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Arthur B. and Martha B. Lisle papers (sp3.0)

Rhode Island School of Design Archives

Fleet Library at RISD
2 College Street
Providence, RI 02903
Tel: 401-709-5922
Fax: 401-709-5932
email: risdarchives@risd.edu

Scope & content

The collection consists of 54 check stub books of the Lisle Estate dating from 1926-1967. There are also folders that include papers of correspondence between Arthur B. Lisle and Charles P. Lukens, who both managed a trust fund from the estate of Mrs. Carolyn S. Fahnestock for Ms. Dorothy Sollers Fraser and newspaper clippings of this event. Other folders contain bills, correspondence, blueprints, and rent collection pertaining to the White Swan. There is also a signed and sealed paper that pertains to the removal of Martha B. Lisle’s kin from a cemetery to the New Rockland Cemetary.