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1. Provenance 2. Inventory 3. Subjects |
Post Office Records
Collection, 1764-1940 Size: 1 linear foot Catalog number: MSS 232 sg 6 Processed by: Rick Stattler, December 2001 ©Rhode Island Historical Society Manuscripts Division |
Provenance:
The 1764 Providence volume was a gift of Elisha Dyer in 1883. The Slocum reports were a gift of Arthur A. Wood in 1910. The two Providence scrapbooks were a gift of Thomas E. Greene in 1992. The Potter Hill money order book was purchased in 2001 from Frederick Lorenson. No accession record could be found for the four Providence volumes dated 1863-1878, but they were apparently cataloged by curator Nat Shipton before 1979.
Inventory:
The Newport Town Records Collection (Mss 208) contains three postal record books dated 1748 to 1773 (one of them listing individual letter recipients), as well as a folder of postmaster bills from 1772.
Potter Hill Post Office (Hopkinton, R.I.)
Box 1, folder 1. Domestic money order cash book, 1914-1917
Providence Post Office
Box 1, folder 2. Record of letters, 1764-1775. Lists letters received by town, not recipients.
Box 1, folder 3. Record of lost letters, 1863-1876
Volume 1. Account book of registered letters received, 1873-1875
Volume 2. Account book of registered letters received, 1875-1878
Volume 3. Account book of money orders, 1864-1868
Volume 4. Scrapbook re President's Ball to benefit the R.I. Infantile Paralysis Foundation, 1937. Providence Postmaster Edward F. Carroll served as honorary chairman.
Volume 5. Scrapbook re alien registration held at Providence Post Office, 1940
See also the "Providence Miscellaneous Records" collection (Mss 214, sg 12), box 1, folder 16: Facsimile of Providence post office account, 1776-1779, made out for postmaster Walter Simmons, 1862
Slocum Post Office (North Kingstown, R.I.)
Records consist mainly of quarterly financial reports. Susan A. Slocum, Postmaster, 1882-1883.
Box 1, folder 4. Reports, 1857-1860
Box 1, folder 5. Reports, 1861-1865
Box 1, folder 6. Reports, 1867-1873
Box 1, folder 7. Reports, 1874-1879
Box 1, folder 8. Reports, 1880-1883
Box 1, folder 9. Accounts, 1867-1884
Subjects:
Aliens - Rhode Island - Providence
Carroll, Edward F., 1871-1943
Hopkinton, R.I. - Commerce
Money orders - Rhode Island
North Kingstown, R.I. - Commerce
Poliomyelitis - Rhode Island
Postal service - Rhode Island
Potter Hill Post Office (Hopkinton, R.I.)
President's Ball (Providence, R.I.)
Providence Post Office (Provide, R.I.)
Rhode Island Infantile Paralysis Foundation
Slocum Post Office (North Kingstown, R.I.)
Women postal service employees - Rhode Island - North Kingstown
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