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                <titleproper>Guide to the Debra Thomson photographic slides<date type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="1940/1980">undated, 1980</date>
                    
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                <author>Finding aid prepared by Melissa Moniz and Veronica L. Denison.</author>
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            <publicationstmt>
                <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="2023" type="publication">2023</date>
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            <creation>This finding aid was encoded by Veronica L. Denison, <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="2023" type="publication">2023.</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">Debra Thomson photographic slides</unittitle>
            <unittitle type="filing">Thomson (Debra) photographic slides</unittitle>
            <unitid countrycode="US" repositorycode="US-RPRC"  type="collection">MSS-0049</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>
            </repository>
            <langmaterial><language langcode="eng" scriptcode="Latn">English</language></langmaterial>
            <physdesc><extent>0.01 cubic feet.</extent></physdesc>
            <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="1940/1980">undated, 1980</unitdate>
            
            <origination label="creator">
                <persname role="Creator (cre)">Thomson, Debra</persname>
                
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            <abstract>Photographic slides highlighting Rhode Island’s architecture in the twentieth century.</abstract>
        </did>
        <bioghist><head>Biographical/Historical Note</head>
            <p>Biographical information is unavailable at this time.</p>
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
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        <descgrp type="descriptive">
            <head>Collection information</head>
            <scopecontent>
                <p>The collection includes seventeen photographic slides of Rhode Island architecture taken or collected by Debra Thomson. Buildings include the State House, Capitol dome, Bristol Country Court, Kent County Courthouse, Colony House in Newport, and South Kingston Courthouse.</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>Debra Thomson photographic slides, MSS-0049, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.</p></prefercite>
            <arrangement>
                <p>The collection is arranged in the order in which it arrived in the Rhode Island College Special Collections.</p>
            </arrangement>
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        <descgrp type="administrative">
            <head>Administrative information</head>
            <acqinfo><p>The collection was given to Special Collections prior to 2019 by Debra Thomson. A deed of gift was signed by Thomson in 2022.</p></acqinfo>
            <processinfo><p>The collection was described by Special Collections intern, Melissa Moniz, in 2023 under the supervision of Digital Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, Veronica L. Denison.</p></processinfo>
            
            
            
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            <head>Additional information</head>
            
            
            
            
            
            <altformavail><p>Select materials have been digitized and are available in <archref xlink:href="https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/ri_architecture/">Rhode Island College Digital Commons.</archref></p></altformavail>
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            <controlaccess>
                <head>Names</head>
                <persname source="lcnaf">Thomson, Debra</persname>
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
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            <controlaccess>
                <head>Subjects</head>
                <subject source="lcsh">Rhode Island architecture</subject>
                <subject source="lcsh">Rhode Island history</subject>
                
                
                
                <geogname source="lcsh">Providence (R.I.)</geogname>
                <geogname source="lcsh">Newport (R.I.)</geogname>
                <geogname source="lcsh">South Kingston (R.I.)</geogname>
                
                
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            <controlaccess>
                <head>Types of Materials</head>
                <genreform source="aat">Photographic slides</genreform>
                
                
                
                
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