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John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
John Carter Brown’s famed Americana collection was initially formed in 1846 through a series of three spectacular purchases – in February, June, and November of that year – that made the Brown family residence on Benefit Street the site of a monument to American history writ large...
The John Carter Brown Library (JCB) as we know it today came into being when it opened its doors to the scholarly world (in 1904) as an independently funded and autonomously administered institution for advanced research, situated within an ornate neo-classical building on a bucolic corner of the Brown University campus...
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Discover the people who lived there, the places they visited and the stories they shared.
John Carter BROWN
John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
John Carter Brown’s famed Americana collection was initially formed in 1846 through a series of three spectacular purchases – in February, June, and November of that year – that made the Brown family residence on Benefit Street the site of a monument to American history writ large...
The John Carter Brown Library (JCB) as we know it today came into being when it opened its doors to the scholarly world (in 1904) as an independently funded and autonomously administered institution for advanced research, situated within an ornate neo-classical building on a bucolic corner of the Brown University campus...
jcblibrary.org
Postcard
Posted in the Past: Revealing the true stories written on a postcard
 as we know it today came into being when it opened its doors to the scholarly world (in 1904) as an independently funded and autonomously administered institution for advanced research, situated within an ornate neo-classical building on a bucolic corner of the Brown University campus...
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Brown University, 1898
Historic Towns of New England. (1898). United Kingdom: G. P. Putnam's sons.
Brown was founded in 1764 — the third college in New England and the seventh in Colonial America. Brown was the first Ivy League school to accept students from all religious affiliations...
Originally located in Warren, Rhode Island, and called the College of Rhode Island, Brown moved to its current spot on College Hill overlooking Providence in 1770 and was renamed in 1804 in recognition of a $5,000 gift from Nicholas Brown, a prominent Providence businessman and alumnus, Class of 1786.
Women were first admitted to Brown in 1891...
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Arcade, Providence
THE HISTORY & TOPOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, published by J & F Tallis in London about 1850.
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Scenes in Providence
Picturesque America... Oliver Bell Bunce, William Cullen Bryant
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1872-1874.
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View of Providence, from the South, 1898
Historic Towns of New England. (1898). United Kingdom: G. P. Putnam's sons.
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
The Capitol, 1898
Historic Towns of New England. (1898). United Kingdom: G. P. Putnam's sons.