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Purtill Collection of Circus and Sideshow Scrapbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 064-04-04
Scope and Contents

The scrapbooks include newspaper clippings as well as photographs, postcards, business cards, letters and other printed ephemera. The collector has annotated many items in pen with dates and locations.

Dates: 1890s-1930s

Queer Stories Project oral history collection

 Item
Identifier: 109-07-01
Scope and Contents

The collection includes oral history recordings of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual people in Rhode Island. The interviews document experiences related to identity including sexuality, gender identity and expression, race and ethnicity as well as art & creative expression, dating, marriage and families, activism, religious faith, social life and occupations.

Dates: 2019 - 2020

Queering Oral History collection

 Item
Identifier: 109-07-02
Scope and Contents

The collection includes oral history recordings of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual people in Rhode Island. The interviews document experiences related to identity including sexuality, gender identity and expression, race and ethnicity as well as art & creative expression, dating, marriage and families, activism, religious faith, social life and occupations.

Dates: 2020

Arthur Rackham Collection

 Collection — Container: SpecColR
Identifier: 048-01
Dates: 1897-1994

Paul Rand design book for The Limited and the TLC Group

 Collection — Box: Multi-collection Box
Identifier: 004-04-05
Scope and Contents

The materials are collected in a three-ringed binder and include sketches, correspondence, colored photocopies.

Dates: circa 1988

Ray Bongartz collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 112-01
Dates: 1960 - 1990

David Wallis Reeves’ American Band Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 026-02
Scope and Contents

The collection includes materials related to the work of composer David Wallis Reeves and related to the American Band of Providence, Rhode Island. The bulk of the collection includes original music compositions and arrangements by Reeves. Also included are photographs, recordings and organizational records related to Reeves, the American Band and various other brass bands in Rhode Island.

Dates: 1857 - 1968

Francis Renault collection

 File
Identifier: 109-03-06
Scope and Contents

This collection includes photographs and ephemera related to the personal and professional life of Francis Renault. It includes naturalization papers and a passport, ephemera related to Renault's performances, personal snapshots and family photographs, headshots and photographs of Renault's stage costumes as well as non-drag related business ventures.

Dates: 1920 - 1948

Rhode Island Advertising Card Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 002-03-04
Scope and Contents

The collection contains various advertising cards largely produced by Rhode Island businesses. It is comprised of two scrapbooks and a large amount of loose advertising cards.

Dates: 1865 - 1910

Rhode Island and Massachusetts photograph album pages, unattributed

 Collection — Box: Multi-Collection Box Backlog-02, Folder: 4
Identifier: 175-03
Dates: unprocessed

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Whaling 34
Records (Documents) 29
Whaling ships 28
Business correspondence 27
Whalers (Persons) 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 16
Correspondence 15
Tattoo artists 11
Black & white photographs 10
Clippings 10
black-and-white photographs 9
Architecture -- Rhode Island -- Providence 8
Architecture, Domestic 8
Advertisements 7
Architecture -- Rhode Island 7
Postcards 7
Tattooing 7
Drag performance 6
Photographers -- Rhode Island 6
Rhode Island -- History 6
Scrapbooks 6
Advertising cards 5
Body marking 5
Hurricanes -- Rhode Island -- History -- 20th century 5
Performing arts -- Rhode Island 5
Personal Correspondence 5
Printed ephemera 5
Printing 5
Same-sex marriage 5
Tattooed people 5
World War, 1914-1918 5
AIDS (Disease) 4
Architecture -- Pictorial works 4
Circus performers 4
Civil rights -- Rhode Island 4
Connecticut -- Business, industries, and trades -- Whaling 4
Diaries 4
Ephemera. 4
Gay activists 4
Historic buildings 4
Illustration of books 4
New England Hurricane 1938. 4
Photographic prints 4
Posters 4
Sideshows 4
Tattooed women 4
Theater programs 4
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 4
Women tattoo artists 4
Women's history -- Rhode Island 4
fliers (printed matter) 4
AIDS activists 3
Advertising cards -- United States -- 19th century 3
Aerial photographs -- Rhode Island 3
African Americans 3
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COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- 3
Coming out (Sexual orientation) 3
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Enslaved persons 3
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Gay parents 3
Gay pride celebrations 3
Gender nonconformity 3
Hospitals -- Rhode Island -- Providence 3
LGBTQ+ activists 3
Law 3
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Newspapers 3
Nonprofit organizations 3
Poetry 3
Providence (R.I.) 3
Racism 3
Rhode Island -- Description and travel 3
Rhode Island -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
Rhode Island -- Pictorial works 3
Rhode Island -- Business, industries, and trades -- Whaling 3
Rhode Island -- Pictorial works 3
Roller skating 3
Social work with HIV-positive persons 3
Textile fabrics -- Labeling 3
Textile industry 3
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 3
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military personnel 3
Women -- Societies and clubs 3
broadsides (notices) 3
graphic design 3
product labels 3
Account books 2
Advertising -- Clothing and dress 2
Advertising--Fashion 2
Aerial photographs 2
African American whalers 2
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German 13
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Names
Nicholson, Paul C. (Paul Coe), 1888-1956 27
Providence Public Library (R.I.). Special Collections 12
Osborn, Samuel, Jr. 11
Arnold , James N. (James Newell), , 1844-1927 3
Brown University. 3
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Milham, Beth 3
Providence Public Library (R.I.) 3
Rhode Island Pride Committee 3
Thomas, Virginia 3
United States. Army. Rhode Island Infantry Regiment, 2nd (1861-1865) 3
Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941 3
Wetmore, Edith Malvina Keteltas, 1870-1966 3
American Civil Liberties Union 2
Anthony , Henry. B. (Henry Bowen), 1815-1884 2
Arnold, Frederick Augustus, 1841-1924 2
Baxter, Dennis B. 2
Burges, Tristam, 1770-1853 2
Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824-1881 2
Cady, John Hutchins , 1881-1967 2
Channing Memorial Church (Newport, R.I.) 2
DeWolf, James, 1764-1837 2
Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-1854 2
E.H. Hatfield (Schooner) 2
Flores-Maldonado, Vanessa 2
Foster, William E. (William Eaton), 1851-1930 2
Grand Army of the Republic. 2
Hall, Palmer 2
Hardy, Don Ed (1945) 2
Harris, Caleb Fiske, 1818-1881 2
Hoppin, Augustus, 1828-1896 2
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 2
Marchant, C. M. (Cornelius M.) 2
Marriage Equality Rhode Island 2
Martin, William A., (Shipmaster) 2
Mattapoisett (Bark) 2
Means, Selene 2
Milham, Russell 2
Nixon, Eli 2
Pendleton, Gilbert 2
Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858 2
Potter, Elisha R. (Elisha Reynolds), 1811-1882 2
Providence Journal Company 2
Reynolds, John S. 2
Rhode Island Hospital 2
Sherman, Clarence Edgar, 1887 2
Sherman, Stuart C. 2
Spaulding, Huck 2
Towns, Jeff 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
Waters, Percy 2
Williams, Alfred M. (Alfred Mason), 1840-1896 2
Wood, Dan 2
AIDS Project RI (1985-) (Providence, R.I. ) 1
AIDS Rochester (Rochester, N.Y.) 1
AS220 (1985-) (Providence (R.I.)) 1
AS220 Printshop 1
Abraham Barker (Bark) 1
Acklen, Joseph Alexander Smith, 1816-1863 1
Adams, Eli 1
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 1
Adams, John, 1735-1826 1
Advisory Commission of Women in Rhode Island 1
Aguinaldo , Emilio, 1869-1964 1
Albanese, Amelia 1
Aldrich, David Law, 1822-1889 1
Aldrich, Nelson W. (Nelson Wilmarth), 1841-1915 1
Allen , Ezra , 1819-1902 1
Allen family 1
Allen, James , 1824-1897 1
Allen, Philip, 1785-1865 1
Allen, William , 1784-1868 1
Allentown Band 1
Allyn, Thomas 1
Almagno, Romano Stephen 1
Almy, Eber C. (Eber Clark), 1816- 1
Amalgamated Printers Association. 1
America II (Ship ) 1
America's Cup 1
American Band of Providence 1
American Library Association. Annual Conference 1
Anderson, Hope 1
Anderson, Robert, 1805-1871 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 (Family : (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, Benedict, 1741-1801 1
Arnold, Edwin Whipple, 1862-1894 1
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