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$1,300 for one bomb: Demand drastic reductions in armament budgets

Description:
Poster deplores waste of money on armaments. In a stunning art deco mode, this poster stands as a powerful demand for disarmament. It highlights the …
Year:
1920
Genre:
posters
Subject:
Peace movements > Posters
Posters, American
Bombs > Pictorial works
United States > New York > New York
Local ID:
BP539
Collection:
Brown University Library
Hay Exhibits
ASKB Military Collection Gallery Installation
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
Full Record

(Inventor en sueños) Colores arrugados. [(Inventor Dreaming) Wrinkled Colors].

Description:
Vitral astillado o para un manicomio [Shattered Stained Glass or for an Asylum]. Highly abstract mixed media drawing on a textured background.
Year:
1984
Contributor:
Birri, Fernando, 1925-2017 (Creator)
Subject:
Art, Abstract
Glass painting and staining
Rome (Italy)
Language:
Spanish
English
Collection:
Brown University Library
Hay Exhibits
A Pictorial Dragon, the Art of Fernando Birri
Performance and Entertainment
Fernando Birri Archive of Multimedia Arts - Pinturas, Fotos, Escritos
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[Combat Scenes of Greek War of Independence]: [Small colored lithographs of participating troops]

Description:
Collection of 9 small hand-colored lithographs (including 1 duplicate) of military types or armies participating in the Greek War of Independence, and 1 original water-color. …
Year:
1829
Contributor:
Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
Subject:
e-gr---
Greece > History > War of Independence, 1821-1829 > Pictorial works
Collection:
Brown University Library
Hay Exhibits
Fashioning Insurrection: Imperial Resistance to American Orientalisms
Full Record

[Indian costumes and scenes, circa 1851: Album of gouaches on mica]

Description:
Original gouache drawings on mica, unsigned, of Indian scenes, types, ceremonies, processions, etc.; ink manuscript captions below. From an album containing collection of 94 mounted …
Year:
1851
Contributor:
Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
Subject:
Costume > India > Pictorial works
India > Description and travel
Collection:
Brown University Library
Hay Exhibits
Fashioning Insurrection: From Imperial Resistance to American Orientalisms
Full Record

[State procession of Emperor Akbar II, 1832]

Description:
Original gouache panorama on long scroll, finely executed and heightened in gold depicting a procession including elephants and camels with howdahs, numerous attendants with banners, …
Year:
1832
Contributor:
Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
Subject:
II, Emperor of Hindustan > Akbar Shah > 1760-1837 > Pictorial works
Panoramas > India > Specimens
Processions > India > Pictorial works
Collection:
Brown University Library
Hay Exhibits
Fashioning Insurrection: Imperial Resistance to American Orientalisms
Full Record

[State procession of the King of Oudh]

Description:
Original water-color painted scroll by a Company artist from Lucknow showing a state procession with mounted soldiers and band, horse artillery, elephants with howdahs, camels, …
Year:
1847
Contributor:
Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
Subject:
King of Oudh > Wajid ʻAli Shah > 1822-1887 > Pictorial works
Panoramas > India > Specimens
Processions > India > Pictorial works
Buildings > India > Lucknow > Pictorial works
Collection:
Brown University Library
Hay Exhibits
Fashioning Insurrection: From Imperial Resistance to American Orientalisms
Full Record

A Heavy Load of Hay: John Bull carrying John Hay in his arms

Description:
Davenport's cartoon protrays John Bull’s conventionally oversized physique straining beneath the weight of John Hay, whose slighter frame carries the heft of his policy, his …
Contributor:
Davenport, Homer, 1867-1912 (Creator)
Genre:
clipping
Subject:
Hay, John, 1838-1905
Caricatures and cartoons--Political aspects
China--History--Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901
China
Language:
English
Collection:
Brown University Library
Hay Exhibits
John Hay's China Policy
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A Jewish Circumcision witness'd by the Author in Mogadore: An authentic narrative of the loss of the American brig Commerce, wrecked on the western coast of Africa, in the month of August, 1815 with an account of the sufferings of her surviving officers and crew, who were enslaved by the wandering Arabs on the great African desert, or Zahahrah; and observations historical, geographical, &c., made during the travels of the author, while a slave to the Arabs, and in the empire of Morocco

Description:
Many memoirs and fictionalized accounts of Barbary captivity sensationalized their experiences and focused on the exoticizing aspects of their captors’ society, piquing early interest in …
Year:
1818
Contributor:
Riley, James, 1777-1840
Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870
Subject:
Commerce (Brig)
Slavery > Africa, North
Africa, North > Description and travel
Sahara > Description and travel
Collection:
Brown University Library
Hay Exhibits
Fashioning Insurrection: Imperial Resistance to American Orientalisms
Full Record

A la guerre comme à la guerre

Description:
  • par Cham.
Year:
1840
Contributor:
Cham, 1819-1879
Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
Subject:
e-fr--- > f-ae---
France. > Armée > Military life > Caricatures and cartoons
French wit and humor, Pictorial
Algeria > History > French Expedition, 1830
Collection:
Brown University Library
Hay Exhibits
Fashioning Insurrection: From Imperial Resistance to American Orientalisms
Full Record

A ponte clandestina. Experiment Braunschweig [The clandestine bridge. Experiment Braunschweig].

Description:
Mixed-media drawing covered in scribbled handwriting and radiating lines in various colors. A large, black-rimmed eye dominates the center of the work.
Year:
1993
Contributor:
Birri, Fernando, 1925-2017 (Creator)
Subject:
Bridges
Eye
Language:
Spanish
English
Collection:
Brown University Library
Hay Exhibits
A Pictorial Dragon, the Art of Fernando Birri
Performance and Entertainment
Fernando Birri Archive of Multimedia Arts - Pinturas, Fotos, Escritos
Full Record

A slide from L’Occhio, Il Lupo, La Luna Nell’Imbuto Cosmico [The Eye, the Wolf, the Moon in the Cosmic Funnel]. Luciano Valleta (photographer), Gianni Nocenzi (music composer).

Description:
Hammer and sickle with a yellow star. Reproduced from slide. Fernando Birri coined the term Cosmunism by blending cosmos and communism to express a utopian …
Year:
1974
Contributor:
Birri, Fernando, 1925-2017 (Creator)
Subject:
Collage
Hammer & sickle--1960-1980
Rome (Italy)
Language:
Spanish
English
Collection:
Performance and Entertainment
Brown University Library
Fernando Birri Archive of Multimedia Arts - Pinturas, Fotos, Escritos
Hay Exhibits
A Pictorial Dragon, the Art of Fernando Birri
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The Abd-el-Kader quadrille

Description:
Subject: Abd el-Kader mounted on galloping horse, battle in distance; F. Walker Lith., Day & Son, Lithrs. to The Queen.Before the surrender of Abd el-Kader …
Year:
1845
Contributor:
Day & Son (lithographer)
Minasi, Carlo (composer)
Genre:
sheet music
Subject:
Amir of Mascara > ?Abd al-Qadir ibn Mu?yi al-Din > 1807?-1883 > Pictorial works
Algerians
Horses > Pictorial works
Collection:
Brown University Library
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
Hay Exhibits
Fashioning Insurrection: Imperial Resistance to American Orientalisms
Full Record

Abd-el-Kader rendant visite au Prince-Président, dans sa loge, à la représentation extraordinaire donnée à l'Opéra, le 28 octobre 1852

Description:
A meeting between Napoléon III and Abd-el-Kader, an Algerian military figure best known for leading the resistance against French colonial invasion. He was detained in …
Year:
1852
Contributor:
Langs, Janet (creator)
Genre:
engravings (prints)
Subject:
Abd al-Qadir ibn Muyi al-Din > 1807?-1883 > Amir of Mascara
Napoleon > 1808-1873 > III, Emperor of the French
Architecture > Theaters
Art > Prints
Colonialism > Representation of Colonized Groups
Government and Politics > Political & governmental figures
Government and Politics > International Relations
1852-1870 (The Second Empire)
Local ID:
1-SIZE AP Il63 20
Collection:
Brown University Library
Hay Exhibits
Fashioning Insurrection: Imperial Resistance to American Orientalisms
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
Full Record

Academie Royale de Sciences

Description:
Ottoman Istanbul had a tremendous capacity to produce arms and ammunition since it possessed the largest military-industrial complexes in the Mediterranean basin. During the late …
Contributor:
Turkey
Rayf, Mahmound (comp.)
Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
Subject:
Pictorial works > Turkey.
Turkey
Fortification > Turkey
Soldiers > Turkey
Collection:
Brown University Library
Hay Exhibits
Seeds for New Directions: ASKB Military Collection Gallery Installation
Full Record

Address of the Committee of the Greek Fund of the City of New-York to their fellow-citizens throughout the United States

Description:
Between December 1823 and Washington’s birthday in February of 1824, visual and written accounts from the Mediterranean inspired many patriotic Americans to plan public events …
Year:
1823
Contributor:
Committee of the Greek Fund, of the City of New-York
Bayard, William, 1761-1826
Drowne Collection (Brown University)
Subject:
Greece > History > War of Independence, 1821-1829
Collection:
Brown University Library
Hay Exhibits
Fashioning Insurrection: Imperial Resistance to American Orientalisms
Full Record

Ahora sé lo que quiere decir llagado de amor yo estoy [Now I Know What “Wounded by Love Means” I Am].

Description:
Typewritten poem by Fernando Birri
Contributor:
Fernando Birri (Creator)
Subject:
Spanish poetry
Language:
Spanish
English
Collection:
Performance and Entertainment
Brown University Library
Fernando Birri Archive of Multimedia Arts - Pinturas, Fotos, Escritos
Hay Exhibits
A Pictorial Dragon, the Art of Fernando Birri
Full Record

Algier

Description:
In the left of the foreground, toppled Muslim gravestones litter the ground, immediately identifiable by the turbans crowning the slabs, indicating the ranks of the …
Year:
1837
Contributor:
Raffet, Denis Auguste Marie, 1804-1860
Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
Subject:
f-ae---
French > Algeria > History
Constantine (Algeria) > History > Siege, 1837 > Pictorial works
Algeria > History > 1830-1962 > Pictorial works
Collection:
Brown University Library
Hay Exhibits
Fashioning Insurrection: From Imperial Resistance to American Orientalisms
Full Record

Algiers letter with uniform watercolor

Description:
Original unsigned manuscript letter of 4 pages dated December 4, 8, 9, 1831, with water-color illustration of uniform figure of zouave titled 'Soldat zouave 2 …
Year:
1831
Genre:
watercolor
Subject:
France--Armee--Uniforms
Zouaves
Collection:
Brown University Library
Hay Exhibits
Fashioning Insurrection: From Imperial Resistance to American Orientalisms
Full Record

American cavalry and infantry, c.1812-1814; American militia regiments and officers, c. 1839-1842

Description:
  • American cavalry and infantry, c.1812-1814; American militia regiments and officers, c. 1839-1842, Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library
  • Digital object made available by: …
Year:
2023
Subject:
Cavalry
Infantry
Military miniatures
Militia
United States
Local ID:
ASKB-SoldiersShelf-020
Collection:
Hay Exhibits
Military and Society
Brown University Library
Military Miniatures from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection
Full Record

American militia regiments, c.1839-1842

Description:
  • American militia regiments, c.1839-1842, Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library
  • Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives …
Year:
2023
Subject:
Military miniatures
Militia
United States
Local ID:
ASKB-SoldiersShelf-021
Collection:
Hay Exhibits
Military and Society
Brown University Library
Military Miniatures from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection
Full Record

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