Rhode Island College Professor Chester Smolski retired in 1994 after a successful 41 year career at the college. Professor Smolski co-developed and coordinated the Rhode Island Geographic Education Alliance, a project of the National Geographic Society, and was an acknowledged expert on urban geography, urban history and city planning. He contributed over 370 columns for The Providence Journal and Providence Business News.
In 2009, the Smolski family donated almost 8000 slides and 370 Op-Ed columns to the James P. Adams Library permanent collection at Rhode Island College. Both the slides and the Op-Ed columns are authored by Professor Smolski. They reflect the international nature of his research and his commitment to using that work to inform public discussion on Rhode Island's place in history and the world. The Adams Library has committed itself to maintain this outstanding collection and to place the Smolski Collection on its Digital Commons because of its educational value for urban studies, geography, architectural history and city planning.
The digitization of this collection was supported in part by a grant from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities and with financial support from the Smolski family.
The Smolski Photography Collection is also available on Shared Shelf Commons.
Browse the Smolski Images Collections:
- Smolski Images Belgium
- Smolski Images Brazil
- Smolski Images Canada
- Smolski Images Denmark
- Smolski Images Dominican Republic
- Smolski Images Finland
- Smolski Images France
- Smolski Images Germany
- Smolski Images Greece
- Smolski Images Israel
- Smolski Images Mexico
- Smolski Images Netherlands
- Smolski Images Palestine
- Smolski Images Portugal
- Smolski Images Rhode Island
- Smolski Images Russia
- Smolski Images Spain
- Smolski Images Sweden
- Smolski Images Switzerland
- Smolski Images Ukraine
- Smolski Images United Kingdom
- Smolski Images United States