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General Special Collections Fiction
Collection — Container: Fic SpecColl
Identifier: 001-01-05
Dates:
1778-1967
Found in:
Providence Public Library
George Hall Waterman family photograph collection
Collection — Container: Backlog, 5 boxes
Identifier: 110-03
Dates:
1900 - 1950
Found in:
Providence Public Library
George Laswell illustrations
Collection — Container: Backlog, stack of illus.
Identifier: 141-03
Dates:
circa 1920s
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Pam Goff collection
Collection — Box: Multi-Collection Box LGBT-02
Identifier: 109-02-03
Scope and Contents
Collection contains materials related to Interweave at Channing Memorial Church in Newport, Rhode Island including organizational reports, clippings and records related to advocacy for marriage equality and events organizing.
Dates:
2009 - 2017
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Album of Theodore Francis Green’s 1941 Birthday Party
Item — Box: Multi-Collection Box RI-09
Identifier: 058-03
Scope and Contents
Collection includes one photograph album holding photographs and captions documenting U.S. Senator Theodore Francis Green’s 74th birthday dinner sponsored by the Town Criers of Rhode Island at the Providence Biltmore, October 2, 1941. Guests include a number of United States Senators as well as prominent Rhode Island figures.
Dates:
1941-10-02
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Dorothy Hackney diary
Collection — Box: Multi-Collection Box RI-09
Identifier: 055-02
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a line-a-day diary of Dorothy Hackney kept while she lived in Providence and Dobbs Ferry, New York during the years of the First World War. The diary represents the musings and activities of a young female student from an upper class family who lived on the East Side of Providence. Prominent Providence families are mentioned throughout the years such as Chapin, Herreshoff, Allen and Rathbun. The bulk of the diary describes her social life, school, friends and...
Dates:
June 20, 1914-December 31, 1918
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Leonard Hammond papers
File — Box: Multi-Collection Box
Identifier: 003-02-23
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a small amount of business correspondence to Leonard Hammond related to various maritime enterprises as well as an insurance form for a sperm oil shipment.
Dates:
1844 - 1862
Found in:
Providence Public Library
C. Fiske Harris Collection on the Civil War and Slavery Manuscripts
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 007-02-01
Scope and Contents
This collection contains original manuscript writings of relating to the experience of Rhode Islanders serving in the Civil War. The bulk of the collection includes correspondence between Rhode Island soldiers and loved ones at home. Also included is correspondence of Charlotte F. Dailey who inspected Union convalescent hospitals and reported on the experience of Rhode Island troops. Also included is a field diary for the year 1862 written by Private James Albert Barber of...
Dates:
1852-1865
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Harris Collection on the Civil War and Slavery, Ephemera Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 007-04-01
Dates:
1820-1881, bulk 1861-1865
Found in:
Providence Public Library
Harris Collection on the Civil War & Slavery - Books
Collection
Identifier: 007-01-01
Dates:
circa 1729-2023
Found in:
Providence Public Library
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