LINCOLN RECORDÓ EN AMERICA LATINA Selected Items on View at the John Hay Library: “Canción a Abraham Lincoln” Lady’s Fan, c. 1865 Havana, Cuba Brown University Library, Special Collections Latin Americans observed, mourned and commemorated Abraham Lincoln’s life and legacy in a number of ways. Argentinians named a city in Buenos Aires Province for him. Statues … Exhibit | Lincoln Recordó en America Latina
Annual Address of the Carriers & Newsmen of the New York Herald: On the Opening of the Year 1851 Carriers’ Addresses were published by newspapers and local newsboys delivered these greetings in verse each New Year’s Day to customers who understood that a tip was expected. Lasting for more than two centuries in the United … Exhibit | Annual Address of the Carriers & Newsmen of the N.Y. Herald, 1851
Works from Modern Architecture: A Course with Dietrich Neumann On view, architectural models created by students in Professor Dietrich Neumann’s lecture course, “Modern Architecture,” which surveys the “classic” period of European and American modern architecture from the turn of the century to the 1950s. Works are based on a building or industrial design object from the … Exhibit | Works from Modern Architecture
From the Scott O’Hara Papers: SFGH Pillowcase Scott O’Hara (1961–1998) was a sex radical, porn star, writer and publisher. Between 1983 and 1993, he performed in over twenty gay and bisexual adult films. He also edited and published the quarterly sex-positive journal Steam and the short-lived cultural magazine Wilde. O’Hara was hospitalized at San Francisco … Exhibit | San Francisco General Hospital Pillowcase
The historians of the Brown University Band present an exhibition on the band’s long and great history, currently on display at the Orwig Music Library. Since 1924 the Brown University Band has entertained on the field at football games, on ice at the hockey games, and in locations all over the country. On view are the musical “BU” … Exhibit | Ever True: A History of the Brown Band
Chocolates E. Juncosa Advertising Cards Scenes from Cuba’s War of Independence,1895–1898. These advertising cards for the firm Chocolate E. Juncosa, in Barcelona, depict scenes from Cuba’s War of Independence, 1895–1898. Founded in 1835, the company offered cocoa and sugar of the finest quality. This set contains 36 numbered chromolithography cards with color illustrations and caption titles. The reverse of each … Exhibit | Scenes from Cuba’s War of Independence, 1895–1898
In October 2015, Christopher Jennings and Bridget Winstanley, son and daughter of British and South African scholar Hubert Dudley Jennings, donated their father’s personal papers to Brown University Library. In January of this year, Folha de S.Paulo, one of Brazil’s leading daily newspapers, featured an article about the discovery of the Hubert Jennings archive in … Special Collections | Hubert Jennings Papers on Fernando Pessoa
Sonia Haft Davis (1883-1972) would have lived her life in relative obscurity but for her 2-year marriage to a man named Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937). Lovecraft was a science fiction and horror writer whose work has created a significant and active fan base. To preserve her own literary output and the work of her … Life after Lovecraft
Image courtesy of lyrics.wikia.com. B.B. King (2002) Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock’s Backpages Audio, October 2002 The Chairman of the Board of Blues Singers looks back at his early days in Memphis, and on the observational nature of his songs, and their universal subject matter. File format: mp3; file size: 10mb, interview length: 10′ 55″ … Spotlight on Rock’s Backpages Database: B.B. King
The initial release of a major new enrichment to the Evans and Shaw-Shoemaker collections has just occurred. Rare items from the American Antiquarian Society, available for the first time in Readex digital editions of Early American Imprints, are highlighted below. The Gosport Tragedy (1776) From Early American Imprints, Supplements from the American Antiquarian Society. The … New Eresource: Early American Imprints, Series I and Series II: Supplements From the American Antiquarian Society 1652-1819.
