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Markham Starr collection, 2005-2019
1751 items. 18 documents : digital, pdf, doc, xls, and txt. 1665 photographs : digital, tif, jpg, black-and-white. 8 audio files : digital, wav. 56 video files : digital, mov, mp4, m2t, m2ts, avi. 4 volumes (.3 linear feet). -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Collection of 1747 digital files of graphic, moving image, sound recording, and manuscript format documentary works created by Markham Starr and four of his published monographs. The collection primarily documents northeastern fishermen and the fishing industry. Some records also document farming and dairy production. A majority of the works are part of larger themed documentary projects, and others are independent works.
Quilt Alliance, Quilters' S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories interviews collection, 1999-2016
17,495 items. 33 containers (13 3/4 linear feet). approximately 855 sound cassettes : analog.. approximately 310 sound files : digital, WAV.. 1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.. approximately 425 photographic prints : color ; various sizes.. more than 1840 images : digital, color, jpeg, tiff.. approximately 1200 folders (12,390 items). approximately 665 digital documents (doc, .docx, .pdf, .rtf). approximately 950 optical discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.. 10 floppy disks ; 3 1/2 in.. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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This collection consists of sound recordings, transcripts and photographic images documenting interviews conducted as a part of Quilters' S.O.S. -- Save Our Stories (QSOS) project. QSOS is one of several projects and partnerships created by the Quilt Alliance in an effort to preserve, document, and share the lives and stories of quilters and quiltmaking. The project began in 1999 and continued though 2016.
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Rhode Island Folklife Project collection, 1979
17,309 items.. manuscripts and photographs: 13 containers, linear feet.. color slides: 38 containers.. 128 sound tape reels : analog, 7 1/2 ips ; 7 in.. 10 sound tape reels : analog, 3 3/4 ips; 7 in.. 60 sound cassettes : analog.. approximately 7542 slides : color ; 35 mm. approximately 24 transparancies : color ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.. approximately 9289 photographs : film negatives, black and white ; 35 mm. approximately 256 photographs : film negatives, black and white ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.. -- American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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American Folklife Center field project which documented ethnic, regional, and occupational traditions of Rhode Island, especially ethnic arts (African American, French-Canadian, Greek, Irish, Jamaican, Polish, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Italian, Lithuanian, Narragansett, and others), maritime activities, material culture, and local history. Documentation was created by fieldworkers Peter Bartis, Michael E. Bell, Thomas A. Burns, Carl Fleischhauer, Henry Horenstein, Geraldine Niva Johnson, and Kenneth S. Goldstein, project director, from July 15 to December 31, 1979. Sound recordings include interviews and documentation of a play, church services, music and dance, and other events. Subjects of photographs include Rhode Island houses, barns, beaches, yards, gardens, orchards, churches, cemeteries, street scenes, landscapes, sea scapes; religious processions; recreation, including baseball, horseshoes, sailing; restaurants and foodways; picnics; textile mills, sawmills; businesses; markets; Jamaican migrant workers; woodworking; boatbuilding; fishing, clamming; gunsmithing; taxidermy; arts and crafts; sand sculptures; musicians and dancing; and other subjects.
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Rhode Island General Assembly records, 1653-1747
24 items. 6 containers. 2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Minutes, acts, and proceedings of Rhode Island's colonial legislature sitting in various towns.
Charles Follen McKim papers, 1838-1929
4,200 items. 14 containers. 5.6 linear feet. 14 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Architect. Correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, diary, notes, legal and financial records, sketches, drawings, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, & White, New York, N.Y.
James Fowler Simmons papers, 1771-1939
21,000 items. 58 containers. 19 linear feet. 1 microfilm reel. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Manufacturer, political leader, and United States senator from Rhode Island. Correspondence, family letters, memoranda, legal documents, account books, photographs, and printed matter relating to Simmons's cotton and yarn manufacturing enterprises and to public matters, including the tariff, Thomas Dorr and the Dorr Rebellion of 1842, the nomination and election of Abraham Lincoln as president, and social, economic, and political conditions in Rhode Island.
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Theodore Francis Green papers, 1924-1960
400,000 items. 1,134 containers plus 7 oversize. 455 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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United States senator and governor of Rhode Island and lawyer. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, reports, subject and chronological files, clippings, photographs, printed matter, and other papers relating principally to Green's senatorial career.
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Washington Irving Chambers papers, 1871-1943
12,000 items. 48 containers. 12 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Naval officer. Correspondence, subject files, logbooks, memoranda, blueprints, photographs, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Chambers's service in the navy and with the Greely Relief Expedition to the Arctic and the Nicaragua Canal survey expedition of 1884-1885.
George Peabody Wetmore papers, 1885-1916
2,000 items. 15 containers. 5.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Governor and United States representative and senator from Rhode Island. Correspondence related mainly to the United States Commission of Fine Arts.
Thomas A. Jenckes papers, 1836-1878
42,000 items. 73 containers plus 1 oversize. 29.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Jurist, state legislator and adjutant general, and U.S. representative from Rhode Island. Correspondence, journals, ledgers, diaries, account books, patent papers, legal briefs and related papers, law library catalog, and photographs pertaining to Jenckes's political and legal career in Rhode Island and the U.S. House of Representatives.
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