{"id":2853,"date":"2019-10-21T14:22:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T18:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/?page_id=2853"},"modified":"2023-06-14T15:49:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T19:49:42","slug":"albums","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/collections\/askb\/albums\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection: Albums, Sketchbooks, Scrapbooks, and Portfolios"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A soldier of the Royal Irish Artillery, by an unknown artist, from an album of watercolors depicting British and Prussian troops c. 1756\u20131773<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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One of the strengths of the Military Collection is the amount of original graphic material, and much of this can be found in approximately 18,000 scrapbooks, sketchbooks, albums, and portfolios. Many engravings are also stored in these. In 1953, Mrs. Brown bought the entire personal collection of British naval prints and some original drawings formed by the late historian Commander Charles Napier Robinson, R.N. This collection consists of 20 folio volumes containing a unique large-paper printing of Robinson’s The British Tar in Fact and Fiction<\/a> (London, 1909). These volumes are copiously extra-illustrated with the author’s extensive and valuable personal collection of 17th\u201319th century prints of British naval history, including also a large number of caricatures<\/a>, songsheets, and broadsides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The collection of the late Colonel Frederick Todd<\/a>, curator of the West Point Museum, was acquired in the 1980s. It comprises more than 500 annotated albums illustrating uniforms of the entire world. Inserted into the albums are clippings, postcards, watercolors, drawings, prints, and photographs. The French section alone is covered by 75 albums documenting the history of French military and naval uniforms from 1610 to circa 1950. There are also 75 albums covering Great Britain, while the section on Russia has 26 volumes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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