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Photographing the Break Up of Time
While the vast majority of my work involves photographing items in collection, it may also have become clear in my blog posts that I’m occasionally asked to document library events and library spaces....
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Political Satire and the Civil War: Envelopes from the Lincoln Collection
This past fall, we have been busy here in Digital Production Services, scanning yet another part of The Charles Woodberry McLellan Collection of Lincolniana: Patriotic envelopes illustrated with...
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Porcelain Figures from Brown’s Monuments Man
Porcelain figures originally commissioned by John Nicholas Brown II (1900–1979) are currently on exhibit at the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. library through April 25, 2014. Brown II was a civilian-status...
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No tannins at all, and very little fruit (part II)
This post is part two of the “No tannins at all, and very little fruit” post from Sept. 6, 2013. The first post outlines how I approached photographing the bottle of wine from the Archives; this post...
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The more things change…
As winter in New England quickly becomes the house guest that has greatly outstayed its welcome, I thought it would be interesting to browse through the Brown Digital Repository for images of snow in...
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Grossinger’s Natatorium
When I recently came across an article about the abandoned and overgrown Grossinger’s Resort Hotel, I became fixated on the photographs of the pool within the resort’s natatorium. I recognized the...
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“Absolute money”
The Rider Broadsides collection, currently being digitized by the Library, contains unique examples of cultural-political ephemera from the 17th–20th centuries. Shown below are front and back views of...
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Avoiding Moiré
Because we photograph a great deal of prints and engravings, moiré patterning is an issue that we must consistently keep an eye out for. Moiré patterning often occurs during image capture; it can also...
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Magnolia Season
The blooming of the magnolia trees on campus is not far off (believe it or not!). With my thoughts on these long awaited blossoms, I type “magnolia” into the Brown Digital Repository and discover a...
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Cheese Poetry
Reproduced below is the broadside “Ode to the Mammoth Cheese…”, an 1802 nine-stanza poem presented to Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) by Thomas Kennedy (1776–1832). The broadside was captured by Digital...
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A “Glee” filled May Day
We’re celebrating May Day with this image of the Pembroke College Glee Club from the Pembroke Archives. The Images of Brown collection, which is home to this image, boasts more than 4,100 items (and...
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Today, It’s all about Ducks!
It’s been an exciting day all across campus, as the SciLi Duck made a perilous trek with her newly hatched brood from Brown’s Sciences Library down the hill to the Providence River, where Papa duck was...
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Commencement 1906
This weekend marks Brown’s 246th commencement; shown below are two photos from the commencement ceremony of 1906, digitized for the Images of Brown project. The Brown 250 website features the earliest...
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To the Moon and Back
Many of the books and objects that my colleagues and I photograph are hundreds of years old, so it’s not unusual for us to encounter materials that have a bit of dust on them. This past April, though,...
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Images of the Great War
Over 25,000 prints, drawings, and watercolors from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection have been digitized and added to the Brown Digital Repository, a portion of which feature World War I subject...
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The Accordion Player
The month of June was designated National Accordion Awareness Month in 1989, which makes 2014 its 25th anniversary. Highlighted below is a pen and wash sketch drawn by Horace Day (1909–1984) during...
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A more typical look at the camera room
Since I often concentrate on more involved or difficult setups, I thought it might be good to take a look at a setup that we are most likely to encounter at DPS on a day-to-day basis. This image shows...
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Inside the Lost Museum
Detail of an interior view of Brown University’s Museum of Natural History, c.1871-1894 This year, visitors to the Brown University campus have the opportunity to visit a museum that no longer exists;...
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Circus Poetry (“While traveling with a circus almost had a fallin’…”)
The Harris Broadsides collection in the John Hay Library contains many poetry ephemera (limited edition posters, broadsides of various sizes, letterpress printed cards). Below is Leonard N. Lawrence’s...
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Streamlining Broadsides
Over the past year, Digital Production Services has been working on the digitization of one of the Brown University Library’s extensive collections of broadsides. The Rider Broadsides Collection...
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