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Formal title:: Morris Abner Barr papers
Extent:: 1.0 linear foot
Date range:: 1939-1968
Abstract:: Morris Abner Barr was an author, lyricist, and poet whose poems tended towards nature, love, God, friendship, and Barr's own life. A craftsman, Barr wrote about his experience creating stools, gavels, and letter openers from the wood of the Sentry Tree in "Immortalizing the Sentry Tree of George Washington." The collection contains his writings, a scrapbook related to the George Washington Sentry Tree, and correspondence with friends and mentors.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.97.1

Formal title:: Anne S. Kinsolving Brown papers
Extent:: 52 linear feet
Date range:: 1912-1985
Abstract:: The Anne S. K. Brown collection contains various correspondence, writings, family papers, financial information, and documentation of Brown’s active social life collected by Brown and her family from 1912 until her death in 1985.
Repository:: Brown University Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2007.013

Formal title:: Irving A. Fradkin papers
Extent:: 15 cubic feet (14 records center boxes and 2 oversize boxes)
Date range:: 1956-2002
Abstract:: The Dr. Irving A. Fradkin papers date from 1956 to 2002 and relate to the founding and development of the Citizens’ Scholarship Foundation of America, now Scholarship America.
Repository:: Brown University Library
Collection call no:: Ms. 2005.036

Formal title:: George Kelly Collection
Extent:: 8.09 cubic feet
Date range:: 1926-1980
Abstract:: Collection of Hudson River Day Line objects, ephemera, and scrapbooks, from Kelly’s time working for the company.
Repository:: Steamship Historical Society of America
Collection call no:: 1991.05

Formal title:: John L. Lochhead Collection
Extent:: 34.22 cubic feet
Date range:: 1916-1990 (bulk 1929-1985)
Abstract:: Large collection of maritime books, photo negatives, journals and scrapbooks collected and compiled by Lochhead throughout his life and military service.
Repository:: Steamship Historical Society of America
Collection call no:: 1991.03

Formal title:: Elmo N. Pickerill Collection
Extent:: 1.5 linear foot
Date range:: 1910-1933 (bulk 1923-1933)
Abstract:: Ephemera, objects, and books donated by Elmo N. Pickerell, former Chief Radio Operator of the S.S. Leviathan.
Repository:: Steamship Historical Society of America
Collection call no:: 1968.01

Porter (Neil C.) papers

Formal title:: Neil C. Porter papers
Extent:: 3.15 linear feet
Date range:: 1919-1986 (bulk 1933-1962)
Abstract:: This collection consists of papers detailing Captain Neil C. Porter’s (1913-2015) life and career in the U.S. Navy and at the Naval War College. It also includes the diary of Lieutenant Commander Charles H. Ritt (1890-1965), his father-in-law.
Repository:: Naval War College (U.S.). Naval Historical Collection
Collection call no:: MSC-350

Formal title:: Providence Steamboat Company Collection
Extent:: 1.04 linear feet
Date range:: 1928-2007
Abstract:: Providence Steamboat Company archives, including artifacts, framed photographs, loose images, and documents.
Repository:: Steamship Historical Society of America
Collection call no:: 2007.01

Formal title:: Quonset Point Naval Air Station collection
Extent:: 37.5 linear feet
Date range:: 1900-2004
Abstract:: The Quonset Point Naval Air Station Collection contains subject files, publications, scrapbooks, biographies, records and photographs which detail the function and operation of the base during and after World War II, until its decomission in 1974.
Repository:: Phillips Memorial Library
Collection call no:: rppc_qpnas

Formal title:: Joseph George Ray papers
Extent:: 2 cubic feet
Date range:: 1919-2023 (bulk 1920-2000)
Abstract:: The Joseph George Ray collection contains original documents, poems, letters, newspaper articles, pamphlets, awards, objects, and photographs detailing the life and WWII military service of a Portuguese American who resided in West Warwick, RI.
Repository:: Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
Collection call no:: MSS-0132

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