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 Subject
Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

Portsmouth Grove Hospital Library Association records

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31116021978157]
Identifier: 019-02
Scope and Contents

The collection includes administrative records related to the Portsmouth Grove Hospital Library Association.

Dates: 1862 - 1884
Found in: Providence Public Library / Portsmouth Grove Hospital Library Association records

Ship’s Papers of President (Bark) of New Bedford

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 003-02-27
Scope and Contents This collection contains papers from two of the President’s whaling voyages: 1865-1869 under master Edmund Kelley, and 1869-1872 under master Eber C. Almy. The papers for the second of these voyages are scant. The collection also includes papers regarding the ship’s building and maintenance history which are unrelated to any specific voyage. Of additional note in this collection is a volume of sailing directions for Buzzards Bay published in New Bedford in 1821, which has since been...
Dates: 1821 - 1875; Majority of material found within 1865 - 1873
Found in: Providence Public Library / Ship’s Papers of President (Bark) of New Bedford

Providence Public Library collection

 Collection
Identifier: 015-02-01
Scope and Contents

The collection contains manuscript records and audiovisual materials (mainly photographs and architectural drawings) of and relating to Providence Public Library, its buildings, staff, trustees, and programs. The collection includes materials related to the Washington Street-Empire street building as well as materials related to branches previously operated by the Library.

Dates: 1868 - 2023
Found in: Providence Public Library / Providence Public Library collection

Ship’s Papers of the Robert Morrison (Bark) of New Bedford

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 003-02-19
Scope and Contents This collection contains captain Andrew J. Mosher’s correspondence from a voyage of the Robert Morrison from 1880 to 1884, along with agent’s and owner’s memoranda and information about shipments of oil from this same time period. It also contains crew papers including accounts and permissions, government documents, a significant number of bills and receipts, and documents related to the condemnation and sale of the Robert Morrison. Researchers will also note diagrams of the bark’s cask...
Dates: 1879-1890
Found in: Providence Public Library / Ship’s Papers of the Robert Morrison (Bark) of New Bedford

Ship’s Papers of the Thomas Hunt (Schooner) of Stonington

 File — Flat file case Flat File
Identifier: 003-02-17
Scope and Contents

The collection includes the records of ten voyages of the Thomas Hunt between 1872 and 1884, including receipts and bills of sale, shareholders’ agreements, insurance certificates, crew lists and crew agreements, supplies and slops accounts, shipping papers, governmental documents such as foreign manifests and customs documents, and correspondence with ship’s agent Joseph N. Hancox.

Dates: 1872 - 1884
Found in: Providence Public Library / Ship’s Papers of the Thomas Hunt (Schooner) of Stonington

John Turner papers

 File — Box Multi-collection box: [Barcode: 31116021976540]
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
Found in: Providence Public Library / John Turner papers

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
Found in: Providence Public Library / UPP Arts collection

Charles Henry Wilbur papers

 File — Box Multi-collection Box : [Barcode: 31116021976383]
Identifier: 003-02-16
Scope and Contents This collection includes 69 letters to and from Wilbur, his mother, sister and brother in law, his friends, and two whaling agents, as well as a variety of other people involved in the life and death of this whaleman from New Jersey. The correspondence in this collection begins during Wilbur’s naval service in 1864 and continues through his whaling career and into the next generation of his sister's family, ending in 1916. It includes correspondence between members of his family and the U....
Dates: 1843 - 1916
Found in: Providence Public Library / Charles Henry Wilbur papers

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