Digital Collections

African American Sheet Music, 1820-1920

This collection of African-American sheet music features many songs from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s, and chronicles the rise of African American musical theater.

Alcohol, Temperance & Prohibition

Brown's collections of materials on alcohol, alcoholism, temperance and prohibition are among the largest of their type in the country. This digital collection includes broadsides, sheet music, pamphlets, and government publications, providing perspective on the temperance and prohibition movements in the United States.

Brown Archival & Manuscript Collections Online

A collection of finding aids providing enhanced access to primary source materials in many subject areas, including: American literature, American political and diplomatic history, Rhode Island history, and women's studies. Many of the manuscript collections have been digitized with links from the finding aid to digital facsimiles of letters, photographs, or other objects.

Carriers' Addresses

A collection of carriers' addresses dating from the late 18th through the early 20th century. Illustrated with wood-engravings and decorative borders, carriers' addresses are distinctive examples of popular publishing in nineteenth century America, and represent an important resource for the study of American poetry, history and the printing arts.

Instructional Image Collection

Brown University uses Luna Insight for management and retrieval of images for instructional use, and uses Insight software to connect to remote collections, such as AMICA and Rumsey Maps. Images can be accessed using either a web or desktop client.

James Koetting Ghana Field Recordings Collection

This digital collection presents a vibrant mix of traditional and popular music recorded at a broad range of locations and events in Ghana during the 1970s by ethnomusicologist James Koetting, and includes recorded interviews, musical demonstrations, field notebooks, photographs, commentary, and other source material surrounding Koetting's research.

Lincolniana at Brown

A collection of manuscripts, images, broadsides, newspapers, sheet music and other objects by and about Abraham Lincoln

Napoleonic Satires

A collection of Napoleonic satirical prints produced between 1792 and 1829, from Germany, Britain, France, Holland, and Russia, by such noted artists as James Gillray and George Cruikshank.

Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection

This vast collection of military artwork from the 16th through 20th centuries, contains thousands of battle and campaign scenes, portraits, caricatures, and is part of one of the world's largest collections devoted to the study of military and naval uniforms.

World War I Sheet Music

A collection of over 1700 pieces of sheet music published during World War I, including works written by Irving Berlin, George M. Cohan, and performed by Al Jolson, and the Ziegfeld Follies.

Yiddish Sheet Music

A collection of sheet music with focus on the Yiddish-language musical stage from the 1880's through the 1940's, and including many photographs of composers and performers.

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