May 23, 2014 by btylr | Comments Off on Commencement 1906
This weekend marks Brown’s 246th commencement; shown below are two photos from the commencement ceremony of 1906, digitized for the Images of Brown project. The Brown 250 website features the earliest known video footage of a Brown commencement, from 1915.
Commencement 1906
Commencement 1906
May 8, 2014 by rness | Comments Off on Today, it’s all about Ducks!
It’s been an exciting day all across campus, as the SciLi Duck made a perilous trek with her newly hatched brood from Brown’s Sciences Library down the hill to the Providence River, where Papa duck was waiting. Let’s celebrate the newsmaking mallards with this detail of a colored engraving from American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States, published in 1808.
May 1, 2014 by lelgin | Comments Off on A “Glee” filled May Day
We’re celebrating May Day with this image of the Pembroke College Glee Club from the Pembroke Archives. The Images of Brown collection, which is home to this image, boasts more than 4,100 items (and counting) that capture the visual history of Brown.