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The JCB holds an extraordinary and rare image of a key moment in the Haitian Revolution. “Passage des onze jours de Pillage de la ville du Cap” is the work of J.L. Boquet, the same French painter who created one of most striking images featured...
The Brown University Library and the John Carter Brown Library are pleased to announce Kimberly Toney as the inaugural Coordinating Curator for Native American and Indigenous Collections. Kim’s first day will be July 18, 2022.
The Coordinating Curator for Native American and Indigenous Collections will...
Dear JCB community,
In observance of Martin Luther King Jr Day, the JCB will be closed on Monday, January 17.
We will reopen for regular business hours on Tuesday, January 18.
Image credit: 'Dr. Martin Luther King showing his medallion received from Mayor Wagner', Courtesy of the Library of Congress (cph.3c26558).
To the JCB Community,
It is such a pleasure to write to you all, and to anticipate more regular communication going forward. You can expect to hear from Karin on this channel early in each month beginning in the new year.
There will be important...
One of the most common formats of historical maps is that of maps found inside books, as opposed to separately-issued maps or maps in atlases. These maps are ubiquitous – at the JCB, we calculate at least 10% of our books contain maps - but...
Philippe Buache was a member of the Delisle-Buache succession of French cartographers that straddled the eighteenth century, and, as of 1729, was the premier géographe du roi, following in the footsteps of his father-in-law Guillaume Delisle. While his cartographic output didn’t rival that of...