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Helen Katherine Bromm Illustrations
Collection — Box: Multi-collection Box, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: 113-03
Scope and Contents
The Helen Katherine Bromm Illustrations collection consists of 68 items including fabric ‘tickets,’ illustrations for childhood books and other visual materials for children, greeting cards, original art for personal and professional use, linocuts, and a three-color progressive proof.
Dates:
1910s-1930s
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Henry R. Doiron collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 037-03
Dates:
1920 - 2010
Found in:
Providence Public Library
High School Homophobia video
Collection — Box: Multi-Collection Box 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: 109-03-08
Scope and Contents
This documentary video documents the cultural attitudes of teenagers in the 1990s related to homosexuality and LGBTQ civil rights. Content warning - this video does include hate speech and derogatory language.
Dates:
1994
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Collection of Rhode Island architecture from the National Park Service, Historic American Buildings Survey records
Collection
Identifier: 002-03-02
Scope and Contents
The Collection of Rhode Island architecture from the National Park Service Historic American Buildings Survey records contains data sheets, photographs, and architectural drawings related to historical buildings in Rhode Island with the majority located in Providence. The majority of records and images are copies of originals housed at the Library of Congress, however, additional photographic prints by Mary Gowdy of the Providence Preservation Society are included.
Dates:
1934 - 1970; Majority of material found within 1958 - 1962
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Harley W. Hopkins diaries
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 145-02
Scope and Contents
The Harley W. Hopkins diaries collection consists of five pocket diaries for years between 1873 and 1902. Four of the diaries are inscribed as belonging to Harley W. Hopkins, one of the diaries (1899) does not carry an inscription. However, due to consistent handwriting across all five diaries, it is also attributed to Hopkins. The diaries record observations that are relevant to his profession, such as rainfall and snowfall summaries, water wells running dry, and the first blooms of various...
Dates:
1873 - 1902
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Augustus Hoppin illustrations
File — Box: Multi-Collection Container
Identifier: 123-03
Scope and Contents
The Augustus Hoppin illustrations collection includes approximately 60 magazine clippings of illustrations as well as one page of thumbnail sketches and one handwritten letter by Augustus Hoppin (1828-1896). Illustrations of various sizes were neatly clipped from a number of 19th century weekly and monthly magazines, with many illustrations being from Harper’s Weekly (1857-1916), Ballou’s Monthly Magazine (1855-1893), The Knickerbocker (1833-1865), and Every Saturday (1866-1874). Images...
Dates:
1857 - 1886
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Henry Beetle Hough collection of whaling papers
File — Box: Multi-collection Box
Identifier: 003-02-20
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of materials related to the Beetle family of Martha’s Vineyard. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters from Henry Beetle to his fiancée and later wife, Eliza Eaton Beetle, written while he was onboard ship during several whaling voyages. The letters include details of daily life aboard ship as well as expressions of homesickness and loneliness. Also included are miscellaneous family papers, photographs of Henry Beetle and his wife Eliza Eaton...
Dates:
1827 - 1884
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Correspondence and Artwork of an Incarcerated Tattoo Artist
Collection
Identifier: 064-02-04
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises 19 letters in 22 mailing envelopes. Included in the correspondence is poetry and artwork by the author, a tattoo artist. Many of the envelopes are decorated as well.
Dates:
2008-2010
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Insurance Protest of the Whale Ship Malta of New Bedford
Collection — Box: Nicholson Multi Collection Box 1
Identifier: 003-02-35
Dates:
November 25, 1857
Found in:
Providence Public Library
International Whaling Conference on Historical Whaling records
File
Identifier: 003-02-36
Scope and Contents
Collection includes scholarly and scientific papers that were contributed to and collected by the conference as well as records related to the agreements following the conference such as a bibliography of resources, general policy statement, Report of the Biological Subcommittee, Report of the Subcommittee of Historian and Scholars, details related to logbook entries, voyage summary data sheet, voyage summery record and logbook reading report template.
Dates:
1977-09-12 - 1977-09-16
Found in:
Providence Public Library
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