46 resources

• La Bonne Aventure/The Good Adventure #14: The Prize
  
  "La Bonne Aventure" is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. In this episode, one puppet experiences feelings of jealousy when another is recognized for her talent. It features footage of a community bean supper and footage of Jean Dalpe of Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
• Vérité, La (Woonsocket, RI, 1928/05/28-1928/11/22)
  
• Union, L' (Woonsocket, RI, 1987/04/00-2002 summer)
  
• Union, L' (Woonsocket, RI, 1902/11/00-1987/00/00)
  
• Tribune, La (Woonsocket, RI, 1895/04/06-1934/12/24)
  
• Signal, Le (The Signal) (Pawtucket, RI; Woonsocket, RI; Fall River, MA; Boston, MA, 1924/01/30-1924/08/16?)
  
• Sentinelle, La (Woonsocket, RI, 1924/04/04-1928/05/24)
  
• Semeur Franco-Américain, Le (Ware, MA, 1887/03/29?-????/??/??)
  
• Réveil, Le (Woonsocket, RI, 1875/04/??-1876/12?)
  
• Renard, Le (Woonsocket, RI, 1903/??/??-1904/??/??)
  
• Progrès, Le (Woonsocket, RI, 1906?-1908?)
  
• Progrès, Le (Woonsocket, RI, 1898/06/24-1913/06/27)
  
• Progrès, Le (Woonsocket, RI, 1896/09/??-1897/02/19)
  
• Phare, Le (Woonsocket, RI, 1948/02/00-1952/07/00)
  
• Je me souviens (Pawtucket, RI; Woonsocket, RI, 1978/09/00-present)
  
• Indépendant de Woonsocket, L' (Woonsocket, RI, 1935/02/04-1942/04/04)
  
• Guêpe, La (Woonsocket, RI, 1873/07/??-1873/??/??)
  
• Foyer Canadien, Le (Woonsocket, RI, 1892/??/??-1892/11/??)
  
• Forestier Franco-Américain, Le (Woonsocket, RI, 1911/??/??-1919/??/??)
  
• Forestier, Le (Woonsocket, RI, 1911/??/??-1912/??/??)
  
• Excelsior, L' (Woonsocket, RI, 1925/??/??-1930/??/??)
  
• Étoile, L' (Woonsocket, RI, 1873/??/??-1873/??/??)
  
• Espérance, L' (Woonsocket, RI, 189?/??/??-189?/??/??)
  
• Devoir, Le (Woonsocket, RI, 1912/03/31-1912/04/28)
  
• Défense, La (Woonsocket, RI, 1928/12/13-1929/02/14)
  
• Courrier du Rhode Island, Le (Woonsocket, RI, 1873/08/18-1874/09/29)
  
• Courrier de Woonsocket, Le (Woonsocket, RI, 1880/08/12?-1892?)
  
• Courrier Canadien, Le (Woonsocket, RI, 1875/09/??-1892/??/??)
  
• Cloche du Dimanche, La (Woonsocket, RI, 1899/10/14-1900/12/29?)
  
• Bataille, La (Woonsocket, RI, 1928/11/29-1928/11/29)
  
• Annuaire catholique, pour l'année ... : à l'usage du clergé, des sociétés et des familles canadiennes (Woonsocket, RI, 1881/00/00-1891/00/00)
  
• Abeille de social, L' (Woonsocket, RI, 1912/10/31-1921/??/??)
  
• Laramee, Adrien [Peoples French Canadian]
  
  Interview with Mr. Adrien Laramee by Gerald Mountain.
• [French Canadian Textile Worker]
  
• Oral history interview with Michelle Holzapfel, 2008 January 26 and March 1
  
  An interview of Michelle Holzapfel conducted 2008 January 26-March 1, by Josephine Shea, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at Holzapfel's home and studio, Applewoods Studio and Gallery, in Marlboro, Vermont. Holzapfel speaks of her childhood in Rhode Island; her large extended family and their French-Canadian heritage; working with her father in his machine shop; early art education and exposure from elementary school through high school; the influence of high school art teacher Audrey Blake; trips to Rhode Island School of Design Museum and Boston Museum of Fine Arts; attending Marlboro College; meeting her husband, David, at Marlboro; traveling in Italy with friends and David; earning her B.A. from Norwich College; participating in craft shows; having two children in two years; teaching experiences at Worcester Center for Crafts and Wood Turning Center; the difference in relationships with galleries and museums; the woodturning field; and the struggles and success of women artists; and plans for the future. Holzapfel recalls Gilbert Taylor, Barry Friedman, Glenn Adamson, Nathan Ancell, Peter Joseph, Kenneth Trapp, Chris Tyler, Albert LeCoff, and others.
• Museum of Work & Culture Theater Collection - Finding Aid
  
  Finding aid of the Museum of Work & Culture Theater Collection
• Les Cloches de Corneville
  
  The program for "Les Cloches de Corneville," performed 27-28 February 1911. The performance was held at the Salle de l'Opera in Woonsocket, RI.
• List from Adolphe Robert, to Félix Gatineau
  
  This list, sent from Adolphe Robert to Félix Gatineau, provides the names and addresses of the delegates to the mid-September 1922 meeting of the Union Saint-Jean-Baptiste d'Amérique.
• Letter from Adolphe Robert, to Félix Gatineau
  
  Written on stationery from La Fédération Catholique Franco-Américaine, Robert wrote to Gatineau informing him of the next meeting of the Union Saint-Jean Baptiste d'Amérique, to be held in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
• Letter from Herbert De Fossé, to S. Alphonse Daudelin
  
  A letter to S. Alphonse Daudelin, from Herbert De Fossé
• Letter from S. Alphonse Daudelin, to his parents
  
  A letter S. Alphonse Daudelin wrote to his parents Casimir Daudelin and Flavie Thibeault documenting a trip to New York City, 12 October 1896. Written while traveling back north, it details the sights seen in New York City, as well as the return voyage- including stops at various New England cities.
• Letter, 1926 April 28
  
  Letter from Adelard Harpin, to Antoinette Sansoucy.
• George H. Gilbert Company Records - Finding Aid
  
  Based in Ware, Massachusetts, a nationally known family business that made high-grade woolen flannels. Includes employee recruitment documents, labor contracts, labor accounts, wage payment books, contracts and insurance material about the property, buildings, machinery, and stock, business correspondence, bills and receipts, company cash books, and lists of sales and orders. Also contains personal records of finances and activities of Charles Stevens and the Gilbert family, production records, department expenses, stock inventories, forms, advertisements from various companies, and notices posted in the factories and tenements concerning company rules and regulations. Charles A. Stevens was George H. Gilbert's original partner.
• George H. Gilbert Co. Records - Finding Aid
  
  In 1841, George H. Gilbert and Charles A. Stevens formed a partnership to manufacture broadcloth and cloakings in Ware, Massachusetts. The partners acquired a mill building on the Ware River and expanded in 1846-1847 erecting several new factory buildings and a number of tenements to house the growing population of workers. The records have been arranged into seven series, as follows: Legal and Property, 1844-1879, 1 box, Executive, 1848-1882, 15 boxes, Financial, 1848-1929, 2 boxes and 17 volumes, Sales, 1842-1909, 5 boxes and 1 volume, Labor, 1851-1931, 1 box and 53 volumes, Production, 1846-1930, 1 box and 54 volumes, and Miscellany, 1848-1920, 1 box and 1 volume.
• Club Richelieu-Fall River records - Finding Aid
  
  Collection includes statutes and by-laws, minutes, administrative records, correspondence, financial records and receipts, scholarship records, publications, records of programs and events, and artifacts and ephemera.
• Scrapbook of memorabilia of Robert St. Jock, acrobatic pilot
  
  The scrapbook, created by Gertrude Koch, consists primarily of newspaper articles about New England stunt pilot Robert St. Jock, as well as programs and advertisements for air shows in which he participated. Volume 2 also includes telegrams, photos, and additional materials concerning other pilots.