Clippings

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This scrapbook predominantly contains concert leaflets, flyers, programs, and newspaper reviews, collected from 1874 to 1897. It focuses on musical events in and around Rhode Island, usually having to do with Robert Bonner. It includes handwritten notes to explain clippings. The scrapbook also contains advertisements for classes Bonner offered, including price lists. Various other entries in the scrapbook include poems clipped from newspapers and obituaries of Bonner and of his peers.

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The collection consists of eleven scrapbooks created by John Hutchins Cady. The scrapbooks are organized topically and include photographs, postcards, clippings and Photostats of buildings of architectural interest in Rhode Island with a strong emphasis on the City of Providence.

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...

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...

Scope and Contents This scrapbook contains memorabilia from various performances in the Rhode Island area from 1898-1902 collected by Florence Nelson. It includes playbills, newspaper reviews, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, and autographs. Many of the performances documented took place at the Providence Opera House or the Bristol Opera House. Performers of note in the scrapbook include Julia Marlowe, Mary Mannering, William Gillette*, Virginia Harned, DeWolf Hopper, Viola Allen, Lionel...

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This collection includes documents related to planning the Occupy Providene protest, research into Burnside Park and the Burnside Monument, protest signs, a memorial program for activist John Joyce (1962-2013), newspaper clippings and training materials from Occupy Boston.

Scope and Contents The Karen Topakian collection consists of written and visual materials collected or produced by Karen Topakian that center her involvement in several areas of activism between the years 1971 and 1984, especially anti-war and anti-nuclear activism. They also provide insight into her involvement in environmentalist and feminist spaces, and how this intersected with her anti-war and anti-nuclear activism. The collection includes newspaper clippings that offer insight into community...