002. Rhode Island Collection

Scope and Contents The Collection includes records and collected artwork of AS220 from 1983-2017. Annual accruals are expected. The materials in the collection represent the work of a wide variety of artists and performers as well as the organization. Researchers will find evidence of a complex, creative community with a national reach and strong impact on the streetscape of an urban downtown area. The bulk of the collection includes artwork and communications/public relations-related records. The...

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The collection consists of one photograph album, circa 1900, of the Joseph Banigan Mansion built in 1897 by Martin and Hall at 510 Angell Street in Providence, Rhode Island. Includes two exterior and 13 interior photographs of home, one of the exterior of the carriage house, and one of a dog outside its dog house.

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This scrapbook predominantly contains concert leaflets, flyers, programs, and newspaper reviews, collected from 1874 to 1897. It focuses on musical events in and around Rhode Island, usually having to do with Robert Bonner. It includes handwritten notes to explain clippings. The scrapbook also contains advertisements for classes Bonner offered, including price lists. Various other entries in the scrapbook include poems clipped from newspapers and obituaries of Bonner and of his peers.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of 55 photographs and four negatives of aerial photography taken in the aftermath of the hurricane and tidal wave that struck Rhode Island on September 21, 1938. The photographs were taken by Thomas Matthew Joseph Boyle and the aeroplane was operated by Melvin Tilden Holbrook, Jr. Compiled into a scrapbook, the photographs show both coastal and landlocked wreckage caused to beaches, industrial zones, and residential areas in Providence, East Providence, Barrington,...

Scope and Contents The William J. Bradford Family Photograph Album collection contains a total of 15 items: 14 photographs, and one photograph album. Of the 14 photographs, 12 are early examples of carte de visites (CdV), approximately the size of visiting cards (4 x 2.5 inches), which became very popular in the United States during the Civil War, as the families of soldiers now had a means of obtaining keepsakes of their loved ones. The additional two photographs, items 13 and 14, are similarly sized...

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Included is a priced trade catalog of Marshall, Brown and Co. and letter from Brown to G. and C. Merriam dated 3 September 1834. The trade list includes the works offered by Marshall, Brown and Co including children’s books, school books and miscellaneous books. Brown’s letter refers to book exchanges and includes criticism of the practice of “trade sales”.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a letter from Tristam Burges to John DeWolf in Bristol, R.I. concerning the extension of road service from Fall River to Newport and it’s possible impact on the steamship lines.Included with the letter are three pieces of ephemera related to transportation of trade in Rhode Island in the 19th century. These materials include a Bill of lading from Commercial Steamboat Company for F. H. Perry, Feb. 7, 1865, for a chest of tea; Bill of lading for James...

Scope and Contents Includes research done by Garrett Byrnes in preparation to write a four-part article that ran in the Rhode Islander magazine on September 12, 1971. The collection consists of newspaper and textbook copies, hand-drawn maps on tracing paper, photographs, Byrne’s notes, correspondence to and from Byrnes related to Fields Point, event programs and drafts of the articles. The research materials document Field's Point from the colonial period when it was settled by Thomas Fields in...

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The collection consists of eleven scrapbooks created by John Hutchins Cady. The scrapbooks are organized topically and include photographs, postcards, clippings and Photostats of buildings of architectural interest in Rhode Island with a strong emphasis on the City of Providence.