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Formal title:: Shawomet Baptist Church records
Extent:: 11.0 Linear feet
Date range:: 1727-2011 (bulk 1945-1999)
Abstract:: The Shawomet Baptist Church records include founding documents, publications, meeting minutes, correspondence, financial records, membership lists, club and activity records and photographic materials documenting the 170-year history of the congregation, which was founded in 1842 and dissolved in 2011. The bulk of the material covers the period from 1945 through 1999. This is part of the Rhode Island Baptist Heritage Center collection.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS.2011.018

Formal title:: Robert Holbrook Smith ("Dr. Bob") collection
Extent:: 7 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1885-1992 (1936-1992)
Abstract:: The Robert Holbrook Smith ("Dr. Bob") collection, most of which dates from 1936 to 1992, consists of a wide variety of materials, including an extensive selection of books and other printed materials; correspondence; manuscripts; business papers; photographs; certificates, awards and bonds; ephemera; and an assortment of artifacts. These materials are primarily associated with Robert Holbrook Smith and the organization he founded with William G. Wilson, Alcoholics Anonymous. It also includes materials associated with William G. Wilson; Anne Ripley Smith and Lois Burnham Wilson, the respective spouses of Smith and Wilson; and other family members, friends and AA associates.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2005.66

Formal title:: Margaret Stillwell papers
Extent:: 10 linear feet
Date range:: 1827-1984 (bulk 1907-1984)
Abstract:: The Margaret B. Stillwell papers consist of personal papers, personal and professional correspondence, research materials related to her writings, especially those used in preparing Incunabula in American Libraries: A Second Census of Fifteenth-century Books Owned in the United States, Mexico, and Canada; notes and essays on topics ranging from the Annmary Brown Memorial to the women’s movement, examples of typefaces used by printers in Europe and the United States, and subject files.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS-1UF-S3

Formal title:: Mary Tucker Thorp papers
Extent:: 1 cubic foot
Date range:: 1928-1971
Abstract:: Papers of the former president of the Henry Barnard School in Providence, Rhode Island.
Repository:: Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
Collection call no:: CA-0001

Formal title:: James H. and Candace Van Alen papers
Extent:: 102 linear feet (32 records boxes, 4 document cases, 4 half document cases, 12 small flat boxes, 49 oversize flat boxes, 2 textile boxes)
Date range:: 1746-2002 and undated (bulk 1949-1991)
Abstract:: James H. Van Alen (1902-1991) and Candace Van Alen (1912-2002), were a well-known high society couple who were instrumental in establishing the International Tennis Hall of Fame at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island. This collection consists of personal records, correspondence, published and unpublished writings, clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, audiovisual materials, artifacts, and textiles which document the lives, interests, and residences of James H. Van Alen and Candace Van Alen both separately and as a couple.
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.003

Woods (Alva) Papers

Formal title:: Alva Woods papers
Extent:: 3.0 Linear feet
Date range:: 1657-2011 (bulk 1812-1918)
Abstract:: Most of the material in the Alva Woods papers consists of correspondence, documents, publications and writings that belonged to the Alva Woods family and the Brown family of Providence, Rhode Island. Most of the material is dated between 1812 and 1918. The papers also include architectural drawings, ephemera, one map, newspaper clippings, handwritten recipes, and some photographs. The material is housed in two letter-size Hollinger document cases, one legal-size Hollinger document case and one triple oversize box.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS.2011.017

Young (John) papers

Formal title:: John Young papers
Extent:: 1.5 Linear feet
Date range:: 1859-1903 (bulk 1876-1890)
Abstract:: These papers contain personal correspondence, business papers, writings by John Young and his daughter Harriet, maps and hand drawn diagrams of the Blackfeet Agency and its surroundings in the Montana Territory. The personal correspondence from 1876 to 1884 provides firsthand accounts of life on the reservation during a crucial time in the tribe's history.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2007.030

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