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Formal title:: Pembroke College Clothing
Extent:: 17 items
Date range:: 1900-1970
Abstract:: The Pembroke College Clothing collection includes dresses, tops, skirts, and jumpsuits, likely produced by Pembroke College students for sewing lessons or theatrical productions. The clothing was made approximately between the 1920s through 1970 though these dates are only estimated based on garment style.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: AC.1ZP.2017.008

Formal title:: Pembroke College Department of Physical Education records
Extent:: 6 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1914-1978
Abstract:: This collection contains the records of the Pembroke College Department of Physical Education. Established in 1897, this department was part of Pembroke College, the women's college in Brown University until the women's and men's colleges merged in 1971. This collection includes physical education course materials, financial records, correspondence, conference materials, meeting materials, and museum objects dating from 1914 – 1978.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: OF.1OA.1ZP

Formal title:: Keisha-Khan Y. Perry papers
Extent:: 8.75 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1981–2025
Abstract:: This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, scholar of race, gender, and politics in the Americas with a particular focus on Black women's activism, urban geography and questions of citizenship, feminist theories, intellectual history and disciplinary formations. Materials include notebooks, correspondence, conference materials, draft writings, and print material, dating from 1981 to 2025.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2021.002

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Formal title:: Dennis Riley collection on Senator Claiborne Pell
Extent:: .5 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1905-2014 (bulk ca. 1982-2002)
Abstract:: Papers, medals, and commemorative realia related to the career of Senator Claiborne Pell.
Repository:: Salve Regina University Special Collections
Collection call no:: SP.19

Formal title:: Howard Saalman and Jeanne Farr Saalman papers
Extent:: 16 Linear Feet
Date range:: 1868-2000 (bulk) 1959-1995
Abstract:: This collection includes research papers, sources, and personal materials related to the career of architectural historian Dr. Howard Saalman and his wife, Jeanne Farr Saalman.
Repository:: Salve Regina University Special Collections
Collection call no:: SP.18

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:: 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:: 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:: 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

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