Plate 1 - Areoradioactivity and Generalized Geologic Map of Parts of New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts

Map with graded color shading to show levels of naturally-occurring gamma aeroradioactivity in an area of New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, along with an inset geologic sketch of the same region. Explanatory text about the survey and map creation are printed at right. Scale 1:250,000.
Date: July 1963
Creator: Popenoe, Peter
Object Type: Map
System: The UNT Digital Library
Public Building at Westerly, R.I., Report (open access)

Public Building at Westerly, R.I., Report

Report of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds detailing the opinions and recommendations of the Committee on the proposed Senate bill 5657 to provide for the purchase of a site and erection of a building at Westerly Rhode Island. It includes a report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the proposed legislation.
Date: 1908~
Creator: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Building Grounds
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enlargement of Post-Office Building at Pawtucket, R.I., Report (open access)

Enlargement of Post-Office Building at Pawtucket, R.I., Report

Report of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds detailing the opinions and recommendations of the Committee on the proposed Senate bill 5656 to enlarge the post-office building in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. It includes a report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the proposed legislation.
Date: 1908~
Creator: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Geographic Dictionary of Rhode Island (open access)

A Geographic Dictionary of Rhode Island

A paper designed to aid in finding any geographic feature upon the atlas sheets of Rhode Island published by the U. S. Geological Survey. It contains the names given upon those sheets.
Date: 1894
Creator: Gannett, Henry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance of Radioactive Rocks of Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Southeastern New York (open access)

Reconnaissance of Radioactive Rocks of Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Southeastern New York

Report discussing a 1948 geological examination of 7,662 miles of roadside rocks in Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and southeastern New York to find deposits of radioactive materials.
Date: June 1951
Creator: McKeown, Frank A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bastnaesite, an Accessory Mineral in the Redstone Granite, Westerly, Rhode Island (open access)

Bastnaesite, an Accessory Mineral in the Redstone Granite, Westerly, Rhode Island

Report discussing the occurrence and analysis of bastnaesite in the Redstone granite of the Sterling batholith near Westerly, Rhode Island.
Date: September 1954
Creator: Smith, William Lee & Cisney, Evelyn A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance of Radioactive Rocks of Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Southeastern New York (open access)

Reconnaissance of Radioactive Rocks of Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Southeastern New York

From abstract: In 1948, 7,662 miles of roadside rocks and soils in Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and southeastern New York were traversed with a car-mounted Geiger-Mueller counter. The observed distribution of the abnormally radioactive rocks and soils is limited to certain areas, herein called "radioactive provinces," that are separated from each other by areas of essentially nonradioactive rock.
Date: June 1951
Creator: McKeown, Frank A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Availability of Ground Water in the Branch River Basin, Providence County, Rhode Island (open access)

Availability of Ground Water in the Branch River Basin, Providence County, Rhode Island

From introduction: This report deals with ground-water resources of the part of the Branch River basin in northwestern Rhode Island upstream from the U.S. Geological Survey gaging station at Forestdale, Rhode lsland, an area of 79 square miles or 205 square kilometers (figure 1). It is one of a series prepared in cooperation with the Rhode Island Water Resources Board to provide quantitative information on the availability of large supplies of ground water in Rhode Island.
Date: December 1974
Creator: Johnston, H. E. & Dickerman, D. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Availability of Ground Water in the Blackstone River Area : Rhode Island and Massachusetts (open access)

Availability of Ground Water in the Blackstone River Area : Rhode Island and Massachusetts

This report is based on analysis of drillers' records of more than 700 wells and borings.
Date: 1974
Creator: Johnston, Herbert E. & Dicke, David C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessing Rhode Island's Temporary Caregiver Insurance Act: Insights from a Survey of Employers (open access)

Assessing Rhode Island's Temporary Caregiver Insurance Act: Insights from a Survey of Employers

A report which provides evidence on Rhode Island's Temporary Caregiver Insurance (TCI) law, which took effect in January 2014, based on a survey of small and medium-sized businesses in the food services and manufacturing sectors in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
Date: January 2016
Creator: Bartel, Ann; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Ruhm, Christopher & Waldfogel, Jane
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessing Rhode Islands Temporary Caregiver Insurance Act-Insights from a Survey of Employers (open access)

Assessing Rhode Islands Temporary Caregiver Insurance Act-Insights from a Survey of Employers

This report adds new evidence Rhode Island's Temporary Caregiver Insurance (TCI) law.
Date: January 2016
Creator: Bartel, Ann
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
2015 Paid Leave Analysis Grantee Information (open access)

2015 Paid Leave Analysis Grantee Information

A grant by the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training that wishes to expand its Temporary Caregiver Insurance (TCI) Program.
Date: 2015
Creator: Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Indicators of Ecological Stress and Their Extent in the Population of Northeastern Lakes: A Regional-Scale Assessment (open access)

Indicators of Ecological Stress and Their Extent in the Population of Northeastern Lakes: A Regional-Scale Assessment

Article reporting findings from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) conducted on a sample of lakes in the Northeastern United States from 1991 to 1996.
Date: March 2002
Creator: Whittier, Thomas R.; Paulsen, Steven G.; Larsen, David P.; Peterson, Spencer A.; Herlihy, Alan T. & Kaufmann, Philip R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clean Power Plan, State at a Glance: Rhode Island (open access)

Clean Power Plan, State at a Glance: Rhode Island

Document outlining state-specific goals for carbon dioxide emissions and energy efficiency through 2030 for the state of Rhode Island.
Date: August 3, 2015
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
What Climate Change Means for Rhode Island (open access)

What Climate Change Means for Rhode Island

Fact sheet describing state-specific impacts that global warming will have on the people, ecosystems, and wildlife in Rhode Island.
Date: August 2016
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Findings from the 2014 Paid Leave Analysis Grants Program (open access)

Findings from the 2014 Paid Leave Analysis Grants Program

This report provides and analysis of the Paid Leave Analysis grants awarded in 2014 to Massachusetts, Montana, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia. Additionally it identifies general lessons learned about what t takes to study, develop, and implement a state-level paid family and medical leave program.
Date: September 2016
Creator: United States. Women's Bureau.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Providence, Rhode Island--Connecticut--Massachusetts--New York

Map showing biological resources (aquatic organisms, terrestrial organisms, land use, etc.) in the Providence region of the Atlantic coast area. Scale 1:250,000.
Date: 1980
Creator: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Object Type: Map
System: The UNT Digital Library
New England Beryllium Investigations (open access)

New England Beryllium Investigations

Report issued by the Bureau of mines over studies conducted on beryllium deposits in New England. Evaluations of the deposits are presented and discussed. This report includes tables, maps, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: 1968
Creator: Barton, William R. & Goldsmith, Carl E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Beekeeping in the Clover Region (open access)

Beekeeping in the Clover Region

"Beekeeping methods suitable for the clover region are well developed but many beekeepers of this region are failing to obtain the full available honey crop because of deficiencies in their practice. A system of management is here given which will result in a full crop from these sources. The variation in the value of the clovers to the beekeeper is also discussed and the methods to be followed in bringing the clover region back to its former prominence in honey production are outlined." -- p. 2
Date: 1922
Creator: Phillips, Everett Franklin, 1878-1951 & Demuth, Geo. S. (George S.)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Eradication of Ferns from Pasture Lands in the Eastern United States (open access)

Eradication of Ferns from Pasture Lands in the Eastern United States

"There are nearly 7,500 recognized species of ferns in the world, of which number over 200 are known to be native to the United States. A few species have become weed pests in this country, and it is to a discussion of the control of these weedy ferns that this bulletin is devoted. The parts of the United States in which ferns are bad weeds are, principally, (1) the hill country of the Northeastern States and the higher portions of the Appalachian Mountain region as far south as Georgia, and (2) the Pacific coast country west of the Cascade Mountains.... This publication deals only with fern eradication in the Eastern States." -- p. 1-2
Date: 1915
Creator: Cox, H. R. (Herbert Randolph)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Gipsy Moth and the Brown-Tail Moth and Their Control (open access)

The Gipsy Moth and the Brown-Tail Moth and Their Control

"This bulletin describes briefly the seasonal history and habits of [the gypsy moth and the brown-tail moth] and suggests the best methods for their control, determined and adopted as a result of many extensive experiments." -- p. 5
Date: 1917
Creator: Burgess, A. F.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Roundheaded Apple-Tree Borer (open access)

The Roundheaded Apple-Tree Borer

This report discusses the roundheaded apple-tree borer, an insect in the eastern and midwestern United States that, in its larval stage, destroys the bark and wood of apple trees. Several methods of control are discussed, including worming, paints and washes, and sprays.Apple-tree borers.
Date: 1915
Creator: Brooks, Fred E.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
How to Attract Birds in Northeastern United States (open access)

How to Attract Birds in Northeastern United States

"The means of increasing the number of birds about our homes are few and simple. They comprise adequate protection and the provision of suitable nesting places, food, and water.... This bulletin [recommends] practicable methods of attracting birds about homes [in the northeastern United States]. Especial attention will be given to the value of fruit-bearing shrubs and trees." -- title page. Protection for birds, winter feeding, water supplies, and nesting boxes and birdhouses are also discussed.
Date: 1914
Creator: McAtee, W. L. (Waldo Lee), 1883-1962
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Control of the Chestnut Bark Disease (open access)

The Control of the Chestnut Bark Disease

Report discussing the spread of the chestnut bark disease, including its causes, symptoms, modes of transmission, financial consequences, and the possible methods of controlling it.
Date: 1911
Creator: Metcalf, Haven, 1875-1940 & Collins, J. Franklin (James Franklin), b. 1863
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library