University Archives
Email: archives@brown.edu
Phone: (401) 863-2148
Manuscripts
Email: manuscripts@brown.edu
The University Archives serves as the institutional memory of Brown University by collecting, preserving, and making accessible the materials that provide evidence of past University actions and contribute to an understanding of the university's structure and its history.
Please contact archives@brown.edu for assistance.
President's Papers
University Records
University Events
Personal Papers and Records
Honors
Student Organization Records
Topic Files
Biographical Files
This collection consists of files of biographical information about alumni, faculty, administrators, and officers of the University. Alumni questionnaires, obituaries, and newspaper clippings are the common items found in these files.
Books
Periodicals
Scrapbooks
Photographs
Image: Plattsburg Military Training Camp, Plattsburg N.Y. 1916.
The Manuscripts Collection at the Brown University Library includes corporate archives, personal papers, collections compiled by collectors (sometimes called "artificial" collections), and single manuscripts - more than 3,000,000 pieces of paper in all. The manuscript collection as a whole is a particularly rich repository for sources in U.S. history, American literature and the history of science, technology and medicine, but manuscripts are collected in nearly every subject area.
Please contact manuscripts@brown.edu for assistance.
Brown in the Great War. Project by Public Humanities graduate student utilizing the resources of the University Archives and Special Collections.
Image: George West Berriman, non-graduate of the class of 1920
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