Currently on Exhibit:


Adventures in Boxmaking

August, 2008

John Hay Library
20 Prospect Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02912

Library Hours

As Conservation Technician at the John Hay Library, Erica H. Saladino has dealt with some unusual boxmaking challenges. She has designed and created housing for a wide variety of items ranging from miniature books to panoramic paintings, from 16th century monastic breviaries to contemporary artists' books.

How an object is stored on a shelf has a direct impact on its condition. Ms. Saladino evaluates the individual preservation needs of each item as it comes into the lab and devises creative solutions for their long-term storage. This exhibit provides a brief look into the kinds of unique items collected by the John Hay Library and how the challenges of preserving them have been met.

This exhibit will be on display in the John Hay Library until August 29th. A reception will be held on Wednesday, August 13th in the lobby of the Hay at 10 AM.

For further information contact hay@brown.edu

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• The Demon of Melancholy: Genealogies, Modernities
  An exhibit was sponsored by the Department of French Studies, 2008
  
  
• Disturbances: An Exhibit of Select Materials from the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archives
  A Celebration of Women's History Month 2008 by the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, 2008
  
  
• Machado de Assis: Reading the Brazilian Master, Then and Now
  An exhibit sponsored by the Department of Portuguese & Brazilian Studies and the Center for Latin American Studies, 2008
  
  
• Notes of Praise, Notes of Dissent: Lincoln and his Political Career in Song
  An exhibition at the Orwig Music Library of materials from the Lincoln Collection, 2008
  
  
• The Politics of Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Public Memory of Abraham Lincoln
  An exhibition in the Rockefeller Library of materials from the Lincoln and Harris Collections, 2008
  
  
• Re-opening the 17th century: Reading and Spectacle in the French Court
  A student project by Maha Atal '08 and Sara Damiano '08 in partial fulfillment of requirements for FREN 1040C "Lire et voir le XVlle siècle aujourd' hui.", 2008
  
  
• Baudelaire & the Arts
  An Exhibition in Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Publication of Les Fleurs du mal, 2007
  
  
• Positivism in Brazil
  An exhibition curated by Rex Nielson and Patricia Figueroa, 2007
  
  
• Rediscovered Map Collection of the John Hay Library
  Providence Journal Article, 2007
  
  
• Selling in Wartime: Advertisements in The Sphere, 1914-1918
  An exhibition from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, 2007
  
  
• Venus in Chains: Representations of Sex and Slavery in the Caribbean Basin
  Exhibit Essay, 2007
  
  
• Broadway: The American Musical
  An Exhibition from the Collections of the John Hay Library, 2005
  
  
• Don Quijote de la Mancha: 1605-2005
  A celebration of the 400th anniversary of the publication of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de La Mancha, 2005
  
  
• Remembering Fritz Pollard and the African American Experience at Brown
  An Exhibition in Honor of Pollard's Induction into the Professional Football Hall of Fame, 2005
  
  
• Queen Victoria's Christmas Gift to John Brown, 1870
  Focus on the Collections, No. 9, 2004
  
  
• Street Scenes of Paris in the 19th Century: from the Comic to the Tragic
  An Exhibition from the collections of the John Hay Library, 2004
  
  
• Celebrating 125 Years of Brown Football
  Items from the Edward North Robinson Collection of Brown Athletics and the Brown Athletic Department, 2003
  
  
• The Church Collection
  An Exhibition from holdings of the John Hay Library, 2003
  
  
• Cultural Essence Over the Centuries
  An Exhibition from the East Asian Collection, 2003
  
  
• Remains of a Medieval Italian Antiphonal
  Focus on the Collections, No.8, 2003
  
  
• Teaching the Arts of the Book
  Work by students of Walter Feldman 1980-2003, 2003
  
  
• Brown Seniors 'Crack' Cuneiform Tablets
  Focus on the Collections, No.7, 2002
  
  
• Khrushchev and Khrushchev: From the Kremlin to Brown University
  Photographs, memoirs, and publications of Nikita and Sergei Khrushchev, 2002
  
  
• Landino's Horace - Tasso's Horace - Horace at Brown
  Focus on the Collections, No.6, 2002
  
  
• Langston Hughes: The Black Bard at 100
  An exhibition from the collections of Brown Univesity Library in celebration of Black History Month, 2002
  
  
• Yiddish Sheet Music
  From the collections of Brown University Library, 2002
  
  
• 40 Years of Burning Deck Press
  An exhibit from the Burning Deck Archives & the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, 2001
  
  
• Carriers' Addresses in Nineteenth Century America
  Focus on the Collections, No.3, 2001
  
  
• Dupee Fireworks Collection: Recent Additions
  Focus on the Collections, No.4, 2001
  
  
• Education for Everybody
  Brown's Innovation and Influence in Collegiate Education
  An exhibition celebrating Ruth J. Simmons Inauguration as Brown's 18th President, 2001
  
  
• George Orwell Materials at Brown University
  An Exhibition from the Collection of Daniel J. Leab & The Manuscript of Orwell's 1984, 2001
  
  
• Leaves of an Hour
  Developing Literary and Popular Culture Collections at Brown University Library, 2001
  
  
• Remembering 'Herblock': An original drawing by Herbert Block in the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection
  Focus on the Collections, No.5, 2001
  
  
• Remembering Brown Sports
  Items from the Edward North Robinson Collection of Brown Athletics, 2001
  
  
• The Robert S. and Margaret A. Ames Collection of Illustrated Books
  Nineteenth century illustration techniques & the literature of travel and exploration, 2001
  
  
• The Art of Yank Magazine: The World War Two Drawings of Robert Greenhalgh
  Focus on the Collections, No.2, 2000
  
  
• Imamu Amiri Baraka
  An Exhibition from the Collections of the John Hay Library, 2000
  
  
• The Library's First Book, William Williams & the Williams Table
  Focus on the Collections, No. 1, 2000
  
  
• The Quintessential G.B.S.
  Selections from the Sidney P. Albert - George Bernard Shaw Collection, 2000
  
  
• From Euclid to Newton
  An Exhibition in Honor of the 1999 Conference of the Mathematical Association of America, 1999
  
  
• Draner's Military Caricatures
  Military caricatures after designs by Jules Draner, 1998
  
  
• Celebrating Harper
  An exhibition in honor of Michael S. Harper, 1997
  
  
• The Night Before Christmas
  An exhibition from the collections of the John Hay Library, 1997
  
  
• "Of the Poison Brand"
  Two Centuries of Sources for The Study of Alcohol and Alcoholism, 1997
  
  
• Three For Three Million
  Fireworks, Mexican History, Digital Reference Collections, 1997
  
  
• Dreams of the Past
  19th Century Color Lithographic Sheet Music Covers, 1996
  
  
• She is More to be Pitied than Censured
  Women, Sexuality and Murder in 19th century America, 1996
  
  
• Artists in Uniform
  The World War II Experience, 1995