Brown University: John Hay Library

Collection Size: 
4903
Address: 
John Hay Library, Box A, 20 Prospect St., Providence RI, USA 02912
URL: 
http://library.brown.edu/hay
State/Province: 
Rhode Island
Email/Contact Person: 
hay@brown.edu
Languages: 
French, German, Hawaiian, Latin, Ojibwa, Swedish

The library has 3,457 hymnals with music, 1,446 words-only. Hymnals of American and Canadian imprint, dating from the seventeenth century to the present day. All denominations included. Collection features an interesting selection of Pennsylvania German imprints; twentieth-century hymnals from small, fundamentalist groups in the West, South, and Midwest; shape-note hymnals; sheet music for hymns, Christmas music, spirituals, and the like are also included in an allied sheet music collection. Date Range: 17th–20th c.