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Formal title:: Muriel Marjorie Boos Hanna papers
Extent:: 2.75 linear feet (3 legal size clamshell boxes)
Date range:: 1922-1989 (bulk 1978-1989)
Abstract:: The Muriel Marjorie Boos Hanna papers consist primarily of poetry by Muriel Hanna (dating from 1976 to 1989), drafts, notes and a draft of a compilation of poems, as well as a printed collection. An active member of the Rhode Island State Poetry Society, Hanna wrote of nature, family, and personal experiences in her poems. Included in the papers are poems by Hanna's grandmother, Emma Doan (Evans) Nicholas, whose poems describe her life a farm in New Jersey, provide information about the Grange, and gender roles in rural life in the early twentieth century.
Repository:: Brown University Library
Collection call no:: Ms. 90.11

Formal title:: Zenas Kevorkian photographs and other material
Extent:: 2.33 linear feet (3 boxes)
Date range:: 1923-1988 (bulk 1930-1950)
Abstract:: Zenas Kevorkian (1910-1991) was a career educator, a United States Naval Officer during World War II, and a hobbyist photographer in Rhode Island. The bulk of this collection consists of Kevorkian’s personal photographs, which document his life, family, and community mostly in and around Providence and Cranston, Rhode Island from the 1920s through about 1960. The collection also includes correspondence while Kevorkian was in naval training in 1942, as well as publications of Providence Technical High School and Roger Williams Junior High School.
Repository:: Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
Collection call no:: MSS.42

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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