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Formal title:: Society for Women in Philosophy collection
Extent:: 7.5 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1971-2020
Abstract:: This collection consists of the records of the Society for Women in Philosophy, an organization established in 1972 to support and promote women in philosophy. The collection includes newsletters, correspondence, and conference materials, dating from 1971 to 2020 and documents the organization on international, national, and regional levels.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2015.014

Formal title:: Henry Knox Thatcher papers
Extent:: 0.25 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1833-1866
Abstract:: The Henry Knox Thatcher papers consist of an oil painting of the U.S.S. Constellation, military memorabilia, and three journals and logs kept by Thatcher while on board several ships, including the U.S.S. Brandywine (1839-1841) and the U.S.S. Constellation (1862-1863). The journals reflect ship life, diversions on shore, the social and political climate of his time, and the duties of American ships in the Mediterranean during the early years of the Civil War.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.79.5

The Womxn Project

Formal title:: The Womxn Project records
Extent:: 40.25 linear feet
Date range:: 1980-2021 (bulk 2017-2019)
Abstract:: The Womxn Project is a non-profit organization in Rhode Island focused on building a strong, feminist, community-based movement to further human rights of Rhode Islanders by using art and activism to advance education and social change. The Womxn Project stirs social awareness and invites political action to inclusively further womxn's rights through creative advocacy campaigns and collaborative art projects. This collection contains records and items that were created to advocate for the passing of the Reproductive Privacy Act in 2019. Materials include canvassing packets, memorabilia, handmaid's costumes worn at lobbying events at the Rhode Island Statehouse, community petition quilt squares, the community petition quilt, and petition scrolls that predated the quilt. Materials date from 1980-2021, though the bulk of the collection dates from 2017-2019.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2020.001

Tillinghast Papers

Formal title:: Tillinghast Family Business Records
Extent:: 5.5 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1747-1880 (1796-1840)
Abstract:: The Tillinghast family business records consist of correspondence, accounting records, ships' papers and business books documenting the maritime trade and other commercial activities of Providence sea captain and merchant, Joseph Tillinghast (1734 – 1816) and his son, William E. Tillinghast (1777-1817). The records also include documentation for the firm Gorton & Tillinghast, founded by Joseph Tillinghast and William E. Tillinghast with Benjamin E. Gorton (1765-1822). Other business ventures include real estate investments and involvement with the Potowomut Mill.
Repository:: John Carter Brown Library
Collection call no:: Ms. Tillinghast

Formal title:: Tom Powers collection of Bill Wilson public talks
Extent:: 3.5 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1947-1970 (bulk 1951-1969) (1951-1969)
Abstract:: The Tom Powers collection of Bill Wilson public talks comprises 147 audio CDs containing 79 public talks given by Bill Wilson at various Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon events between 1947 and 1970.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2010.002

Formal title:: Augustus A. White III (Class of 1957) documents relating to his career as a surgeon during the Vietnam War
Extent:: 0.25 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1966-2015
Abstract:: This collection contains magazine articles and photographs related to the career of Augustus A. White III (Brown, Class of 1957) as an orthopedic surgeon. He is a Vietnam Veteran. He served 2 years as an army surgeon a year of which, August 1966-August 1967, he was stationed at the 85th Evacuation Hospital in the Qui Nhon region of Vietnam. During that year he also volunteered during his off-duty time at the St. Francis Leprosarium run by Catholic nuns in a nearby village where he treated patients fighting leprosy. He went on to have a distinguished career as the first African American to graduate from Stanford Medical School in 1961 and held positions in orthopedic surgery at Yale Medical School, Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He has also been keenly interested in issues of race, bias, and disparity in medical care and education. In 2011 he founded Harvard's Culturally Competent Care Education Program to begin combating the unconscious and conscious biases of health care professionals and educators.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: AMS.1U.2016.002

Williams (Linda) papers

Formal title:: Linda Williams papers
Extent:: 25 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1945-2020 (1962-2016)
Abstract:: This collection contains the papers of Linda Williams, Professor Emerita in Film & Media and Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley. Her academic interests center on Feminist Theory and "body genres," genres designed to elicit a specific physical reaction. These include pornography, melodrama, and horror. Other areas of focus in both research and teachings include "race" films, Oscar Micheaux, Spike Lee, Surrealist cinema, David Lynch, Pedro Almodóvar, Luis Buñuel, film theory, musicals, and the HBO series "The Wire." Materials in this collection date from approximately 1945 to 2020 and document her academic career through correspondence, conference materials, teaching, writings, and research.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2015.011

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