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Formal title:: Global Curatorial Project: Unfinished Conversations oral histories and records
Extent:: 18 Terabytes
Date range:: 2014-2024
Abstract:: The Global Curatorial Project: Unfinished Conversations series is an archival collection of oral histories gathered as part of the larger Global Curatorial Project which also includes a traveling exhibiton using materials from the collection. These files are all related to the documenting, translating, and recording the oral histories of project participants who are connected to the communties they live in and can provide testimonies to living in the modern wake of slavery. This collection is comprised of external hard drives and electronic records documenting the oral histories of participants including formats such as: BRAW, docx, jpeg, mov, mp4, mp3, tif, and wav files.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2022.010

Formal title:: Mel B. Yoken collection
Extent:: 82 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1683-2012 (1900-2012)
Abstract:: This collection was assembled over a period of fifty years by Mel B. Yoken. The primary focus is 20th century pieces of correspondence and documents by and related to French, Québécois, British, and American authors, artists, politicians, and public figures. Numerous letters written by significant figures of the 18th and 19th century enhance the historical, literary and political interest of the collection. Notes, typescripts, photographs and personal papers complement the archive.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2011.038

Formal title:: Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications
Extent:: 3.83 linear feet (10 slide boxes and 2 document boxes)
Date range:: 1956-2008
Abstract:: This collection comprises over 10,000 slides and 370 editorial columns published in Rhode Island newspapers, spanning the 1950s through the 2000s. Materials document the studies and travels of Professor Chester Smolski, who was a Professor of Geography and Director of the Urban Studies Program at Rhode Island College.
Repository:: Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
Collection call no:: MSS.41

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