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William Arnold Spicer, III papers (Ms.2012.023)

Brown University Library

Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
email: hay@brown.edu

Inventory

Series 1. Antique Clocks, 1939-2002

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 Business cards and stationary
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 2 Catalogs
1958-1992
Box 1, Folder 3 Correspondence - To William A. Spicer
Contents Note: Small file, bulk of which dates from 1973 to 1992.
1939-1992
Box 1, Folder 4 Correspondence - To William A. Spicer, Responses from Yankee Magazine article
Contents Note: Responses from article about Spicer and his clock repair business in Yankee Magazine (December 1980)
1980-1981
Box 1, Folder 5 Correspondence - To William A. Spicer, undated
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 6 Correspondence - From William A. Spicer
Contents Note: Small file, scattered dates
1975-2001
Box 1, Folder 7 Correspondence - Liv Ullman and Donald Saunders
Contents Note: Includes photos and an issue from Architectural Digest (December 1989) about the Saunders apartment in Boston.
1989-1992
Box 1, Folder 8 Correspondence - Robert Montgomery
1980-1981
Box 1, Folder 9 Ephemera
1962-2002
Box 1, Folder 10 History
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 11 Photographs, images
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 12 Printed materials
Contents Note: Comprised of a very small collection of scholarly periodicals and small press publications
1963-1997
Box 1, Folder 13 Resources, contacts, references
Contents Note: A small group of scattered notes, clippings from newspapers and magazines, and brochures referencing various contact persons and organizations.
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 14 Technical information
n.d.

Series 2. Friends and Associates, 1963-2004

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 15 Brown, J. Carter
2001-2004
Box 1, Folder 16 Brown, John Nicholas
1979-1988
Box 1, Folder 17 Chafee family
1963-1988
Box 1, Folder 18 Lippitt family
1988-2004
Box 1, Folder 19 Miscellaneous politicians
1989-2001
Box 1, Folder 20 Porter, Arnold
1996
Box 1, Folder 21 Thurber, F. B.
1965-1971

Series 3. Brown University, 1939-2001

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 22 Class of 1942
Contents Note: Incudes 1941 issue of Brownbrokers (Brown Univ.), with W.A. Spicer cited as assistant business manager (p. 10)
1940-1993
Box 1, Folder 23 Commencement materials
1947-1977
Box 1, Folder 24 Correspondence
1969-2001
Box 1, Folder 25 Division of Engineering Calendar
1997-1998
Box 1, Folder 26 Inaugurations
1966-1998
Box 1, Folder 27 Invitations
1970-1971
Box 1, Folder 28 Newspaper clippings
1963-1991
Box 1, Folder 29 Printed materials
Contents Note: Incudes issues from the Brown Daily Herald citing W. A. Spicer's contributions to the management of theatrical sets and designs.
1939-1970

Series 4. Travel, 1959-2004

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 30 Bermuda
1975-1992
Box 2 Brochures
Contents Note: Unsorted collection of travel brochures in small- to medium-sized box, dates undetermined.
1959, n.d.
Box 1, Folder 31 Ecuador
1963-1997
Box 1, Folder 32 Europe
1958-1981
Box 1, Folder 33 France - Chablis-Paris, Etoile de Champagne
1981, 1991
Box 2 Maps
Contents Note: Unsorted collection of travel maps in a medium-sized box, dates undermined.
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 34 Photographs
Contents Note: Photographs from trips to United Kingdom, France, Italy, and the United States,
n.d.
Box 3 Photographic slides
1959-1965
Box 2 Postcards
Contents Note: Unsorted collection of primarily blank postcards from around the world in a small- to medium-sized box. Includes 8 signed laminated postcards from W. A. Spicer to Mrs. W. A. Spicer and others.
1959, n.d.
Box 1, Folder 35 Printed materials
Contents Note: Small file of a few periodicals, and some graphic items, including a print of an Elgin watch dated March 1901.
1977
Box 1, Folder 36 Rail
1972-1993
Box 1, Folder 37 Sea - Ocean liners
1968-1986
Box 1, Folder 38 Sea - Queen Elizabeth II (Ocean liner)
1968
Box 1, Folder 39 Sea - Queen Mary II (Ocean liner)
1967-2004
Box 1, Folder 40 Stamps
1988-1989
Box 1, Folder 41 United Kingdom
n.d.

Series 5. Subject Files, 1920-2004

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 1 America's Cup Races
1970-1996
Box 2, Folder 2 Automobiles
1920-1985
Box 2, Folder 3 British Royalty
1965-2003
Box 2, Folder 4 Charles A. Lindbergh
1974-1977
Box 2, Folder 5 Miscellaneous ephemeral materials
1959-2004
Box 2, Folder 6 Sailing
1992
Box 2, Folder 7 Statue of Liberty
1983-1986
Box 2, Folder 8 Theater - Helen Hayes
1947, 1952, 1965, 1989, 1993
Box 2, Folder 9 Theater - Miscellaneous materials
1967-1989

Series 6. Artifacts, 1901-1962

Container Description Date
Box 3 Cap from China
n.d.
Box 3 Handkerchief - Girard-Perregaux
n.d.
Box 3 Print - Elgin (watch)
1901
Box 3 Print - Eye of the Needle (Seattle, WA)
1962
Box 4 Stereoscope and accompanying glass stereo slides
n.d.