Schwedischen Fewerwerks. Anno 1650, on display at the John Hay Library, 2nd Floor Landing from July 1 – July 31, 2017. A depiction of the Swedish fireworks at Nuremberg in honor of the Swedish plenipotentiary in Germany, Count Palatine Carl Gustav (the future king of Sweden, Charles X Gustav). Dates: July 1 – July 31, 2017 Time: John … Exhibit | Schwedischen Fewerwerks. Anno 1650
The Mobile Verse: Bus and Subway Poetry from the Harris Broadside Collection is now showing at John Hay Library, exhibition gallery from June 26 – July 26, 2017. Explore poetry from the United States and Great Britain that was designed to be enjoyed on buses and subway cars from the 1970s through the 1990s. Growing … Exhibit | Mobile Verse: Bus and Subway Poetry
Audubon Bird Cards, Set No. 3 New York: National Association of Audubon Societies, 1974 On display in the second floor landing case of the John Hay Library, this box of cards depicting fifty summer birds of eastern North America was the third in a reissued series that also contained winter birds (set one), and spring … Exhibit | Audubon Bird Cards
The Brown Bear: A History An Exhibit by Peter Mackie ’59, Sports Archivist Now showing in the Willis Reading Room Cases, John Hay Library May 22 – August 31, 2017 At the dawn of the 20th century, Brown was thriving. A new president, William H. P. Faunce, was in place; enrollment was approaching 1,000; new … Exhibit | The Brown Bear: A History
The John Hay Library has a new acquisition on display in the second floor landing case: La conquista dell’Abissinia/ The conquest of Abyssinia Officine dell’Istituto italiano d’arti grafiche/ Office of the Italian Institute of Graphic Arts Board game (paper and ink) Milano: Carlo Erba S.A., 1936 Brown University Library, Special Collections The item will be on display … Exhibit | La conquista dell’Abissinia (The conquest of Abyssinia)
On Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab of the Rockefeller Library, Omer Bartov, John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and Professor of German Studies at Brown, will present his new book, The Voice of Your Brother’s Blood: Buczacz, Biography of a Town. A reception will follow the talk. This … Event | Omer Bartov Discusses “The Voice of Your Brother’s Blood: Buczacz, Biography of a Town”
On Tuesday, May 2, 2017 at 5 p.m. in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library, celebrated French author Anka Muhlstein will deliver the Annual Mel and Cindy Yoken Cultural Series Lecture, entitled, “The Pen and the Brush,” based on Ms. Muhlstein’s recent book, The Pen and the Brush: How Passion for Art Shaped … Annual Yoken Lecture | Anka Muhlstein: The Pen and the Brush
On Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 6 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab of the Rockefeller Library, Adam Teller, Brown University Associate Professor of History and Associate Professor of Judaic Studies, will give a talk in the Library’s lecture series, The Holocaust: History and Aftermath. This event is free and open to the public. A reception … Event | Adam Teller: The Power of Memory: Thinking about the Holocaust in Poland from 1945 until Today
To celebrate Library Preservation Week, the Brown University Library is hosting a talk about and viewing of textiles from the archives of Rush Hawkins and Annmary Brown. Please join us in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library on Wednesday, April 26, 2017, from 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. The Preservation Department staff will discuss the process for housing and preserving … Preservation Week Talk | Preserving a Textile Archive
From April 3 – 30, 2017, the image, Preparing John Bull for General Congress (1813), will be on display in the second floor landing case of the John Hay Library. Shown above, the Napoleonic caricature depicts John Bull backed against a tree, which is being hacked to pieces by malevolent pygmies representing Britain’s many pressing domestic and foreign … Exhibit | Preparing John Bull for General Congress
