Brown University Databases
Follow these links for the most up to date connections to subject-based electronic resources of interest to the Harris Collection, also see Other Internet Resources below.
- Africana Studies
- American Studies
- Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
- Comparative Literature
- English
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- History (American)
- Judaic Studies (Modern)
- Literary Arts
- Modern Culture and Media
- Music
- Public Humanities
- University Archives and Manuscripts
- Theatre Arts and Performance Studies
- Visual Culture (Images)
Center for Digital Initiatives, Brown University Library:
- Alcohol, Temperance and Prohibition
- African-American Sheet Music
- Archival and Manuscript Collections
- Carrier’s Addresses
- Lincoln Broadsides Collection
- World War I Sheet Music
- Yiddish Sheet Music
Brown University Library Online Exhibitions:
- Langston Hughes: The Black Bard at 100
An exhibition at Brown University Library - Dreams of the Past
19th-century color lithographic sheet music covers, 1996 - She is More to be Pitied than Censured
Women, sexuality, and murder in 19th-century America, 1996 - Celebrating Harper
An exhibition in honor of Michael S. Harper, 1997 - Imamu Amiri Baraka
An exhibition from the collections of the John Hay Library, 2000 - Leaves of an Hour
Developing literary and popular culture collections at Brown University Library, 2001 - Carriers’ Addresses in Nineteenth Century America
Focus on the collections, No.3, 2001 - 40 Years of Burning Deck Press
An exhibit from the Burning Deck Archives & the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, 2001 - Yiddish Sheet Music
From the collections of Brown University Library, 2002 - Teaching the Arts of the Book
Work by students of Walter Feldman 1980-2003, 2003 - Broadway: The American Musical
An exhibition from the collections of the John Hay Library, 2005
Other Harris Links
- African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century
The Digital Schomburg; New York Public Library Digital Library Collections - An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera at the Library of Congress
Library of Congress American Memory - America Singing: Nineteenth Century Song Sheets
Library of Congress American Memory - The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
Johns Hopkins University - Bartleby Library: Great Books Online
Includes full texts of numerous titles in American literature, including works by T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, and Gertrude Stein. - Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture
University of Virginia - The Harlem Renaissance
Perspectives in American Literature - Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color
University of Minnesota - Book Arts Web
- Center for Book Arts, Inc.
- Arts of the Book Collection
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