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All Posts for Tag:
"rhode island"

Jan 2, 2014
  • Benefit Street
  • Bleachery Pond
  • children
  • Margaret Bingham Stillwell
  • Object Thursday
  • rhode island
  • RI
  • Saylesville
  • sledding
  • snow
  • snow day

Object Thursday: Sledding in Saylesville

Children all over Rhode Island are looking forward to a snow day, and wondering why some of them had school … Continue reading Object Thursday: Sledding in Saylesville

Dec 26, 2013
  • 19th century
  • bandbox
  • bandboxes
  • early printing
  • Object Thursday
  • printing
  • providence
  • rhode island

Object Thursday: A Band Box for Boxing Day

Elsewhere in the world, it’s Boxing Day, the uniquely British Commonwealth holiday when servants and working people received Christmas boxes … Continue reading Object Thursday: A Band Box for Boxing Day

Nov 28, 2013
  • 18th century
  • Broadsides
  • Colonial Rhode Island
  • Faith & Freedom
  • French & Indian War
  • Peace of Paris
  • Printed Collection
  • Printing History
  • rhode island
  • Treaty of Paris 1763

"to render Sincere THANKS"

Three hundred and fifty years ago, Great Britain, France and Spain concluded a world war with a Treaty signed on … Continue reading "to render Sincere THANKS"

Oct 31, 2013
  • 18th century
  • accounts
  • clothing
  • costume
  • Enos Hitchcock
  • Levi Burr
  • MSS 78
  • primary source research
  • providence
  • rhode island
  • textiles

Object Thursday: Accounting for Overhalls

The Reverend Enos Hitchcock is an interesting figure, not only for his role as a Continental Army chaplain during the … Continue reading Object Thursday: Accounting for Overhalls

Aug 8, 2013
  • Benjamin R. Howland
  • biographies
  • biography
  • cataloging
  • James Manning
  • literary journals
  • miniatures
  • Printed Collection
  • providence
  • rhode island

Object Thursday: Rhode Island Literary Repository

As we digitize and expand the catalog records for the miniatures in the Society’s museum collection, we make connections to … Continue reading Object Thursday: Rhode Island Literary Repository

Jun 21, 2013
  • childhood
  • children
  • embroidery
  • girls
  • rhode island
  • samplers
  • textiles

Object Thursday: A Stitch in Time

Samplers invoke mixed reactions from people, they either love them, they hate them or they have never heard of them. … Continue reading Object Thursday: A Stitch in Time

Jun 7, 2013
  • Church of England
  • Colonial Rhode Island
  • James MacSparran
  • Narragansett
  • Quakers
  • rhode island
  • Stephen Hopkins

Faith & Freedom Friday: The Reverend and the Governor

James MacSparran (1693-1757) was an Irish born Anglican minister who arrived in Narragansett on April 28, 1721 to take charge … Continue reading Faith & Freedom Friday: The Reverend and the Governor

Jun 6, 2013
  • D Day
  • diaries
  • diaries and journals
  • Helen Clark Grimes
  • June 6 1944
  • rhode island
  • women authors
  • working women
  • World War II

Object Thursday: D-Day Diary

69 years ago today, the Allies launched the invasion of Europe. Many of us are familiar with D-Day from the … Continue reading Object Thursday: D-Day Diary

May 10, 2013
  • Edith Ajello
  • government
  • H5671
  • H5826
  • H5828
  • H6007
  • legislation
  • motorcycle helmet
  • rhode island
  • Rhode Island State House

Faith & Freedom Friday: At the State House

Until 5:30 yesterday, I’d planned to write about Enos Hitchcock, Revolutionary War chaplain. But after an hour and a half … Continue reading Faith & Freedom Friday: At the State House

Apr 19, 2013
  • architecture
  • providence
  • rhode island
  • Unitarian Church

Faith & Freedom Friday: Sweet Sampler

Once upon a time on Benefit Street stood a church that looked like this. The First Congregational Church, now the … Continue reading Faith & Freedom Friday: Sweet Sampler

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