Robert Emmet Quinn papers and Oral Histories (rppc_quinn)

The collection contains a small amount of miscellaneous business and personal documents, newsclippings, transcripts of speeches, and photographs. The bulk of the collection is a series of oral history interviews conducted from 20 June 1972 to 20 November 1973 by Providence College Archivist Matthew J. Smith.

These tapes, which have been roughly transcribed, cover all phases of Quinn's public service. Of particular interest are his comments on the 1935 "Bloodless Revolution" and on the local political arena up to World War II.