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Elmo, John S., Room for Enjoyment: Memoir of A Design Merchant (FriesenPress, 2012).
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Ingersoll, Joanne Dolan, ed., Cocktail Culture: Ritual and Invention in American Fashion 1920-1980 (Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 2011).
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ARTICLES
Cobb, Jasmine Nichole, “A More Perfect Union: Black Freedoms, White Houses,” Public Culture, vol. 28, no. 1 (January 2016), pp. 63–87.
Champlin, Richard, “Thomas Claggett: Silversmith, Swordsman, Clockmaker,” Newport History, vol. 49, no. 3 (1976).
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Emlen, Robert P, “Imagining America in 1834: Zuber’s Scenic Wallpaper ‘Vues d’Amérique Du Nord,’” Winterthur Portfolio, vol. 32, no. 2/3 (1997), pp. 189–210.
Harrington, Richard B., “The Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection,” Military Collector & Historian, summer 1976, pp. 84–88.
Lehman, Milton, “World’s Richest Baby Joins the Navy,” Saturday Evening Post, August 23, 1947.
Smith, Martha, “Anne Brown Takes No Refuge,” The Providence Sunday Journal, July 8, 1984.
Smith, Robert, “Architecture and Sculpture in Nineteenth-Century Mirror Frames,” The Magazine Antiques, 1976, pp. 350–59.
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Breed, Donald and Correia, Joseph, “More Than 80 Years of Rhode Island Chamber Music Concerts,” Providence Monthly, August 25, 2015. Available online at http://providenceonline.com/stories/rhode-island-chamber-music-nightingale-brown-mansion,16178.
Brown, Sylvia, “Why Bait the Browns?” The New Criterion, May 2010. Available online at https://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Why-bait-the-Browns---5292.
Fisher, Sarah, “Bullseye Mirror Makeover (and a Mini History Lesson),” Matters of Style, June 30, 2010. Available online at http://www.mattersofstyleblog.com/2010/06/bullseye-mirror-makeover-and-mini.html.
Freundel, Werner J., “What’s in a Name? The Canterbury (Furniture) Tales,” THEO, September 9, 2011. Available online at http://theo.theodorealexander.com/2011/09/09/whats-in-a-name-the-canterbury-furniture-tales/.
“George Washington,” The Met. Available online at http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11707.
Harvey, Charlotte Bruce, “Nicholas Brown’s Letter,” Today at Brown, December 22, 2009. Available online at http://today.brown.edu/articles/2009/12/name-letter.
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“Prints, Drawings & Watercolors from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection,” John Hay Library, Brown University. Available online at http://library.brown.edu/cds/askb/outline.html.
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Trofa, Grace, “The Ageless Beauty of Bolero,” Yachting, December 21, 2010. Available online at http://www.yachtingmagazine.com/ageless-beauty-bolero.
ARCHIVES
Collections files, John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Brown University, Providence, RI.
Brown (Anne Seddon Kinsolving) papers, 1906-1985, John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, RI. Finding aid available online at http://library.brown.edu/collatoz/info.php?id=310.
J. Carter Brown Papers, John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, RI. Finding aid available online at http://library.brown.edu/collatoz/info.php?id=395.
Brown (John Nicholas) (1861-1900) papers, 1871-1900, John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, RI. Finding aid available online at http://library.brown.edu/collatoz/info.php?id=271.
John Nicholas Brown family photographs, John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, RI. Finding aid available online at http://library.brown.edu/collatoz/info.php?id=499.
John Nicholas Brown (1900-1979) Papers, John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, RI. Finding aid available online at http://library.brown.edu/collatoz/info.php?id=309.
Brown (Natalie Bayard) papers, 1877-1950, John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, RI. Finding aid available online at http://library.brown.edu/collatoz/info.php?id=272.
Bibliography compiled by Ron Potvin.