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Tavares Collection
Formal title:
Tavares Collection
Extent:
9.6 cubic feet other
Date range:
1961-1994
Abstract:
The Tavares Collection is comprised of approximately 9.6 cubic feet of photographic which document the various activities of Rhode Island's Governors and their administrations during the years 1961-1994.
Repository:
Rhode Island State Archives
Collection call no:
1995-472
Terry, Jr. (Roderick) autograph collection
Formal title:
Roderick Terry, Jr. autograph collection
Extent:
1.3 linear feet (1 document case, 1 flat box)
Date range:
1672-1940 (bulk 1750-1915)
Abstract:
Correspondence, financial accounts, poems, legal documents, notes, lists, and other documents primarily from individuals prominent in colonial and early United States history as well as notable literary figures.
Repository:
Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:
RLC.Ms.024
The Papers of James Browne (1666-1732)
Formal title:
The Papers of James Browne (1666-1732)
Extent:
2 item(s)
Date range:
1729-1731
Abstract:
James Browne (1666-1732) was born in Providence in 1666, the son of John and Mary (Holmes) Browne, and grandson of Chad Browne, the original settler of the Brown family, who came to Rhode Island in 1638 from England. He ended his name with an "e", a practice that was discontinued by his descendants.
Repository:
Rhode Island Historical Society
Collection call no:
MSS 947
The Records of James Browne
Formal title:
The Records of James Browne
Extent:
0.25 linear feet
Date range:
1742-1743
Abstract:
James Browne, born in 1724 to James (1698-1739) and Hope (Power) Browne (1702-1792) of Providence, took up the family business of trading to the Caribbean. This collection consists of two cyphering and navigation books, dated 1743. The first, dated from January to February 1742/3, is a primer of Geometry and Trigonometry, which also contains lessons in Plain Sailing and Mercators Sailing. The second volume, dating from February 1742/3 to April 1743, is lessons in Mercator’s Sailing, Latitude, and Traverse Sailing, and ends with the day to day journal of his voyage to the island of Barbados in 1742/3.
Repository:
Rhode Island Historical Society
Collection call no:
MSS 948
The Rhode Island Collection
Formal title:
The Rhode Island Collection
Extent:
11 items
Date range:
1831-1976
Abstract:
Printed material about the history of Rhode Island
Repository:
Roger Williams University Library
Collection call no:
UA 2024.002
Thomas W. Dorr Collection
Formal title:
Thomas W. Dorr Collection
Extent:
0.25 linear feet
Date range:
1831-1888
Abstract:
Thomas W. Dorr (1805-1854) was best known as the leader of the Dorr Rebellion. This collection contains seven letters written by Dorr to miscellaneous persons, as well as one received from Franklin Pierce, selections from Dorr's personal scrapbook, twelve pages of business accounts, and several items relating to the rebellion.
Repository:
Rhode Island Historical Society
Collection call no:
MSS 391
Tilley (Laurence E.) Photograph Collection
Formal title:
Laurence E. Tilley Photograph Collection
Extent:
.4 linear feet
Date range:
1958, undated
Abstract:
The collection includes 197 black and white photographs of residential architecture and street views in Providence, Rhode Island taken by Lawrence E. Tilley in 1958. The photographs document the College Hill neighborhood.
Repository:
Providence Public Library, Rhode Island Collection
Collection call no:
VM015
Town Council (Providence, RI) Minutes of Proceedings
Formal title:
Providence, RI Town Council Minutes of Proceedings
Extent:
12 items item(s)
Date range:
1800-1814
Abstract:
Original minutes and related documents kept by the Providence, RI, Town Council for June 25, 1800 through March 7, 1801, February 26 through December 17, 1810, April 20, through September 27, 1814, originally bound in three volumes, with tipped-in and loose material; and for November 14, 1814 through March 7, 1815, with several documents tipped in, including a "List of Foreign Vessels in the Port of Providence" (29 June 1814), and a list of "Applicants for Town Watch" (undated).
Repository:
Brown University Library
Collection call no:
Ms. 81.1
Trowbridge (Joseph) bill of lading
Formal title:
Joseph Trowbridge bill of lading
Extent:
0.2 linear feet (1 oversize folder)
Date range:
1780
Abstract:
Bill of lading for Captain Joseph Trowbridge (1736-1790) of New Haven, Connecticut, for a shipment to Newport, Rhode Island, to be used by the French troops stationed there during the American Revolutionary War.
Repository:
Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:
RLC.Ms.566
Truesdell (Leon E.) papers
Formal title:
Leon E. Truesdell papers
Extent:
6 linear feet
Date range:
1882-1973 (bulk 1902-1970)
Abstract:
Leon E. Truesdell graduated from Brown University in 1907 with both an A.B. and A. M degree. His papers consist chiefly of his personal and professional writings and correspondence. Most of the correspondence is related to his career as a statistician and demographer at the United States Bureau of the Census from 1919 to 1967. The papers also include biographical material about the Truesdell family.
Repository:
Brown University Library
Collection call no:
Ms. 2011.004

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