Newport community organizations materials, Ade Bethune papers. 1958-2001

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Bethune, Ade, 1914-2002. Newport community organizations materials, Ade Bethune papers.

Newport community organizations materials, Ade Bethune papers. 1958-2001

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/764635855

Materials in this collection document the activities of several community organizations in and around Newport, Rhode Island from 1958 to 2001 as collected by Ade Bethune. It includes organizational administrative documents, correspondence, project reports, newsletters, newspaper articles and clippings, photographs, sketches, and road maps. The bulk of the collection is comprised of materials from the Point Association, East-West Point Committee, Inc., Citizens Advisory Committee, and the Foundation For Newport. The collection also includes materials from a number of other community groups, projects and events. These materials are varied, and items of note include the I-895 road project, the Commission on Affordable Housing, Broadway-West Broadway-Washington Square area development, the Point Section Neighborhood Improvement Committee, and Newport redevelopment. Many of the materials in the collection are scale drawings of road and development plans and oversized photos and clippings. Oversized materials that are not definitively a part of a particular subgroup are housed in the other oversize materials series.

16.5 boxes (7.0 linear feet).3 boxes plus 2 flat file drawers (3.5 cubic feet) oversize.

St. Catherine University, St. Paul Campus Library