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Jesse Metcalf family papers (SP12.0)

Rhode Island School of Design Archives

20 Washington Place
Providence, RI 02903
Tel: 401-709-5922
E-mail: risdarchives@risd.edu

Scope & content

The collection consists of the Jesse Metcalf family papers including extensive correspondence, circa 1845-1894, and a family genealogy chart prepared circa 1918. The letters provide a window into Jesse's work as a cotton broker in antebellum Georgia, the family's post-Civil War woolen textile company, and the family's activities in Providence and foreign and domestic travels.