RIAMCO

Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online

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Zenas Kevorkian photographs and other material (MSS.42)

Special Collections

Rhode Island College
600 Mount Pleasant Ave
Providence, RI, 02908
Tel: 401-456-8380
email:digitalcommons@ric.edu

Scope & content

The bulk of this collection consists of Zenas 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. Highlights include photographs of damage left in the wake of the Hurricane of 1938; the U.S. Agricultural Experiment Station grounds in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico in 1939, likely taken by his brother Arthur Kevorkian, who worked for the US Department of Agriculture; trips to New Hampshire, Quebec, Maine, and Washington, D.C. in the 1930s-40s; and scenes from Rhode Island schools where Kevorkian worked, including a National Defense Drive at Roger Williams Junior High School circa early 1940s.

The collection also includes correspondence from Kevorkian to students and teachers at Roger Williams Junior High School during his naval indoctrination at the Amphibious Training Base in Solomons, Maryland in 1942. Additionally, there are several issues of The Tech Review, the yearbook of Providence Technical High School, which Kevorkian attended in the late 1920s; issues of the Roger Williams Junior High School newsletter, What Cheer, Netop from 1940-1942; and a 1988 revision of the constitution of the Barnard Club, a social and pedagogical association of Rhode Island teachers first established in 1878.