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Stephen S. Colvin papers (AMS.1UF.2015.009)

Brown University Library

Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu

Inventory

SERIES 1. CORRESPONDENCE

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 From various persons to Colvin
Contents Note: File is comprised of: 1 partial letter from Mrs. Colvin on stationary from The San Diego Hotel, dated 1915, and two envelopes from the hotel, each with Mrs. Colvin's signature and postmarked 1915; and 2 letters from The Psychological Laboratory, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., dated May 1st and May 13th, 1911.
 1915, n.d.
Box 1, Folder 2 From various persons to Eva Colvin (Colvin's spouse)
Contents Note: File is comprised of: a letter (2 pages) from a Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Marshall, sent from Descanso, California, dated January 2, 1917; and one empty envelope, sender unidentified, from Cairo, Egypt, date unknown.
 n.d.

SERIES 2. WORKS BY S. S. COLVIN (MANUSCRIPT MATERIALS)

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 3 Asleep at the Switch (a Vaudeville Stunt in One Scene)
Contents Note: 6 typescript leaves with handwritten edits; may be related to faculty/staff of University of Illinois, Urbana; presumably written (or co-written) by S.S. Colvin.
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 4 Emotion is...
Contents Note: Untitled essay about emotion (primarily a list a definitions) comprised of 5 typescript leaves on University of Illinois stationary, presumably written by S.S. Colvin.
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 5 The Flim-Flom Stone (A Musical Skit in One Scene)
Contents Note: Co-written with F.K.W. Drury; consists of 10 typescript leaves with handwritten notations and edits.
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 6 New American Philosophy
Contents Note: Essay comprised of14 typescript leaves with handwritten edits (about 4000 words), signed by Colvin in N.Y.C.
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 7 Page from a work of fiction(?)
Contents Note: 1 typescript leaf with handwritten edits from what appears to be a fragment of a work of fiction, presumably written by Colvin.
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 8 The Psychological Significance of the Transcendent
Contents Note: Essay comprised of 16 typescript leaves with handwritten edits signed by Colvin at the University of Illinois.
 n.d.
Box 2X Scattered pages from statistical study(?)
 n.d.

SERIES 3. WORKS BY S. S. COLVIN (PUBLISHED MATERIALS)

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 9 The Educational Value of Humor
Contents Note: Article from unidentified journal, publisher and date of publication unknown, pages [517]-524.
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 10 The Fallacy of Extreme Idealism
Contents Note: Reprint from The American Journal of Psychology, dated July, 1900, [16] pages.
 1900 July
Box 1, Folder 11 The Imaginative Elements in the Written Work of School Children
Contents Note: Article (co-written by Colin with I. F. Mey) presenting the findings of a study about the imagination of school children based on data drawn from the anaylses of a sample of student essays; includes printed copy and photcopy; reprint from the The Pedagogical Seminary, Pedagogical Seminary, volume 13, issue 1, 1906.
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 12 The Nature of the Mental Image
Contents Note: Includes printed copy and photocopy; publisher and date of publication not identified.
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 13 Pragmatism, Old and New
Contents Note: Article from unidentified journal; publisher and date of publication unknown, pages [547]-561.
 n.d.

SERIES 4. PRINTED MATERIALS, 1909-1934, n.d.

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 14 Miscellanea (1 of 2)
Contents Note: List of titles in this file: The Black Cat, by Edgar Allen Poe (N.Y.: Winthrop Press, 1914); A Description of the "New Deal," by Fred Rogers Fairchild ... et al. (N.Y.: Macmillan, 1934); Lincoln's Woman's Club (Univ. of Illinois?, date of publication unknown; Miami and the Story of Its Remarkable Growth: An Interview with Geoge E. Merrick (published by the New York Times, n.d.); University of Illinois Official List of the Administrative Officers and the Corps of Instruction of Urban-Champaign Departments, 1915-1916 (issued on October 9, 1915).
 1914-1934, n.d.
Box 1, Folder 15 Miscellanea (2 of 2)
Contents Note: Monograph by Lewis F. Anderson, History of Common School Education (published by H. Holt in 1909); signed by Colvin.
 1909-1923, n.d.

SERIES 5. MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS, 1880-1919, n.d.

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 16 Financial documents
Contents Note: 1 bank statement (Industrial Trust Co., Providence, R.I.) ; 1 bill (Providence Telephone Company); and 1 receipt (from Samuel C. Jencks and Sons, Dealer in Ice).
 1914, 1919 Jun, n.d.
Box 1, Folder 17 Grammar school essays by Sheldon Colvin
Contents Note: 2 short, 1-page, handwritten, grammar school essays by Sheldon Colvin.
 1914 Dec 3, n.d.
Box 1, Folder 18 Manuscript of abstract of a report before a psychological seminar by L.S. Dancey (about the memory of school children)
Contents Note: Hand-written abstract, authorship uncertain, of a report by Lloyd Slote Dancey; mentions Clark University and Ellen Bliss Talbot.
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 19 Photographs
Contents Note: Includes 1 tintype of unidentfied person (portrait of man) (circa 1880; 7/8" x 1) "; 1 tintype of unidentified couple (possibly S.S. Colvin and wife Eva Colvin), (circa 1895, 2 3/8" x 3 3/4)"; 1 photo of undentified person (woman with dog) (circa 1910, 3 1/2" x 3 5/8").
 circa 1880 circa 1895, circa 1910

SERIES 6. EPHEMERA, 1916-1922, n.d.

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 20 Brochures
Contents Note: 2 Illustrated advertisements for: the Merchants and Miners Transportation Co. (1 page folded in half, n.d.); and the Yankee Doodle Store (1 page folded in half, n.d.)
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 21 Greeting cards
Contents Note: Comprised mostly of vintage printed Christmas cards and 1 printed valentine card illustrated by R. F. Outcault (copyrighted 1903 by Raphael Tuck and Sons Co., LTD, N.Y.)
 n.d.
Box 1, Folder 22 Miscellaneous items
Contents Note: Set of joke cards (unillustrated, n.d.); instruction booklet for an Eastman Kodak camera (illustrated, n.d.); baseball ticket stubs (1922); an an illustrated bookmark (circa 1885) found in a book signed by S.S. Colvin (n.d., see folder 1.15, History of Common School Education).
 1922, n.d.
Box 1, Folder 23 Postcards
Contents Note: Consists of 5 postcards.
 1916 May; n.d.

SERIES 7. ARTIFACTS

Container Description Date
Box 2X Arrow head
Contents Note: Small metal arrow head about 2 1/4 inches in length.
 n.d.
Box 2X Board game (antique)
Contents Note: "Inside Base Ball"(board game made of metal with spin wheel in center; color graphics of stadium scene; with 11 game pieces, cardboard box top for game pieces and dice; manufactured by Popular Games Co., New York City and patented Oct., 1911
 circa 1911
Box 2X Brooch
 n.d.
Box 2X Bullet (antique)
 n.d.
Box 2X Buttons
 n.d.
Box 2X Coin (American)
 n.d.
Box 2X Coin (foreign)
 n.d.
Box 2X Dish from Bermuda (souvenir)
Contents Note: Shallow bowl made of wood with the word "Bermuda" engraved on surface; with print of landscape affixed to center.
 n.d.
Box 2X R.F. Outcault valentine print
Contents Note: A color print (a valentine card), of African American of boy and girl, illustrated by Richard Felton Outcault, (published by Raphael Tuck and Sons, in 1903).
 1903
Box 2X Record Book (Victrola Records)
Contents Note: A blank record book, with color illustration on cover, entitled "My Victrola Records"
Box 2X Rod (spiked)
Contents Note: Made of wood, thin, approximately 18" long; with black markings; origin and utility unknown.
 n.d.
Box 2X Spool
Contents Note: Wooden; printed on spool: "M. Heminway & Sons; size D..."
 n.d.