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Read the article in the College Hill Independent about Brown University and the Great Depression
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Crisis at the Gates: How Brown Deals with Economic Turmoil, Past and Present, and What That Means for Providence, by Joy Neumeyer, with reporting by Michael GondaThis article was written with sources researched at the Brown University Archives. If you would like to research the history of Brown University during the Great Depression or another era, please contact the Archives staff at archives@brown.edu
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Audubon’s “Black and Yellow Warbler” on display at John Hay Library
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A volume of John James Audubon’s master work, The Birds of America, is on display on the main floor of the John Hay Library. Each plate will be on display for only one month. This month’s bird is the “Black and Yellow Warbler”. The library is open 9 to 6, Monday through Friday and on Sundays between 1 and 5. The Library will be closed on October 12th and 13th.
This elephant folio edition of The Birds of America, bound in six volumes, was presented by Albert E. Lownes to the Library on the occasion of his 50th class reunion in 1970.
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Online version of the Women’s History Month exhibit: Disturbances
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In March 2008, the Pembroke Center in partnership with the John Hay Library, created an exhibit in celebration of Women’s History Month. The exhibit included materials from the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive and the newly established Feminist Theory Papers.Here is the link to a smaller online version of the exhibit:
DisturbancesFor more information contact the University Archives at archives@brown.edu