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Rhode Island Sheet Music Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 002-02-03
Scope and Contents

The Rhode Island Sheet Music Collection includes sheet music by Rhode Island composers and arrangers, published by Rhode Island music publishers and music about Rhode Island.

Dates: 1829 - 1981

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Samuel Rodman and William Logan Fisher correspondence

 File — Box: Multi-collection box
Identifier: 003-02-29
Dates: 1799 - 1829

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

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Whaling 32
Records (Documents) 28
Whaling ships 27
Business correspondence 26
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Photographs 23
Massachusetts -- Business, industries, and trades -- Whaling 22
Voyages and travels -- 19th century 21
Bills of sale 19
Ships -- Equipment and supplies 18
Albums 17
Correspondence 14
Black & white photographs 10
Tattoo artists 9
black-and-white photographs 9
Architecture -- Rhode Island -- Providence 8
Architecture, Domestic 8
Architecture -- Rhode Island 7
Clippings 7
Drag performance 7
Postcards 7
Advertisements 6
Photographers -- Rhode Island 6
Rhode Island -- History 6
Advertising cards 5
Performing arts -- Rhode Island 5
Personal Correspondence 5
Printed ephemera 5
Same-sex marriage 5
Tattooing 5
AIDS (Disease) 4
Architecture -- Pictorial works 4
Civil rights -- Rhode Island 4
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Drag shows 4
Ephemera. 4
Female impersonators 4
Gay activists 4
Gender nonconformity 4
Historic buildings 4
Hurricanes -- Rhode Island -- History -- 20th century 4
Photographic prints 4
Scrapbooks 4
Tattooed people 4
Theater programs 4
Women's history -- Rhode Island 4
World War, 1914-1918 4
AIDS activists 3
Advertising cards -- United States -- 19th century 3
Aerial photographs -- Rhode Island 3
African Americans 3
Body marking 3
Business cards 3
Coming out (Sexual orientation) 3
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Gay men 3
Gay parents 3
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New England Hurricane 1938. 3
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Rhode Island -- Business, industries, and trades -- Whaling 3
Rhode Island -- Pictorial works 3
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Social work with HIV-positive persons 3
Tattooed women 3
Textile fabrics -- Labeling 3
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 3
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
Women -- Societies and clubs 3
Women tattoo artists 3
broadsides (notices) 3
fliers (printed matter) 3
product labels 3
Account books 2
Advertising--Fashion 2
Aerial photographs 2
African American whalers 2
Alphabets 2
Alternative spaces (Arts facilities) 2
Antinuclear movement -- Rhode Island 2
Architectural drawings. 2
Architecture -- Rhode Island -- Newport 2
Architecture, Domestic -- Rhode Island -- Providence 2
Art and social action 2
Artists -- Providence (R.I.) 2
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Language
English 208
French 11
German 9
Spanish; Castilian 9
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Names
Nicholson, Paul C. (Paul Coe), 1888-1956 25
Osborn, Samuel, Jr. 11
Providence Public Library (R.I.). Special Collections 10
Arnold , James N. (James Newell), , 1844-1927 3
Brown University. 3
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Milham, Beth 3
Providence Public Library (R.I.) 3
Thomas, Virginia 3
United States. Army. Rhode Island Infantry Regiment, 2nd (1861-1865) 3
Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941 3
Anthony , Henry. B. (Henry Bowen), 1815-1884 2
Arnold, Frederick Augustus, 1841-1924 2
Baxter, Dennis B. 2
Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824-1881 2
Cady, John Hutchins , 1881-1967 2
E.H. Hatfield (Schooner) 2
Flores-Maldonado, Vanessa 2
Foster, William E. (William Eaton), 1851-1930 2
Grand Army of the Republic. 2
Marchant, C. M. (Cornelius M.) 2
Marriage Equality Rhode Island 2
Martin, William A., (Shipmaster) 2
Means, Selene 2
Milham, Russell 2
Nixon, Eli 2
Reynolds, John S. 2
Sherman, Clarence Edgar, 1887 2
Sherman, Stuart C. 2
United States. Army. Division 26. 2
United States. Army. Rhode Island Infantry Regiment, 2nd (1861-1865) 2
United States. Army. Rhode Island Infantry Regiment, 2nd . Company F (1861-1865) 2
Ward, Samuel, 1725-1776 2
AIDS Project RI (1985-) (Providence, R.I. ) 1
AIDS Rochester (Rochester, N.Y.) 1
AS220 (1985-) (Providence (R.I.)) 1
Abraham Barker (Bark) 1
Adams, Eli 1
Aguinaldo , Emilio, 1869-1964 1
Albanese, Amelia 1
Aldrich, David Law, 1822-1889 1
Allen , Ezra , 1819-1902 1
Allen family 1
Allen, James , 1824-1897 1
Allen, William , 1784-1868 1
Allentown Band 1
Allyn, Thomas 1
Amalgamated Printers Association. 1
America II (Ship ) 1
America's Cup 1
Angell, Louis L. 1
Anrold, Stephen , 1728-1796 1
Appelman, William Henry 1
Archer , John B. (Benjamin), 1872-1954 1
Arion Club (Providence, R.I. ) 1
Arnold , Henry Anthony , 1834-1893 1
Arnold , Jonathan, 1741-1793 1
Arnold , Russell Greene 1
Arnold , Russell Greene, 1796-1868 1
Arnold , Samuel Greene, 1821-1880 1
Arnold , William , 1587-1675 1
Arnold, Alice Margaret, 1866-1909 1
Arnold, Edwin Whipple, 1862-1894 1
Arnold, Ida Elizabeth , 1896-1982 1
Arnold, James Edmund, 1849-1920 1
Arnold, James, 1781-1868 1
Arnold, Oliver 1
Arnold, Olney , General , 1822-1900 1
Arnold, Richard , 1769–1847 1
Arnold, Sarah Philips , 1809-1880 1
Arnold, Thomas, 1751-1826 1
Ayuso, Joann 1
Backus, Joseph 1
Bainbridge, William 1
Balch, Joseph , 1860-1920 1
Bancroft, George 1
Banigan family 1
Banigan, Joseph 1
Banks , Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894 1
Barras , Jacques-Melchio, Comte de,, 1719-1793 1
Bates , Louise Prosser 1
Baumgarten, John 1
Beetle, Eliza Ann Beaton 1
Biddle , Owen , 1737-1799 1
Blake's Great Piano Palace (Boston, MA) 1
Bolton, Arthur LeRoy 1
Bonner, Robert, 1845-1898 1
Bosworth, Benjamin M. 1
Bourn , Augustus Osborn, 1834- 1
Bowler, Mat 1
Boyle, Thomas Matthew Joseph (1916-1945) 1
Boys & Girls Clubs of America 1
Bradford, William James, 1840-1899 1
Brady , Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896 1
Brigham , Clarence S. (Clarence Saunders), 1877-1963 1
Bristol Opera House (Bristol, R.I. ) 1
Brown , John , 1736-1803. 1
Brown , Nicholas, 1729-1791 1
Brown, Charles E. 1
Brown, Henry Harris 1
Brown, John Edwin, 1804 or 1805-1839 1
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