Holiday Cards

After the Storm

Photograph of one of the side gates of Brown University’s Van Wickle Gates, looking down College Street. The gates were built with a bequest from Augustus Stout Van Wickle, Class of 1876, and dedicated June 18, 1901. Although this side gate is open, the center gates remained closed except for two special occasions each year. They are opened inward to admit students at the beginning of the college year and on Commencement Day are opened outward to allow the graduation procession to pass through. Brown University Archives, John Hay Library. 4 ½ x 6 ¼

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Manning Chapel at Sunset

Manning Chapel was built in 1834, thanks to the generosity of John Nicholas Brown and named for President Manning. The building was home to the University Library on the first floor and a chapel on the second. In 1878, the Library relocated to Robinson Hall. After 1894, religious services were moved to Sayles Hall until Manning Hall was rededicated at Manning Chapel in 1959. The photo also shows the adjacent University Hall. Photograph by Richard Benjamin, ’61, used by permission. Other photos by Mr. Benjamin may be viewed at www.richardbenjamin.com. 6 ¼ x 4 ½

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Campus in Snow

“From the Dean’s Window,” watercolor of the Front Campus done by Otis Everett Randall, Class of 1884, Dean of the University 1912-30; view from his window in the old Administration Building, Van Wickle Hall, which stood on the site now occupied by the Rockefeller Library. 1926. 6 ¼ x 4 ½

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Hope College in Winter

Hope College, Brown University’s second building, was constructed in 1822 through the munificence of Nicholas Brown. The building was named for Brown’s sister, Hope Brown Ives, the wife of his partner, Thomas P. Ives. Photograph by John Foraste. 6 ¼ x 4 ½

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American Holly

Chromolithograph from Francois André Michaux’s The North American Sylva, printed in Philadelphia, 1855. History of Science Collection, John Hay Library. 4 ½ x 6 ¼

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Showy Poinsettia

From Curtis’s Botanical Magazine or Flower Garden Displayed, Vol. X of the New Series, London: Printed by Edward Couchman, 1836. Gift of Hon. Royal C. Taft, John Hay Library. 6 ¼ x 4 ½

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Heigh Ho Holly

Flowers from Shakespeare’s Garden: a posy from the plays, pictured by Walter Crane, London: Cassel & Co., Ltd., 1906. Lucy Truman Aldrich Collection of Rare Illustrated Children’s 4 ½ x 6 ¼

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Hanukkah Lights

An original wood block print by Walter Feldman, Professor of Art, Brown University, 1996. 6 ¼ x 4 ½

Message: Arise, shine, for your light has dawned - Isaiah 60:1
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Winter Wonderland

Drawing by Walter Feldman, Professor of Art, Brown University, 1991. 6 ¼ x 4 ½

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Carberry Caught at Christmas

From a photograph by Bruce Bigelow, Brown Vice President and Director of Admission 1945-54. Taken from his second floor office in University Hall. University Archives, John Hay Library. Josiah S. Carberry is a legend, if not yet a myth. That’s all right because we all know that a myth is as good as a mile. Carberry was born in an unlocked bulletin board on the first floor of University Hall in Brown University on January 24, 1929. This first notice gave him no title and assigned him to no department. He soon became a Professor in the field of Psychoceramics, or the study of cracked pots. 6 ¼ x 4 ½

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The Annunciation

Illuminated Initial from Psalter and Hymnal written for the choir of the Church of Santa Corona of Vicenza, 1536-1537. Bequest of John M. Crawford, Jr., Class of 1937. Manuscripts Collection, John Hay Library. 4 ½ x 6 ¼

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Gerda and the Reindeer

“The reindeer did not dare to stop. It ran on till it came to the bush with the red berries. There it put Gerda down, and kissed her on the mouth, while big shining tears trickled down its face.” The Snow Queen and Other Stories. Hans Christian Andersen. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. Bequest of Edward B. Aldrich, Class of 1893. John Hay Library. 4 ½ x 6 ¼

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Santa Comes to Brown

From an anonymous photograph taken from the first floor of University Hall. The scene depicts the front green at the close of the nineteenth century, before the construction of the Van Wickle Gates, the College Fence, and Van Wickle Hall, which was replaced by the Rockefeller Library in the early 1960s. The first house on the right is the President’s House, replaced by the John Hay Library in 1909/10. Brown University Archives, John Hay Library 6 ¼ x 4 ½

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Bunny In Snow

Denslow’s Night Before Christmas. Clement C. Moore. New York: G. W. Dillingham Co. Publishers, 1902. Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, John Hay Library. 4 ½ x 6 ¼

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Iris

From Curtis’s Botanical Magazine; or Flower Garden Displayed, Vol. XXVIII. London: Printed by Stephen Couchman, 1853. Gift of Hon. Royal C. Taft, John Hay Library. 4 ½ x 6 ¼

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Poppy

Hand-colored engraving from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine or Flower Garden Displayed, Vol. II, 1788. Lownes History of Science Collection, John Hay Library. 4 ½ x 6 ¼

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Dancing on the Bridge of St.-Benezet

“Sur le pont d’Avignon.” Vieilles Chansons de France. Illustrated by Marcel Jeanjean. Toulouse and Paris: B. Sirven Editeur, 1924. Lucy Truman Aldrich Collection of Rare Illustrated Children’s Books, a gift of her nephew, David Rockefeller, John Hay Library. 4 ½ x 6 ¼

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Rose Bowl Poster

Poster from the first annual Tournament of Roses, January 1, 1916, printed by Los Angeles Western Lithograph Co., 1915. Brown University Archives, John Hay Library. Full color on white folder, 5 1/8 x 7

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