Election proxy or ticket for the 1835 Rhode Island election listing candidates for governor and lieutenant governor (Nehemiah R. Knight and George Engs, respectively), ten candidates for state senate, and also the candidates for secretary, attorney general, and general treasurer.
The Sidney S. Rider Collection, the largest private collection of materials related to the history of Rhode Island, was purchased from Sidney Rider and presented to the library by Marsden Perry in 1903. Rider was a leading Providence bookseller, publisher …
