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Formal title:: J. Louis Giddings Collection
Extent:: 19 linear feet
Date range:: 1937-1967 (bulk 1956-1964)
Abstract:: The collection encompasses the years 1937-1967 and consists primarily of a single series of ten boxes of subject files. Additional material includes numerous newspaper clippings, correspondence, printed material, press releases, photographs, slides, glass plate negatives and films.
Repository:: Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology
Collection call no:: JLG

Formal title:: Gino E. Conti Collection
Extent:: 3.2 Linear feet
Date range:: 1928-1973 1958-1973
Abstract:: The photographic collection encompasses the years of 1958 until 1973 and documents Rhode Island artist Gino Conti's travels in the American southwest and northern Mexico, primarily on American Indian reservations. It consists of over 3,700 photographic prints, negatives and slides, a disbound photo album and calendar pages used to record the locations of his travels. The collection also includes a box of postcards, a letter, newspaper clippings, art exhibition flyers, images of religious art and architecture, a reference book on the Tarahumana signed by Conti and a related ethnographic collection.
Repository:: Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology
Collection call no:: GEC

Formal title:: Rhode Island Postcard Collection
Extent:: 2.5 linear feet
Date range:: 1898-1999
Abstract:: The Rhode Island Postcard Collection contains postcards and viewbooks with images related to geographic locations, buildings, organizations and people in the State of Rhode Island.
Repository:: Providence Public Library, Rhode Island Collection
Collection call no:: VM001

Formal title:: Collection of Redwood family papers
Extent:: 1.8 linear feet (1 half document case, 1 flat box)
Date range:: 1710-1999 and undated (bulk 1729-1796)
Abstract:: This collection consists of letters, legal documents, accounts, family histories, and other papers related to the Redwood family and its descendants, particularly Abraham Redwood (1709-1788), the founder of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum.
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.029

Formal title:: Rhode Island Stereocard Collection
Extent:: .4 linear feet
Date range:: circa 1860-1900
Abstract:: The Rhode Island Stereocard Collection contains stereograms with images related to geographic locations, buildings and organizations in the State of Rhode Island as well as various miscellaneous images found with the collection.
Repository:: Providence Public Library Special Collections, Rhode Island Collection
Collection call no:: VM012

Formal title:: Rush Hawkins collection
Extent:: 71 linear feet
Date range:: 1750-1951 (1830-1917)
Abstract:: The Rush Hawkins collection (1750-1951(bulk 1830-1917)) contains personal, family, financial, and military correspondence and documents; photographs; and a variety of museum objects ranging from dinnerware and household items to clothing and personal accessories belonging to the Hawkins and Brown families. Most of the collection reflects the life and interests of Hawkins himself, with some items related to his wife Annmary Brown Hawkins and her family. Included in the papers are two significant sub-collections of correspondence: a collection of antebellum historical letters and documents from earlier generations of the Brown family, as well as individual letters from Thomas Jefferson, Nathaniel Greene, Edgar Allan Poe, and Napoleon I; and a collection of Civil War-related correspondence and documents that contains records of Hawkins' Zouaves and much Confederate material, including a subseries of Jefferson Davis's communications to the Senate of the Confederate States.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2006.05

Needmor Fund Records

Formal title:: Needmor Fund Records
Extent:: 24.0 Linear feet
Date range:: 1975-2008 (bulk 1979-2008)
Abstract:: The Needmor Fund is a family foundation established in Toledo, Ohio, in 1956 by Duane and Virginia Stranahan with income from the Champion Spark Plug business. It focuses on funding community organizing efforts to create a more equitable and just society. The records document the activities of the Needmor Fund from the the 1970's to the early 21st century and include correspondence, grant applications and rejections, pamphlets, seminar brochures, notes from site visits, speeches, publications and media presentations.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2007.018

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