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Audubon’s “Brown Pelican” on Display
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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 Brown Pelican. The library is open 9 to 6, Monday through Friday and 1 to 5PM on Sundays.
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.
For more information please contact Hay@brown.edu
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“From A.A. to Zouave,” an exhibition at the Annmary Brown Memorial
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A larger-than-life image of Charles Wilson Peale, founder of one of America’s first museums, welcomes visitors to an exhibition of over 150 items from Brown University’s holdings featured in “From A.A. to Zouave: Collections at Brown.” Students of the American Civilization Department’s “Methods in Public Humanities” course curated the exhibition, which is sponsored by the John Nicholas Brown Center Public Humanities Program and the Brown University Library. The exhibition is on view at the Annmary Brown Memorial from Tuesday, Dec. 11 through Friday, May 30, 2008 and is free and open to the public.
The objects on display range from the coffee pot that fueled the late night meetings of Bill W. and Dr. Bob as they pioneered Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), the world’s first 12-step recovery program, to a hand-knit cap from a Civil War Zouave regiment. (The latter took its name and sartorial inspiration from the elite French North African colonial units of the 1830s.) Among the more unexpected items in the exhibition are toy soldiers, a mosaic fragment from ancient Pompeii, books from Hitler’s personal library with his notations in the margins, a script from the television show “Mork and Mindy,” and recordings of Ghanaian music.
Some collections highlight the transformative power of ideas; others provide a sense of the impassioned collectors and dedicated scholars who assembled them. All speak to the varied richness of human history and the depth of the University’s collections, gathered from the Brown University Library, the Haffenreffer Museum, the Bell Gallery, and elsewhere.… “From A.A. to Zouave,” an exhibition at the Annmary Brown Memorial
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Latin American Travelogues Project Featured by Scout Report
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The Library’s Latin American Travelogues project has been featured by the Internet Scout Project’s Scout Report:
“The John Hay Library at Brown University has an impressive array of collections related to Latin America and the Caribbean. These collections include the Schirmer Collection on Anti-Imperialism and the Paul R. Dupee Mexican History Collection. Recently, Professor James Green and Patricia Figueroa, the librarian and subject specialist for Iberia and Latin America worked together to create this compelling digital library of Latin American travel accounts which span the 16th through 19th centuries. Visitors can browse through these accounts at their leisure, and they will find everything from Louis Aggasiz’s “A Journey in Brazil” to Johann Baptist von Spix’s “Travels in Brazil in the Years 1817-1820″. Additionally, visitors can also read some rather thoughtful essays offered by Professor Green’s students that draw on these travel narratives for academic inspiration and contemplation.”
We will soon be adding several hundred titles to this collection — Stay Tuned!