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Tattoo Ephemera Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 064-04-01
Scope and Contents
The Tattoo Ephemera Collection contains printed materials, including advertisements, promotional fliers, various instructions, and a variety of catalogs, among other items and memorabilia. Items are predominantly from North America, specifically the United States, though there is also material from England as well as from the historic Fujiya Hotel just outside of Tokyo, Japan, which features an advertisement for the famed tattoo artist Hori Chiyo, retained at the time by the resort. Also of...
Dates:
1881-1943
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Collection of Tattoo Flash and Artwork
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 064-04-03
Scope and Contents
The Tattoo Flash and Artwork Collection contains sheets of tattoo flash as well as artwork created for the purposes of display within tattoo studios in order to give customers ideas for potential tattoos as well as to demonstrate the artistic style and talents of the tattoo artist.
Dates:
Late 19th to 20th century
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Tattoo Photograph Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 064-03-01
Scope and Contents
The Tattoo Photograph Collection contains postcards, cabinet cards, and other photographic forms from the late 19th century through early 20th century, featuring images of tattooed performers, tattoo artists, and other tattooed individuals. Most of the images are in the form of unfranked postcards, though a few of the postcards were circulated and include routine correspondence unrelated to the image. In addition to postcards and photographs, there are also a small number of cabinet...
Dates:
1889 - 1935
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Collection of Tattoo Trade Cards and Business Cards
Collection
Identifier: 064-04-02
Scope and Contents
The Providence Public Library’s Collection of Tattoo Trade Cards amd Business Cards includes business cards from tattoo artists, tattoo shops, and suppliers primarily located in the United States, though there are also a small number of international tattooists represented as well. Two separate and distinct time periods are portrayed: items from the early to mid 20th century (c.1906-c.1960) and items from the late 20th to early 21st century (c.1980-c.2019).
Dates:
1906 - 2019
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Texaco Oil Co, Providence terminal photograph album
Item — Box: Multi-Collection Box RI-11
Identifier: 162-03
Scope and Contents
This photograph album includes black and white prints documenting the Texaco Oil terminal in Providence, Rhode Island. The bulk of the images show the impact of the Hurricane of 1938 over the duration of the storm as well as the damage afterwards. Also included are images of the buildings and facility including construction of oil storage tanks.
Dates:
1938 - 1940
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Textile Industry Labels & Ephemera
Item — Box: Multi-collection box
Identifier: 001-04-03
Scope and Contents
The labels here predominantly represent textile manufacturers in the United States, England, France, India, and Japan, as well as a small number of labels from Ireland, Malawi, South Africa, Nigeria, and Vietnam, and a few miscellaneous labels and ephemera.
Dates:
1850-1930
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Ship’s Papers of the Thomas Hunt (Schooner) of Stonington
File — Drawer: FF-10: 11, Folder: 6
Identifier: 003-02-17
Scope and Contents
The collection includes the records of ten voyages of the Thomas Hunt between 1872 and 1884, including receipts and bills of sale, shareholders’ agreements, insurance certificates, crew lists and crew agreements, supplies and slops accounts, shipping papers, governmental documents such as foreign manifests and customs documents, and correspondence with ship’s agent Joseph N. Hancox.
Dates:
1872 - 1884
Found in:
Providence Public Library
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
Found in:
Providence Public Library
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
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Transcontinental Roller Derby Association of Rhode Island collection
File — Box: Multi-Collection Box RI-05
Identifier: 096-03
Dates:
1936 - 1945
Found in:
Providence Public Library
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