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Formal title:
John J. Fawcett Cartoon collection
Extent:
67.0 linear feet
Date range:
1962-1975
Abstract:
The John J. Fawcett Cartoon Collection consists of original drawings and copies of editorial cartoons drawn by John J. Fawcett for the Providence Journal newspaper from 1962 to 1975.
Repository:
Phillips Memorial Library
Collection call no:
fawcett
Formal title:
Richard Wilmarth Papers
Extent:
15 linear feet
Date range:
1979-2003
Abstract:
This collection contains the papers of poet Richard N. Wilmarth. After completing his B.A. and M.A. in English at the University of Rhode Island in 1991, Wilmarth moved to Boulder, Colorado. He established Dead Metaphor Press which published his own work, and poetry based on the results of an annual (1995-2003) chapbook contest. This collection contains published reviews of Wilmarth's poetry, a limited number of publications that contain his poetry, appointment books, news clippings, and obituaries; preliminary versions of published and unpublished materials; handwritten drafts and revisions of his poetry, notebooks contain examples of self-reflection and personal commentary, observations on people, places, and experiences, and outlines for his writings; and his correspondence.
Repository:
University of Rhode Island Library
Collection call no:
Mss. Gr. 165
Formal title:
Loraine Wyman Collection
Extent:
700.0 items (31 boxes)
Date range:
1859-1952 (bulk 1910-1937)
Abstract:
The Loraine Wyman Collection consists of manuscripts, sheet music, and miscellaneous material collected and/or edited by Loraine Wyman, the bulk dating from 1910-1937, and collected in Kentucky, Quebec, and France. The collection contains principally folk songs, arrangements or orchestrations of folk music, and French art songs.
Repository:
Orwig Music Library
Collection call no:
Ethno.Arc.0128
Formal title:
Frieda Peycke Papers
Extent:
6.5 linear feet
Date range:
1904-1982
Abstract:
The Frieda Peycke Papers consist of personal correspondence (primarily with her pupil and friend, Frederick Gamble), printed commercially published sheet music and handwritten sheet music written by Frieda Peycke, recordings of Frieda Peycke performing some of her musical numbers, musical performance programs, promotional flyers, press clippings, articles authored by Frieda Peycke, photographs, and assorted biographical documents. Some of the material contains racist and offensive language.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.2020.003
Formal title:
William Gerald McLoughlin papers
Extent:
114 Linear feet
Date range:
1700-2004 (bulk 1960-1992)
Abstract:
Professor William Gerald McLoughlin taught history at Brown University from 1954-1992 and was an active and vocal participant professionally and personally in all of the issues and events during those years: freedom of speech, civil rights, racial equality, gender equality (Louise Lamphere sex discrimination case), nuclear energy, improving the Providence education system, the Vietnam War, divestment from South Africa, and US intervention in Nicaragua during the 1980s. His papers are particularly useful for studying the changes in America and their effect s at Brown University during his tenure. His major areas of scholarship were religion in America (particularly Baptists and Evangelicals), the Cherokee Indian Nation, antislavery movement, African Americans, and Rhode Island history. This collection contains research notes and subject files for his many research topics, drafts for some of his published books, correspondence with colleagues and friends, minutes for meetings of the various committees at Brown and in the community on which he served, and newspaper clippings for topics of importance to him.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
MS.2009.003
Formal title:
Gordon Hall and Grace Hoag Collection of Dissenting and Extremist Printed Propaganda
Extent:
168,800 items from 5470 organizations (as of 2000)
Date range:
1926-1996 (bulk 1960-1990)
Abstract:
The Hall-Hoag Collection of Dissenting and Extremist Printed Progpaganda constitutes the country's largest research collection of right and left wing U.S. extremist groups, from 1950 to 1999.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.76
Formal title:
Fernando Birri Archive of Multimedia Arts - Audiovisual and Objects
Extent:
24 Linear Feet
Date range:
1951-2010
Abstract:
Audio recordings, films, videos and objects created and collected by Argentinian filmmaker Fernando Birri during the course of his career. This is Subgroup 3 of the Fernando Birri Archive of Multimedia Arts. The other subgroups are
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.2010.050.audiovisualobjects
Formal title:
Don B. Wilmeth research files for the Cambridge Guide to the American Theatre
Extent:
15.0 Linear feet
Date range:
1980-2005
Abstract:
This collection of research files consists of newspaper clippings, magazine articles, e-mails, press releases, playbills, postcards, letters, student papers, lecture notes, brochures and conference presentations which form the basis for the research and writing of the second edition of
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.2008.004
Formal title:
Conjunctions archive
Extent:
188.0 Linear feet
Date range:
1970-2008 (bulk 1990-2007)
Abstract:
This collection contains author files, correspondence, edited setting copies, first author's corrected galleys, publisher's corrected galleys, various sets of corrected editorial galleys and proofs, second proofs, final mock-ups, many original typescripts and some xeroxes either with original holograph corrections by the author, editor, and/or printer, bluelines and camera-ready materials. The material dates from 1970 to 2008, with the bulk from 1990 to 2007.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.2005.14
Formal title:
Howard P. Lovecraft collection
Extent:
10 linear feet
Date range:
1880-1984
Abstract:
Personal and literary correspondence both by and to Lovecraft; manuscript and typescript drafts of fiction, non-fiction, poems, plays and drawings by Lovecraft. Correspondence between friends, family, and associates of Lovecraft. Subjects include horror fiction, New England antiquities, and the amateur press. Significant correspondents include Robert H. Barlow, Robert Bloch, W. Paul Cook, August Derleth, Ernest A. Edkins, Sonia H. Greene Davis (Lovecraft's wife), Frank Belknap Long, Jr., E. Hoffman Price, Clark Ashton Smith, and Donald Wandrei among many others. The collection also includes a small selection of photographs of Lovecraft, friends and associates and objects owned by Lovecraft.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.Lovecraft

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