Via Charlotte Bruce Harvey 78, Brown Alumni Magazine: Using digital images, scholars have discovered that fragments of paper at libraries at Brown and the University of Chicago are two halves of a single page on which the teenaged Abraham Lincoln copied out math problems. Its one of the earliest examples of Lincolns thought and writing. … Scholars Reunite Scraps of an Abraham Lincoln Notebook
From The Scout Report, April 23, 2010, Volume 16, Number 16: The Lincoln Collection at Brown University has a rather interesting story, and it all started back in the fall of 1855. John Milton Hay arrived in September of that year to start his education at Brown, and he would go on to a distinguished … Lincolniana at Brown featured by Scout Report
The CDS has just completed work on the digital archive for the Pembroke Record. From 1922 to 1970, the Pembroke Record documented and commented upon life at Pembroke College in Brown University. Although the Pembroke Record ceased publishing decades ago, it has remained a valuable archival resource and an irreplaceable part of the history of … Pembroke Record
John Price Wilkin will speak Friday, April 23 at 9:00 AM in the Lownes Room, about how the impending Google Book Settlement and HaithiTrust will allow/force libraries to rethink traditional collection development assumptions. John Wilkin is the Associate University Librarian for Library Information Technology (LIT) at the University of Michigan and is the Executive Director … John Price Wilkin: The 2010 Brendel Lecture
Podcasts are now available of the Interview and Lecture by Julia Flanders from the Digital Humanities Speaker’s Series, Future Knowledge: Prospects for a Digital Era. University of South Carolina. March 25, 2010. Julia is the Director of the Women Writers Project and Associate Director for Textbase Development here at the Center for Digital Scholarship.
What else is there to say about a month that hosts both Tax Day and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln? Drop by the lobby of the John Hay Library to find out. The exhibit features Lincolniana from the Hay Library’s McLellan Lincoln Collection, and constitutes a final farewell to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial. “April is … “April is the Cruelest Month…”
In recent years, The Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection has acquired over 1,900 drawings and paintings depicting the Second World War. The artwork is currently being scanned, cataloged and added to the Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S. K. Brown Collection. One of the artists represented in the collection, Harry D. Reeks … World War II art from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection
Women in the Archives is a one-day colloquium co-sponsored by the Women Writers Project and the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center at Brown University, to be held on April 24, 2010 at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Women in the Archives explores the use of archival materials in the study of women’s writing, and the … Women in the Archives
Windows into Early Science and Craft: Selections from the Persian Manuscripts of the Minassian Collection Curated by Dr. Elaheh Kheirandish, Harvard University Main Gallery, John Hay Library 20 Prospect Street, Providence, RI 02912 Open to the Public March 12 – April 5, 2010 Hours This exhibit presents the subject of early science and craft through … “Windows into Early Science and Craft” Exhibit
The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 brought to bear many issues of representation and response that have recently been in the media’s eye in the wake of the tragedies in Haiti and Chile. William Dana Reynolds, of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, documented his experience after arriving in Yokohama Bay on September 9, 1923. His ship survived the … The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923: Materials from the Dana and Vera Reynolds Collection
