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360 Degrees of Advent
Advent Calendar – main view Although I generally photograph books and flat documents, I occasionally have the opportunity to photograph three-dimensional objects. Depending on the type of object (this...
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“Walt Whitman” by Edwin Honig, inscribed to Roger E. Stoddard
Below is “Walt Whitman,” a 1965 concrete poem in the shape of a pine tree by Edwin Honig (1919 – 2011, founder of Brown’s graduate writing program), personally inscribed to Roger E. Stoddard (Brown...
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Harlem’s Black and Jewish Music Culture 1890-1930
“You can take your trunk and go to Harlem” Currently on view at the Harlem restaurant, Settepani, is “Harlem’s Black and Jewish Music Culture 1890-1930,” an exhibit of framed sheet music that tells a...
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Interior Designs
Much of the work that we do here at DPS involves objects and items from the Brown Library’s Special Collections. These are housed in the John Hay Library, which just recently celebrated its Centennial....
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Professor Smiley and the Mayans
Already noted by Brown anthropology professor Stephen Houston last summer, the long-count Mayan calendar has now also been pragmatically confirmed to be of no grave cataclysmic import. Brown astronomy...
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Edgar Allan Poe & Sarah Helen Whitman
1848 daguerreotype by William Hartshorn 1856(?) daguerreotype attributed to J. White Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, two hundred and four years ago. This anniversary has coincided with my...
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Napoleon’s Death Mask
While the bulk of my work involves the digitization of two-dimensional documents, or straightforward photographs of pages from books, I also photograph other types of items – like the 360 degree...
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Digitizing for “The Festive City”
In addition to items from the Brown University Library’s Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection and items from RISD’s collections, “The Festive City” — currently on exhibit at the RISD Museum of Art...
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When Digitization and Ancestry Collide
There are generally few personal revelations in the review and exportation of digital files. Once a group of materials has been scanned, I export the folder of digitized images into Adobe Lightroom,...
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Illuminating Postcards
While I generally work with objects and texts from Brown’s Special Collections, I also work with images for the instructional image collection with Karen Bouchard, the Scholarly Resources Librarian...
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Weaving Lives, Scanning Slides
Santa Maria, Guatemala Girl weaving on backstrap loomSan Antonio Aguas Calientes, Sacatepéquez, Guatemala Picturesque landscapes, village life, and intricate hand-woven textiles are predominant...
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BrownTown and Traces of the Past
BrownTown with Marvel Gymnasium in background, c.1947 Historic photographs of a particular place often depict a community no longer present, while exhibiting architectural and geographic traces that we...
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Visualizing Temperance
Ideally, data visualization techniques can facilitate discovery of trends within data sets, exposing previously unnoticed interconnections among and between data points, or otherwise confirm or...
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Rhode Island’s First Political Rivalry
Modern portrait of Hopkins. Collection of Brown University. Flatbed scanning is a pretty routine task, often done by rote, earbuds firmly in place. Sometimes, however, a piece will catch my eye, make...
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Ninety degrees of separation
When I joined Digital Production Services as a photographer in 2008, one of my first projects was a 15th century bible in the collection of the Providence Public Library. The PPL has a significant...
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Unusual Nature Poetry
In honor of the changing of the seasons, Curio is featuring two (quite odd) visual poems from 1950 by Daniel H. McCalib (author) and Dennis McCalib (author-illustrator): “Love and Fecundity” and...
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Photographs of Napoleon’s Veterans in Uniform
Grenadier Burg of the 24th Regiment of the Guard of 1815 Digital Production Services has been digitizing Prints, Drawings & Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection for over a...
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Garibaldi Returns
In late-summer 2007, the Brown University Library contracted with Boston Photo to photograph both sides of a unique oversize panorama scroll depicting the life of Garibaldi. After the initial...
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A Great Gatsby; a poor speller
Just in time for the release of the 2013 remake of the film, I came across this copy of The Great Gatsby. This edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is notable for several reasons. It is a...
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Like Fishes Swimming in the Air
Digital Production Services recently began digitizing broadsides from the Sidney S. Rider Collection on Rhode Island History. Rider was a Providence bookseller, publisher, and antiquarian, who...
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