The poster for the Christie’s sale of the Nicholas Brown desk.
America’s first product label
The First Baptist Meeting House (1775)
Moses Brown (1738–1836)
Slater Mill (1791)
Nicholas Brown's house on Main Street
The New Republic
Nicholas II by Chester Harding (1836)
Nicholas Brown II by Thomas Sully
The Sign of Shakespeare's Head, John Carter's house and shop, and Ann Carter Brown's childhood home
Mary Stelle, Nicholas II's second wife
Thomas Poynton Ives (1769–1835)
Francis Wayland (1795-1865)
Brown & Ives’s ship Eliza
Mr Nightingale's House, built in 1792 and purchased by Nicholas Brown II in 1814
Nicholas Brown III (1792–1859)
Abby Mason Brown (1800-1822)
Nicholas III's first wife (married 1820) and grand-daughter of John Brown
Caroline Clements Brown (1807-1879)
Nicholas III's second wife (married 1831)
Ann Brown’s daughters, Abby and Anne in 1832
Painted by Chester Harding in 1832
John Carter Brown (1797-1874)
Providence in the 1850s
The Gilded Age
John Carter Brown (1797–1874)
Sophia Augusta Brown (1825–1909)
John Nicholas Brown (1862-1900)
Harold Brown
Sophia August Brown Sherman (1867-1947)
The Nightingale-Brown House in the 20th century
John Carter Brown's collection of books in the purpose built library of the Nightingale-Brown House
Sophia Augusta Brown holding her grandson, John Nicholas Brown II in 1900
John Nicholas Brown (1861–1900)
Natalie Dresser Brown and son, John Nicholas II
The Providence Public Library (1900)
The John Carter Brown Library (1904)
The 20th Century
JNB II the day he bought back the Nightingale-Brown House in 1921
John Nicholas Brown II (1900–1979)
Anne Kinsolving Brown (1906-1985)
Nicholas VI and Diane Vernes Brown
Mr. & Mrs. John Nicholas Brown and their children (Nicholas, J. Carter and Angela)
J Carter Brown III (1934-2002)
Nicholas, Angela and Carter with their parents in front of the Nightingale-Brown House late 1960s.
The author, age four, presenting her new house in the library of the Nightingale-Brown House, Christmas 1965
Christmas dinner, 1973, in the Nightingale-Brown House (the author is in the red velvet dress on the right, Nicholas VI and Anne SK Brown at the head of the table)
Nicholas, Carter and Angela Brown giving 357 Benefit Street to Brown University
The 21st Century
Nicholas Brown VI and his descendants at the author's wedding, September 24, 2011