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                <titleproper>Guide to the Rhode Island College. Centennial celebration records<date type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="1954/1954">1954</date>
                    
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                <author>Finding aid prepared by Veronica L. Denison.</author>
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                <publisher>Special Collections</publisher>
                <address>
                    <addressline>James P. Adams Library</addressline>
                    <addressline>Rhode Island College</addressline>
                    <addressline>600 Mount Pleasant Ave</addressline>
                    <addressline>Providence, RI, 02908</addressline>
                    <addressline>Tel: 401-456-9653</addressline>
                    <addressline>email:digitalcollections@ric.edu</addressline>
                </address>
                <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="2025" type="publication">2025 January</date>
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            <creation>This finding aid was encoded by Veronica L. Denison, <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="2025" type="publication">2025</date></creation>
            <langusage><language langcode="eng" scriptcode="Latn">English</language>English</langusage>
            <descrules>Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)</descrules>
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            <unittitle type="primary">Rhode Island College. Centennial celebration records</unittitle>
            <unittitle type="filing">Rhode Island College. Centennial celebration records</unittitle>
            <unitid countrycode="US" repositorycode="US-RPRC"  type="collection">CA-0110</unitid>
            <repository><corpname>Special Collections, James P. Adams Library</corpname>
                <address>
                    <addressline>Rhode Island College</addressline>
                    <addressline>600 Mount Pleasant Ave</addressline>
                    <addressline>Providence, RI, 02908</addressline>
                    <addressline>Tel: 401-456-9653</addressline>
                    <addressline>email:digitalcollections@ric.edu</addressline>
                </address>
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            <langmaterial><language langcode="eng" scriptcode="Latn">English</language></langmaterial>
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            <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="1954/1954">1954</unitdate>
            
            <origination label="creator">
                
                <corpname role="Creator (cre)">Rhode Island College (1960-)</corpname>
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            <abstract>Invitation and program for the 100th anniversary celebrations of Rhode Island College.</abstract>
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        <bioghist><head>Biographical/Historical Note</head>
            <p>Rhode Island College of Education held various Centennial events in 1954 to commemorate the opening of Rhode Island Normal School in 1854.</p>
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
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            <head>Collection information</head>
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                <p>The collection contains an invitation and RSVP card for the Centennial Convocation on May 16, 1954, as well as a Centennial Banquet program. The banquet was held on May 3, 1954, at the Narragansett Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island and was sponsored by the Associated Alumni of Rhode Island College of Education.</p>
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
            </scopecontent>
            <userestrict><p>Researchers are advised to contact Rhode Island College Special Collections for questions regarding permissions to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise publish material from this collection. Although Rhode Island College has physical ownership of the collection, it does not necessarily hold literary rights. It is up to the researcher to determine the owners of the literary rights and to obtain any necessary permissions from them.</p></userestrict>
            <accessrestrict><p>The collection is open for research.</p></accessrestrict>
            <prefercite><p>Rhode Island College. Centennial celebration records, CA-0110, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.</p></prefercite>
            <arrangement>
                <p>The collection is arranged in no discernible order.</p>
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            <head>Administrative information</head>
            <acqinfo><p>Provenance of collection materials is unknown. They were in the holdings of Special Collections prior to 2022.</p></acqinfo>
            <processinfo><p>The collection was described by Veronica L. Denison, Digital Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, in 2025.</p></processinfo>
            
            
            
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            <head>Additional information</head>
            
            
            
            
            
            <altformavail><p>The collection has not been digitized and is not available online.</p></altformavail>
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                <head>Names</head>
                
                
                
                
                
                <corpname source="lcnaf">Rhode Island College of Education</corpname>
                <corpname source="lcnaf">Rhode Island College (1960-)</corpname>
                
                
                
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            <controlaccess>
                <head>Subjects</head>
                <subject source="lcsh">Teachers colleges</subject>
                <subject source="lcsh">Centennials</subject>
                
                
                
                <geogname source="lcsh">Providence (R.I.)</geogname>
                
                
                
                
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            <controlaccess>
                <head>Types of Materials</head>
                <genreform source="aat">Invitations</genreform>
                <genreform source="aat">Souvenir programs</genreform>
                
                
                
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