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Formal title:: The King Family Photographs Collection
Extent:: 1 Hollinger box
Date range:: circa 1850-1925
Abstract:: This collection is comprised mostly of photographs of members of the King family and associated persons. The collection also contains a few paper documents, mostly written in French and seemingly related to the service of Philip Wheaton Rives King in a welfare organization attached to the French army during World War I.
Repository:: The Preservation Society of Newport County
Collection call no:: PSNCA.H.022

Formal title:: Henry Frederick Lippitt papers
Extent:: 6.5 linear feet
Date range:: 1881-1933
Abstract:: The collection is comprised of family and business correspondence, printed materials, newspapers clippings, meeting minutes, photographs, and memorabilia. Business correspondence is represented by carbon copies of the letters from 1881 to 1923 that are bound into 9 letter books.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2011.011

Formal title:: Howard P. Lovecraft collection
Extent:: 10 linear feet
Date range:: 1880-1984
Abstract:: Personal and literary correspondence both by and to Lovecraft; manuscript and typescript drafts of fiction, non-fiction, poems, plays and drawings by Lovecraft. Correspondence between friends, family, and associates of Lovecraft. Subjects include horror fiction, New England antiquities, and the amateur press. Significant correspondents include Robert H. Barlow, Robert Bloch, W. Paul Cook, August Derleth, Ernest A. Edkins, Sonia H. Greene Davis (Lovecraft's wife), Frank Belknap Long, Jr., E. Hoffman Price, Clark Ashton Smith, and Donald Wandrei among many others. The collection also includes a small selection of photographs of Lovecraft, friends and associates and objects owned by Lovecraft.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.Lovecraft

Formal title:: Albert Edgar Lownes collection on Henry David Thoreau
Extent:: 7 boxes
Date range:: 1837-1965
Abstract:: The Lownes collection includes a wide variety of materials by and pertaining to Henry David Thoreau, including correspondence, college papers, journal excerpts, prints, clippings, photographs, and other Thoreauviana collected by Albert E. Lownes. Materials date from 1837-1965.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.80.1

Formal title:: Alfred Thayer Mahan papers
Extent:: 2.85 linear feet (3 archival boxes, 2 half archival boxes, 1 oversize box)
Date range:: 1884-1914
Abstract:: This collection consists of lectures, letters, and other documents kept by Alfred T. Mahan, naval officer, renowned maritime historian, and past president of the Naval War College.
Repository:: Naval War College (U.S.). Naval Historical Collection
Collection call no:: MSC 017

Marks (Elaine) papers

Formal title:: Elaine Marks papers
Extent:: 4 linear feet (4 record center boxes)
Date range:: 1893-2001 (bulk 1949-2001)
Abstract:: The Elaine Marks Papers consist of correspondence, photographs, research and teaching materials, and ephemera from the period 1949-2001. The collection includes manuscripts, course syllabi, promotional materials, and correspondence related to Elaine Marks' professorial work in the fields of French literature and Women's Studies. The collection also includes extensive materials from Marks' work with the Modern Language Association.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2007.003

Formal title:: Artha May McConoughey Papers
Extent:: 1 linear foot
Date range:: 1896-1939 (bulk 1908-1929)
Abstract:: The Artha May McConoughey Papers consist of travel diaries, temperance speeches, law school assignments, photographs, and personal artifacts. All of the written material is from McConoughey's own hand; most of it was composed during the first quarter of the 20th century when she came of age and became active in the temperance and women's suffragist movements in the Chicago area.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2005.2

Formal title:: Murphy collection of Van Alen papers
Extent:: 11 linear feet linear feet (6 record boxes, 2 document cases, 2 flat boxes)
Date range:: 1859-2001 and undated (bulk 1940-1999)
Abstract:: James H. Van Alen (1902-1991) and Candace Van Alen (1912-2002), were a well-known high society couple who were instrumental in establishing the International Tennis Hall of Fame at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island. This collection documents their lives, residences and interests as well as their involvement in various activities and organizations through their own personal records, correspondence, financial and legal records, published and unpublished writings, clippings, audiovisual materials, and photographs.
Repository:: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection call no:: RLC.Ms.036

Formal title:: Newport Ship Yard, Inc. collection
Extent:: .83 linear feet
Date range:: 1880-1989 1947-1973
Abstract:: This collection includes a variety of records salvaged from the former Newport Shipyard, including correspondence, clippings, meeting minutes, promotional material, and administrative records, as well as images of boats affiliated with the shipyard and depicting work at the shipyard's three sites.
Repository:: Salve Regina University Special Collections
Collection call no:: SP.10

Palmer (Alison) papers

Formal title:: Alison Palmer Papers
Extent:: 6.5 Linear feet
Date range:: 1853-1991 (bulk 1971-1991)
Abstract:: Alison Palmer (Brown University Class of 1953) served in the United States Foreign Service (1959-1981) in Belgian Congo, Ethiopia, and Vietnam. Palmer successfully pursued two sex discrimination lawsuits against the State Department, winning in 1974 and 1987. After her retirement from the State Department in 1981, Palmer became the thirteenth woman Episcopal priest ordained in the United States. The Alison Palmer papers are chiefly related to her two lawsuits but also contain materials that document her foreign service career, and family papers.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.90.6

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