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
The 15,000th digital image from Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection has been published. Image number 15,000, “Dia dos de Mayo de 1810. En Madrid,” is one of eight hand-colored semicircular prints in the collection, and was designed to be mounted as a fan. Since its inception several years … Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection Milestone
Today’s Providence Journal features an article about The Brown-Francis Family Papers, a collection which the Center for Digital Scholarship is in the process of scanning. The papers provide a unique perspective on early American life, and detail the activities of a colonial Rhode Island merchant family. 1,140 objects have been scanned to date, and all … The Brown-Francis Family Papers featured in The Providence Journal
