Military and Society
Digital collections that fall under the John Hay Library’s Military and Society STRATEGIC COLLECTION DIRECTION. Here you will find digitized materials that trace the social, political, economic, and cultural influence of world militaries during war and peace. The anchor for this collecting area is the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, an internationally renowned collection originally devoted to the study of military and naval uniforms and iconography.
Subcollections (17)
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Napoleonic Satires from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection
...The Napoleonic satires housed in the Anne S. K. Brown Military collection of the John Hay Library represent several important gifts made to the library in the 20th century. In addition to the Napoleonic satires located in the military collection …
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Garibaldi and the Risorgimento
The Garibaldi / Risorgimento digital archive seeks to provide a comprehensive resource for the interdisciplinary study and teaching of the life and deeds of one of the protagonists of the Italian unification process (1807-1882), against the historical backdrop of 19th-century …... -
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
This vast digital collection of military artwork from the 16th through 20th centuries, vividly documents all aspects of military and naval history, with emphasis on the history and illustration of world military and naval uniforms from the 17th century to …... -
Khrushchev Archive
Color slides and video depicting Nikita Khrushchev & family (circa late-1960s to early-1970s).... -
Lincoln Graphics
Prints in the Lincoln collection are classified by Meserve numbers, and include most of the known photographic images of Lincoln, along with engravings and popular prints by, among other firms, Currier & Ives and Kurz & Allen. There are also …... -
Lincoln Manuscripts
The Hay Library’s famed collection of manuscripts authored or signed by Lincoln, now comprises nearly 1,100 pieces. This digital collection of the Brown University Library’s Lincoln manuscripts was created with the assistance of the Abraham Lincoln Papers Project, Daniel …... -
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Lincoln Sheet Music
This database comprises sheet music from the McLellan Lincoln Collection at the Hay Library written between 1859 and 1923. Music about Lincoln ranges from popular song to compositions for orchestral performance. Popular music about Abraham Lincoln proliferated between 1859 and …... -
Lincoln Broadsides
Brown's Lincoln Broadsides collection comprises an assortment of printed materials intended for broad public distribution in a variety of formats. Within this digital collection you will find, for example: handbills (a single sheet of text intended for wide public distribution), …... -
World War I Sheet Music
The World War I digital sheet music collection is drawn from the Sheet Music Collection at the John Hay Library. It is composed of over 1,800 titles that relate in some way to the events of World War I, and …... -
Perry in Japan: a visual history
Materials for use in cross-cultural evaluation of Perry's encounter with the Japanese.... -
Lincoln Envelopes
This collection contains embellished envelopes created during the period surrounding Lincoln’s presidency and the time immediately after his assassination. Many of the envelopes depict Lincoln himself, as well as various notable political and military figures. The artwork widely ranges in …... -
John Hay's China Policy
John Hay (Class of 1858), one of Brown University’s most distinguished alumni, served as US Secretary of State from 1898 until his death in 1905. Hay’s career spanned many arenas of American public life, and his China policies—especially the Open …... -
Military Miniatures from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection
War shrinks down to pocket-sized action with these lead soldiers. The imagined battles are intricate, with whole armies charging, weapons flying, and straggling soldiers at one another’s aid, but each two-inch figurine can only fit so much detail. They’re abstractions …... -
Lyn Crost: War Correspondent
Eleanor Elizabeth (Lyn) Crost graduated from Pembroke College as part of the Class of 1938, and went on to a distinguished career in journalism. The Lyn Crost Papers relate to Crost's experiences as a war correspondent, covering the 100th/442nd Regimental …... -
Martha and Waitstill Sharp collection
Brown alumna Martha Dickie Sharp (Pembroke 1926) and her husband Rev. Waitstill Sharp were co-founders of the Unitarian Service Committee during World War II. The collection documents their strenuous efforts throughout the course of the war to provide relief and …...
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