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Formal title:
Kenneth A. Galdston papers
Extent:
27.0 Linear feet
Date range:
1951-2012
Abstract:
The materials collected and partly organized by Kenneth A. Galdston consist of literature on community organizing, meeting notes, periodicals, class notes from Brown, clippings and supplementary material.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
MS.2011.002
Formal title:
Pierre Galletti office files
Extent:
9.0 Linear feet
Date range:
1963-1990
Abstract:
The Pierre Galletti office files comprise administrative records related to Galletti's tenure at Brown University and the Brown University Medical School. The files include records related to committees, task forces, and councils on which Galletti served as well as subject files concerning a range of issues including financial aid, curriculum, and long-range planning. The records date from 1963-1990.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
OF-1ZME-1
Formal title:
Pierre Galletti office files
Extent:
9 Linear Feet
Date range:
1963-1990
Abstract:
The Pierre Galletti office files comprise administrative records related to Galletti's tenure at Brown University and the Brown University Medical School. The files include records related to committees, task forces, and councils on which Galletti served as well as subject files concerning a range of issues including financial aid, curriculum, and long-range planning. The records date from 1963-1990.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
OF.1ZME.1
Formal title:
Theodore Francis Green speeches and personal papers
Extent:
2.0 Linear feet
Date range:
1883-1960
Abstract:
Speeches, addresses, correspondence, and personal papers related to Green's professional and political career, his education, and association with Brown University.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
MS-1U-G5
Formal title:
Walter Nickerson Hill Papers
Extent:
4.0 Linear feet
Date range:
1860-1905 (bulk 1870-1884)
Abstract:
American chemist. Letters and manuscripts; letterpress books; scrapbook; notebooks; documents; pamphlets; photographs; and memorabilia. The bulk of the written material (to, from, and about Hill) dates from 1870-1884. It consists of personal letters between Hill and his wife; letters between Hill and leading scientists and ordinance specialists; letters to and from important political, scientific, and military figures regarding Hill's application for appointment of Professor of Mathematics in the Navy; business correspondence; Hill's patents and pamphlets regarding explosives, demagnetization, etc.; newspaper clippings of Hill's death in an explosion.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.Hill
Formal title:
David H. Hirsch papers
Extent:
22.0 linear feet
Date range:
1826-2000 (bulk 1961-1999)
Abstract:
The David H. Hirsch papers (1826-2000; bulk, 1961-1999) include correspondence, essays, manuscripts, translated materials, research and lecture notes, course syllabi, annotated critical material, financial documents, conference proceedings, committee agendas, notebooks, and photographs. These materials relate primarily to his tenure as Professor of English at Brown University. Most of the collection reflects his extensive research and writing in American literature and literary theory, as well as in Holocaust literature and interpretation. A portion of the collection contains the fiction of his son, Joe Hirsch.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
MS.2012.030
Formal title:
Jeanne McHugh Kerr papers relating to Alexander Lyman Holley
Extent:
16.75 Linear feet
Date range:
1847-1983 (bulk 1949-1980)
Abstract:
The Jeanne McHugh Kerr papers relating to Alexander Lyman Holley consist chiefly of manuscripts and research materials relating to Kerr's biography of Holley. The papers also include several scrapbooks and letter books that belonged to Holley, samples of minerals and stainless steel, microfilm of Holley's papers at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., and personal papers such as a desk diary and address book that belonged to Kerr. The material is dated between 1847 and 1983, with most dated between 1949 and 1980.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.2012.016
Formal title:
Albert Edgar Lownes collection on Henry David Thoreau
Extent:
7 boxes
Date range:
1837-1965
Abstract:
The Lownes collection includes a wide variety of materials by and pertaining to Henry David Thoreau, including correspondence, college papers, journal excerpts, prints, clippings, photographs, and other Thoreauviana collected by Albert E. Lownes. Materials date from 1837-1965.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.80.1
Formal title:
Daniel March family papers
Extent:
1 linear foot
Date range:
1769-1871 (bulk 1798-1835)
Abstract:
The Daniel March family papers consists of correspondence, notebooks, written works, debts, official documents, newspaper/print clippings, printed pamphlets and student papers from Brown University 1802-1806.
Repository:
Brown University Library
Collection call no:
MS-1U-M5
Formal title:
Murphy collection of Van Alen papers
Extent:
11 linear feet linear feet (6 record boxes, 2 document cases, 2 flat boxes)
Date range:
1859-2001 and undated (bulk 1940-1999)
Abstract:
James H. Van Alen (1902-1991) and Candace Van Alen (1912-2002), were a well-known high society couple who were instrumental in establishing the International Tennis Hall of Fame at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island. This collection documents their lives, residences and interests as well as their involvement in various activities and organizations through their own personal records, correspondence, financial and legal records, published and unpublished writings, clippings, audiovisual materials, and photographs.
Repository:
Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:
RLC.Ms.036

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