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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

Universal Winding Company of Rhode Island newsletters & ephemera collection

 Collection — Box: Multi-Collection Box RI-06
Identifier: 138-01
Scope and Contents The collection consists of 52 issues of the Universal Winding Company of Rhode Island's monthly company newsletter, “The Windings” from 1945-1952. Issues are nonconsecutive and incomplete, with different formats over the years. The newsletter comprised announcements from different company departments as well as its recreational offerings, including the company bowling and softball leagues and gardening efforts. Volume 1, Issue 1 (May 1945) discusses the War Bond Drive. The collection also...
Dates: 1945 - 1952

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 Printing Ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: 004-04-01
Scope and Contents

This collection contains printed ephemera and manuscripts relating primarily to the printing trade. The materials described here constitute only a portion of the printing ephemera in the collection. The organization and description of the materials are ongoing, and researchers are advised to consult Special Collections staff.

Dates: 1732-2017

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

Urban League of Rhode Island collection

 Collection — Box: Multi-Collection Box RI-05
Identifier: 125-02
Scope and Contents The Urban League of Rhode Island collection consists of print materials from approximately 1939 to 1976 produced by the Urban League for existing as well as potential organizational partners and community members. The collection provides insight into the League’s organizational development from the 1930s to the 1970s, including an early statement of policy from the League’s inception in 1939, and materials for an event that began to incorporate Indigenous communities as beneficiaries of the...
Dates: 1939 - 1976

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Whaling 34
Records (Documents) 29
Whaling ships 28
Business correspondence 27
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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 15
Black & white photographs 11
Tattoo artists 11
Clippings 9
black-and-white photographs 9
Architecture -- Rhode Island -- Providence 8
Architecture, Domestic 8
Advertisements 7
Architecture -- Rhode Island 7
Postcards 7
Drag performance 6
Photographers -- Rhode Island 6
Rhode Island -- History 6
Tattooing 6
Advertising cards 5
Body marking 5
Performing arts -- Rhode Island 5
Personal Correspondence 5
Printed ephemera 5
Printing 5
Same-sex marriage 5
Scrapbooks 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
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Gay activists 4
Gender nonconformity 4
Historic buildings 4
Hurricanes -- Rhode Island -- History -- 20th century 4
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fliers (printed matter) 4
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New England Hurricane 1938. 3
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Providence (R.I.) 3
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Rhode Island -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
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Rhode Island -- Pictorial works 3
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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 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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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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