Hear Holly Snyder, Ph.D., North American History Librarian, speak about Brown’s Lincoln Collection for a story about Abraham Lincoln that aired today on WRNI. http://www.wrni.org/content/lincolns-rhode-island-connection A selection of material from the collection is currently on exhibit at the John Hay Library. See: http://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/exhibits/ For further information contact Holly_Snyder@brown.edu
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 “Snowy Owl”. The library is open 9 to 5, Monday through Friday. The Library will be … Audubon’s “Snowy Owl” on display at John Hay Library
December 1, 2008 – April 1, 2009 The Rockefeller Library is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the U.N.’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights from December 1, 2008 – April 1, 2009 with a special exhibit in the lobby. Spurred on by the atrocities committed during World War II, this document was ratified by the General … The 60th anniversary of the U.N.’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
The current online trial of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers and the ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers collection, originally scheduled to end today, has now been extended to May 19, 2008. We are grateful to ProQuest for making this good will gesture to the Brown community during the Spring exam period.
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 Flamingo. The library is open 9 to 6, Monday through Friday and Sundays between 1 and … Audubon’s “Flamingo” on display at John Hay Library
Editorial On a rare excursion from our newsroom, a group of Herald editors and writers trotted through the Sunday wind to the University archives at the John Hay Library, in which two-and-a-half centuries of College Hill history are stored in diaries, tapes, photos and notes. Even the most curious among us had spent little or … Brown Daily Herald: Touching the Past
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 Columbian Humming Bird. The library is open 9 to 5, Monday through Friday. This elephant folio … Audubon’s Columbian Humming Bird on display
A student project by Maha Atal ’08 and Sara Damiano ’08 in partial fulfillment of requirements for FREN 1040C “Lire et voir le XVlle siècle aujourd’ hui.” To the contemporary mind, a reference to 17th century France calls up images of decadence, pleasure, and luxury, embodied in the grand architecture of Versailles. But how was … Re-opening the 17th century: Reading and Spectacle in the French Court
An article by Greg Cook in the Providence Phoenix details the Brown University Library’s work digitizing the Garibaldi Panorama. “Two years ago, Brown University’s John Hay Library received an enormous gift: a 273-foot-long 19th century panoramic painting depicting the dashing exploits of Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi. Historic panoramas, often of battles, were popular in the … Providence Phoenix: Brown puts Italian epic painting online
The Providence Journal has published an article highlighting the Brown Library’s work digitizing the Garibaldi Panorama, one of the largest paintings in the world. “The crowd that first saw the 273-foot-long painting unfurled was likely crammed in a church hall somewhere in Nottingham, England. It would have been sometime in 1860, just after the painting, … Providence Journal: Brown University Library unveils digitized version of 19th century panorama
