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                <titleproper>Guide to the Ida L. Esten notebook<date type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="1871/1871">circa 1871</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>
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                <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="2025" type="publication">2025 June</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">Ida L. Esten notebook</unittitle>
            <unittitle type="filing">Esten (Ida L.) notebook</unittitle>
            <unitid countrycode="US" repositorycode="US-RPRC"  type="collection">CA-0122</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>
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            <langmaterial><language langcode="eng" scriptcode="Latn">English, Latin</language></langmaterial>
            <physdesc><extent>0.01 cubic feet</extent></physdesc>
            <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="1871/1871">circa 1871</unitdate>
            
            <origination label="creator">
                <persname role="Creator (cre)">Esten, Ida L.</persname>
                
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            <abstract>Notebook containing coursework from a Rhode Island Normal School student.</abstract>
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        <bioghist><head>Biographical/Historical Note</head>
            <p>Ida Esten was a student at Rhode Island Normal School (RINS) in 1871. Esten was from Pawtucket, Rhode Island. She graduated from RINS in 1873.</p>
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
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            <head>Collection information</head>
            <scopecontent>
                <p>The collection contains a notebook presumably used for courses while Ida Esten was a student at the Rhode Island Normal School. Notes include rhetoric, literature, reading and elocution, Latin, grammar, history, geometry, mineralogy, geography, and arithmetic.</p>
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
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            <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>Ida L. Esten notebook, CA-0122, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.</p></prefercite>
            <arrangement>
                <p>The collection is arranged in original order.</p>

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            <head>Administrative information</head>
            <acqinfo><p>Provenance of this collection is unknown. It was in the holdings of Special Collections prior to 2019.</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>
                <persname source="lcnaf">Esten, Ida L.</persname>
                
                
                
                
                <corpname source="lcnaf">Rhode Island Normal School</corpname>
                <corpname source="lcnaf">Rhode Island College (1960-)</corpname>
                
                
                
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                <head>Types of Materials</head>
                <genreform source="aat">Notebooks</genreform>
                
                
                
                
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