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• Ships and shipmasters of old Providence. (Providence, R.I., 1919), by R.I.) Providence Institution for Savings (Providence and Mass.) Walton Advertising and Printing Company (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of Rhode Island and ye Providence Plantations. ([Washington, 1905), by Isaac Pitman Noyes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of Rhode Island and ye Providence Plantations. ([Washington, 1905), by Isaac Pitman Noyes (page images at HathiTrust)
• An eulogy on Mr. Samuel Smith Adams : member of the senior class of Brown University, who died February 6th, 1812, aetat. 22 years : pronounced in the University Chapel, April 18, 1812 (Jones & Wheeler, Printers, 1812), by Isaac Fisk, Jones and Wheeler, and Brown University. Chapel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mechanics festival. (Knowles, Anthony & co., printers, 1860), by Providence Providence association of mechanics and manufacturers, John Howland, Isaac Greenwood, and Edwin Martin Stone (page images at HathiTrust)

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• College Hill, a demonstration study of historic area renewal ([Providence], 1959), by Providence (R.I.). City Plan Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• A modern city: Providence, Rhode Island and its activities. (The Univesity of Chicago press, 1909), by William Kirk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Half a century with the Providence journal; being a record of the events and associated connected with the past fifty years of life of Henry R. Davis, secretary of the company (Journal Co., 1904), by Providence Journal Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of a study of public recreation in the city of Providence, R. I. ([Providence, 1937), by L. H. Weir (page images at HathiTrust)
• Private libraries of Providence, with a preliminary essay on the love of books. (S.S. Rider, 1878), by Horatio Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Almon Danforth Hodges and his neighbors. (Priv. print. [T. R. Marvin & son, printers], 1909), by Almon Danforth Hodges and Almon D. Hodges (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report. (Providence, R.I., in the 20th century), by Rhode Island. Metropolitan Park Commissioner (page images at HathiTrust)
• A plea for progress : enforced and illustrated by a short dissertation on the habits and characteristics of the Rhode Island clam (R.I. Printing Company, 1890), by Hiram Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inaugural address of Thomas A. Doyle, Mayor of the City of Providence, delivered January 6, 1879 (J.A. & R.A. Reid, 1879), by Providence (R.I.). Mayor 1864-68,70-81,84-86 (Thomas A. Doyle) and Thomas A. Doyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mishpat ̣emet : ... ʻal sefer Iyov... (Bi-defus Avraham Yitshạk ̣Kạshtịlo vẹ-Eliʻezar Saʻadun, 1787), by Moses Milhaud (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)

• Report of the Joint Special Committee on the Act to Establish the Boundary Line Between the City of Providence and the Town of North Providence along a portion of the Woonasquatucket River (Knowles, Anthony & Co., State Printers, 1860), by Rhode Island. General Assembly. Joint Select Committee on the Act to Establish the Boundary Line Between the City of Providence and Town of North Providence (page images at HathiTrust)

• Providence County court house. (E. L. Freeman & co., printers to the slate, 1885), by Rhode Island. Commissioners to Decorate the Providence County Court House (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cultural landscape report for Roger Williams National Memorial : Providence, Rhode Island (Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, National Park Service, 2010), by John E. Auwaerter, Karen Cowperthwaite, and Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The City hall, Providence. (Prepared and printed by authority of the City Council, 1881), by Abraham Payne and Providence (R.I.). City Council (page images at HathiTrust)

• Census tracts for State of Rhode Island and Providence S.M.S.A. ([Providence], 1960), by Rhode Island Development Council. Planning Division (page images at HathiTrust)

• Census of the inhabitants of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Knowles, Anthony, 1858), by Rhode Island. General Assembly, John Russell Bartlett, and Rhode Island. Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)

• Charter and special laws governing the city of Providence. (Providence Press, 1901), by Providence (R.I.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• City charter : proposed for the adoption of the freemen of Providence, at a town meeting to be holden October 22, 1831 (Cranston & Hammond, printers, 1831), by Rhode Island (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Exercises at the semi-centennial anniversary of the Westminster Congregational Society, held January 5th and 6th, 1878. (The Society, 1878), by R.I.) Westminster Congregational Society (Providence (page images at HathiTrust)
• The centennial sermon, preached before the Beneficent Congregational Church, in Providence, R.I., March 19, A.D. 1843 (Knowles & Vose, 1845), by Mark Tucker (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse in commemoration of the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mite Society and the two hundred and fifteenth anniversary of the First Baptist Church in America (John K. Stickney, 1854), by Henry Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. Hall's historical discourses. (Printed by Knowles, Vose & Co., 1836), by Edward B. Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charter and by-laws of the First Congregational Society in the City of Providence. (Printed for the Society, 1866), by R.I.) First Congregational Church (Providence (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discourse delivered in the First Baptist Meeting House, Providence, Sunday morning, May 28. 1965 b ninety years after its fist dedication (Gould and Lincoln, 1865), by Samuel L. Caldwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The centennial book of the First Universalist Society in Providence, Rhode Island. (Published by the Trustees of the Society, 1921), by R.I.) First Universalist Society (Providence (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the Bell Street Chapel Movement : May, 1888 to July, 1902 (Printed by Robert Grieve, 1903), by Anna Garlin Spencer and James Eddy (page images at HathiTrust)
• St. John's Church, Providence, R.I., one hundred and fiftieth anniversary, June 11, 1872. (The Church Press, M.H. Mallory & Co., 1872), by Thomas M. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical discourse delivered on the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the First Congregational Church in Providence, R.I. : and the ordination of Josiah Cotton, the first minister : Sunday evening, November 1st, 1878 (S.S. Rider, 1879), by Carlton A. Staples (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sixty years of friendly service : an historical sketch of the Providence Young Men's Christian Association (s.n., 1913), by Frederic H. Fuller and R.I.) Young Men's Christian Association (Providence (page images at HathiTrust)
• The twentieth anniversary of the Pilgrim Congregational Church, Providence, R.I. : sermons (Providence Press, 1889), by Thomas Laurie and James M. Dickson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sermon commemorative of the two hundredth anniversary of the founding of the First Congregational Church in Providence, ... (First Congregational Society], 1920), by Augustus Mendon Lord and R.I.) First Congregational Church (Providence (page images at HathiTrust)

• Weybosset Hill, Providence, Rhode Island (New York, 1963), by I.M. Pei & Associates and Providence Redevelopment Agency (page images at HathiTrust)

• The letter book of James Browne of Providence, merchant, 1735-1738 (Printed for the Rhode Island historical society, 1929), by James Brown, John Carter Brown Woods, George Philip Knapp, and Rhode Island Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• By-laws of the Providence Board of Trade : revised and adopted May 4, 1880. (E.A. Johnson & Co., 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• By-laws of the Providence Board of Trade ..., revised and adopted July 1, 1884. (J.C. Hall & Co., 1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The East-India trade of Providence from 1787 to 1807 (Preston and Rounds, 1896), by Gertrude Selwyn Kimball (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rhode Island Old home week. (Issued by the Publicity Dept., Old Home Week Committee, 1907), by R.I.). Publicity Department Old Home Week Committee (Providence and R.I.) Rhode Island Old Home Week (1907 : Providence (page images at HathiTrust)
• King's pocket-book of Providence, R.I. (Tibbitts & Shaw, 1882), by Moses King (page images at HathiTrust)
• Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre. (Remington printing co., 1910), by Henry Ames Barker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Providence, the southern gateway of New England, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the independence of the state of Rhode Island, May 4, 1926. (Historical Publishing Co., 1926), by Henry Ames Barker (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Providence directory : containing names of the inhabitants, their occupations, places of business, and dwelling-houses, with lists of the streets, lanes, wharves, etc. (Sampson, Murdock, 1886) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Owners and occupants of the lots, houses and shops in the town of Providence, Rhode Island, in 1798 : located on maps of the highways of that date; also owners or occupants of houses in the compact part of Providence in 1759, showing the location and in whose names they are to be found on the map of 1798 (Printed by Livermore & Knight co., 1914), by Henry Richmond Chace (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Providence directory. (Adams, Sampson & Co., 1824), by Murdock & Co. Sampson, Davenport & Co. Sampson, Sampson & Co. Adams, Hugh H. Brown, Pub Carlile & Brown, and Pub Brown & Danforth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Providence social register (Social Register Association., 1905) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Providence almanac 1844 (B.F. Moore [etc., 1843), by John F. Moore and Benjamin F. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Providence almanac and business directory ... (Sampson, Davenport, & Co., 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)

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