On was an interdisciplinary graduate periodical established by RISD graduate students in 2006. It featured essays and student work that related to a general issue theme. On was intended as a quarterly publication, but it is unclear if further issues beyond the first were ever published.
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Paggi delle Storiche Contrade di Siena: Drago
Visual + Material Resources and Fleet Library
Pages of the Historic Contrade of Siena: Dragon
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Paggi delle Storiche Contrade di Siena: Giraffa
Visual + Material Resources and Fleet Library
Pages of the Historic Contrade of Siena: Giraffe
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Paggi delle Storiche Contrade di Siena: Istrice
Visual + Material Resources and Fleet Library
Pages of the Historic Contrade of Siena: Porcupine
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Paggi delle Storiche Contrade di Siena: Leocorno
Visual + Material Resources and Fleet Library
Pages of the Historic Contrade of Siena: Unicorn
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Paggi delle Storiche Contrade di Siena: Lupa
Visual + Material Resources and Fleet Library
Pages of the Historic Contrade of Siena: She-Wolf
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Paggi delle Storiche Contrade di Siena: Montone
Visual + Material Resources and Fleet Library
Pages of the Historic Contrade of Siena: Ram
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Paggi delle Storiche Contrade di Siena: Nicchio
Visual + Material Resources and Fleet Library
Pages of the Historic Contrade of Siena: Scallop Shell
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Paggi delle Storiche Contrade di Siena: Oca
Visual + Material Resources and Fleet Library
Pages of the Historic Contrade of Siena: Goose
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Paggi delle Storiche Contrade di Siena: Onda
Visual + Material Resources and Fleet Library
Pages of the Historic Contrade of Siena: Dolphin with Crown
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Paggi delle Storiche Contrade di Siena: Pantera
Visual + Material Resources and Fleet Library
Pages of the Historic Contrade of Siena: Panther
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Paggi delle Storiche Contrade di Siena: Selva
Visual + Material Resources and Fleet Library
Pages of the Historic Contrade of Siena: Forest
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Paggi delle Storiche Contrade di Siena: Tartuca
Visual + Material Resources and Fleet Library
Pages of the Historic Contrade of Siena: Tortoise
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Paggi delle Storiche Contrade di Siena: Torre
Visual + Material Resources and Fleet Library
Pages of the Historic Contrade of Siena: Tower
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Pompiere pontificio in alta tenuta
Visual + Material Resources and Fleet Library
Papal firefighter in high dress
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Pont-L'Abbe
Visual + Material Resources and Fleet Library
Woman in Bigoudenne folk costume and coif (cap)
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How to Know the Ferns : a guide to the names, haunts, and habits of our common ferns
Frances Theodora Parsons (Mrs. William Starr Dana), Marion Satterlee, Alice Josephine Smith, and Special Collections
xiv, 215 p. : ill., front. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes indexes. Gift of the Estate of Eleanor M. Phillips
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Home Life in Colonial Days
Alice Morse Earle, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
xvi, 470 pages, [17] pages of plates : illus. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. CONTENTS: Homes of the colonists -- The light of other days -- The kitchen fireside -- The serving of meals -- Food from forest and sea -- Indian corn -- Meat and drink -- Flax culture and spinning -- Wool culture and spinning, with a postscript on cotton -- Hand-weaving -- Girls' occupations -- Dress of the colonists -- Jack-knife industries -- Travel, transportation, and taverns -- Sunday in the colonies -- Old-time flower gardens. The author reconstructs for us colonial life by describing in great detail manners, customs, dress, homes, and child life. Includes index. Title page printed with decorated frame in red. Cloth cover title and illustration designed to look like needlepoint.
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Central Congregational church
RISD Carrère & Hastings and RISD Archives
exterior; Angell St. location depicted, erected 1893. Original church building designed by Thomas Tefft, erected 1852 on Benefit St., now Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Memorial Hall. National Register Historic Places, designated contributing property 1973; Photograph exhibited in Rhode Island Architecture Exhibition, 1939, RISD Museum. Curated by RISD Museum Director Alexander Dorner (tenure 1938-1941) and architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock.
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How to know the wild flowers : a guide to the names, haunts, and habits of our common wild flowers
Mrs. William Starr Dana (Frances Theodora Parsons), Special Collections, and Fleet Library
xxxix, 346 p., [48] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Second edition, with colored plates. 71st thousand. Illustrated by Marion Satterlee and Elsie Louise Shaw.
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Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
Maud Howe Elliott, Julia Ward Howe, Bertha Honoré Palmer, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
3 preliminary leaves, 287 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, portraits, plans.
The growth of the woman's building / Bertha Honoré Palmer -- The building and its decorations / Maud Howe Elliott -- Woman in art / S.T. Hallowell -- Applied arts in the Woman's Building / Candace Wheeler -- Women illustrators / Alice C. Morse -- The work of Cincinnati women in decorated pottery / Elizabeth W. Perry -- Woman in science / Louisa Parsons Hopkins -- Woman in literature / Laura E. Richards -- The library / Maud Howe Elliott -- New York literary exhibit / Blanche Wilder Bellamy -- Evolution of women's education in the United States / Edna D. Cheney -- Music in the Woman's Building / Lena Burton Clarke -- Congresses in the Woman's Building / Mary Q.O. Eagle -- Associations of women / Julia Ward Howe -- The Children's Building / Emma B. Dunlap -- France / Madame Pegard -- Cottage industries in Scotland and Ireland / Ishbel Aberdeen -- Philanthropic work of British women / the Baroness Burdett-Coutts -- Great Britain : art / E. Crawford -- British nurses' exhibit / Mrs. Bedford-Fenwick -- Germany / Madame Kaselowsky -- Spain / the Duchess of Veragua -- Italy / Eva Mariotti -- Woman's position in the South American states / Matilde G. de Miro Quesada -- Russia / Princess M. Schahovskoy -- Sweden / Thorborg Rappe -- Denmark / Madame D'Oxholm -- Greece / Madame Quellenec -- Belgium / Maud Howe Elliott. Color lithograph illustrated half-title page. Decorated publisher's cloth binding, gold and silver pattern on blue, title in gold emboss, bevelled cover edges, gold foreedges. Decorated pattern endpapers. c. 1 Purchased from the V. Stephan Vaughan Collection. c. 2 Gift of Vincent M. Love, Brown University, Class of 1954. 2nd copy has a yellow-brown cloth cover, with same decorations. Binding cover design attributed to Alice C. Morse. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
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The World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1892) Souvenir Tray
Simpson H. M. & Co., Special Collections, and Fleet Library
Silver-plate souvenir tray of the World's Columbian Exposition (1892), stamped on the back: Simpson H.M. Co. Tray features an illustration of the Women's Building. Gift of Vincent M. Love, Brown University, Class of 1954.
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Le Decoration Arabe… : extraits du grand ouvrage L'art arabe de Prisse d'Avesnes / choisis, classés et arrangés par les éditeurs.
Prisse d'Avesnes, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
Oversize. 2 pages, ℓ., 4 pages : 110 leaves of plates (some color, double) ; 40 cm. Each double plate is numbered as two. Covers 12th to 18th centuries, including wall decorations, ceilings, mosaics, tiles, woodwork, stained glass, fabrics, rugs, bindings, crockery, and miscellaneous ornaments. Lithography.
From the Gorham Design Library. Gift of Lenox Inc. Copy rebound by Hope Bindery, marbled paper over boards, leather spine with title & decorations in gold stamp.
