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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:: Mary Elizabeth Sharpe papers
Extent:: 22 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1914-1985
Abstract:: Mary Elizabeth Sharpe (1884-1985) was a successful businesswoman (owner of a successful tea shop and candy room in New York City) when she married her husband Henry Sharpe in 1920. Mrs. Sharpe was a philanthropist with many interests but was best known for her efforts to beautify Brown University and the city of Providence, RI. A self-taught landscape architect, Sharpe established an annual tree fund and lead the fundraising efforts to create India Point Park, a Providence waterfront recreation area. This collection contains her personal files, blueprints, correspondence, day books, calendars, clippings, recipes, scrapbooks, records relating to landscaping and other community projects, gardening information, blueprints, and photographs.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2005.34

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:: Harriet W. Sheridan office files
Extent:: 11.5 Linear feet
Date range:: circa 1977-1992
Abstract:: The Harriet W. Sheridan office files contain materials compiled when Sheridan was a Dean and faculty member in the Department of English at Brown University. It includes general office files, materials regarding the Affirmative Action Monitoring Committee, appointment books, correspondence, speeches, and restricted materials regarding recommendations and evaluations. The files are dated from 1977 to 1992.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: OF.1UF.S5

Formal title:: John Brooks Sherman (Class of 1962) collection relating to the Vietnam War
Extent:: 0.25 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1966-2016
Abstract:: John Brooks Sherman (1940-1966), (Brown, Class of 1962) was a pilot during the Vietnam War with the Marine All Weather Fighter Squadron 235 attached to Marine Aircraft Group 11 at Da Nang, Vietnam. He was shot down during a bombing flight on March 25, 1966. This collection contains Sherman's utility knife and wrist watch which were recovered from his body by Vietnamese soldier Nguyen Ý Chí. These personal items were returned to the United States in 2016 after many years of investigation to locate Sherman's body. This collection also contains documentation about the investigation to locate Sherman's crash site, repatriate his remains, and locate any surviving relatives.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: AMS.1U.2016.031

Formal title:: James H. Shoemaker Files
Extent:: 3 linear feet
Date range:: 1919-1941
Abstract:: The James H. Shoemaker Files contain essays, course materials, notes, exams, and correspondence relating to economics and totalitarian government. The material dates from 1919 to 1941.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: OF-1UF-S6

Formal title:: Elaine Showalter papers
Extent:: 1.5 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1967–2017
Abstract:: This collection consists of the personal and professional papers of Elaine Showalter, professor of English, emeritus, at Princeton University, scholar and critic of nineteenth century American and British literature, and teacher and founder of gynocriticism – "a female framework for the analysis of women's literature." Materials include correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles by Showalter, and research clippings and handwritten notes, all related to such topics as television criticism, feminism, and women's liberation. This collection dates from 1967 to 2017.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS.2020.007

Formal title:: Theodore S. Sienicki (Class of 1969) oral history and papers relating to the Vietnam War
Extent:: 0.25 Linear feet
Date range:: 1973
Abstract:: Theodore S. Sienicki recorded information about his service during the Vietnam War in response to questions posed by John F. "Jay" Barry (Class of 1950), Associate Editor of the Brown Alumni Monthly. The recording was made in July 1973, four months after Sienicki had returned home from being a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. This collection contains the transcription of that recording and the article published in the Brown Alumni Monthly based on it by Jay Barry. Sienicki tells the story of his Air Force career as the weapons systems operator in an F-4 fighter-bomber based in Thailand doing bombing missions over North Vietnam. He was shot down and captured on May 3, 1972 and held as a prisoner of war in the Hanoi Hilton prison camp in Hanoi, Vietnam for 11 months until March 28, 1973.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: AMS.1U.S8

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