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Contains agricultural and household records including inspection and accreditation reports from the United States Department of Agriculture concerning nine cows owned by Rice (1928–1958); orders for egg incubators; a legal agreement between Benjamin E. Hull and Rice related to cattle breeding; and grocery receipts dated 1914–1924.

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Contains newspaper clippings dated 1945–1966 from various newspapers including New York Daily News and The Afro-American about various events regarding Olivia Johns Rice, Reverend John Rice, Peyton R. Hazard, and Kelly Miller, dean of Howard University's College of Arts and Sciences (1907-1918) two copies of riddles written by Isaac Rice Sr.

Scope and Contents A collection of postcards, invitations, greeting cards, and promotional cards spanning 1902 to 1978. It includes a 1910 wedding invitation for Oliva Johns and Frank H.C. Rice in Jamestown, RI; wedding invitations for Barbara Helen and Andrew C. Bailey Jr. (1947); a 1978 dinner invitation honoring John N. Williams, sponsored by The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society; a 1937 card announcing Ethel L. Maddox's death in Philadelphia; a 1935 wedding invitation for Doris Elizabeth Rice and Deranus...

Scope and Contents Contains receipts regarding home goods purchased by Frank H.C. Rice, a cemetery lot care receipt, as well as a memo from the Jamestown Town Clerk's Office notifying Frank H.C. Rice had been elected to the office of Special Police (1925). A bill for some carpentry work from 1935, including a handwritten contract signed by Olivia and Frank Rice, and Lois and Samuel Allen (dated 1932). There is also a letter confirming the receipt of a donation to the Jamestown Ambulance Building Fund in memory...

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Contains a weekly menu written on an envelope, a copy of a recipe for muffins from a cookbook belonging to Olivia Johns Rice. It also includes ads and coupons for Bufceco Oats, Hires Root Beer, and F.S. Keith of Eaton, Massachusetts, advertising poultry breeding services.

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Contains a finding aid for the Olivia Johns Rice Collection from a previous archivist.

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Contains copies of documents made by a previous archivist. The copies included are related to the Rice Family, circa 1796-1948.

Abstract The Olivia Johns Rice Collection comprises 660 items housed in five boxes and documents the personal, professional, familial, and community life of Olivia Johns Rice and members of the Johns, Rice, and Hazard families from the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century. The collection includes extensive correspondence; legal, financial, and educational records; church membership materials; agricultural and household documents; personal identification papers; printed ephemera;...

Scope and Contents Documents regarding Union Congregational Church in Newport, RI. Including a certificate of church membership belonging to Olivia Johns Rice (1925), church offering envelopes for A.M.E Church, tickets for a Friendship Tea and Musical held at Union Congegational Church as well as the program for a play, tickets to a "variety concert" and "moving picture demonstration and entertainment" at Union Congregational Church, a funeral service program for Mary E. Johnson (1960), and a church membership...