Pictures from the Hay: Celebrating the John Hay Library at 100
August 28 – November 16, 2010

David Winton Bell Gallery
List Art Center 64 College Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02912

Gallery hours
Monday – Friday 11 – 4
Saturday and Sunday 1 – 4

Presented by the Brown University Library and the David Winton Bell Gallery in honor of the John Hay Library Centennial, this exhibit features and celebrates special collections, manuscripts, and archives. The thematical arrangement of the exhibit highlights the richness and great variety of the John Hay Library’s holdings and the complementary nature of its collections. Represented in this exhibit are both the Library’s ever-expanding special collections as a foundation for teaching, learning, and research, and an extraordinary history of the development of printing and the book arts from late medieval times to the present.

Opening reception: Friday, September 10, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.