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1883 Vanderbilt Fancy Dress Ball Album Collection
Formal title:
The 1883 Vanderbilt Fancy Dress Ball Album Collection
Extent:
1 album
Date range:
1883-1883
Abstract:
The 1883 Vanderbilt Fancy Dress Ball Album Collection is comprised of portrait photographs taken by Jose Maria Mora of attendees to the fancy dress ball hosted by Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt (nee Alva Erskine Smith) on the night of March 26, 1883 at the Vanderbilts' newly completed residence at 660 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The subjects of the photographs are all dressed in the costumes they wore to the event, and appear in staged poses in front of backgrounds provided by Mora's studio.
Repository:
The Preservation Society of Newport County
Collection call no:
PSNCA.H.018
Abbott (Norris) grade reports
Formal title:
Norris Abbott grade reports
Extent:
0.01 cubic feet.
Date range:
1854-1858
Abstract:
The collection consists of Norris Abbott’s grade reports in the mid nineteenth century.
Repository:
Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
Collection call no:
MSS-0106
Abolitionist Papers (1855-1872)
Formal title:
Abolitionist Papers (1855-1872)
Extent:
18 item(s)
Date range:
1850-1886 (bulk 1861-1873)
Abstract:
The Abolitionist Papers (1855-1872) highlight George T. Downing's political interests, and include letters from William Lloyd Garrison and Ambrose E. Burnside.
Repository:
Roger Williams University
Collection call no:
UA 2013.01
Adams Family papers
Formal title:
Adams Family papers
Extent:
9.5 linear feet
Date range:
ca. 1830-1981
Abstract:
Personal and professional papers (primarily correspondence, research notes, and speeches) of Randolph Greenfield Adams and Thomas Randolph Adams. Also includes some personal papers of Helen Spiller adams and Richard Newbold Adams; correspondence and other family papers from the eighteenth century onward; genealogical background; letters from Franklin Delano Roosevelt; friendship albums; and printed items, including clippings.
Repository:
Brown University Library
Collection call no:
Ms. 90.21
Akerman and Company records
Formal title:
Akerman and Company records
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet
Date range:
1854-1884
Abstract:
Collection of 8 items concerning the business partnership of Charles Akerman and Thomas B. Rawson, bookbinders and stationers in Providence, Rhode Island.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
MS.2014.015
Albert C. Greene Papers
Formal title:
Albert C. Greene Papers
Extent:
16 linear feet
Date range:
1804-1863
Abstract:
Albert C. Greene (1791-1863) was born in Coventry, Rhode Island to Perry (b.1749) and Elizabeth (Belcher) Greene (b. 1758). He had one sibling, a brother, William P. Greene (1784-1855). He was educated at the East Greenwich Academy until he was placed as an apprentice, at the age of 13, to George Brinkerhoff, an attorney in New York City. He was admitted to the bar in 1812 and continued his studies at the law school of Judges Reeves & Gould in Litchfield, Connecticut. He returned to Rhode Island in 1813 and set up practice in East Greenwich.
Repository:
Rhode Island Historical Society
Collection call no:
MSS 452
Alpha Delta Phi Files
Formal title:
Alpha Delta Phi Files
Extent:
1 linear foot
Date range:
1899-1977 (bulk 1950-1977)
Abstract:
The Alpha Delta Phi Files include correspondence, renovation plans, alumni information, and funding files dated from 1899 to 1977, with most dated after 1950.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
OF-1Q-A2
Alumni Association records
Formal title:
Rhode Island School of Design. Alumni Association records
Extent:
1 linear feet
Date range:
1895-1962
Abstract:
The records document the activities of the RISD Alumni Association including meeting minutes, 1905-1943; membership, 1906-1921; traveling scholarship fund, 1911-1937, bulk 1911-1914; Alumni Fund Drives, 1944-1957; AA President's Office, 1934-1936; constitution and by-laws; banquets, invitations and announcements, shows and publications
Repository:
Rhode Island School of Design Archives
Collection call no:
16.1
Ambrose E. Burnside Collection
Formal title:
Ambrose E. Burnside Collection
Extent:
80-90 item(s)
Date range:
1850-1883 (bulk 1862-1881)
Abstract:
The Historical Society holds a number of Burnside artifacts, primarily items related to his service in the Civil War.
Repository:
Bristol Historical and Preservation Society
Collection call no:
MSS 1881
Ames (Sarah Fisher) papers
Formal title:
Sarah Fisher Ames papers
Extent:
34 item(s)
Date range:
1860-1879
Abstract:
Collection of letters and printed items to Sarah Fisher Ames from prominent figures of the day, including: Mary Mann, John Hay, Robert Winthrop, Whitelaw Reid, J.O.P. Burnside, Wendell Phillips, Rufus King. Also includes: letter from her husband, Joseph A. Ames; three letters from her son stationed in Cuba; various letters of introduction and permission, including one from Abraham Lincoln; letters to her husband, Joseph Ames
Repository:
Brown University Library
Collection call no:
Ms.88.2

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