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Formal title:: Thomas M. Allison papers
Extent:: 125 item(s)
Date range:: 1941-1983
Abstract:: Thomas M. Allison (U.S.N., Ret.) served aboard the Hornet when propaganda leaflets were dropped in the Tokyo area on 17 February 1945. This collection includes literary manuscripts, official and personal correspondence, and memorabilia relating to World War II navy convoy in 1941 and British P.O.W.'s in Thailand. Also includes: single-leaf leaflets produced by the U.S. Navy in an attempt to lower the morale of the Japanese during World War II, which were printed aboard the carrier U.S.S. Hornet (CV-12), placed in aircraft bomber bays, and then dropped over Tokyo.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.91.20

Formal title:: American Association of People with Disabilities records
Extent:: 7 Linear Feet
Date range:: (bulk 2002-2010) 1993-2014 (2002-2010)
Abstract:: This collection, ranging from 1993 to 2014, consists of an array of materials, including correspondence, scattered administrative materials, legal documentation, audio-visual cassettes, computer files, ephemera, and a few artifacts, all of which were issued by or are associated with the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), the largest cross-disability membership organization in the United States. AAPD was founded in 1995 by five leaders from the diasability community, Justin Sylvia Walker, Paul Hearne, John D. Kemp, and I. King Jordan, all of whom were instrumental in advocating, drafting and passing the landmark civil rights law, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. The bulk of the materials gathered here represent AAPD's continuing advocacy for the equal rights of the disability community, and are mainly associated with James C. Dickson, a prominent leader in the disability community, who was Vice President for Governmental Affairs of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), and a Brown University graduate (class of 1968).
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS.2014.020

Formal title:: K. Brooke Anderson papers
Extent:: 1.0 linear foot
Date range:: 1918-1957
Abstract:: The K. Brooke Anderson papers contain correspondence, daybooks, ledgers, journals, photographs, notes, speeches primarily related to his years at Brown as executive secretary of the Brown Christian Association.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2011.010

Formal title:: Nathaniel Terry Bacon papers
Extent:: 20.8 cubic feet
Date range:: 1825-1927
Abstract:: Nathaniel Terry Bacon was an engineer, entrepreneur-industrialist, philanthropist, and scholar. He actively participated in several business enterprises and wrote extensively on a variety of topics. The collection reflects both his personal and professional life.
Repository:: Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
Collection call no:: MSS-0005

Formal title:: Thomas F. Banchoff papers
Extent:: 23.5 Linear feet
Date range:: 1935-2012 (bulk 1963-1997)
Abstract:: The Thomas F. Banchoff papers (1935-2012, bulk 1963-1997) contain administrative, research, and teaching materials relating to Professor Banchoff's tenure as a professor of mathematics at Brown University. Included are correspondence, lecture and research notes, manuscripts, course syllabi and exams, and records of various faculty and university committees of which he was a member. The papers also include records from Professor Banchoff's term as acting Dean of Student Affairs at Brown (1971-1972) that reflect the racial and political campus issues of the time.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: OF.1UF.2015.003

Formal title:: Thomas Banchoff collection of materials relating to Edwin Abbott Abbott
Extent:: 0.25 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1865-2001 (1865-1927)
Abstract:: The collection is comprised primarily of photographs of Edwin Abbott Abbott, his family and associates as well as correspondence between them. It also includes some newspaper clippings and one notebook belonging to Edwin Abbott Abbott.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2011.016

Formal title:: Ellen M. Barrett papers
Extent:: 21 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1946-2013
Abstract:: Ellen M. Barrett, a scholar specializing in medieval monastic history, was the first openly gay person, and one of the earliest women, to be ordained priest in the Episcopal Church. Beginning in 1975, when she was ordained deacon, through 1977 when she was ordained priest, the collection documents her path to ordination and the far reaching international reaction to her ordination. The collection covers her subsequent, nearly thirty-year career as priest in the Episcopal Church and her eventual postulancy in an Anglican women's monastic community.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2007.009

Formal title:: Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta Papers
Extent:: 6.5 Linear feet
Date range:: 1835-1894
Abstract:: Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (1815-1891) was a teacher and poet of Providence, Rhode Island and New York City. The collection covers the years 1835-1894 and contains correspondence concerning literary and personal affairs, three manuscripts of her poems, two engraved portraits extracted from a book, and miscellaneous notes.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.Botta

Formal title:: John P. Bourcier papers
Extent:: 4 linear feet (3 records center boxes, 1 legal-size Hollinger document case and 1 letter-size Hollinger document case)
Date range:: 1974-2002
Abstract:: This collection contains material related to John P. Bourcier's career as a jurist in Rhode Island from 1974 to 2002. It includes his Superior and Supreme Court decisions, instructions to juries, material related to his service on various committees, his work with the Alternate Disput Resolution Task Force created by Chief Justice Frank J. Williams, newspaper articles and correspondence regarding the antinuclear Trident II Plowshares trial, and the 1984 trial of Vincent A. Cianci, Jr.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2009.005

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