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The housewife and world supplies. (Labour Party, 1924), by Labour Party (Great Britain), Standing Joint Committee of Industrial Women's Organisations, and National Conference of Labour Women (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Housewives -- Spain -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

La ciencia de la mujer al alcance de las niñas (Madrid : Imprenta del Colegio Nacional de Sordo-mudos y de Ciegos, 1871, 1871), by F. de A. P. and Mariano Carderera (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Housewives -- Turkey

Hanımlara yadigâr (Arakel matbaası, 1899), by Hüseyin Remzi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Housewives -- United States

Domestic problems (J.R. Osgood, 1881), by Abby Morton Diaz (page images at HathiTrust)
Homemaker orientation related to marketing (Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1965), by Alice C. Stubbs and Texas Agricultural Experiment Station (page images at HathiTrust)
Schoolmaster's trunk. (James R. Osgood, 1881), by Abby Morton Diaz (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Housewives -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920-1945 (originally published 1989; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), by Phyllis M. Palmer, contrib. by Vanessa H. May (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

Filed under: Wages -- Housewives -- United States

Economic value of a housewife (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Social Security Administration, Office of Research and Statistics, 1975), by Wendyce H. Brody (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Wages -- Housewives -- United States -- Mathematical models

Labor supply and the value of the housewife's time (National Technical Information Service, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 1976), by John F. Cogan, Rand Corporation, Rockefeller Foundation, United States. Economic Development Administration, and United States. Office of Economic Opportunity (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Women -- Rhode Island -- Providence -- Societies and clubs -- Periodicals

Annual report of the Women's City Missionary Society (Women's City Missionary Society, 1867), by R.I.) Women's City Missionary Society (Providence (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Women -- Rhode Island -- Societies and clubs -- Periodicals

Year book (The Federation, in the 19th century), by Rhode Island State Federation of Women's Clubs (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Reformatories for women -- Rhode Island -- Pawtucket -- History -- 19th century

Behind the bars (M.A. Jenks, 1902), by Mary A. Jenks (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Wives -- Rhode Island -- Time management

Allocation of time by employed married women in Rhode Island (Agricultural Experiment Station of the Rhode Island State College, 1938), by Blanche M. Kuschke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Women's rights -- Rhode Island

The legal status of women in the United States of America : report for Rhode Island as of January 1, 1960 (U.S. Dept. of Labor, Women's Bureau :, 1960), by Laura H. Dale, Mary Z. Bastian, and United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Women -- Employment -- Rhode Island

Women in Rhode Island industries; a study of hours, wages, and working conditions ... (Govt. print. off., 1922), by United States Women's Bureau, Mary Viola Robinson, and Ethel L. Best (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Married women -- Employment -- Rhode Island

Allocation of time by employed married women in Rhode Island (Agricultural Experiment Station of the Rhode Island State College, 1938), by Blanche M. Kuschke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Rural women -- Employment -- Rhode Island

The rural homemaker in southern Rhode Island as a paid worker (Agricultural Experiment Station of the Rhode Island State College, 1936), by Margaret Whittemore and Blanche M. Kuschke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Rhode Island

The petition of Henry C. De Rham, to the General Assembly of Rhode-Island, to except Paul Daniel Gonsalve Grand d'Hauteville, from the operation of the law, "to secure the fulfilment of certain contracts, and for the relief of married women in certain cases" : together with the remonstrance of Ellen S. d'Hauteville, and accompanying documents : to which is prefixed the debate upon a motion to repeal that law. (Knowles & Vose, printers, 1841), by Henry C. De Rham, Ellen D'Hauteville, Gonzalve D'Hauteville, and Rhode Island. General Assembly (page images at HathiTrust)
The legal status of women in the United States of America : report for Rhode Island as of January 1, 1960 (U.S. Dept. of Labor, Women's Bureau :, 1960), by Laura H. Dale, Mary Z. Bastian, and United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
The legal status of women in the United States of America : January 1, 1948 report for Rhode Island (U.S. Dept. of Labor, Women's Bureau :, 1949), by Sara L. Buchanan, Sara L. Buchanan, Mary Loretta Sullivan, and United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Legal status of women in Rhode Island (F.A. Colwell, 1900), by Mary A. Greene (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Husband and wife -- Rhode Island

The Legal Status of Homemakers in Rhode Island (Washington: Homemakers Committee, National Commission on the Observance on International Women's Year, 1977), by Sheila Cabral-Sousa and Mildred White Tracey (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Married women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Rhode Island

The Legal Status of Homemakers in Rhode Island (Washington: Homemakers Committee, National Commission on the Observance on International Women's Year, 1977), by Sheila Cabral-Sousa and Mildred White Tracey (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Women -- Suffrage -- Rhode Island

The story of a sub-pioneer (Snow & Farnham company, 1925), by Sara M. Algeo (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Rhode Island

The Providence Plantations for Two Hundred and Fifty Years: An Historical Review of the Foundation, Rise, and Progress of the City of Providence (Providence: J. A. and R. A. Reid, 1886), contrib. by Welcome Arnold Greene
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Annual report. (Providence., in the 19th century), by Rhode Island. Adjutant General's Office (page images at HathiTrust)
Report of Superintendent of Health (Providence, R.I., in the 19th century), by Providence (R.I.). Board of Health (page images at HathiTrust)
Library cooperation; the Brown University study of university-school-community library coordination in the State of Rhode Island (Brown University Press, 1963), by John A. Humphry and Brown University (page images at HathiTrust)
Ancestry of thirty-three Rhode Islanders (born in the eighteenth century): also twenty-seven charts of Roger Williams' descendants to the fifth generation, and an account of Lewis Latham, falconer to King Charles I ; with a chart of his American descendants to the fourth generation, and a list of 180 existing portraits of Rhode Island governors, chief justices, senators, etc. (Albany, N.Y. : J. Munsell's Sons, 1889., 1889), by John Osborne Austin (page images at HathiTrust)
Rhode Island and the formation of the Union. (Published for Columbia University by the Macmillan Co., 1898), by Frank Greene Bates (page images at HathiTrust)
Rhode Island, a guide to the smallest state (Houghton Mifflin company, 1937), by Federal Writers' Project. Rhode Island (page images at HathiTrust)
Thomas Hazard, son of Robt call'd College Tom. A study of life in Narragansett in the XVIIIth century (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893), by Caroline Hazard (page images at HathiTrust)
Rhode Island; its making and its meaning; a survey of the annals of the commonwealth from its settlement to the death of Roger Williams, 1636-1683 (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902), by Irving Berdine Richman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Rhode Island's adoption of the federal Constitution, 1790-1890 (The Society, 1890), by Horatio Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
Report upon the census of Rhode Island, 1875; with the statistics of the population, agriculture, fisheries and shore farms, and manufactures of the state (Providence Press Company, state printers, 1877), by Rhode Island. Census Board and Edwin M. Snow (page images at HathiTrust)
Address to the Town Criers of Rhode Island ([Providence], 1913), by Howard Elliott and New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
History of Rhode Island. (J. S. Taylor, 1853), by Edward Peterson and Fiske Icelandic Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoir concerning the French settlements and French settlers in the colony of Rhode Island. (S. S. Rider, 1879), by Elisha R. Potter (page images at HathiTrust)
Traffic law adjudication. (1980) (page images at HathiTrust)
From slave to citizen; the story of the Negro in Rhode Island. (Urban League of Greater Providence, 1954), by Irving H. Bartlett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
History of the state of Rhode Island & Providence plantations. (Preston, 1894), by Samuel Greene Arnold (page images at HathiTrust)
Rhode Island (A. Whitman, 1958), by Bernadine Bailey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Records of the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England : Printed by order of the General assemby (A.C. Greene and brother, state printers, 1856), by Rhode Island and John Russell Bartlett (page images at HathiTrust)
Rhode Island and Providence plantations : a short historical sketch and statistical compilation ([s.n.], 1885), by Prescott O. Clarke and William Carver Bates (page images at HathiTrust)
Bi-centenary of the burning of Providence in 1676. Defence of the Rhode Island system of treatment of the Indians, and of civil and religious liberty. An address delivered before the Rhode Island historical society, April 10th, 1876 (Providence press co., 1876), by Zachariah Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
Personal narratives of events in the war of the rebellion : being papers read before the Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society. (N. Bangs Williams Co., 1878), by Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
Population of Rhode Island, by counties, cities, and towns for 1915, 1920, 1925 .... ([Providence, 1927), by Rhode Island. Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)
Check list of trees and shrubs in Rhode Island. (Rhode Island State College Cooperative Agricultural Extension Work, 1942), by J. E. Howland (page images at HathiTrust)
Financing tomorrow's schools today; the story of Rhode Island's school finance program ([Providence, 1961), by Rhode Island. Department of Education and E. Gil Boyer (page images at HathiTrust)
[Miscellaneous pamphlets on forestry] (Providence, R. I., 1928), by Rhode Island. Department of agriculture. Bureau of forestry (page images at HathiTrust)
Laws relating to forestry in Rhode Island ... ([Providence? R.I.], 1931), by Rhode Island and Rhode Island. Department of agriculture. Bureau of forestry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Bulletin (State Board of Agriculture, 1920), by Rhode Island. Board of Agriculture. Entomological Department (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Reports. (between 1000 and 1999), by Rhode Island. Board of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
Report of the superintendent for the suppression of the gypsy and brown-tail moths ... (Providence, 1906), by Rhode Island. Commissioner for the suppression of the gypsy and brown-tail moths and A. E. Stene (page images at HathiTrust)
Report to the State board of agriculture. (Providence, in the 20th century), by Rhode Island. State nursery inspector (page images at HathiTrust)
The distribution of salinity in the waters of New York Bight, Block Island Sound, and Newport Bight : Cruise STIRNI I, July-September, 1951 (Defense Technical Information Center, Defense Logistics Agency, 1952), by William D. Stockton, John C. Ayers, and Defense Technical Information Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
An analysis of Rhode Island cash sickness compensation (School of Public Health, University of Michigan, 1950), by Nathan Sinai, University of Michigan. School of Public Health, and Rhode Island. Department of Employment Security (page images at HathiTrust)
Employment security act, Rhode Island temporary disability insurance act and rules and regulations. (Dept. of Employment Security, 1951), by Rhode Island and Rhode Island. Department of Employment Security (page images at HathiTrust)
Important notes on the gypsy and brown-tail moths. (E.L. Freeman & Sons, 1906), by Rhode Island. Commissioner for the Suppression of the Gypsy and Brown-Tail Moths (page images at HathiTrust)
Annual report of the Commissioner of Public Schools of Rhode Island (State Printers, 1892), by Rhode Island. State Board of Education and Rhode Island. Commissioner of Public Schools (page images at HathiTrust)
Restatement of the law of judgments, Rhode Island annotations (American Law Institute Publishers, 1957), by John W. Baker, Rhode Island Bar Association, and American Law Institute (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Restatement of the law of security, Rhode Island annotations (American Law Institute Publishers, 1953), by Henry C. Lind, Rhode Island Bar Association, and American Law Institute (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Constitution of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations : as finally adopted by the Convention of the People, assembled at Providence, on the 18th day of November, 1841 (Printed at the New Age Office, 1842), by Rhode Island (page images at HathiTrust)
Department of Employment Security, State of Rhode Island. (Dept. of Employment Security, 1975), by Rhode Island. Department of Employment Security (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Report of Institute, May, 26, 1958 - May 29, 1958. (Rhode Island Dept. of Employment Security, 1958), by 1st National Institute on Disability Insurance and Rhode Island. Department of Employment Security (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Merit peer review report to the National Cancer Institute. ([Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute], 1979), by National Cancer Institute (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Registration report. (A. Crawford Greene & Brother, State Printers, 1852), by Rhode Island. Department of State and Rhode Island Medical Society. Committee on Registration (page images at HathiTrust)
Vital statistics <1960>-1968 ([Rhode Island, Division of Vital Statistics], in the 20th century), by Rhode Island. Division of Vital Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
A concise history, of the efforts to obtain an extension of suffrage in Rhode Island; from the year 1811 to 1842. (B.F. Moore, Printer, 1912), by Jacob Frieze (page images at HathiTrust)
Annual report of the Board of State Charities and Corrections of Rhode Island. (E.L. Freeman & Son, 1869), by Rhode Island. Board of State Charities and Corrections (page images at HathiTrust)
Public and private finance. A history of the finances of Rhode Island, 1636-1900, and of chartered banking in Rhode Island, 1791-1900. ... (Providence, 1901), by Howard Kemble Stokes (page images at HathiTrust)
Synopsis of evidence before the Railroad Commissioners from Aug. 1853 to Jan. 1854, relating to charges against the railroad corporations, by Jesse Babcock and others. ([Providence] : [publisher not identified], [1854], 1854), by Schuyler Fisher, N. A. Eddy, and Rhode Island. Board of Railroad Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
The influence of physical features upon the history of Rhode Island (Department of Education, State of Rhode Island, 1910), by David Webster Hoyt and Rhode Island Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
A list of the fishes of Rhode Island. (1906), by Henry C. Tracy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Laws of the state of Rhode Island and ordinances of the city of Newport in relation to the public health. (Board of Health, 1892), by Rhode Island, etc Newport (R.I.). Ordinances, and Newport (R.I.). Board of Health (page images at HathiTrust)
Annotated list of fishes known to inhabit the waters of Rhode Island : 1909 (E.L. Freeman, 1910), by Henry Chester Tracy (page images at HathiTrust)
Letters of Roger Williams, 1632-1682. (Printed for the Narragansett Club, 1874), by Roger Williams and John Russell Bartlett (page images at HathiTrust)
Preliminary report. (E. L. Freeman co., 1916), by Rhode Island. Commission of inquiry into the agricultural resources of the state (page images at HathiTrust)
How to keep bees (State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, State Board of Agriculture, Entomological Department, 1918), by Arthur C. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
Annual report of the Division of Insurance. (Wm. R. Brown Co., 1936), by Rhode Island. Dept. of Revenue and Regulation. Division of Insurance (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Traffic accident statistics. (S.n.], in the 20th century), by Rhode Island. Registry of Motor Vehicles (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
For Providence, a new zoning ordinance, 1948 (The Commission, 1949), by Providence (R.I.). City Plan Commission (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Bastnaesite, an accessory mineral in the Redstone granite, Westerly, Rhode Island ([Washington D.C.] ; United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, 1954., 1954), by William L. Smith, Evelyn A. Cisney, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Division of Research, and Geological Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
1977 census of retail trade : major retail centers in standard metropolitan statistical areas, Rhode Island. (Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census :, 1979), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
Geographic area series, Rhode Island, state and county data (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census :, 1984), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ([Providence, R.I.] : [General Assembly], [1912], 1912), by Rhode Island. General Assembly (page images at HathiTrust)
Governor Howard's march (White, Smith & Co., 1876), by David Wallis Reeves (page images at HathiTrust)
Population of Rhode Island counties and metropolitan areas (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census :, 1976), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
Estimating surface-water runoff to Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island and Massachusetts (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey ;, 1990), by Kernell G. Ries, Geological Survey (U.S.), and Rhode Island. Department of Environmental Management (page images at HathiTrust)
Hydrogeology, water quality, and ground-water development alternatives in the lower Wood River ground-water reservoir, Rhode Island (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey ;, 1990), by David C. Dickerman, Joel P. Russell, Elaine C. Todd Trench, Geological Survey (U.S.), and Rhode Island. Water Resources Board (page images at HathiTrust)
Ways to victory ... A teaching guide for use in elementary schools ... (Providence, R.I., 1942), by Rhode Island. State Council of Defense (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Rhode Island cities and towns, an economic inventory. ([Providence], 1953), by Rhode Island Development Council (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
October term, 1919. no. 29 original. State of Rhode Island, complainant vs. A. Mitchell Palmer, attorney general and Daniel C. Roper, commissioner of internal revunue, defendants. Brief of complainant on motion to dismiss. State of Rhode Island, Herbert A. Rice, attorney general, A.A. Capotosto, assistant atty. genl. (Providence, 1920), by United States Supreme Court (page images at HathiTrust)
Rhode Island streams--1978-88 : an update on water-quality conditions (Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey ;, 1990), by John C. Briggs, Geological Survey (U.S.), and Rhode Island. Department of Environmental Management (page images at HathiTrust)
Town government in Rhode Island (Johns Hopkins Press, 1886), by William E. Foster and Edward Channing (page images at HathiTrust)
Toward equal opportunity in the construction industry : a report of the Rhode Island State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. ([United States Commission on Civil Rights?], 1970), by United States Commission on Civil Rights. Rhode Island State Advisory Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
Plan for public sewerage facility development (The Program, 1969), by Rhode Island Statewide Comprehensive Transportation and Land Use Planning Program (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Annual report on public schools in Rhode Island : made to the General Assembly, at its January session. (State Printers, 1858), by Rhode Island. Commissioner of Public Schools (page images at HathiTrust)
Bay of Fundy to Block Island (London : Published at the Admiralty, [1867], 1867), by Great Britain. Hydrographic Office, J. D. Potter, Henry Wolsey Bayfield, John Washington, United States Coast Survey, Great Britain Admiralty, and J. & C. Walker (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
Nantucket Shoals to Block Island (London : Published at the Admiralty, [1869], 1869), by Great Britain. Hydrographic Office, J. D. Potter, Henry Wolsey Bayfield, John Washington, United States Coast Survey, Great Britain Admiralty, and J. & C. Walker (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
Narraganset Bay : including Newport Harbour in Rhode Island (London : Published at the Admiralty, [1871], 1871), by Great Britain. Hydrographic Office, J. D. Potter, G. A. Bedford, John Washington, Henry Wolsey Bayfield, United States Coast Survey, Great Britain Admiralty, and J. & C. Walker (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
Naraganset Bay. N.E. sheet ([London] : [Published at the Admiralty], [1873], 1873), by Great Britain. Hydrographic Office, Henry Wolsey Bayfield, United States Coast Survey, and Great Britain Admiralty (page images at HathiTrust)
Investigation of meta-anthracite in Newport and Providence counties, R.I. : petrography, chemical characteristics, and geology of deposits ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, [1948], 1948), by Albert L. Toenges and United States Bureau of Mines (page images at HathiTrust)
Biographical encyclopaedia of Connecticut and Rhode Island of the nineteenth century. (Metropolitan Pub. and Engraving Co., 1879), by H. Clay Williams and Metropolitan Publishing and Engraving Company (page images at HathiTrust)
A letter written by Maj. John Talcott from Mr. Stanton's at Quonocontaug to Govr. William Leete and the Hond. Council of the colony of Connecticut. Issued at the General court of the Society of Colonial Wars in the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations by its governor, William DavisMiller, esquire, and the Council of the Society, December 29, 1934. (1934), by John Talcott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Letters and papers of Roger Williams 1629-1682. (Massachusetts Historical Society, 1924), by Roger Williams, Howard M. Chapin, Massachusetts Historical Society, and Rhode Island Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
Wood and energy in Rhode Island (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Natural Resource Economics Division ;, 1983), by Mark R. Bailey, Paul R. Wheeling, Maria I. Lenz, and United States. Department of Agriculture. Natural Resource Economics Division (page images at HathiTrust)
Proposals for the development of vocational education in Rhode Island : report of a study to determine ways of improving vocational education in Rhode Island (The Board, 1953), by Rhode Island. State Board of Vocational Education (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Advance state report, Rhode Island ([U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census]:, 1988), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
State and county data, Rhode Island (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1977), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
SSI in Rhode Island (Social Security Administration, in the 1990s), by United States Social Security Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

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