Explore a sampling of this collection consisting of administrative files and zines that focus on social justice and marginalized identities dating from 1974 to 2018. Areas of strength include zines by and about people of color, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other queer peoples, the disabled, interpersonal violence, sex and relationships, sex work, the prison … Exhibit | The Malana Krongelb Zine Collection, 1974-2018
Dinner at the Brown Faculty Club On Friday, September 13, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. at the Brown Faculty Club, celebrate the venerable professor of psychoceramics, Josiah S. Carberry, and enjoy a buffet dinner with recipes from The Carberry Cookbook. Dinner will be followed by a rollicking talk from Richard J. Ring, Deputy Executive Director for Collections & … Event | Josiah Carberry Dinner
Examine two prints published in 1819 following The Peterloo Massacre and gain insight into an early 19th-century protest for political reform. On August 16, 1819, a peaceful crowd of between 60,000 and 80,000 workers gathered in St. Peter’s Fields, Manchester, England, to voice their demands for political reform. Poor economic conditions and the lack of … Exhibit | The Peterloo Massacre: A Bicentennial Remembrance
American Revolutionary War PrintsLondon: Hogg, 1790Brown University Library, Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection Explore Independence Day from a British point of view. “Engraved for Barnard’s New Complete & Authentic History of England,”this collection of 4 copper-engraved plates after William Hamilton, 1751-1801 (artist) feature significant milestones from the American Revolutionary War (Apr 19, 1775 – Sep … Exhibit | American Revolutionary War Prints
From humble beginnings as a studio space rented by four RISD guys in the fall of 1995, rose the now mythic Fort Thunder collaborative, located in a dilapidated mill building on the west side of Providence. While there were other decrepit mills nearby, with funky names like Munch House, Box of Knives, & Pink Rabbit, … Exhibit | Fort Thunder & Lightning Bolt: Old Mill / New Music
The Holy Bible: containing The Old Testament and the New. Translated into the Indian Language, and Ordered to be Printed by the Commissioners of the United Colonies in New-England, At the Charge, and with the Consent of the Corporation in England for the Propagation of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New-England John Eliot (1604–1690) … Exhibit | Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God (“Eliot Indian Bible”)
The Brown University Library is home to a robust exhibition program, with nine exhibit spaces throughout four buildings that present a mix of permanent, temporary, and traveling exhibits, many of which are also featured online through digital exhibition. Showcasing items from the Library’s collections as well as items created by students in Brown courses, Library … Announcement | The Harriette Hemmasi Exhibition Gallery and the Library Exhibitions Program
On Tuesday, February 19, 2019, Brown University staff gathered for the annual Brown Employee Appreciation and Recognition (BEAR) Day, at which staff are recognized for milestone years of continuous service. With so many employees with impressive longevity, the Library is always well represented at BEAR Day. Here are the Library staff members who were recognized … Announcement | Brown Library Staff Recognized for Service Milestones on BEAR Day
This exhibit by ethnomusicology Ph.D. candidate Byrd McDaniel displays some of the memorabilia central to air guitar playing in the United States and the U.S. Air Guitar Championships in particular. Advertised as the “greatest thing you’ve never seen,” the contemporary U.S. Air Guitar Championships stem from a long line of related practices throughout the twentieth … Exhibit | Spectacular Listening: U.S. Air Guitar
Folklore Music Map of the United States from the Primer of American Music Dorothea Dix Lawrence (1899–1979) New York, New York: Hagstrom Company, Inc., 1946 Brown University Library, Special Collections This colorful Folklore Music Map of the United States contains period illustrations, musical classifications and a bibliography. With its visual overlay of music and geography, the map … Exhibit | Folklore Music Map of the United States
