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CitiArt Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 073-02
Scope and Contents The CitiArt Collection is composed of photographs, minimal documents, video, and most substantially a series of newspapers, all of which are related to or created by the nonprofit organization CitiArt. The photographs are largely in the form of photographic slides, while the documents include by-laws, surveys, and some promotional materials. An event that entailed the painting of a mural directly onto Westminster Street in Providence, R.I., is well documented here through photographs and...
Dates: 1973 - 1980

Ship's Papers of Clarice (Bark) of Edgartown

 File
Identifier: 003-02-09
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of records of four whaling voyages of the Clarice including shipping papers, correspondence, crew lists, bills and receipts and crew accounts.

Dates: 1863 - 1884

Collection of Notgeld

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-04-05
Scope and Contents The collection comprises around 2000 individual notes. Earlier notes (prior to the 1920s) were used by people as currency and thus their design is somewhat more utilitarian. By the early 1920s, notgeld became collector’s items and were often printed with commemorative designs, featuring colorful expressions of local identity and civic pride. Due to hyperinflation in 1923, notgeld regained their role as an alternative currency for a brief period. Notgeld provides a resource for studying the...
Dates: 1914-1924

Collection of Soviet Design Scrapbooks

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 004-04-04
Scope and Contents The Collection of Soviet Design Scrapbooks contains scrapbooks almost entirely filled with collages of newspaper clippings, labels, and other ephemera and photographic prints of type specimens glued to rectos and versos. Though the scrapbooks themselves were likely created between c.1965 and c.1990, the material within the scrapbooks largely ranges from the 1950s to approximately 1990, with some material of the early 20th century represented as well. The scrapbooks are largely composed of...
Dates: 1965-1990

Committee for the Reception of the President to Providence records

 Collection — Box: Multi-Collection Box RI-08
Identifier: 093-02
Scope and Contents

The collection includes fifteen manuscript documents relating to planning President Andrew Jackson’s visit to Providence on June 21-22, 1833. The records include correspondence between members of the Committee for the Reception of the President and Providence Mayor Samuel W. Bridgham as well as planning and logistical documents related to transport, participating dignitaries, procession and introductions.

Dates: 1833

Benjamin H. Cook commonplace book

 Collection — Box: Multi-Collection Box RI-08
Identifier: 089-02
Scope and Contents A commonplace book is a compendium of knowledge, often copied from other sources, collected by an individual based upon their own particular interests. Benjamin H. Cook’s commonplace book includes poems, hymns, Scripture, sermon topics, and a recipe. Regular themes include maritime life, mourning, pride and frugality. Additionally included are transcriptions of gravestone inscriptions, listings of the family members of the Augustus Durfee family of Wakefield, R.I. and the George W. Esten...
Dates: 1854 - 1866

Corset and Orthotic Supports Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 003-04-03
Scope and Contents

The collection includes advertising material for corsets and related items during the late 19th to early 20th centuries. Items include advertising trade cards, magazine advertisements, novelty items, business cards and corsets from the period.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1880s-1900s

Lou Costa Collection on Fox Point

 Collection
Identifier: 044-03
Scope and Contents This collection is composed of photographs, media, and printed materials related to the Fox Point neighborhood of Providence, RI, with a focus on the diverse people and communities of the area. Represented throughout the collection are materials related to Fox Point’s Cape Verdean, Azorean, and Portuguese communities. Materials on Cape Verdean families can be found within the Photos by Surname subseries (1.1) as well as within the Cape Verdean Community series (3), which also includes...
Dates: 1843 - 2019

Ship's Papers of Courser (Bark) of New Bedford

 File
Identifier: 003-02-14
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the papers of Courser during a whaling voyage from 1865-1869. Included are records related to the crew and financial records. Of particular note in this collection is documentation relating to the crew including arrest and detention, discharge and death. There is also documentation regarding the shipment of kanakas, Pacific Islanders who worked as indentured servants. Additionally, there are papers related to damage to the vessel from a hurricane off Block...
Dates: 1865-1869

Dailey family correspondence

 Collection — Box: Multi-Collection Box RI-08
Identifier: 090-02
Scope and Contents

Collection includes 12 letters. Includes correspondence to daughter Maude from her parents, Albert and Charlotte, and her sister Lottie during a tour of Europe. Also includes several letters from J.H. Coggeshall to Albert Dailey relating business matters.

Dates: 1868 - 1869

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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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