Edmonds and Osborne family papers (MSS-0027)

Series 1. Scrapbooks, photographs, and postcards, 1894-2007
1.3 cubic feet

This series contains multi-generational scrapbooks of the Edmonds family. Within the two scrapbooks are photographs, deeds, handwritten letters, City of East Providence water and tax receipts, shipping receipts from Virginia to Rhode Island, funeral expenses, birth and death certificates, and a ribbon from an anti-lynching demonstration in Providence. This series also contains postcards of cities and landmarks in Rhode Island.

Series 2. Personal papers, circa 1893-2000
0.4 cubic feet

This series includes a typed genealogy of the Edmonds family by Eileene Osborne, who found records in her Uncle Clifford Edmonds’ attic after he died. The series also contains a family Bible from 1893 that is stamped and signed by Franklin Edmonds.

Series 3. Eileene Osborne papers, 1936-2012
The series contains church programs of Eileene Osborne’s choir performances throughout Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Maine. This series also includes a typed autobiography and photographs of Osborne throughout her life and performing at church services.