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Formal title:: Rhode Island College miscellaneous papers
Extent:: 250 items
Date range:: 1763-1804
Abstract:: A collection of historical documents from the petition for a charter in 1763 to the change of name from Rhode Island College to Brown University in 1804. Titles of the papers and folder numbers are taken from the two volumes in which the papers had previously been mounted.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS.1E.1

Formal title:: Rhode Island School Superintendents Association records
Extent:: 0.05 cubic feet.
Date range:: 1903-1920
Abstract:: The collection consists of meeting minutes documenting Rhode Island School Superintendents Association meetings from 1903-1920.
Repository:: Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
Collection call no:: MSS-0103

Formal title:: Rhode Island State Home and School records
Extent:: 7.05 cubic feet
Date range:: 1885-2008 (bulk 1885-1960, 2001-2008)
Abstract:: The collection contains the records of, and relating to, the Rhode Island State Home and School. The records reflect the lives of the children who lived in the Home between the late nineteenth century to mid-twentieth century.
Repository:: Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
Collection call no:: MSS-0039

Royal Theatre Records

Formal title:: Royal Theatre Records
Extent:: 4.5 linear feet
Date range:: circa 1914-1934
Abstract:: The Royal Theatre Records comprise the business records of the Royal Theatre in Olneyville Square, Providence, Rhode Island, 1912-1935. The records document the day-to-day management of a small motion picture theater as well as its integration in local, regional, and national networks. Materials include correspondence, account books, invoices, receipts, tax records, insurance policies, legal documents, clippings, and trade publications.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS.2011.034

Formal title:: Charles H. Smith collection
Extent:: 1.5 cubic feet
Date range:: circa 1860-1963
Abstract:: Includes the papers of Charles Henry Smith, as well as materials related to the management of his estate following his death.
Repository:: Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
Collection call no:: MSS-0006

Formal title:: Carolyn R. Swift papers
Extent:: 3.35 cubic feet
Date range:: 1956-1984 (bulk 1974-1984)
Abstract:: Collection consists of materials related to Carolyn R. Swift’s research, writing, teaching, and political advocacy, and correspondence related to those projects, which include feminist Shakespeare scholarship, ERA advocacy, and oral histories of Rhode Island women.
Repository:: Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
Collection call no:: MSS-0150

Formal title:: Debra Thomson photographic slides
Extent:: 0.01 cubic feet.
Date range:: undated, 1980
Abstract:: Photographic slides highlighting Rhode Island’s architecture in the twentieth century.
Repository:: Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
Collection call no:: MSS-0049

Formal title:: Mary Tucker Thorp papers
Extent:: 1 cubic foot
Date range:: 1928-1971
Abstract:: Papers of the former president of the Henry Barnard School in Providence, Rhode Island.
Repository:: Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
Collection call no:: CA-0001

Formal title:: Views of Providence from Waterfront print
Extent:: 0.01 cubic feet
Date range:: undated
Abstract:: The collection consists of an art print of Providence, Rhode Island from the waterfront by G.R. Whilie.
Repository:: Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
Collection call no:: MSS-0113

Formal title:: John Greenleaf Whittier letter to Ruth A. Williams
Extent:: 0.01 cubic feet.
Date range:: 1891 March 14
Abstract:: The collection consists of a response letter from John Greenleaf Whittier to Ruth M. Williams regarding a class moto in 1891.
Repository:: Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
Collection call no:: MSS-0105

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