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Lamphere, (Louise) papers
Formal title:
Louise Lamphere papers
Extent:
39.25 Linear Feet
Date range:
1925-2022 (1960-2022)
Abstract:
Papers of the renowned anthropologist and feminist scholar, Louise Lamphere, including biographical information, professional files, correspondence, drafts of publications, teaching and research material, and files related to academic conferences.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.2016.011
Inventory:
File Box 8 Folder 3 Business and Professional Women's Foundation conference material re: women and work
 1981
 
Howe (Florence) papers
Formal title:
Florence Howe papers
Extent:
6.5 linear feet
Date range:
1968–2003
Abstract:
This collection contains the professional papers of Florence Howe, American author, publisher, literary scholar, and founder of the Feminist Press. Materials include correspondence, meeting and research materials from the Modern Language Association's Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession 1968-1973 research materials for Howe's publications on women in higher education, and photographs. Materials date from 1968 to 2003.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
MS.2011.003
Inventory:
File Box 1 Folder 19 Modern Language Association Commission on the Status of Women: "business meeting materials"
 1970
 
Palmer (Alison) papers
Formal title:
Alison Palmer Papers
Extent:
6.5 Linear feet
Date range:
1853-1991 (bulk 1971-1991)
Abstract:
Alison Palmer (Brown University Class of 1953) served in the United States Foreign Service (1959-1981) in Belgian Congo, Ethiopia, and Vietnam. Palmer successfully pursued two sex discrimination lawsuits against the State Department, winning in 1974 and 1987. After her retirement from the State Department in 1981, Palmer became the thirteenth woman Episcopal priest ordained in the United States. The Alison Palmer papers are chiefly related to her two lawsuits but also contain materials that document her foreign service career, and family papers.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.90.6
Inventory:
File Box 5 Folder 25 Plaintiffs' response to defendant's motion for two business-day enlargement of time
 1991 Apr 26
File Box 4 Folder 10 Business card, "MISS ALISON PALMER, SECOND SECRETARY OF THE EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA"
Scope and Contents note Used while in Ethiopia 		1966-1968
 
Bacon (Helen Hazard) papers
Formal title:
Helen Hazard Bacon papers
Extent:
1.25 cubic feet
Date range:
1846-1944
Abstract:
Helen Hazard Bacon’s collected papers consisting of correspondence, financial papers, philanthropic papers, publications, and clippings.
Repository:
Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
Collection call no:
MSS-0093
Inventory:
Series Financial papers
The financial papers in this series are arranged alphabetically and consist of correspondence and business papers relating primary to investments. Included are correspondence documenting the sale of the Peace Dale Manufacturing Company to the M.T. Stevens Company in 1918, as well as material relating to the administration of the Estate of Rowland Hazard, 1899-1914 		1899-1924
 
Whitman (Sarah Helen) papers
Formal title:
Sarah Helen Whitman papers
Extent:
4.5 linear ft. (5 legal size clamshell boxes)
Date range:
1816-1878
Abstract:
Sarah Helen (Power) Whitman (1803-1878) was a Rhode Island poet and essayist best known for her brief engagement to Edgar Allan Poe in 1848. Whitman hosted a salon in Providence that attracted many (including George William Curtis, John Neal, and John Hay) and corresponded with a number of literary luminaries. While living in Boston, Whitman became interested in Transcendentalism and other movements of the period, including woman's rights, spiritualism, mesmerism, Fourierism, and the progressive educational methods of Bronson Alcott. The papers include correspondence, poetry, genealogical information, and legal documents.
Repository:
Brown University Library
Collection call no:
Ms. 79.11
Inventory:
File Box 4 Folder 175 Macready, M
In five handwritten signed letters and one broadside of a poetry reading by Macready, Macready mentions Horace Day, Mrs. Clemm and Mrs. Lewis. Transacts some business 		ca. 1854
 
Claiborne Pell Senatorial Papers, Family Papers
Formal title:
Claiborne Pell, Family Papers
Extent:
98 box(es)
Date range:
1829-1992 (bulk 1883-1985)
Abstract:
The Pell Family Papers are a collection of correspondence, legal documents, writings, military documents, photographs, prints, realia and miscellaneous antique items that document the Pell family’s history. The papers are organized separately from the Senatorial Papers of Claiborne Pell, but share the same manuscript designation (Mss. Gr. 71).
Repository:
University Archives and Special Collections
Collection call no:
MsG. 71.10
Inventory:
Series General Correspondence
The series contains correspondence between Senator Pell’s family, extended family, acquaintances, friends, colleagues and business partners. The series includes correspondence from John F. Kennedy, Princess Gina of Liechtenstein, Adlai Stevenson and Ambassador Charles Yost. The folders are arranged alphabetically by subject 		1879-1992
Series Alphabetical File
The series contains mostly formal correspondence between Senator Pell and friends, business associates, government officials, and colleagues. The folders are arranged alphabetically by first of the last of the subject 		1950-1960
 
Letters and documents relating to Samuel Winsor and Rhode Island Baptists
Formal title:
Letters and documents relating to Samuel Winsor and Rhode Island Baptists.
Extent:
50 item(s)
Date range:
1760-1802
Abstract:
Predominantly letters to Winsor; with other letters signed by him. Includes documents and records generated from church business and membership concerns. Also includes material about Winsor and his work as a Baptist minister.
Repository:
Brown University Library
Collection call no:
Ms. 89.22
Berkeley House collection
Formal title:
Berkeley House collection
Extent:
1.668 linear feet
Date range:
1881-1895, undated (bulk 1884-1895)
Abstract:
This collection contains 4 architectural drawings and specifications, personal artwork, and household receipts related to LeRoy King and his residence, Berkeley House.
Repository:
Newport Historical Society
Collection call no:
MS.2012.33
Brown (Charles Wilson) collection of Brown and Wilson family papers
Formal title:
Charles Wilson Brown collection of Brown and Wilson family papers
Extent:
1 linear_foot
Date range:
1846-1967
Abstract:
The Charles Wilson Brown collection of Brown and Wilson family papers contain correspondence, manuscripts, and photographs related to Lanta Wilson Smith (Charles Brown's aunt), Rev. Henry Wheaton Brown (Charles Brown's father) and Rev. William Jones Wilson (Charles Brown's grandfather). The correspondence is largely written to or by Lanta Wilson Smith and includes some of her poetry; the remaining correspondence is written by or related to Rev. William Jones Wilson. Autobiographies of both Rev. Brown and Rev. Wilson can be found in the collection as can parish programs and related clippings. The photographs are of Maine churches and Rev. Wilson and his wife.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.97.3
Inventory:
Item Box 1 Folder 4 Brown, Henry Wheaton (b. 1846). Autobiography
Scope and Contents note Typed manuscript. Chapter headings include: Army Experience, Business Career, Literary Efforts (which contains many poems), and Ministerial Labors, among others 		undated
 
Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection
Formal title:
Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection
Extent:
19 box(es)
Date range:
1703-2004
Abstract:
The Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection contains scrapbooks, photographs, letters, postcards, ledger books, ephemera, and artifacts the majority of which relate to Rhode Island subjects.
Repository:
University Archives and Special Collections
Collection call no:
Mss. Gr. 20
Inventory:
File Box 6 Folder 69 Daybook and papers- Horace Warren, Blacksmith, Coventry, R.I
The pencil Warren used to write in parts of the daybook remains attached. This folder contains several bills and receipts relating to Warren’s Coventry blacksmithing business. There is a photograph of Warren and another man 		1836-1884
File Box 17 Folder 161 Page, J.W. (Master of the and ) Account Book and J.G. Clarke Account Book
Manuscript account book kept first from 1806-1811 by sea Capt. J.W. Page, master of the West Indies trading vessels Draper and the Gadson Gilman (owned by John Kemp and David Wagstaff), recording accounts with the owners. The accounts are very specific and provide detailed description of his disbursements around the Gulf, West Indies, and trans-Atlantic voyages until 1811. Subsequently, from 1832-1845, the records were kept by Page's widow's husband, John G. Clarke to record his farm produce sales, farm workers' labor, etc. John G. Clarke's accounts include selling calves skins to John T. Nichols, George Fairweather's work shoeing his horses and oxen, Gardner Carpenter's and Moses Willcox's purchases, Edward Babcock's boarding charge, and a small account for construction work at Kingston Academy in May 1836. Among the other people Clarke conducted business with was Luke Aldrich, Israel Anthony, Palmer Briggs, Rev. Oliver Brown, Joseph Clarke, Christopher Comstock, William French, Henry Garnder, Gideon Johnson, William Marchant, Peter Milne, Henry Moore, Robert Shearman, Rev. Thomas Vernon and Levi Walden 		1806-1811, 1832-1845
 

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