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Formal title:: Seven Hills Garden Club records
Extent:: 1.75 linear ft. (2 legal size clamshell boxes)
Date range:: 1937-1981
Abstract:: The Seven Hills Garden Club of Providence, Rhode Island, was founded in 1937 to "stimulate an interest in horticulture for purposes of civic betterment, and to enable each member to enjoy her own garden more intelligently." These records were kept in two notebooks by the Seven Hills Garden Club librarian and include by-laws, programs, clippings, photographs, some minutes, membership lists, memorial tributes to past members, and reports. In addition to documenting a women's club and the horticultural activities of a number of Providence women over several decades of the twentieth century, this collection provides some information about individual members and about the Rhode Island Federation of Garden Clubs.
Repository:: Brown University Library
Collection call no:: Ms. 91.17

Formal title:: Janet Shaffer papers on the Brown University-Tougaloo College Partnership
Extent:: 0.25 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1966, 1986-1987, 2006 (1986-1987)
Abstract:: Papers of Brown aluma Janet Shaffer accrued during, or reflecting upon, her time as an exchange student at Tougloo College in the Fall of 1986. Some of the material contains descriptions of racism against Black people.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: AMS.1ZUT.2

Formal title:: Shakespearian Advertiser printing block collection
Extent:: 1.0 linear foot
Date range:: 1870-1871
Abstract:: Wood engraving printing blocks created by Edward S. Jones to illustrate a booklet titled "The Shakespearian Advertiser" published by Harlen P. Boyce in Providence, RI. The images are comic illustrations of quotes from various plays by William Shakespeare.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2011.044

Formal title:: Gerald "Shep" Shapiro Papers
Extent:: 3 linear_foot
Date range:: 1900-2012
Abstract:: The Gerald "Shep" Shapiro Papers include correspondence, programs, and advertisement fliers related to his work as a Professor of Music and the performances by both himself and Brown students. Also included are several CD's of music recorded at performances at Brown University and approximately 100 booklets of sheet music composed by Shep Shapiro. The largest work is the symphonic "Mount Hope in Autumn," composed in 1989.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: AMS.1L.2014.004

Formal title:: Joe and Lil Shapiro collection of laundry ephemera
Extent:: 15.0 linear feet
Date range:: 1805-2010 (bulk 1880-1955)
Abstract:: The Joe and Lil Shapiro collection of laundry ephemera is a collection consisting largely of small format ephemera that depict the history, artifacts and materials used in doing laundry over several centuries. Most of the material was produced by companies involved in the manufacture of laundry products. The collection includes, but is not limited to, advertising premiums, billheads, broadsides, brochures, calendars, greeting cards, labels, matchbooks, pamphlets, photographs, postage stamps, poster stamps, promotional booklets, puzzles, scrapbooks, shirt boards and trade cards. Much of the material in the collection is undated. The dated material is from 1805 to 2010. Most was produced between 1880 and 1955.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS.2014.002

Formal title:: Martha and Waitstill Sharp Collection
Extent:: 24 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1905-2005 (1939-1999)
Abstract:: This collection contains records of the relief work of Martha (Dickie) Sharp (1905-1999) and Waitstill Sharp (1902-1983), European delegates of the Unitarian Service Committee (USC) in Czechoslovakia, France, Portugal, and Israel before, during, and after WWII. The bulk concern their humanitarian efforts between 1939 and 1944; their assistance to refugees after the war (1944–1950); and Martha Sharp's postwar life, including her campaign for Congress, her involvement in interfaith efforts to bring Jewish refugee children to Israel, her assistance to charitable organizations, and her service on the board of and in fundraising for the Zionist women's organization Hadassah (1948–1999). The date range for the collection is 1905-2005 with the bulk dated between 1939-1999.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS.2011.008

Formal title:: Christina Sharpe papers
Extent:: 5 Linear feet
Date range:: 1989-2018
Abstract:: This collection consists of the papers of Christina Sharpe, Professor of English at York University and notable Black feminist theorist. The collection documents Sharpe's professional life and research in racism, slavery, and feminism, consisting of correspondence, conference material, draft writings, writings by other authors, subject files, and print material, dating from 1989 to the present. The collection is arranged into 8 series.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2018.015

Formal title:: Shawomet Baptist Church records
Extent:: 11.0 Linear feet
Date range:: 1727-2011 (bulk 1945-1999)
Abstract:: The Shawomet Baptist Church records include founding documents, publications, meeting minutes, correspondence, financial records, membership lists, club and activity records and photographic materials documenting the 170-year history of the congregation, which was founded in 1842 and dissolved in 2011. The bulk of the material covers the period from 1945 through 1999. This is part of the Rhode Island Baptist Heritage Center collection.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS.2011.018

Formal title:: Harriet W. Sheridan office files
Extent:: 11.5 Linear feet
Date range:: circa 1977-1992
Abstract:: The Harriet W. Sheridan office files contain materials compiled when Sheridan was a Dean and faculty member in the Department of English at Brown University. It includes general office files, materials regarding the Affirmative Action Monitoring Committee, appointment books, correspondence, speeches, and restricted materials regarding recommendations and evaluations. The files are dated from 1977 to 1992.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: OF.1UF.S5

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