RIAMCO

Formal title:: Cuban Slavery Documents collection
Extent:: 0.5 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1820-1892
Abstract:: Documents including letters, certificates, and inventories relating to the institution of slavery, slaves, and indentured servants in Cuba during the 19th century. Many of the documents refer to Chinese people brought to Cuba as indentured servants or contract laborers (colonos).
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2014.018

Formal title:: Ross W. Fenton (Class of 1969) papers relating to the Vietnam War
Extent:: 87 digital_objects
Date range:: 1959-2011 (1959-1975)
Abstract:: This collection comprises letters and documents from Ross W. Fenton (Class of 1969) mostly relating to his service in Vietnam (1967-1968) as a Petroleum Products Analyst in the Quartermaster Battalion 64, 512th Quartermaster Company based at Camp Red Ball, a small base camp near Go Vap, a Saigon suburb. The collection includes U.S. Army recruiting brochures (1964-1965), military documents and Service Medals and ribbons relating to his military service, papers related to his involvement with the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (some obtained through the Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts), and a popular photograph of Fenton with John Kerry during their Vietnam Veterans Against the War protests in Boston (1971).
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: AMS.1U.2016.018

Formal title:: Joseph Payne Brennan papers
Extent:: 12.5 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1936-1990 (bulk 1940-1988) (1940-1988)
Abstract:: The Brennan papers consist of manuscripts of short stories and poems, fan mail, correspondence with fellow writers both poets and horror story writers, some World War II orders and correspondence and memorabilia, photographs, submissions to the self published magazines Macabre and Essence as well as personal legal, medical, and financial papers.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2009.011

Formal title:: Richard B. Harrington Papers
Extent:: 5 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1788-1989 (1927-1952)
Abstract:: The collection contains materials relating to the history of architecture and architectural design in the United States and Europe collected by Richard B. Harrington.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: MS.2012.025

Formal title:: Rush Hawkins collection
Extent:: 71 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1750-1951 (1830-1917)
Abstract:: The Rush Hawkins collection (1750-1951(bulk 1830-1917)) contains personal, family, financial, and military correspondence and documents; photographs; and a variety of museum objects ranging from dinnerware and household items to clothing and personal accessories belonging to the Hawkins and Brown families. Most of the collection reflects the life and interests of Hawkins himself, with some items related to his wife Annmary Brown Hawkins and her family. Included in the papers are two significant sub-collections of correspondence: a collection of antebellum historical letters and documents from earlier generations of the Brown family, as well as individual letters from Thomas Jefferson, Nathaniel Greene, Edgar Allan Poe, and Napoleon I; and a collection of Civil War-related correspondence and documents that contains records of Hawkins' Zouaves and much Confederate material, including a subseries of Jefferson Davis's communications to the Senate of the Confederate States.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2006.05

Herlihy (David) papers

Formal title:: David Herlihy papers
Extent:: 8 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1951-2000 (1954-1990)
Abstract:: These papers represent the intellectual and professional corpus of medieval historian, and Brown University professor, David Herlihy. Herlihy is considered a pioneer in the use of computers to analyze historical data to extrapolate socioeconomic trends and their impact on life during the middle ages. The collection includes Herlihy's research notebooks, notes, computer code books, pre-published and un-published drafts of articles and monographs, his Ph.D. dissertation, reviews of his publications, lecture notes and teaching materials, professional correspondence, papers documenting professional activities, speeches and addresses, photographs, and miscellaneous personal ephemera and papers.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: OF.1UF.H3

Formal title:: John Birch Society records
Extent:: 46 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1928-1990 (1965-1989)
Abstract:: The John Birch Society records include audio-visual material such as audiocassettes, films, filmstrips, phonograph records, reel-to-reel tapes, slides and videocassettes; business records, correspondence, manuscripts, membership lists, office files, publications and subject files. The records also include a great deal of material regarding the Society's campaign against the ratification of the Panama Canal Treaties during the 1970s. The records are dated from 1928 to 1990. Most of the material is dated from 1965 to 1990.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2013.003

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Formal title:: Robert O. Schulze Files
Extent:: 1 linear foot
Date range:: 1959-1967
Abstract:: The Robert O. Schulze Files contain speeches and correspondence relating to Brown and sociology. The files date from 1959 to 1967.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: OF.1CA.S3

Formal title:: Thomas E. Skidmore papers
Extent:: 28 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1878-2006 (1950-2006)
Abstract:: This collection documents the career of Thomas E. Skidmore who was a professor in the Latin American Studies department at the University of Wisconsin (1967-1987) and then at Brown University (1988-1999). His area of focus was Brazil and he was the pre-eminent expert in the United States on the topic of its history and politics. The collection relates primarily to his professional life as a student, professor and scholar. Materials related to his personal life are interspersed throughout with the highest concentration in Series 5. Correspondence.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: AMS.1UF.S4

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