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Laurence E. Tilley photograph collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 038-03
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1958

Karen Topakian Collection

 File
Identifier: 136-02
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...
Dates: 1969 - 1984

Transcontinental Roller Derby Association of Rhode Island collection

 File — Box: Multi-Collection Box
Identifier: 096-03
Dates: 1936 - 1945

John Turner papers

 File — Box: Multi-collection box
Identifier: 003-02-34
Scope and Contents

This collection includes 56 items, chiefly business correspondence, related to the John Turner's business investments and shares in various whaling voyages out of New London, Connecticut for vessels including the McDonough, Palladium, Mentor, Spark and Indian Chief.

Dates: 1824 - 1856

Collection of Tynietoy and LeClerc dollhouse furniture

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 002-05-01
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1920 - 1939

United States Army Signal Corps collection of photographs of 26th Division

 Collection
Identifier: 081-03
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a published index and 664 print photographs and of the American Expeditionary Force taken by the Signal Corps during World War I. The bulk of the images are of the U.S. Army 26th Division including its various brigades, regiments and battalions.

Dates: 1917 - 1919

Updike Collection on the History of Printing - Books

 Collection
Identifier: 004-01-01
Dates: 1450 - 2022

Updike Pamphlet Collection

 Collection — Container: SpecColU
Identifier: 006-01-01
Dates: Majority of material found within 1590-1856

Collection of Updike Type Specimen Ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: 004-04-06
Scope and Contents

The collection is composed primarily of 20th-century ephemeral type specimens from Europe and America. Many are notable for their colorful design and creative sample text, and some are styled in the manner of faux publications (e.g. “The Baskerville Banner,” which is presented as a newspaper broadside).

Dates: 1734-2017

UPP Arts collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 074-02
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...
Dates: 1935 - 2018; Majority of material found within 2008 - 2018

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Subject
Whaling 32
Records (Documents) 28
Whaling ships 27
Business correspondence 26
Whalers (Persons) 24
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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
Advertisements 6
Photographers -- Rhode Island 6
Postcards 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
Connecticut -- Business, industries, and trades -- Whaling 4
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
Diaries 3
Feminism 3
Gay men 3
Gay parents 3
Gay pride celebrations 3
Hospitals -- Rhode Island -- Providence 3
LGBTQ+ activists 3
New England Hurricane 1938. 3
Newspapers 3
Nonprofit organizations 3
Poetry 3
Posters 3
Printing 3
Providence (R.I.) 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
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
Artists and community 2
Artists as teachers 2
Arts and society 2
Arts in education 2
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Language
English 207
French 11
German 9
Spanish; Castilian 9
Italian 5
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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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