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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
Found in:
Providence Public Library
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
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Committee for the Reception of the President to Providence records
Collection — Box: Multi-Collection Box
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:
1833-05 - 1833-06
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Benjamin H. Cook commonplace book
Collection — Box: Multi-Collection Box
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
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Corset 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
Found in:
Providence Public Library
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
Found in:
Providence Public Library
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
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Dailey family correspondence
Collection — Box: Multi-Collection Box
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
Found in:
Providence Public Library
D.M. Dalton architectural photographs
Collection
Identifier: 052-03
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 4 boxes containing 182 photographs, and 4 cardboard prints created by D.M. Dalton in 1978. The photographs in the collection showcase historic Providence buildings built between the late 1700s and 1920s. Many different architecture styles are represented including buildings designed by Rhode Island architects Frederick E. Field and William R. Walker and Son. The black-and-white photographs of buildings include close-ups of exterior and interior architectural...
Dates:
1978
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Daniel Berkeley Updike Autograph Collection
File
Identifier: 005-02-01
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of miscellaneous items collected by Daniel Berkeley Updike, chiefly letters and documents relating to American history, many of which specifically relate to the federal period and New England history. Included are autograph letters of many notable individuals and political and military figures.
Dates:
1639-1940
Found in:
Providence Public Library
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