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Rhode Island Society for Mental Hygiene records
Item — Box: Multi-Collection Box
Identifier: 150-02
Scope and Contents
The Rhode Island Society for Mental Hygiene collection includes materials from 1924 to 1936 that consist of organizational missions, informational booklets, and brochures for various lectures, conferences, and panels hosted by the Society. These illustrate the breadth, nature, and spread of the Society's mental health services and educational programs in Rhode Island. The collection includes organizational reports, briefing materials, and appeals for donations which also offer insight into...
Dates:
1924 - 1936
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society Collection
Collection
Identifier: 022-02
Scope and Contents
This collection consists primarily of manuscripts and papers from the society, as well as published material including newspapers and flyers. Some paperwork, such as muster rolls and blank applications, are included, as well as some correspondence appearing to be from members of the society. A ledger volume documents the titles that were in the library collection. The collection also includes the collar worn by Major Sullivan Ballou.
Dates:
1858 - 1887
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Rhode Island Stereocard Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 002-03-05
Scope and Contents
The Rhode Island Stereocard Collection contains stereograms with images related to geographic locations, buildings and organizations in the State of Rhode Island as well as various miscellaneous images found with the collection.
Dates:
1860 - 1910
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Rhode Island Theater Collection
Collection
Identifier: 002-02-02
Scope and Contents
The Rhode Island Theater Collection contains handbills, performance programs, newspapers clippings, and personal notes related to theaters and theater companies in Rhode Island from 1855-2006. It includes materials from theaters and performance venues from across Rhode Island, but predominantly in Providence. Many well known theaters such as the Providence Opera House, Metropolitan Theatre, Modern Theatre, Providence Performing Art Center and Trinity Repertory Company are represented. ...
Dates:
1855-2006
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Rhode Island Women’s Suffrage Association records
Item — Box: Multi-Collection Box
Identifier: 149-02
Scope and Contents
The Rhode Island Women’s Suffrage Association (RIWSA) records collection consists of materials relating to women’s suffrage that were published by RIWSA and collected from affiliated women’s suffrage groups in Rhode Island between 1883 and 1919. The materials span from informational newsletters to promote women's suffrage to a counseling booklet for Rhode Island women voters once their suffrage was legislated in 1920. The collection does include one oppositional leaflet that was collected...
Dates:
1883 - 1919
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Ship’s Papers of the Robert Morrison (Bark) of New Bedford
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 003-02-19
Scope and Contents
This collection contains captain Andrew J. Mosher’s correspondence from a voyage of the Robert Morrison from 1880 to 1884, along with agent’s and owner’s memoranda and information about shipments of oil from this same time period. It also contains crew papers including accounts and permissions, government documents, a significant number of bills and receipts, and documents related to the condemnation and sale of the Robert Morrison. Researchers will also note diagrams of the bark’s cask...
Dates:
1879-1890
Found in:
Providence Public Library
James Waring Roberts photograph album
Item — Box: Multi-Collection Box
Identifier: 083-03
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one photograph album of black and white snapshots of summer recreation destinations in Rhode Island, New York and New Jersey. Locations in Rhode Island include Providence, Pawtuxet Village, Bristol, Rocky Point, Newport, Narragansett, and Block Island. Other photographs depict southern Massachusetts, New York City, Luna Park, Coney Island, Asbury Park, and New London. Images showcase amusement parks, beaches, steamships and other tourism destinations.
Dates:
1905
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Samuel Rodman and William Logan Fisher correspondence
File — Box: Multi-collection box
Identifier: 003-02-29
Dates:
1799 - 1829
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Rogue’s Gallery Album
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: 061-03
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one album given to Jesse H. Metcalf in celebration of Walter R. Callender on January 12, 1910 at the Hope Club in Providence, Rhode Island. A menu for the event notes “To Walter Reid Callender, the Big Cop, by the member of his baseball and stung cabinet”. Includes photographs of various Providence businessmen and politicians with humorous descriptions of each individual as criminals.
Dates:
1910
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Collection Of Roller Rink Decals
File
Identifier: 104-04
Scope and Contents
This collection contains approximately 159 different roller rink decals from the 1930s and 1940s. The decals in this collection showcase rinks throughout the United States as well as Toronto and Vancouver in Canada. They often served as advertisements for the rinks themselves as well as for roller skating as a pastime, and thus are eye-catching in design. Each decal is mounted on a black album page. Some pages feature multiple decals. The decals are die-cut, many in the shape of a roller...
Dates:
1930 - 1950
Found in:
Providence Public Library
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