002. Rhode Island Collection

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The collection includes 197 black and white photographs of residential architecture and street views in Providence, Rhode Island taken by Lawrence E. Tilley in 1958. The photographs document the College Hill neighborhood.

Scope and Contents The Karen Topakian collection consists of written and visual materials collected or produced by Karen Topakian that center her involvement in several areas of activism between the years 1971 and 1984, especially anti-war and anti-nuclear activism. They also provide insight into her involvement in environmentalist and feminist spaces, and how this intersected with her anti-war and anti-nuclear activism. The collection includes newspaper clippings that offer insight into community...

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The collection includes 32 pieces of dollhouse furniture attributed to either Tynietoy Company or George LeClerc. Also included is one photograph album of LeClerc dollhouse room displays and a newspaper clipping.

Attribution of the creator was assigned using additional research materials including furniture design sketches and sales catalogs available in the Tynietoy Collection at RISD Archives.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of 52 issues of the Universal Winding Company of Rhode Island's monthly company newsletter, “The Windings” from 1945-1952. Issues are nonconsecutive and incomplete, with different formats over the years. The newsletter comprised announcements from different company departments as well as its recreational offerings, including the company bowling and softball leagues and gardening efforts. Volume 1, Issue 1 (May 1945) discusses the War Bond Drive. The collection also...

Scope and Contents This collection documents the artistic, administrative, and educational activities of UPP Arts.The materials in this collection reflect a decade of interdisciplinary collaborations between artists, educators, students, and community members who used place-based art to celebrate and build awareness for Providence’s urban ponds. Their work focused particularly on Mashapaug Pond and its environs, which include the site of the Gorham Manufacturing Company and the former West Elmwood...

Scope and Contents The Urban League of Rhode Island collection consists of print materials from approximately 1939 to 1976 produced by the Urban League for existing as well as potential organizational partners and community members. The collection provides insight into the League’s organizational development from the 1930s to the 1970s, including an early statement of policy from the League’s inception in 1939, and materials for an event that began to incorporate Indigenous communities as beneficiaries of the...

Scope and Contents The collection includes 5 photograph albums with over 250 photographs, mostly cyanotypes, believed to have been taken by Stephen Waterman Jr. circa 1899-1900. The albums includes images of excursions and day trips around Rhode Island and New England; exterior images of various buildings including Waterman's residence at 70 Stimson Avenue where he lived with his first wife; interiors of unidentified residences; various events with the 1st R.I. Volunteers and a small cocktail party with people...

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Collection includes records related to BACH / PEACH and the governance of Watermyn House. Records include organizational records, by-laws, board meeting minutes, occupancy agreements, building plans and ephemera. Also included are photographs of both Watermyn and Finlandia residents and properties.