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Formal title:
Margaret (Ellickson) Senturia papers
Extent:
.5 Linear Feet
Date range:
1957-1969
Abstract:
This collection consists of correspondence sent to and from Margaret (Ellickson) Senturia, class of 1961, during her time at Pembroke College in Brown University and shortly after. Correspondents include Pembroke classmates and a boyfriend. Topics include travel, affording tuition, Pembroke courses, employment and family life. This collection also includes a personal reflection of her time on campus. Materials date from 1957 to 1969.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
MS.2021.003
Formal title:
Seraphim Jôm sheet music
Extent:
0.01 cubic feet.
Date range:
circa 1914
Abstract:
Sheet music for “Seraphim Jôm,” a song in the style of the Morna, which is a music and dance genre from Cape Verde, presumably written by Luis Loff de Vasconcellos in collaboration with Anna Toni.
Repository:
Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
Collection call no:
MSS-0126
Formal title:
Seven Hills Garden Club records
Extent:
1.75 linear ft. (2 legal size clamshell boxes)
Date range:
1937-1981
Abstract:
The Seven Hills Garden Club of Providence, Rhode Island, was founded in 1937 to "stimulate an interest in horticulture for purposes of civic betterment, and to enable each member to enjoy her own garden more intelligently." These records were kept in two notebooks by the Seven Hills Garden Club librarian and include by-laws, programs, clippings, photographs, some minutes, membership lists, memorial tributes to past members, and reports. In addition to documenting a women's club and the horticultural activities of a number of Providence women over several decades of the twentieth century, this collection provides some information about individual members and about the Rhode Island Federation of Garden Clubs.
Repository:
Brown University Library
Collection call no:
Ms. 91.17
Formal title:
Janet Shaffer papers on the Brown University-Tougaloo College Partnership
Extent:
0.25 Linear Feet
Date range:
1966, 1986-1987, 2006 (1986-1987)
Abstract:
Papers of Brown aluma Janet Shaffer accrued during, or reflecting upon, her time as an exchange student at Tougloo College in the Fall of 1986. Some of the material contains descriptions of racism against Black people.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
AMS.1ZUT.2
Formal title:
Sister Mary Emily Shanley papers
Extent:
1.04 Linear feet
Date range:
1964-1969
Abstract:
Includes mainly materials related to Sister Shanley's tenure as president of Salve Regina College. The collection largely consists of correspondence and other communications, and also includes speeches, reports, and some records related to the Sisters of Mercy.
Repository:
Salve Regina University Archives
Collection call no:
RG.3.1.3
Formal title:
Gerald "Shep" Shapiro Papers
Extent:
3 linear_foot
Date range:
1900-2012
Abstract:
The Gerald "Shep" Shapiro Papers include correspondence, programs, and advertisement fliers related to his work as a Professor of Music and the performances by both himself and Brown students. Also included are several CD's of music recorded at performances at Brown University and approximately 100 booklets of sheet music composed by Shep Shapiro. The largest work is the symphonic "Mount Hope in Autumn," composed in 1989.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
AMS.1L.2014.004
Formal title:
Martha and Waitstill Sharp Collection
Extent:
24 Linear Feet
Date range:
1905-2005 (1939-1999)
Abstract:
This collection contains records of the relief work of Martha (Dickie) Sharp (1905-1999) and Waitstill Sharp (1902-1983), European delegates of the Unitarian Service Committee (USC) in Czechoslovakia, France, Portugal, and Israel before, during, and after WWII. The bulk concern their humanitarian efforts between 1939 and 1944; their assistance to refugees after the war (1944–1950); and Martha Sharp's postwar life, including her campaign for Congress, her involvement in interfaith efforts to bring Jewish refugee children to Israel, her assistance to charitable organizations, and her service on the board of and in fundraising for the Zionist women's organization Hadassah (1948–1999). The date range for the collection is 1905-2005 with the bulk dated between 1939-1999.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
MS.2011.008
Formal title:
Christina Sharpe papers
Extent:
5 Linear feet
Date range:
1989-2018
Abstract:
This collection consists of the papers of Christina Sharpe, Professor of English at York University and notable Black feminist theorist. The collection documents Sharpe's professional life and research in racism, slavery, and feminism, consisting of correspondence, conference material, draft writings, writings by other authors, subject files, and print material, dating from 1989 to the present. The collection is arranged into 8 series.
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
Ms.2018.015
Formal title:
Alexander Shaw Collection
Extent:
19.5 linear feet
Date range:
1900-1970
Abstract:
This collection comprises over 5,000 photograph prints, 4,000 prints and article clippings, research notes, and reference books that document the history of steam power vessels from the turn of the century to modern day.
Repository:
Steamship Historical Society of America
Collection call no:
1974.01
Formal title:
Derek Shearer and Ruth Goldway Papers
Extent:
19 Linear Feet
Date range:
circa 1960-1995
Abstract:
Repository:
John Hay Library
Collection call no:
MS.2011.042

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