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RAIR
This collection includes three identical copies of RAIR (Recycled Artist in Residency): Archives and Waste Streams.
Rancocas Monthly Meeting Records (including Burlington)
Records of Rancocas and Burlington Monthly Meetings. Records include: Minutes, 1678-1991; vital records, 1675-1990; Women's minutes, 1681-1914; Ministers and Elders' minutes, 1756-1907; as well as account books, other financial records, and miscellaneous papers.
Rancocas Preparative Meeting Records
Records of the Rancocas Preparatory Meeting, 1720-1956, include: vital records, 1720-1956; minutes of the Hicksite men's meeting and later, of joint sessions with women, 1799-1914; Orthodox men’s meeting minutes, 1856-1919; Hicksite women's minutes, 1853-1885; Orthodox women’s minutes, 1839-1924; financial records, 1798-1924; miscellaneous papers, 1826-1831 and n.d.
Doug Rand Papers
This small collection comes from the files of Doug Rand and covers five topics related to local peace and political actions in Santa Cruz: the successful efforts to stop beach area development, the election victory that grew from public discontent with the development, the installation of "Collateral Damage" anti-war statue/s, the Aaron Ahearn trial, and visits of Navy warships to Santa Cruz.
Mercedes M. Randall Papers
Mercedes M. Randall was an early, and lifelong, member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She held many positions of responsibility in the organization, including chairmanship of the National Education Committee, and presidency of the Manhattan Branch. Randall was the first biographer of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Emily Greene Balch.
A. Philip Randolph Collected Papers
Rankin Family papers
The case of James Rankin, a loyalist during the American Revolution, whose estate was confiscated and sold. Rankin's heirs sued for restitution and won.
Jeannette Rankin Collected Papers
Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973), was the first woman to serve in Congress (1917-1919). She was an active suffragist and later worked in peace organizations such as the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the National Council for Prevention of War. Rankin founded the Georgia Peace Society in the 1940s, and led the Jeannette Rankin Brigade, an all-women's protest march against the Vietnam war shortly before her death.
Caleb Raper commonplace book
The commonplace book of Caleb Raper is religious in nature, and contains copied bible verses, religious poetry, prayers, and letters. According to the notes on the first and last pages of the volume, the original commonplace book, written in Caleb Rapper's hand, was written in 1711. This volume was copied in 1747 by Raper's nephew, Richard Smith. There is also a single photocopy.
Rassemblement Universel pour la Paix [International Peace Campaign] Collected Records
This collection includes files about the World Peace Congress (also called the International Peace Congress and the Brussels Congress) held in Brussels in September 1936, the 1938 Preparatory Peasant Peace Conference, and other conferences. There are also correspondence, administrative files, and files from National Committees of various countries.