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Charles Lanman Papers

Formal title:: Charles Lanman Papers
Extent:: 0.25 linear feet,
Date range:: 1841-1866
Abstract:: This collection contains the correspondence between Charles Lanman and several Congressman. Lansman used the information from this correspondence to inform his 1866 work, Dictionary of the United States Congress.
Repository:: University Archives and Special Collections
Collection call no:: Mss. Gr. 10

Formal title:: Charles O. F. Thompson Collection
Extent:: 3 linear feet
Date range:: 1700-2000 (bulk 1885-1963)
Abstract:: The collection includes Thompson's personal papers and related material created by family members.
Repository:: Bristol Historical and Preservation Society
Collection call no:: MSS-1885

Formal title:: Charles V. Chapin Papers
Extent:: 11 linear feet
Date range:: 1880-1941
Abstract:: Charles V. Chapin (1856-1941) served as Superintendent of Health in Providence, RI from 1884-1932 and as City Registrar from 1889-1932. Chapin was well known nationally and internationally for his public health work related to contagious diseases, such as diphtheria, scarlet fever, and typhoid. In 1910, he was instrumental in setting up City Hospital, where people who had contagious diseases could get medical care. This collection contains biographical information, certificates, commissions, correspondence, manuscript material, physician's reports and scrapbooks related to Chapin's work.
Repository:: Rhode Island Historical Society
Collection call no:: MSS 343

Formal title:: Mary Ellen Chase letter
Extent:: 0.01 linear feet (1 folder)
Date range:: 1942
Abstract:: This collection consists of one letter from Mary Ellen Chase (1887-1973), a noted American novelist and professor at Smith College, regarding a public speaking engagement in 1942.
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.506

Chesler (Ellen) papers

Formal title:: Ellen Chesler papers
Extent:: 25 linear feet
Date range:: 1965-2019
Abstract:: This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Ellen Chesler, scholar and women's rights advocate who is respected for the work she does with gender and public policy in areas of government, philanthropy, and think tanks. She is also well known for her landmark text, Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America. Materials date from 1965 to 2019 and include clippings, correspondence, handwritten notes, research materials, speeches, and drafts related to both Chesler's professional work and volunteerism.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS.2020.002

Formal title:: Chief Information Officer and Year 2000 Coordinator from the Year 2000 State Compliance Program records
Extent:: 9 cubic feet other
Date range:: 1997-1999
Abstract:: The Chief Information Officer and Year 2000 Coordinator from the Year 2000 State Compliance Program records include various files (reference and vendor, agency) and reports, audits, videotapes, workshop materials and CDs.
Repository:: Rhode Island State Archives
Collection call no:: 2000-51

Formal title:: Chime of Bells and Music at Grace Church
Extent:: .75 linear feet
Date range:: 1857-1987
Abstract:: Collection consists of manuscript, published, and photocopied material and includes two histories of Grace Church, a history of the Grace Church chime of bells, chime program log, news clippings and correspondence pertaining to the chimes, original musical notations, pamphlets, service programs and biographical information on Bishop Thomas March Clark, rector of Grace Church at the time of the purchase and installation of the chimes as well as Dorothy Rice, bellringer from 1946 to 1989.
Repository:: University Archives and Special Collections
Collection call no:: Mss. Gr. 157

Formal title:: Joseph Hodges Choate letter
Extent:: 0.01 linear feet (1 folder)
Date range:: 1915
Abstract:: This collection consists of one letter from Joseph Hodges Choate (1832-1917), New York lawyer and diplomat, to General Francis V. Choate (1850-1921), Army officer and a former Rhode Island resident.
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.507

Formal title:: Harold F. Chorney (Class of 1961) oral history and papers relating to the Vietnam War
Extent:: 0.25 Linear feet
Date range:: 1958-2011
Abstract:: This collection contains the 2011 oral history interview of Harold F. Chorney (Class of 1961) by Professor Elizabeth Taylor and supplementary biographical materials as part of the Vietnam Vets Oral History Project. His recollections concentrate on the years 1957 to 1976 and include Brown University days as proctor of Plantation House and Air Force ROTC, survival school training, flying for the Military Air Transport Squadron transporting cargo, Air Evacuation, “embassy runs,” 37 Vietnam missions, some combat, and his reserves duty at L.G. Hanscom Field in Bedford, Massachusetts. Chorney also describes his diagnosis with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). A short segment at the end of the oral history interview recounts growing up in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (circa 1949-1957) as a son of immigrant parents from Ukraine and Bessarabia.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: AMS.1U.C12

Formal title:: Christ Church, Lonsdale, RI
Extent:: 9 boxes
Date range:: 1833-1989
Abstract:: The Records of Christ Church consist of materials from 1833-1989, documenting the history of the church from its founding to the end of the twentieth century. The collection, which is divided into three series, consists of adminstrative records, church registers, and photographs.
Repository:: University of Rhode Island, University Archives and Special Collections
Collection call no:: Mss. Gr. 95

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