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John Nicholas Brown family photographs (Ms.2010.049)

Brown University Library

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Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
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Inventory

Series 1. John Nicholas Brown Childhood, 1880-1920
Individual and group portraits of John Nicholas Brown during his childhood, including photographs of his father, John Nicholas Brown I and uncle, Harold Brown.

Container	Description	Date
Box 81	Framed photographs- JNB II and Harold Brown	circa 1880, circa 1902
Box 79	Individual and group portraits Contents Note: St. George's School	1917-1918
Box 78	Individual portraits Contents Note: With Cornelia Vanderbilt, 1906-1907	1901-1915
Box 80	Individual and group photos	1900-1920
Box 55	Lantern slides-Bible scenes	Undated

Series 2. John Nicholas Brown Adulthood, 1900-1979
Images of John Brown's life as an adult, including his wedding to Anne Kinsolving and his time as Assistant Secretary to the Navy for Air.

Life and travel, 1930-1979

Container	Description	Date
Box 63	1930 Wedding to Anne Kinsolving	1930
Box 65	JNB and ASKB in Tuscon, 1921 South Main St. staff	1921, 1937
Box 69	Individual and group portraits	1921-1940
Box 68	Portraits	1920-1941
Box 62	JNB + NBB, JNB Portraits, JNB casket,Harvard, 1959. Brown, 1940-1979. Smithsonian, 1960s, Rex Ranch, 1956. Arizona, 1937. Parris Island, Aug. 1948, Rome, guest of Bishop McVinney	1900-1906, 1912-1918, 1947, 1979, 1937, 1940-1979, Aug 1948,1956, 1957, c. 1960,1963
Box 61	JNB II and ASKB 35th anniversary, JNB II children	1936-1966
Box 60	JNB II 70th birthday party, JNB II children	1930-1973
Box 66	Potraits	1944-1975
Box 67	Formal portraits	circa 1930, 1936, 1965, 1975
Box 64	Miscellaneous photographs	1902-1979
Box 70	Portraits	1941-1979
Box 71	Harry Truman and Military generals photos, visit to Brown	circa 1945, 1975
Box 72	Group photographs	circa 1941-circa 1979

Assistant Secretary to the Navy for Air, 1946-1949
Photographs from John Brown's service as the Assistant Secretary to the Navy for Air.

Container	Description	Date
Box 62	Assistant Sec. of Navy at Naval Training Center	1946
Box 73	JNB as Assistant Secretatary of the Navy for Air in Puerto Rico	circa 1946
Box 76		1946-1947
Box 106	Navy tactical exercises	1947
Box 74	Official portraits	1946-1949
Box 77	Assistant Sec. of Navy for Air and Misc. Navy	1947-1949
Box 75	Naval Officers and Officials	1947-1949
Box 73	JNB as Assistant Secretatary of the Navy for Air and staff	Undated

Series 3. Family, 1823-1985
Family includes John Brown's children, grandchildren, maternal and paternal relatives, and extended family and friends. Also included are the Kinsolving family, John Nicholas Brown I, Harold Brown and Natalie Bayard Brown.

John Nicholas Brown II children, 1905-1959

Container	Description	Date
Box 27	Group photographs Contents Note: Nicholas Brown, J. Carter Brown, Angela B. Brown (Fischer)	Undated
Box 28	Formal portrait of children, Yachts, Windshield glass plate, JNB II and Smithsonian Regents	1905-1959

John Nicholas Brown II grandchildren, 1964-1972

Container	Description	Date
Box 41	Family photos, JNB III christening Contents Note: Birthday party at Harbour Ct, Aug 1972	1964, 1972
Box 53	Brown and Fischer grandchildren	1969

Anne Seddon Kinsolving Brown, 1906-1985

Container	Description	Date
Box 14	Personal photos	1906-1923
Box 14	Portraits, Tuscon	1933
Box 17	Portraits	1922-1933
Box 16	Individual and group portraits	1923-1944
Box 18	Individual and group portraits	1906-1985
Box 15	ASKB Portaits, Kinsolvings, JNB II portraits	circa 1943-1985

Nicholas Brown, 1932-1981

Container	Description	Date
Box 24	Photographs and formal portraits	1932-circa 1950
Box 24	Childhood photo	1935
Box 25	Nicholas, Diane Verne (wife) and children: Sylvia, James and JNB III Contents Note: Nicholas Brown military portraits, Nick and Diane's wedding, photos of children	1956-1981

John Carter Brown, 1934-1979

Container	Description	Date
Box 29	JCB wedding-1971	1971-1974
Box 23	Candids and Portraits of Carter and family	1934-1979

Angela Brown, 1963-1979

Container	Description	Date
Box 19	Angela's engagement and wedding	1963
Box 50	Angela's wedding	1963
Box 20	Angela Fischer, Edwin Garvin Fischer (husband) children: Olivia L. Z. Fischer, E.G. Fischer Jr., Chad Fischer	circa 1963-1979
Box 105	Angela Fischer arranged to have a historic farmhouse in danger of demolition moved from Chalkstone Ave to Benefit St. Family photos	1981

Family Photos, 1879-1984

Container	Description	Date
Box 32	List of family photo albums Contents Note: List created by the family of all their photo albums including family events and travel.
Box 32	JNB I, JNB II 1921-30, NBB, Harold Brown, Sophia Brown Contents Note: Kinsolving-Brown wedding, JNB I, Harold and Sophia in Paris, 1879	1879, 1900, 1921-1930
Box 31	On boat, framed portraits, Scandinavia, NBB	1892-1900
Box 33	Photos of Cornelia Vanderbilt with the Browns, Europe, Harbour Court, and Newport Contents Note: Includes images from the wedding of Cornelia Vanderbilt at the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina, 1924.	1900-1925, 1964
Box 34	Assorted family photos Contents Note: 1962 Blizzard, children & grandchildren, Volta, Bolero, JNB 50th birthday	1930-1961
Box 19		1938-circa 1963
Box 30	Family photos, 1916-1941, 1969.	1916-1941, 1969
Box 35	Country Club Event, Family photos	1962-1970
Box 41	Christmas '82 and '84	1982 December,1984 December

Natalie Bayard Brown, 1836-1940

Container	Description	Date
Box 12	NBB and extended family Contents Note: LeRoy, Dresser, D'Osmoy, Vanderbilt, NBB wedding	1836-1921
Box 13	Dressers photo album	c. 1870-c. 1920
Box 9	Mediterranean Cruise, Iolanda	1929
Box 10	Dresser-Brown photo album	c. 1870-c. 1930
Box 11	Formal portraits and group photos	1884 Jul, 1895-1940

John Nicholas Brown I, 1861-1900

Container		Description		Date
Box 26		JNB I portraits Contents Note: With Harold Brown at Niagra Falls, 1877		1861-1900

Harold Brown, 1871-1875

Container	Description	Date
Box 5	Harold Brown portrait	Undated
Box 5	Harold Brown and JNB I	c. 1876 and c. 1870

Kinsolving, 1896-1965

Container	Description	Date
Box 21	Multiple generations of Kinsolving family	1896-1965
Box 21	Rev. Arthur B. Kinsolving Portrait,Maryland Churchman Bulletin Contents Note: Bulletin: 1936 and 1941	1936, 1941
Box 21	Kinsolving family	1896-1912

Extended Family, 1823-1965

Container	Description	Date
Box 22	Edith Vanderbilt at Biltmore Station	Undated
Box 1	Framed images- JNB II, ancestors	Undated
Box 2	Framed paintings-Dressers and Browns Contents Note: Major George Dresser, Elizabeth Stuyvesant LeRoy Dresser, Sophia Augusta Brown, JNB II, Nicholas Brown (1792-1859)	Undated
Box 84	John Carter Brown (1797-1874) travel diaries	1823-1824
Box 104	Biltmore-Asheville, NC; Newport-LeRoy Cottage (1880s)	c. 1880
Box 7	JNB I, Moses Brown, Sophia Augusta Brown, Chad Fischer, John Carter Brown I, JNB I and Pres. Faunce, 1905	1905
Box 8	JNB II and ASKB family and friends Contents Note: General Convention in Washington, DC 1928	1928
Box 6	Natalie Bayard Merrill Portrait, 1925. Nicholas Brown II Portrait and Letter, 1892	1892, 1925
Box 22	Vanderbilt	1894-1930
Box 3	Snapshots and portraits of friends and family Contents Note: Ralph Adams Cram, Kittredge family, Celebrity portraits, Sea Cloud cruise	1884, 1888, 1922-1962
Box 4	JNB II Maternal relatives Contents Note: Fish, LeRoy, Dresser, Merrill, D'Osmoy, Vanderbilt, McCagg	1874-1963
Box 5	JNB II Paternal relatives Contents Note: Brown, Sherman, Wetmore, Fitzgerald, Stonor, Carmays, Drexel, Safe, Herbert, Binnay	1867-1900, 1920-1965

Series 4. Travel, 1911-1979
The Brown family traveled extensively to locations such as Europe, the USA, Asia, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and Africa. Various cruises included stops in India and the Mediterranean. The family's vacation homes at Harbour Court in Newport and Fishers Island are also pictured.

Cruises, 1929-1973
The Brown family emarked on numerous cruises to locations such as the Medditerranean and India.

Container	Description	Date
Box 46	S. Y. Iolanda Cruise, Medditerranean	1929 Apr-May
Box 45	Iolanda Cruise	1929 May-Jul
Box 44	Slides-1957 Coronia Cruise	1957
Box 47	RMS Caronia, India	1957
Box 50	Volta cruise	1964
Box 53	Cruises on Trelawney, Gitana IV and Mazurka	1972-1973
Box 107, Folder 1-2	Cruise in Greece on the Kormoran	1968 Apr
Box 107, Folder 27-28	Caribbean Cruise on Ketch Ring Andersen - Album 106	1970 Mar-Apr
Box 47	Gitana IV, Renaissance Cruise	1973 Feb, 1975 Mar

Europe, 1911-1973
The Browns traveled to many European countries including France, Spain, Italy, England, Swizerland and Portugal.

Container	Description	Date
Box 38		1911
Box 39	France, Spain, Italy, England, Sicily	1922-1923
Box 101	Autochromes and negatives, flipbooks, lantern slides-NBB Contents Note: Piazza Navona	1924?
Box 37	Slides-Italy, Switzerland, France, Portugal, England, Spain	1925, 1955 Jul-Sep, 1973
Box 36	Picture slides-England, France, Houston, Caribbean, Bolero Contents Note: England slides contain pictures of Stonor children	1951
Box 107, Folder 5	Greece and Istanbul - Album 50	1958
Box 107, Folder 6	Rome (1958, 1960); The Cosma Family (1962); Switzerland (1962); Venice (1962); Florence (1963) - Album 51	1958-1963
Box 107, Folder 7-8	Sicily - Album 67	1961
Box 107, Folder 12	Sicily, Naples, Benevento, Herculaneum, Pompeii, Ischia - Album 68	1961-1962
Box 107, Folder 9-10	Mouton (1963, 1970); Bordeaux (1963); Italy (1970) - Album 67	1963-1970
Box 107, Folder 13	Portugal - Album 75	1963
Box 107, Folder 14	Ireland - Album 80	1964 Mar
Box 107, Folder 15-16	Russia - Album 81-82	1964
Box 107, Folder 17-19	Mexico - Album 86-87	1965
Box 107, Folder 20-21	England, Iron Curtain, Alsace - Album 90	1966
Box 107, Folder 3-4	Greece	1969 May
Box 107, Folder 26	Yugoslavia, Rome	1969 May
Box 107, Folder 29-30	Save Venice - Album 109	1971 May

Family Travel, 1926-1979
Photos and slides of the Browns during their travels throughout Europe and the USA.

Container	Description	Date
Box 32	Photographic Log Contents Note: Photographic log kept by John Nicholas Brown in which he recorded the subject, exposure time, F-stop, lens, plate and filter that he used to take the photograph. Most of the photos logged in this volume are for travel in Havana and Europe but it includes notes for photos taken of the Biltmore mansion in North Carolina.	circa 1926
Box 57	George VI Coronation Contents Note: George VI Coronation, 1937	1926-1937
Box 49	Assorted Slides and prints Contents Note: Iowa, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Havana, Bermuda, Passport photos, children, Saraband, Yawgoo camp, Red Cross, Baden Baden	1942-44, 1948-49
Box 82	Slides:Bolero, Portugal, Spain, Italy,Turkey, Greece, Harbour Court, Newport, Fishers Island, Morocco, France, Gibraltar, N.Y. Contents Note: Bolero coronation 1953, Christmas 1952	1952,1953, 1955 Feb-Mar
Box 56	Greece, Japan, Puerto Rico, Iowa, Rex Ranch, Volta, Harbour Ct Contents Note: 357 Benefit St., St. George's Chapel	1957-1959
Box 54	Slides and negatives, South Africa, Harbour Court and Windshield	1954-1959
Box 55	Slides- Travel, Yucatan Contents Note: 1956: Annapolis, Bermuda. 1957: USA. 1958: Boat races in FL. 1960: Western USA	1955-1958, 1960 Oct
Box 58	Nassau, Minnesota, Rex Ranch, Germany, Misc. photos and negatives	1940-1960
Box 50	Photos and negatives-Sylvia Brown, Drexels, Fischers, 1963: Portugal (negatives), Berlin, Italy. 1964: Ireland, Sicily, USSR, 1962: Hawaii, Providence and Newport, Mexico, Jamaica	1962-1965
Box 53	Caserta, Palermo, Turkey, Lebanon, Eypt, Germany, Paris, Hawaii	1960-1961, 1969
Box 51	Fischers, Walkers, JNB III, Europe and USA Contents Note: Carribean, Jamaica, and Barbados, Venice. Italy, England, Providence, Newport, Hawaii, Nebraska, Iowa, Maine, California	1967-1971
Box 59	Newport, Rome, England, Canada, France, Spain, Germany, AZ, NY, NJ, Newport Contents Note: 1960s-1970s-friends, family, travels	1906-c. 1970
Box 52	Slides, travel photos Contents Note: Mt. Sinai 3/1960, France, Spain, Tintern, Biltmore-1924. Travel photos- 1974-1979	1924, 1960, 1974-1979

Middle East and Asia, 1922-1960
Travels in Asia and the Middle East including Egypt, Japan, Taiwan, Jordan, Istanbul and Sinai.

Container	Description	Date
Box 43	Egypt (Jan-Mar 1923), Italy (Mar-Apr 1923), Palestine (Mar 1923)	1922-1923
Box 42	Egypt	1923
Box 40	Japan, Taiwan, Jordan, Egypt and Istanbul	1955, 1959, 1960
Box 41	Japan,Taiwan and Sinai	1959, 1960
Box 107, Folder 22-23	Iran - Album 93	1967

South America

Container		Description		Date
Box 107, Folder 24-25		Jamaica, Venezuela, Cartagena - Album 94		1967

USA, 1951-1967

Container	Description	Date
Box 36	Slides Contents Note: MN, NY and Windshield	1951
Box 48	357 Benefit St. Interiors, Expo, Rex Ranch and Dowd Farm in Nebraska	1967
Box 107, Folder 11	Hawaii - Album 67	1969
Box 104	Maine, Arizona, South Carolina, France, Greece	Undated

Series 5. Yachts, 1929-1972
John Brown possessed a passion for boats and yachting, and his yachts Bolero, Annapolis and Sea Cloud were used for racing and for cruises.

Container	Description	Date
Box 85	Annapolis	1953
Box 87	Sea Cloud	1948-1949
Box 85	Bolero - Negatives and Prints	1949-1951
Box 86	Boats, Yachts and crews	1929-1972

Series 6. Properties, 1900-1949
The Brown family owned several residences included in this collection: 357 Benefit St. and 50 South Main St. in Providence, Rex Ranch in Iowa, Harbourt Court in Newport, Nightingale-Brown House and Fishers Island.

Container	Description	Date
Box 94	Providence - 357 Benefit St and 50 S. Main St Contents Note: Interiors and Exteriors	c. 1900, 1903, c.1940
Box 95	Rex Ranch	1900-1949
Box 104	Providence, Fishers Island	Undated
Box 93	Harbour Court, Nightingale-Brown house, 357 Benefit St. Contents Note: Interiors, Exteriors and Gardens	c. 1890, 1906-1959

Series 7. Architecture, 1900-1949
John and Anne Brown were involved in numerous architectural projects. These include Emmanuel Church, St. George's Chapel, Beaulieu House and the Providence Public Library.

Container	Description	Date
Box 96	Beaulieu House photos Contents Note: Interiors and Exteriors	c. 1920
Box 98	St. George's Chapel Contents Note: Interior/Exterior, carvings, ground breaking, consecreation	1924-1927
Box 97	Emmanuel Church	1903-1930
Box 97	Properties scrapbook Contents Note: Providence Public library, Sophia Augusta Brown obituary, Emmanual Church	1900-1946
Box 85	Greece-lantern slides, Italian architecture	1949

Series 8. Film, 1982-1999
The Browns acquired film of family footage, news clips, interviews with John Brown and Anne Kinsolving testifying at the trial of Claus von Bulow.

Container	Description	Date
Reel 1	F.W.M., Cambridge, Olympic, Foch Funeral	c. 1928
Reel 2	Paris	c. 1928
Reel 3	St Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Mis French, Nice, Iolanda, Segesta	1930 April 14
Reel 4	Gulf of Patras, Canal, Athens	c. 1936
Reel 5	Nauplia, Epidaurus, Mycenae, Bassae	c. 1928
Reel 6	Monemvasia, Mount Taygetos, Mistro, Mega Spelion, Delphi, Sunium	c. 1936
Reel 7	Sunium, Groups, Delos, Santorin, Knossos	c. 1928
Reel 8	Phaistos, Lindos, Rhodes, Cyprus	c. 1936
Reel 9	Symi, Patmos, Pest Samos, Lesbos, Fishing Dardanelles	c. 1928
Reel 10	Troy, Istanbul, Constantinople, Iolem	c. 1936
Reel 11	Crew Groups, Mount Athos, Arta	c. 1936
Reel 12	Cortu, Cattaro, Boat file dril	c. 1936
Reel 13	Venice, Rimini, Marseilles, Minorca, Southampton	c. 1936
Reel 14	Plessis, Clurry, Stonor, Colebrook or Coldbrook	c. 1928
Reel 15	Akropolis, Lido, Venice	c. 1936
Box 88	VHS tapes, 3/4 inch Contents Note: Assorted news coverage, AKB testimony at Von Bulow trial, USA Today spot on aquariums.	1982
Box 89	Film rolls, Interviews with JNB II, FOX News, family footage-3/4 inch	1999
Box 90	Family footage Contents Note: Film: Betacam SP and VHS	Undated
	Film rolls: Harbour Ct and Newport. This box of films was originally Box 91. All the films were rehoused into vented archival film cans and numbered Reels 1-15.	Undated
	Film rolls. This box of films was originally Box 92. All the films were rehoused into vented archival film cans and numbered Reels 1-15	Undated
Box 108, Disk 1	DVD patron access copy of Reels 1-4
Box 108, Disk 2	DVD patron access copy of Reels 5-8
Box 108, Disk 3	DVD patron access copy of Reels 9-12
Box 108, Disk 4	DVD patron access copy of Reels 13-15
Box 108, videotape 1-4	Beta SP video cassette masters of Reels 1-15

Series 9. Sound Recording, 1968-1971
Sound recordings of organ and choir recitals and the St. Dunstan's College Conference on Sacred Music.

Container	Description	Date
Box 99	Organ and choir recitals	1968, 1970
Box 99	St. Dunstan's College Conference on Sacred Music	1968, 1970, 1971

Series 10. Books, 1833-1918
Various books including autograph book, decoy book, drawings and obituaries.

Container		Description		Date
Box 100		Autograph book, Decoy book with safe codes, Drawings of French location, Obituaries: Williams Goddard and Elizabeth Marris, Fountainbleu drawings		1833-1850, 1899-1907, 1918

Series 11. Clippings, 1900-1963
The Browns collected postcards from traveling and documented events such as World War I and John Brown public service ventures in newspaper clippings.

Postcards, 1895-1926

Container	Description	Date
Box 84	Postcard booklets, Italy Contents Note: Postcards-St. Mary of the Angels church, Italy	c. 1900, 1926
Box 73	Assorted newspaper clippings- WWI, USS Newport	1912, 1914, 1943-1944, 1956-1962
Box 83	Newspaper clippings Contents Note: Red Cross, State planning board, Newport Civilian Defense Photos and Log, Committee on Visual Arts at Harvard, Harvard Arcade	1934-1938, 1944-1963

Series 12. Miscellaneous, 1915-1967
Unidentified places, people and items and a Victorian painting.

Container	Description	Date
Box 102	Ivory painting of Victorian child in leather case	Undated
Box 103	Unidentified people, places and items. Negatives	1915-1923,1940,1949,c.1950,1967