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Calendar Of Events January 1941, Brown/Risd Community Art Project

Calendar of Events

The Calendar of Art Events of January 1941 includes an article about the Varnum House in East Greenwich, RI. This is an historical house that was owned at one time by General Varnum, a Revolutionary War hero. Also included are plays, concerts, art exhibitions and lectures that took place in Rhode Island. Art exhibitions that took place in Massachusetts and at the Metropolitan Museum and Cloisters in New York are also included.

Calendar Of Events December 1938, Brown/Risd Community Art Project

Calendar of Events

The Calendar of Art Events of December 1938 includes an article called The Art Libraries of Providence. Providence Public Library, Brown University Library, the RISD Library and the Providence Athenaeum are all mentioned. Art exhibitions, plays, concerts and lectures in Providence are included. Art exhibitions in Massachusetts, the Yale Art Gallery in New Haven and the Museum of Modern Art in New York are also included.

Calendar Of Events November 1938, Brown/Risd Community Art Project

Calendar of Events

The Calendar of Art Events of November 1938 includes an article about the Old Market House written by John Hutchins Cady. Art exhibitions, plays, concerts, and lectures that took place in Providence are also included. Art exhibitions in Massachusetts and the Museum of Modern Art in New York are also included.

Calendar Of Events May 1937, Brown/Risd Community Art Project

Calendar of Events

The Calendar of Art Events of May 1937 includes an article about the new Metcalf building on the RISD campus. This building was named in memory of Helen Metcalf, one of the founders of RISD. The article was written by Royal Farnum, executive vice president of RISD. Also included are the times, topics and locations of art exhibitions, plays, concerts and lectures in the Providence area. Art exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Yale University Art Gallery and museums in Massachusetts are also mentioned.

Calendar Of Events May 1936, Brown/Risd Community Art Project

Calendar of Events

The Calendar of Art Events of May 1936 includes an article about the Rhode Island tercentenary celebration. Also included are the times, topics and locations of art exhibitions, plays, concerts and lectures in the Providence area. Art exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Lyman Allyn museum in New London, and many museums in Massachusetts are also included.

Calendar Of Events November 1935, Brown/Risd Community Art Project

Calendar of Events

The Calendar of Art Events of November 1935 includes an article called Shakespeare's Head, a Pre-Revolutionary Relic, about an historic building on Meeting Street in Providence. This was written by John Hutchins Cady. Also mentioned are the times, topics and locations of art exhibitions, concerts, plays and lectures in the Providence area.

Calendar Of Events June 1935, Brown/Risd Community Art Project

Calendar of Events

The Calendar of Art Events of June 1935 includes an article about the building of the First Baptist Meeting House in Providence. Also included are times, topics and locations of art exhibitions, plays, concerts and lectures in the Providence area. Art exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and museums in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont are also included.

Calendar Of Events December 1934, Brown/Risd Community Art Project

Calendar of Events

The Calendar of Art Events of December 1934 includes information about the third annual Institute of Art, which was held from December 7- December 9 1934. Various exhibitions and lectures were held. Also Art week was observed from December 1 - December 9, 1934. An essay by Royal Farnum of RISD about the new architecture in Harrisville, RI was also included. Art exhibitions were held at the Museum of Modern Art, and museums in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Castles In The Air: Experiences And Journeys In Unknown Bhutan, John Claude White

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White, John Claude. “Castles in the Air: Experiences and Journeys in Unknown Bhutan” The National Geographic Magazine 15.4 (1914): 365-455.

UTEP was founded in 1914 as the Texas State School of Mines and Metallurgy, and the inspiration for its architecture is credited to Kathleen Worrell, wife of the School's first dean, who was fascinated with an 88-page photo-essay on Bhutan that appeared in the April 1914 issue of National Geographic magazine.

Persuaded by his wife that Bhutanese "dzongs" would be a good fit for his mining school's setting in the foothills of El Paso's Franklin Mountains, Dean Worrell had the …

Around The World With A Camera, John A. Sleicher

College Archives Selected Rare Books

A books featuring half-tone prints of photography and some color illustrations from around the globe published in 1910. Text and images from various contributors.

Mont-Saint-Michel And Chartres, Henry Adams, Ralph Adams Cram

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FROM the moment when, through the courtesy of my friend Barrett Wendell, I came first to know Mr. Henry Adams's book, MontSaint- Michel and Chartres, I was profoundly convinced that this privately printed, jealously guarded volume should be withdrawn from its hiding-place amongst the bibliographical treasures of collectors and amateurs and given that wide publicity demanded alike by its intrinsic nature and the cause it could so admirably serve. To say that the book was a revelation is inadequately to express a fact; at once all the theology, philosophy, and mysticism, the politics, sociology, and economics, the romance, literature, and …