (Hubert)
- Jessica Brooks papers on the Brown-Tougaloo Partnership
- Jiang (Weimin) gift books and Chinese Writers' Signature collection
- John Birch Society
- John Birch Society pamphlets
- John Hay (1838-1905)
- John Hay (1838-1905)
- John Hay (1915-2011)
- Johnson (Barbara)
- Jones (Samuel)
- Just Say No Campaign collection
K ↑
- Kahane (Claire)
- Kahn (Coppelia)
- Kamuf (Peggy)
- Kaplan (Caren)
- Katharine Gibbs School
- Katzoff (Richard G.)
- Keddy (Jane L.)
- Keely (George Washington)
- Keen (William W.)
- Keeney (Barnaby C.) Papers
- Kenvin (Helene Schwartz)
- Khrushchev
- Kiernan, Caitlín
- Kikel (Rudy)
- Kimball
- King (Florence)
- King (Rufus)
- Kinter (William L.)
- Kirk (Chester H.)
- Ko (Dorothy)
- Koo (Kim) Korean
- Koopman (Harry Lyman)
- Korff (Baruch)
- Korsmeyer (Carolyn)
- Kowalski (Barry F.) (Class of 1966) Vietnam oral history
- Krongelb (Malana)
- Kurtz (Ernest) Alcoholism
L ↑
- Ladd Observatory
- Lamont (Hammond)
- Lamphere (Louise)
- Land (Jon)
- Langdon (William Chauncey)
- Laperriere (Tom) Kurtz and Snyder recordings
- Latin American Imprints
- Laughlin (James)
- Laviolette (Marie Louise)
- Lawrence (T.E.)
- Lawson (Todd S. J.)
- Leab (Daniel J.) Books and Manuscripts by and about George Orwell
- Lewis (David C.)
- Leyninger (Jacques)
- LGBTQ magazines from Japan
- Lincoln (Abraham)
- Linton (William James)
- Littlefield (Katherine Frances)
- Lord (Augustus Mendon)
- Louttit (William Easton)
- Love (Heather)
- Lovecraft (Howard P.)
- Lovell (Malcolm Read Jr.)
- Lovell family
- Lownes (Albert Edgar) manuscript
- Lownes (Albert Edgar) on Henry David Thoreau
- Lownes History of Science
- Luce (Nancy)
- Lustig Bookplate
- Lutz (Catherine)
M ↑
- m/f: a feminist journal collection
- Maas (Willard)
- Machiavelli
- Magic
- Malana Krongelb Zine Collection
- Mallon (Thomas)
- Man (Mary)
- Management Development Program
- Mann (Horace) family
- Mann (Marty)
- Manning (James)
- Marcus (Sharon)
- Marks (Elaine)
- Martensen (Augustus)
- Martin (Kathryn)
- Massey, Walter E.
- Masters (Edgar Lee)
- Mazansky Swords
- McConoughey (Artha May)
- McDowell (Deborah E.)
- McHugh, (Jeanne Kerr) papers
- McLellan Lincoln
- McLoughlin (William Gerald)
- Mead, Albert D.
- Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts
- Medina Microfilm
- Mel B. Yoken
- Meshanticut Park Community Baptist Church
- Messer (Asa) Papers
- Metcalf
- Metcalf (Edward De Forest)
- Metcalf Peaceana
- Mexican History
- Middlebrook (Diane)
- Migueis (Jose Rodrigues)
- Mikuriya (Mary Jane)
- Military
- Miller
- Miller (Nancy K.)
- Minassian
- Moore (Robin)
- Morrill Act Papers
- Morse (Carleton D.) Whaling
- Mosher (Hollis)
- Muller (Otto)
- Murray collection on Robert Hayden
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O ↑
P ↑
- Palm Leaf Manuscripts
- Palmer (Alison)
- Parsons (Usher)
- Pateman (Carole)
- Patent Medicine Bottle
- Paterson (William)
- Pearson (Hugh)
- Pembroke Center
- Pembroke Center Oral History
- Pembroke Club of Southern California
- Pembroke College Clothing
- Pembroke College Department of Physical Education
- Pembroke College records from Alumnae Hall
- Pembroke Library
- Pembroke Office of Student Activities
- Perelman (S. J.)
- Perry (Elizabeth Johnson)
- Perry (Keisha-Khan Y.)
- Persian Miniature Paintings
- Peycke (Frieda)
- Pharmacopoeia
- Philbrick (Charles)
- Philbrick (Charles) correspondence with Hilary Master
- Phonorecords (Special Collections)
- Photographs
- Pillar Children's Literature
- Pingree (David E.)
- Pinkham family correspondence
- Poetry Mission
- Poland (William Carey)
- Poovey (Mary)
- Portuguese Africa
- Posters
- Pottery and Porcelain Club (Providence, RI)
- Poulin Comics
- Pound (Ezra) and William Carlos Williams
- Powel (Harford W.H.) T.S. Eliot
- Powers (Tom) collection of Bill Wilson public talks
- Preston (John)
- Printing and Publishing History
- Prints
- Prophet (Nancy Elizabeth)
- Providence Black Repertory Company
- Providence Milk Commission
- Psi Upsilon
- Public Affairs Conference
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R ↑
- Rare Books
- Redding (J. Saunders)
- Reichley, Robert
- Reitman (Charles)
- Renzi (Anna C.)
- Review Club
- Revolution Books collection about the Free Mumia Movement
- Reynolds (Horace Mason)
- Reynolds Family Correspondence
- Rhode Island Baptist Heritage Center
- Rhode Island College Miscellaneous
- Rhode Island Disability Vote Project
- Rhode Island Feminist Theatre
- Rhode Island Medical Society
- Rhode Island Sheet Music
- Rhode Island Society for the Collegiate Education of Women
- Rhode Island Women's Health Collective
- Rhode Island Writers' Guild
- Rider
- Rider (Sidney S.)
- Riley (Denise)
- RIMS
- Rites and Reason Theatre
- Roberts (Percival R.)
- Robinson (Blondie)
- Robinson (Edward North) Sports
- Robinson (Ezekial Gilman)
- Robinson (James J.)
- Rodney (Thomas)
- Roelker (Nancy Lyman)
- Roger Williams Baptist Church
- Rohr, Donald G. Associate Dean of the Faculty
- Rohr, Donald G. Professorial
- Romance Novels
- Rossi (Jean J.)
- Russell (John C.)
- Russell (Jonathan)
- Russian Exchange
- Rutas y Leyendas Publications Collection
S ↑
- Saint Martin's Press
- Saklad (Meyer)
- Salganik (Laura Hersh)
- San Fernando Poetry Journal
- Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender
- Sargent (Frances Herriott)
- Schirmer (Daniel B.)
- Schirmer Anti-Imperialism
- Scholarship America
- Schor (Naomi)
- Schulze, Robert O.
- Scotland (Orkney Islands)
- Scott (Joan Wallach)
- Scott Library
- Screenplays, 1938-1980
- Scribner (Edwin)
- Sears (Barnas)
- Second Coming Press
- Selle (Earl Albert)
- Senturia (Margaret Ellickson)
- Seven Hills Garden Club
- Shaffer, Janet papers on the Brown-Tougaloo Partnership
- Shakespearian Advertiser printing blocks
- Shapiro (Joe and Lil) Collection of Laundry Ephemera
- Sharp (Martha and Waitstill)
- Sharpe (Christina)
- Sharpe (Mary Elizabeth)
- Shaw (George Bernard)
- Shawomet Baptist Church
- Sheet Music
- Sheridan (Harriet W.) Files
- Sherman (Stuart C.)
- Shoemaker, James H.
- Showalter (Elaine)
- Siegel, Daniel G.
- Silver (Cramer)
- Silver (Rollo)
- Simmons (Christina)
- Skidmore (Thomas E.)
- Skidmore (Thomas E.)
- Slides (John Hay Library)
- Small Books
- Smith (Augustus William)
- Smith (Barbara Herrnstein)
- Smith (Clark Ashton)
- Smith (Harry)
- Smith (Robert Holbrook)
- Smith Magic
- Snell Mycology
- Snow (Louis Franklin)
- Snyder (Clarence) Alcoholics Anonymous
- Soares Dance Collection
- Society for Women in Philosophy
- Sorrentino (Mary Ann)
- Spatt (Beverly Moss)
- Spicer (William Arnold III)
- Spillers (Hortense J.)
- Spooner (Edna Maine) Woman's Christian Temperance Union
- Sprague (Katherine Chase)
- St. Armand (Barton Levi)
- St. Martin's Press
- Stamp
- Starred Book
- Stephens (C.A.)
- Stevens (Mitchell L.)
- Stewart-Steinberg (Suzanne)
- Stillwell (Margaret Bingham)
- Stoltz, Merton P. files as provost of Brown University
- Stone Country Press
- Stuart (Nancy Rubin)
- Summers Lowe (Miranda)
- Sunbury Press
- Swan Antarctic
- Swearer, Howard Robert
T ↑
- Tefft (Thomas Alexander) Architectural Drawings
- Television Scripts
- Terry (Jennifer)
- Textbook
- Thatcher (Henry Knox)
- Thayer (Eli)
- Third & Elm Press
- Thoreau (Henry David)
- Tierney (Robert J.)
- Tilly (Louise A.)
- Tinker (Harold L.)
- Toulouse Family correspondence
- Trickett (Homer)
- Trinity Repertory Company
- Truesdell (Leon E.)
- Turner (William Mason)
- Tyler correspondence from E. Pound and W.C. Williams
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V ↑
W ↑
- Waggoner
- Waggoner (Hyatt Howe)
- Walkowitz (Judith R.)
- Wall (Cheryl A.)
- Wandering Jew
- War Information Center
- Ward (Lester Frank)
- Warren (Austin)
- Watson (John Brown)
- Watson (Thomas J. Jr.)
- Wayland (Francis) family papers
- Webber (Gail Frances)
- Weed (Elizabeth)
- Weeks Family
- Wegelin (Oscar)
- Weird Tales
- Wellman (Manly Wade)
- Wells (H.G.)
- Wengenroth
- Wengenroth (Stow)
- West Coast Poetry Review
- West Exeter Baptist Church
- Whaling
- Wheaton (Henry)
- Wheaton International Law
- Wheelwright (John) Papers
- White (William Wurts) Family
- Whiting (Kenneth P.)
- Whitman (Sarah Helen)
- Wilder (Magel Craig)
- Wilding (Faith)
- Williams (Blanche)
- Williams (Linda)
- Williams Table
- Wilmeth (Don B.) research files
- Wilson (Bill) public talks
- Winans (A. D.)
- Wit and Humor
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union
- Women in Rhode Island Oral History
- Women of Brown United
- Womxn Project
- Woods (Alva)
- World War I Correspondence
- Wriston (Henry Merritt) Files
- Wulff (Megan Aileen)
- Wylie (Alison)
- Wyllys (Samuel)
- Wyman (Loraine)
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