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Formal title:
Department of Theatre Arts records
Extent:
53.0 Linear feet
Date range:
circa 1875-2016
Abstract:
The collection comprises the records of the Department of Theatre Arts, the Committee on Dramatic Productions, the student performance groups Sock and Buskin, Komians, and Brownbrokers. The collection contains correspondence, scripts, audition cards, scrapbooks, programs, and publicity.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
OF.1Q.T1
Formal title:
Arthur Crew Inman papers
Extent:
1600 items (approximately)
Date range:
1856-1942 (bulk 1913-1942)
Abstract:
The Arthur Crew Inman papers consist of approximately 1600 items, including correspondence, poems, fiction, drama, essays, galley proofs, and printed notices or reviews of Inman's published work. Correspondents include George P. Baker, Alice H. Bartlett, Gamaliel Bradford, Abbie F. Brown, Edgar Guest, DuBose Heyward, Walter Lippmann, Josephine Peabody, H. L. Mencken, Bliss Perry, and Edward A. Robinson. The collection also contains 20th-century transcripts of mid-19th-century correspondence of Confederate Gen. George Pickett and his wife, LaSalle Corbell Pickett.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.Inman
Formal title:
Morris Abner Barr papers
Extent:
1.0 linear foot
Date range:
1939-1968
Abstract:
Morris Abner Barr was an author, lyricist, and poet whose poems tended towards nature, love, God, friendship, and Barr's own life. A craftsman, Barr wrote about his experience creating stools, gavels, and letter openers from the wood of the Sentry Tree in "Immortalizing the Sentry Tree of George Washington." The collection contains his writings, a scrapbook related to the George Washington Sentry Tree, and correspondence with friends and mentors.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.97.1
Inventory:
File Box 1 Folder 19 Poems
Scope and Contents note Baby Cat Baby in a Crib Baby's Joke Baby Wanted a Hobby Horse Bachelor's Parrot Told the Truth Bamboozle Banana Apple, A Barber, The Barge Canal, The Baywindow, The Beaming Eyes at Sixty-eight Beautiful Blonde, A Beautiful Hands; two versions Beautiful Maiden, A Beauty Masters The Strong Beauty of Life, The Beds of Sickness Behind the Bar-Room Doors Be Kind to Animals Bellflower Apple Bells of Joy Ring Forth Ben Davis Trees Beneath the Earth Benzoic Acid Berks County Dutchman Bessie and Tobiath Beware! Beware of Rugs Beware of Wrong Medicine Bible or Word of God, The; (see: "A Warm Heart") Big Black Horse, The Big Money Big Straw Stack, A Bills of the Birds Bimetallism Blacksmith Anvil Black Spot in a Diamond, The Black Walnut Rhind [sic] Blood Red Doors Blue Jay, The Boats are Coming, The Bolt; Thread; Washer; Nut Born to be Sacred, 1 Cor: 6:19 Born to Hard Work Boundry [sic] Line Fences Boys' Attendant at an Orphans' Home Boy Who Came Back, A Brain, The Brave Dog Saves Little Girl Bread, Cheese and Apple Butter Bread Crumbs My Wife Bakes; two copies; one also includes "Tippy." Bright Moon Bright Young Lady, A Broken Glass Broken Lives Brotherhood Brownies Brush-Off, The Buggy Ride, A Bumble Bee, The Bumblebee and a Mother Bear Bumblebees Burpee's Special Pole Lima Business Goes On, The Busy Man, A Buzzing Bumble Bee, A By the Grape Vine By the Old Fireside
 
Formal title:
Newport Ship Yard, Inc. collection
Extent:
.83 linear feet
Date range:
1880-1989 1947-1973
Abstract:
This collection includes a variety of records salvaged from the former Newport Shipyard, including correspondence, clippings, meeting minutes, promotional material, and administrative records, as well as images of boats affiliated with the shipyard and depicting work at the shipyard's three sites.
Repository:
Salve Regina University Special Collections
Collection call no:
SP.10
Inventory:
Item Box 1 Folder 1 Newport Ship Yard, Inc. adversitement in pamphlet for "The Moon is Blue" performed at the Newport Casino Theatre. July 6 - July 11, 1953
July 1953
 
Formal title:
Rudy Kikel papers
Extent:
16.5 Linear feet
Date range:
1942-2017 (bulk 1960-2006)
Abstract:
This collection represents a comprehensive portrait of Rudy Kikel, a distinguished gay poet, scholar, and journalist, and a staunch supporter of gay and lesbian writers and artists. It documents Kikel's tenure as the arts and entertainment editor for Bay Windows, New England's leading LGBT weekly, from 1983 when it was first founded until he retired in 2004. The collection consists of a variety of materials, the bulk of which date from the early 1960s to 2004. It includes an extensive compilation of manuscripts of Kikel's poetry, copies of his scholarly and professional writings, an assortment of significant LGBT periodicals, and correspondence from many acclaimed gay poets, including Thom Gunn, Richard Howard, Felice Picano, Paul Monette, and James Merrill, to cite just a few.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.2008.029
Formal title:
Vagabond Press Records
Extent:
3688 item(s)
Date range:
1965-1980
Abstract:
Letters, drawings, manuscript poems, stories, articles, and printed materials which record the workings of a small press of the American literary underground of the Sixties, under the editorship of Bennett. Also includes video tapes and audio tapes
Repository:
Brown University Library
Collection call no:
Ms. 83.1
Formal title:
Argentine zine collection
Extent:
5 linear feet
Date range:
1982-2021
Abstract:
Zines published in Argentina, 1982-2021.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.2023.011
Formal title:
Greenfield Review Press records
Extent:
21 Linear feet
Date range:
1966-1987
Abstract:
The Greenfield Review Press Papers contain materials related to the publication of The Greenfield Review, COSMEP Prison Project Newsletter, Prison Writing Review, and various other single author works and anthologies published by the Greenfield Review Press. The collection also contains author files that include published and unpublished poetry and prose manuscripts along with extensive correspondence that features a variety of black American and black African poets, Canadian, Chicano, West Indies/Caribbean, Arab American, American Indian and Asian American poets, as well as many incarcerated authors.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
MS.2016.006
Formal title:
Paule Stetson Loring Papers
Extent:
57 linear feet
Date range:
1910-1968
Abstract:
Paule Stetson Loring (1899-1968) was a Rhode island nautical artist who developed an international reputation for his sketches of the sea, an accomplished boater and sailor, and, for several decades, a well-known editorial cartoonist and feature story writer for the Providence Journal-Bulletin.
Repository:
University Archives and Special Collections
Collection call no:
Mss. Gr. 67
Formal title:
St. Martin's Press / Tor Archive
Extent:
913 linear feet
Date range:
1952-1996
Abstract:
St. Martin's Press, founded in 1952, is one of the largest publishers in America. The archives include correspondence and related materials from authors including Edward Abbey, Isaac Asimov, James Herriot, Robert Travers, Randy Shilts, Sean O'Casey, R. Buckminster Fuller, M. M. Kaye, Jerzy Kozinski, Henry Roth, and James Baldwin. In addition, papers regarding the entire spectrum of St. Martin's catalog of biographies, histories, science, literary essays, and fiction, published by the press's various divisions are available.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.2005.5

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