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Downs (T. Nelson) collection
Formal title:
T. Nelson Downs collection
Extent:
1.1 linear feet
Date range:
1905-1938
Abstract:
Thomas Nelson Downs was a self-taught magician, specializing in coin tricks, who over the course of his career, performed in vaudeville acts all over the country, owned a vaudeville house, sold magic supplies, and wrote several books of magic instruction. This collection contains his correspondence with fellow magician Edward "Tex" McGuire, documentation of tricks or "effects", patents, advertisements, news clippings, photographs, and show programs.
Repository:
Brown University Library
Collection call no:
Ms. 2010.013
Downs family correspondence
Formal title:
Downs family correspondence
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet
Date range:
1861-1865
Abstract:
The Downs family correspondence consists of letters written by four brothers (Albert, Edward, Frederick, and Willie Downs) to their family in Westville, Connecticut, while the four were serving in the Union Army during the Civil War. The letters, which date mainly from 1861-1865, cover topics such as camp life, military operations, family matters, and the Union naval blockade of the South.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.79.8
Dreyfus Affair periodicals collection
Formal title:
Dreyfus Affair periodicals collection
Extent:
0.5 Linear feet
Date range:
1891-1906
Abstract:
The weekend supplements include small commentaries on and large, usually colored illustrations of the events surrounding the trials and imprisonment of Alfred Dreyfus and Émile Zola's involvement in his cause.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.2006.07
Drowne family papers
Formal title:
Drowne family papers
Extent:
10 Linear Feet
Date range:
1728-1936 (1750-1885)
Abstract:
The Drowne family papers encompass the correspondence and documents of several generations of an old and distinguished Rhode Island family, with the bulk of the materials consisting of writings and other materials pertaining to the life of Solomon Drowne, M.D. (1753-1834).
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.Drowne
Ducasse (Curt J.) Papers
Formal title:
Curt J. Ducasse Papers
Extent:
23.35 Linear Feet
Date range:
1897-1969
Abstract:
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
AMS.1UF.D1
duCille (Ann) papers
Formal title:
Ann duCille papers
Extent:
2.25 linear foot
Date range:
1965-2020
Abstract:
This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Ann duCille, Professor of English, Emerita at Wesleyan University and Inaugural Distinguished Professor in Residence for the Black Feminist Theory Project at the Pembroke Center, Brown University. DuCille is a scholar of African-American literature, cultural studies, and Black feminist theory. Materials include personal and professional correspondence, draft writings, dissertation proposals, awards and honors, and conference materials dating from 1965-2020.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.2016.013
Durand (Frank) Papers
Formal title:
Frank Durand Papers
Extent:
10.25 Linear feet
Date range:
1975-1984
Abstract:
The Frank Durand papers contain general office files and department files compiled when Durand was a faculty member in the Department of Hispanic Studies and an administrator at Brown University. The material is dated from 1975 to 1984.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
OF.1CA.D1
Eddy (Clifford M. and Ruth M.) musical compositions
Formal title:
Clifford M. and Ruth M. Eddy musical compositions
Extent:
263 items (1 records center box)
Date range:
1920-1967
Abstract:
This collection consists primarily of printed and manuscript music composed by Clifford M. Eddy, Jr. and his daughter Ruth M. Eddy. Also includes correspondence and poetry.
Repository:
Brown University Library
Collection call no:
Ms. 2005.69
Ediciones Vigía, collection of books from
Formal title:
Canto a Matanzas: A collection of books from Ediciones Vigía
Extent:
5 linear feet
Date range:
1987-2019
Abstract:
Handmade art books produced by independent publisher Ediciones Vigía dating from 1987-2019.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.2023.012
Egyptian Book of the Dead fragments
Formal title:
Egyptian Book of the Dead fragments
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet
Date range:
1295 BCE - 200 CE
Abstract:
Five (5) fragments of inscribed mummy bandage and seven (7) fragments of inscribed papyrus containing texts in hieratic and hieroglyphs that are part of Chapters 1, 17, 72, 85, 86, 93, 108, 109 of the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
MS.Egyptian Fragments.Group 1

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