Rhode Island State Home and School records (MSS-0039)
Special Collections
Rhode Island College600 Mount Pleasant Ave
Providence, RI, 02908
Tel: 401-456-8380
email:digitalcommons@ric.edu
Administrative Information
| ABOUT THE COLLECTION | |
| Acquisition: | The ledgers were formally transferred by DCYF to Rhode Island College in 2006. Other materials in the collection (series 2 and 3) were added to the collection by Rhode Island College Special Collections staff or transferred to Special Collections by their creators. |
| Custodial history: | It is believed the ledgers in this collection were held in the Rhode Island Department of Education Offices at 22 Hayes St in Providence as the State Home and School was under the administrative mantle of the Department of Education. There was a fire in the building, which may have resulted in damage to some of the ledgers. The records were transferred to Rhode Island College circa 1976 when the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) was formed. The ledgers were kept in the basement of Building 9 on RIC’s campus until the mid-1990s. They were then housed in the office of the Associate Director of DCYF. |
| Processing information: | A majority of the ledgers in this collection (series 1) were initially described by Sandra Enos, a RIC Sociology Department Professor, in 2001. In 2023, the items in series 2 and 3 were added to the collection and the collection described by Special Collections intern, Melissa Moniz, under the direction of Digital Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, Veronica L. Denison. Additional material was added and described by Denison in 2024. |
| ABOUT THE FINDING AID | |
| Author: | Finding aid prepared by Melissa Moniz and Veronica L. Denison. |
| Encoding: | This finding aid was encoded by Veronica L. Denison, 2023. |
| Descriptive rules: | Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) |
