Flatland Thomas Banchoff’s impressive collection of information about Edwin Abbott Abbott, the author of the Victorian novel Flatland. Including editions, letters and images of Abbott, a bibliography, essays. Website Status: Completed Flatland is a project of the Mathematics Department Contributors to this project include Tom Banchoff (Faculty lead)

Gorham Collection The Brown University Library has been awarded an IMLS National Leadership planning grant for the purpose of collaborating with the RISD Library and the RISD Museum in the development of a new database architecture that will allow users to explore the complete extent of the design process used by the Gorham Manufacturing Company … Gorham Collection

Harris Broadsides A collection of broadsides from the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays. Website Status: Complete

Images of Brown A collection of historical images of the University, serving as a visual record of Brown’s campus life from its beginnings in the 1760s to the current day. The forum presentations by teachers and researchers were made available on a website, along with a web-based conferencing system to facilitate continuing discussions by the … Images of Brown

James Koetting Ghana Field Recordings Collection One of the largest collections of field recordings from Ghana, this digital collection includes recorded interviews, musical demonstrations, field notebooks, photographs, commentary, and other original source material surrounding Koetting’s research. Website Status: Ongoing

Lincoln Broadsides A collection of broadsides, posters, pamphlets, maps, and miscellany highlighting Lincoln’s place in the American consciousness. Website Status: Ongoing

Lincoln Graphics Graphical material pertaining to Lincoln. STG designed a database-driven interface for cataloguing humanities institutions and their associated collections, programs, and experts. Bill McIver, Visiting Assistant Professor (CS), implemented PHP class definitions and other code for wrapping MySQL databases conveniently for use in HTML forms applications. Carole Mah implemented a complex web-based browsing, authoring, … Lincoln Graphics

Lincoln Manuscripts Graphical material pertaining to Lincoln. Website Status: Ongoing

Lincoln Objects A lock of Lincoln’s hair. A hammer owned by John Wilkes Booth. A ruler used by Lincoln in the White House. These numinous objects are just a few of the many strange yet fascinating pieces which have found their way into Brown’s McLellan Lincoln Collection. The museum objects make up a small but … Lincoln Objects

Lincoln Sheet Music Sheet music pertaining to Lincoln. This database comprises sheet music from the McLellan Lincoln Collection at the John Hay Library and includes material written between 1859 and 1923. Music written about Lincoln ranges from popular song to compositions for orchestral performance. Although the focus is on Abraham Lincoln, these pieces offer an … Lincoln Sheet Music