Exhibits at the Brown Library

Every year the Brown University Library displays a number of exhibits that showcase its vast collection of materials. Below is a listing of upcoming, current, past, and online exhibits.

  • current

    Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Portrait of Mass Incarceration

    September 2023 – July 2024

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  • current

    Contextualizing Taíno Collections

    May 4, 2023- May 3, 2024

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  • current

    Caricature and Character: The Visuals of Race in the Lincoln Archive

    Student Curated Online Exhibition

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  • current

    Social Determinants of Health and COVID-19

    Student Curated Online Exhibition

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  • current

    "A Blind Horror Beyond All Rational Proportion": The Racial Imaginaries of H.P. Lovecraft

    Student Curated Online Exhibition

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  • permanent

    The Mazansky British Sword Collection (temporarily unavailable)

    Permanent Installation

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    Annmary Brown Paintings (temporarily unavailable)

    Permanent Installation

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    Ordinary Circumstances, Extraordinary Conflict

    May 11 - August 16, 2023

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    Akan Gold Weights: Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology Collection

    May 26, 2022 - March 15, 2023

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    Artistic Impressions of Brown University

    May 26 -December 15, 2022

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    Intercalary Event 2020

    January 21 - December 17, 2021

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    Dis/Assemble: Making Meaning from the Minassian Collection

    March 3, 2020 - Dec 15, 2021

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    Early American & English Bookplates 18th-20th C

    February 6 - March 31, 2020

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    Collecting with Distinction: Faculty Insights into Recent Acquisitions

    November 22, 2019 - February 28, 2020

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    Paul Revere’s Buried with Him by Baptism, c.1770s

    December 5 , 2019 - January 31, 2020

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    Transcultural by Design: Iranian Ceramics

    December 13, 2018 - December 31, 2019

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    Nineteenth-Century Architecture Course Models

    September 16 – December 8, 2019

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    Fort Thunder & Lightning Bolt: Old Mill/New Music

    April 29 - November 28, 2019

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    Thanksgiving-Day, November 24, 1864, United We Stand

    November 1 -30, 2019

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    Learning through Play: British and French Tabletop Games from the 18th and 19th Centuries

    May 21-October 31, 2019

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    The Last Will of Walt Whitman

    October 4 - 31, 2019

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    The Malana Krongelb Zine Collection, 1974-2018

    September 9-30, 2019

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    The Peterloo Massacre: A Bicentennial Remembrance

    August 1 - September 9, 2019

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    American Revolutionary War Prints

    July 1 -31, 2019

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    Street in Verville-Sur-Mer, June 1944

    June 4 - 30, 2019

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    Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God ("Eloit Indian Bible")

    April 15 - May 20, 2019

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    Works from A Global History of Art & Architecture

    December 20, 2018 - May 13, 2019

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    Entwined: Botany, Art and the Lost Cat Swamp Habitat

    January 10 - April 30, 2019

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    Spectacular Listening: U.S. Air Guitar

    February 12 - April 12, 2019

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    Folklore Music Map of the United States

    January 30 - March 22, 2019

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    Music Publishers Association (MPA) Paul Revere Award exhibit

    December 1, 2018 - January 25, 2019

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    Prayer (1934) by Princess Red Wing of Seven Crescents

    November 6 - December 19, 2018

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    Blooming in the Noise of the Whirlwind & Puerto Rico en mi corazón

    November 7 - December 14, 2018

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    From Gospel Hymns to "Mississippi Goddam"

    May 1 - December 12, 2018

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    The Brown Bear: A History

    May 23, 2017 - December 11, 2018

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    Mail carried by Murier, an enslaved person

    October 2 - November 5, 2018

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    The Poetry of Science: Dante’s Comedy and the Crafting of a Cosmos

    July 3 - October 23, 2018

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    Chew on This! Early Dental History & Library Collections

    September 5 - 30, 2018

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    Victory Won Pro-Life Bumper Stickers

    August 1 - 31, 2018

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    Japanese Ceremonial and Other Vehicles, 1890

    July 9 - 31, 2018

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    Painting with Plaster: 3D Printing

    May 1 - July 15, 2018

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    Stamps of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)

    June 1 - July 9, 2018

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    Haggadah: Telling and Retelling the Story of Jewish Liberation

    March 5 - June 15, 2018

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    Selections from the Thomas H. Simon Circus Collection

    May 1 - 31, 2018

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    Discover.ed/Explor.ed/ Inspir.ed

    April 16 - May 28, 2018

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    Black Panther Comics

    April 3 - 30, 2018

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    Works from Modern Architecture

    December 20, 2017 - April 6, 2018

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    Familiar Wild Flowers

    March 5 - 31, 2018

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    Greek Life–A Brief History of Phi Beta Kappa at Brown

    February 6 - March 31, 2018

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    Lincoln Recordó en America Latina

    February 6 - 28, 2018

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    Ever True: A History of the Brown Band

    October 12 - February 15, 2018

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    Annual Address of the Carriers & Newsmen of the N.Y. Herald, 1851

    January 5 - February 5, 2018

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    Lovecraft on the Road & Caitlin R. Kiernan Papers

    August 16 - January 25, 2018

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    San Francisco General Hospital Pillowcase: Scott O'Hara Papers

    December 1 - 20, 2017

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    Abbott “Tom” Gleason – History Professor and Artist: A Retrospective

    October 11 - December 31, 2017

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    Dancy Box by Caitlín R. Kiernan & Kathryn A. Pollnac

    November 3 - 30, 2017

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    Victorious Secret by Angela Lorenz

    August 31 - November 20, 2017

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    Scenes from Cuba’s War of Independence, 1895–1898

    October 5 - 31, 2017

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    Hurra! Ein Kriegsbilderbuch…by Herbert Rikli

    September 1 - 30, 2017

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    WWII Japanese Incarceration Swing Bands

    February 19 - August 18, 2017

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    Bamboula! Black Music Before the Blues

    March 21 – June 2, 2017

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    Schwedischen Fewerwerks. Anno 1650

    July 1 -31, 2017

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    Mobile Verse: Bus and Subway Poetry from the Harris Broadside Collection

    June 26-August 3, 2017

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    Audubon Bird Cards: Summer Birds of Eastern North America

    June 1 -30, 2017

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    La conquista dell'Abissinia/ The conquest of Abyssinia

    May 1 -31, 2017

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    The Vietnam War : Our Veterans' Stories

    May 28 2016 – May 11, 2017

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    Works from Architectures of Islam & Architectures and Urbanism of Africa

    January 6 - May 9, 2017

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    John Bull for General Congress

    April 3 - 30, 2017

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    An Alleged Murder: Court Documents from the State vs. Frances Leach, 1833

    March 15 - April 2, 2017

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    A Hymn for the Brave: the Sharps and Humanitarian Work in World War II

    September 19 – March 3, 2017

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    Stephen Mopope Paintings

    October 14 – February 24, 2017

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    Tricks and Illusions: Selections from the H. Adrian Smith Collection of Conjuring and Magicana

    October 24 – December 23, 2016

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    Works from Contemporary Architecture: A Course with Professor Dietrich Neumann

    May 16, 2016 - September 10, 2016

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    Alan Boegehold Illustrated

    May 18, 2016 – August 31, 2016

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    A History of the Brown University Orchestra

    April 22, 2016 - December 23, 2016

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    Wilmeth Lecture Exhibition

    March 14, 2016 – May 27, 2016

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    Tripping the Light Fantastic: Experimental Optics in the Victorian Era

    March 29, 2016 - May 27, 2016

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    Cardboard Revolution: Cartoneras, Literacy, and Sustainable Publishing in Brazil

    March 30, 2016 - May 2, 2016

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    Thousands of Little Colored Windows: Brown University's Stamp Collections

    February 10, 2016 – May 13, 2016

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    Modern Architectural Models

    January 25, 2016 – April 4, 2016

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    Vestiges of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

    January 2016 – March 2016

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    Are Les Bons Temps Still Rolling? New Orleans Music Culture 10 Years Later

    Oct. 1, 2015 – March 2016

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    Poetry from the Age of Mass Incarceration

    October 2015-January 4, 2016

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    Public Humanities

    December 2015-January 23, 2016

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    Influence of Anxiety: Lovecraft, Bloch, Barlow, et al.

    August 19, 2015-January 8, 2016

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    Christmas Seals

    November 24, 2015-January 6, 2016

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    Joukowsky Vessels

    October 2015-December 15, 2015

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    Huck Finn Exhibit

    October 16 2015-December 18, 2016

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    19th Century Arch Models

    May 15, 2015-December 1, 2015

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    US Comedians on Stamps

    September 10-October 31, 2015

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    The War in the Pacific Travels to Slovakia

    June 3, 2015-September 15, 2015

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    The Unicorn Found

    March 2, 2015-July 31, 2015

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    Famous Works of Art on Stamps

    May 28-July 31, 2015

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    Waterloo 1815: A Bicentennial Exhibition

    February 16, 2015-June 25, 2015

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    Garland of Flowers

    April 9-June 15, 2015

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    Exhibit Celebrating the Rock's 50th

    September 2, 2014-May 30, 2015

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    Lincoln Covers and Stamps

    March 12, 2015-May 27, 2015

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    In Flanders Fields

    February 10, 2015–May 15, 2015

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    Minsky

    April 14, 2015-May 14, 2015

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    Art of the Book

    February 27-April 27, 2015

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    The Battle of New Orleans

    January 20-March 31, 2015

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    Pop-Up Culture

    October 2014–February 2015

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    Elements of Tradition and Change

    September 2, 2014-January 9 2015

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    Music and the Great War: Sorrow, Anger, Memory

    September 2014-January 9, 2015

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    The Great War 1914-1918: A Centennial Exhibition

    September 2, 2014-December 19, 2014

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    Christmas Seals

    November 19, 2014 – January 1, 2015

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    John Cullen Murphy: An Artist in the Pacific War

    October 20–December 22, 2014

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    Music in the Ocean State

    March 28, 2014-August 31, 2014

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    Brown University—Tougaloo College Partnership

    May 12 2014-August 15 2014

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    Porcelain Figurines from the ASK Brown Military Collection

    December 5 2013-April 25 2014

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    Picturing Brown: Prints and Photographs from the Brown University Archives

    March 8 2014-April 27 2014

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    The Art of Illusion: Smith Collection of Conjuring and Magicana

    December 2 2013-March 7 2014

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    Flatland and Abbott

    October 31 2013-December 5 2013

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    Medieval books & manuscripts

    October 28-November 22 2013

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    Love Medicine

    September 23-October 25 2013

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    Performing in the Spirit Exhibit

    August 19 2013-April 2014

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    Student Life at Brown

    May 21-October 11, 2013

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    The Shadow Over College Street: H. P. Lovecraft in Providence

    August 19-September 22 2013

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    Models from Architecture Course

    May 2013-September 21, 2013

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    Highlights from the Mel Yoken Collection

    July 2013

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    Hay Renovation

    May 30-June 30 2013

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    Centennial Images: The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913

    Feb-May 31st 2013

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    A Picture of Avant-Garde Russia

    March-May 15th 2013

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    Stamps of the European Microstates

    Feb-May 15th 2013

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    2013: Verdi Year/Wagner Year

    March-May 2013

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    RI Center for the Book: Rhode Island Broadsides

    Sept 2012-May 2013

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    Persian Paintings from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection

    Thru May 10 2013

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    Student Models from City and Cinema

    Feb-May 2013

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    The Work of a Lifetime: Roger Stoddard

    February 2013

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    Lincoln, Drawn from Life: Five Artists, Six Portraits

    By appointment

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    Geoffrey Hill and His Books

    Fall 2012

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    Rhode Island Slavery and the University

    Fall 2012

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    Topical Stamp Collecting

    Fall 2012

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    Celebrating 120 Years of Women at Brown

    April 12 - July 12, 2012

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    Transit of Venus

    May-June 2012

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    Chinese Collections

    Feb-April 2012

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    Independent Publications from Spain and Latin America

    Feb-April 2012

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    Cartography

    Nov-Jan 2012

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    The Art of Roger Williams

    Nov 2011

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    Bryson Collection

    Oct-Dec 2011

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    International Year of Chemistry

    Sep-Nov 2011

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    Woonsocket in the Civil War

    May-Sep 2012

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    Royal Wedding

    April-May 2011

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    Hall-Hoag Student Exhibit

    April 2011

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    Keith Waldrop retirement exhibit

    April 2011

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    Quran

    April-May 2011

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    Señor Americanus

    2011

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    Early American and British Popular Amusements

    2010

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    A Book Collector Faces the Inquisition

    2010

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    Mel B. Yoken Archives

    2010

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    Windows into Early Science and Craft

    2010

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    East Asian Book Art

    2009

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    Beyond the Moon

    2009

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    BATTLE DOGS

    2009

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    Early Italian Books from the Brown University Library

    2009

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    In Celebration of GLBT Pride

    2009

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    Aimé Césaire Memorial Symposium and Exhibit

    2009

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    Environmental History of Hispaniola

    2009

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    John Hay's Lincoln and Lincoln's John Hay

    2008

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    Jews and American Comics

    2008

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    Abraham Lincoln in Games, Toys and Stories

    2008

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    Adventures in Boxmaking

    2008

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    Views and Re-Views: Soviet Political Posters and Cartoons

    2008

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    The Demon of Melancholy

    2008

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    The Politics of Poetry

    2008

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    Machado de Assis: Then and Now

    2008

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    Disturbances

    2008

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    Notes of Praise, Notes of Dissent

    2008

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    Re-opening the 17th century

    2008

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    Positivism in Brazil

    2007

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    Baudelaire & the Arts

    2007

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    Selling in Wartime

    2007

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    Venus in Chains

    2007

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    Rediscovered Map Collection

    2007

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    Don Quijote de la Mancha

    2005

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    Broadway: The American Musical

    2005

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    Remembering Fritz Pollard

    2005

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    Queen Victoria's Christmas Gift to John Brown, 1870

    2004

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    Street Scenes of Paris in the 19th Century

    2004

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    Remains of a Medieval Italian Antiphonal

    2004

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    Celebrating 125 Years of Brown Football

    2003

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    Cultural Essence Over the Centuries

    2003

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    The Church Collection

    2003

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    Teaching the Arts of the Book

    2003

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    José Rodrigues Miguéis Archives

    2003

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    Brown Seniors 'Crack' Cuneiform Tablets

    2002

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    Landino's Horace - Tasso's Horace - Horace at Brown

    2002

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    Yiddish Sheet Music

    2002

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    Khrushchev and Khrushchev

    2002

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    Langston Hughes: The Black Bard at 100

    2002

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    Remembering 'Herblock'

    2001

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    Dupee Fireworks Collection

    2001

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    Carriers' Addresses in Nineteenth Century America

    2001

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    Remembering Brown Sports

    2001

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    Education for Everybody

    2001

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    George Orwell Materials

    2001

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    Leaves of an Hour

    2001

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    40 Years of Burning Deck Press

    2001

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    Stow Wengenwroth Materials

    2001

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    The Robert S. and Margaret A. Ames Collection

    2001

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    The Art of Yank Magazine

    2000

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    The Library's First Book

    2000

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    The Quintessential G.B.S.

    2000

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    Imamu Amiri Baraka

    2000

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    From Euclid to Newton

    1999

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    Draner's Military Caricatures

    1998

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    Three For Three Million

    1997

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    The Night Before Christmas

    1997

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    Celebrating Harper

    1997

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    "Of the Poison Brand"

    1997

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    Dreams of the Past

    1996

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    She is More to be Pitied than Censured

    1996

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    Artists in Uniform

    1995

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