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Detailed with intricate machine embroidery, the garments are typical of the style worn in the area of Nigeria where the Ashamu family lived.
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Chief Ashamu’s Ceremonial Robes

A collection of ceremonial robes and other apparel worn by Chief Emmanuel O. Ashamu of Nigeria now resides at the Brown dance studio that bears his name.
READ MORE February 17, 2009
The Breslau Bear: The world’s only true copy of Ernest Moritz Geyger’s Bärenbrunnen (Bear Well, 1902) was commissioned and given to the University by T.F. Green in 1931. The original, now lost, had been installed outside the town hall of Breslau, Germany, in 1904.
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The Breslau Bear:
T.F. Green’s Bärenbrunnen

The Breslau Bear, currently installed north of the Faculty Club entrance on McGee Street, was a gift to the University from Theodore Francis Green, Class of 1887, former governor, state representative, U.S. senator and lots more. The statue also has a long and colorful history.
READ MORE June 5, 2008
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The College Pump: a ‘tide of life’ in the 1800s

The well outside Hope College was popular with students – until its untimely brass makeover.
READ MORE October 2, 2008
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High and mighty

The flagpole at the south end of the College Green was almost certainly a mast on a fabled 19th-century America’s Cup champion. How did it get here?
READ MORE July 16, 2008
Some of the organ’s thousands of pipes soar to the Sayles Hall ceiling.
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The sound of 3,355 pipes

Looming above the main room of Sayles Hall is an antique musical treasure: the largest remaining Hutchings-Votey pipe organ in the world.
READ MORE March 23, 2009
Jean Wood, department manager in American civilization, snapped this photograph of a vivid hibiscus bloom in the Brown greenhouse.
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It’s easy seeing green in Brown’s conservatory

Brown’s plant conservatory is a feast for the eyes and spirit – and it is open to the public.
READ MORE February 19, 2008
Faux Bear: No, it’s not a bear. It’s a child in a bear suit.
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Faux Bear:
Nick Swearer’s “frumpy old bear suit”

That bear statue outside Maddock Alumni Center — it’s not really a bear, is it? The only way to tell for sure is to look inside the bear’s jaws and get to know the inner child.
READ MORE June 9, 2008
Where it all began: The First Baptist Church building in Warren, RI, stands on the original site of the college that became Brown.
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The small-town birthplace of Brown University

Although the British and Hessian troops burned down the original structure in 1778, you can still drop by the East Bay site of Brown’s first matriculation and Commencement. Here’s to the Class of 1769 – all seven of them.
READ MORE July 21, 2008