{"id":8236,"date":"2016-02-15T10:22:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T15:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=8236"},"modified":"2016-02-15T10:22:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T15:22:38","slug":"thousands-of-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/thousands-of-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibit | Thousands of Little Colored Windows : Brown University\u2019s Stamp Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Katanga,
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George S. Champlin Memorial Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thousands of Little Colored Windows : Brown University\u2019s Stamp Collections<\/span><\/i>\u00a0is now on exhibit\u00a0at the John Hay Library. This exhibition is curated by students in Professor Steven Lubar\u2019s Museum Collecting and Collections class (Fall 2015). Over the course of the semester, the students delved into Brown University Library\u2019s extensive stamp collections. <\/span><\/p>\n

Their research uncovers the breadth of the collections and highlights the numerous ways in which postage stamps and postal history hold relevance to social history, political and cultural studies. <\/span>Thousands of Little Colored Windows : Brown University\u2019s Stamp Collections<\/span><\/i> approaches the stamp collections through varied lenses, revealing narratives of design, production, use, and collecting. The exhibition includes an interactive digital gallery of stamps from the George S. Champlin Memorial Stamp Collection.<\/span><\/p>\n

Click here to view the complementary online\u00a0exhibit.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The stamp collections housed at the John Hay Library range from comprehensive national and global catalogues to thematic albums. The personal collections of George S. Champlin, Webster Knight (class of 1876), and Robert Galkin (class of 1949) constitute the foundation of the Library\u2019s philatelic holdings. In addition, the library maintains specialized collections of postal, historical, and design-related interests, such as <\/span>special delivery stamps<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>first day covers<\/span><\/a>, a set of <\/span>patriotic envelopes addressed to Abraham Lincoln<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>rare printing errors<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Admission to the John Hay Library is free and open to the public. <\/span>Thousands of Little Colored Windows : Brown University\u2019s Stamp Collections<\/span><\/i> will remain on view through May 13, 2016. For additional information and standard operating hours consult the Library website: <\/span>http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/hay\/<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dates<\/strong>: February 10 – May 13, 2016
\nTime<\/strong>:\u00a0John Hay Library Hours<\/a>
\nLocation<\/strong>:\u00a0Exhibition Gallery, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect Street, Providence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thousands of Little Colored Windows : Brown University\u2019s Stamp Collections\u00a0is now on exhibit\u00a0at the John Hay Library. This exhibition is curated by students in Professor Steven Lubar\u2019s Museum Collecting and Collections class (Fall 2015). Over the course of the semester, the students delved into Brown University Library\u2019s extensive stamp collections. Their research uncovers the breadth … Exhibit | Thousands of Little Colored Windows : Brown University\u2019s Stamp Collections<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[138,139],"class_list":["post-8236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tag","tag-touch-art-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}