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Formal title:: Isaac C. Bates Scrapbook
Extent:: 1 Album containing 156 letters
Date range:: 1877-1887 bulk 1877-1883
Abstract:: The scrapbook of Isaac Comstock Bates, 1877-1887, contains letters from artists and dealers about the purchase of paintings and engravings.
Repository:: Rhode Island School of Design Archives
Collection call no:: 02.01.06

Formal title:: Natalie Bayard Brown papers
Extent:: 53.25 Linear feet
Date range:: 1877-1950 (bulk 1897-1950)
Abstract:: Natalie Bayard Brown (1869-1950) was the wife of John Nicholas Brown (1861-1900) and mother of John Nicholas Brown (1900-1979), members of the prominent Brown family of Providence, Rhode Island. The papers reflect Natalie Bayard Brown's interests in politics and charitable causes through correspondence with family and friends, writings and speeches, scrapbooks, and photographs. The papers contain detailed financial and legal records related to John Nicholas Brown's (1900-1979) large inheritance from his father and uncle, Harold Brown. The papers also hold travel diaries and photographs from Natalie Bayard Brown and John Nicholas Brown's (1900-1979) travels in Europe, Asia, and Middle East.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2007.011

Formal title:: Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., papers
Extent:: 29.5 linear feet (15 record boxes, 1 document case, 1 half document case, 3 small flat boxes, 11 oversize flat boxes)
Date range:: 1870-2009 (bulk 1950-2006)
Abstract:: Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., (1910-2009) was a respected connoisseur and collector of American decorative arts, instrumental in various historical preservation projects throughout Newport, Rhode Island. This collection consists of his correspondence, subject files, personal records, research materials, photographs, and scrapbooks documenting his career, historical preservation pursuits, and other personal interests.
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.002

Formal title:: Elizabeth Buffum Chace and family papers
Extent:: 4.5 linear feet (approximately 80 items)
Date range:: circa 1801-1900
Abstract:: This collection includes correspondence, Elizabeth Buffum Chace’s commonplace book and diary, family albums, scrapbooks, photographs, an album of familial hair locks, needlework (cross stitch samplers), newspaper clippings, and other material relating to the Buffums, the Chaces, the Cheneys, and the Tolmans. The papers also contain letters in response to Chace’s book "Anti-Slavery Reminiscences." Elizabeth Buffum Chace was an activist for prison reform, the rights of orphans, peace, and temperance.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.89.12

Formal title:: Henry D. Hamilton papers
Extent:: 10.5 linear feet (9 records center boxes, 1 legal-size Hollinger document case and 2 oversize boxes)
Date range:: 1836-1968 (bulk 1837-1942)
Abstract:: Henry D. Hamilton was a lawyer and politician who also served as the Adjutant General of New York and Rhode Island. His papers include, but are not limited to, correspondence, business papers, subject files, diaries, certificates, photographs, scrapbooks, and artifacts. Most of the material dated before 1894 belonged to Henry Hamilton's father, B.B. Hamilton, a Baptist minister. The collection also includes genealogical information about the Hamilton family, writings and correspondence by Henry's elder brother John B. Hamilton, a medical doctor, and material related to the military careers of B.B. Hamilton, Henry D. Hamilton and Henry's son Warren Hamilton.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms. 2009.009

Formal title:: Rhode Island Baptist Heritage Center collection
Extent:: 7.5 linear feet
Date range:: 1867-1980
Abstract:: The Rhode Island Baptist Heritage Center, an affiliate of the American Baptist Churches of Rhode Island [ABCORI], was established in 2004 to create an official Baptist presence in Providence, Rhode Island. It provides substantive information regarding early English and American Baptists and documents traditional forms of worship and doctrine in the Baptist Church. The collection includes a wide array of church materials documenting organizational and administrative operations, religious practices and beliefs, and the history of the Baptist Church in Rhode Island. It includes registers, reports, correspondence, photographs and church publications dating from as early as 1867 to the late 1980s.
Repository:: Brown University Library
Collection call no:: Ms. 2008.017

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