The History of Special Collections at Brown University

David Augustus Leonard
 College Edifice and President's House.
 Colored reproduction of circa 1795 engraving circa 1945.

John Hay's grandfather made the sketch for the original print of this view of the infant Brown University campus three years after he graduated as College Orator in 1792.  

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