newport

[Mrs. William F. (Elizabeth Underhill) Coles house, Bellevue Avenue an...

Photograph shows view of mansion designed by Richard Morris Hunt. Handwritten on verso: "[Mrs. Coles, Newport ... CEP, 10/29/76]." Gift; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation; 20... More

Cornelius Vanderbilt "Breakers," Newport, R.I. / Frank H. Child, photo...

Photograph shows view of mansion designed by Richard Morris Hunt. Blind stamped: Copyright 1895 Frank H. Child. Gift; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:10... More

Opera House, Newport, R.I. - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical landmark building, courtyard, 17th, 18th, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rock oyster digging, Newport, Oregon

Photograph shows men with pickaxes and women and children gathering oysters at coast. J142892 U.S. Copyright Office. Stamped on recto: Wittemann Collection (Albertype Co.), gift of Mrs. Gladys G. Wittemann, Ju... More

["The Breakers," Cornelius Vanderbilt II house, 44 Ochre Point Avenue...

Site History. House Architecture: Richard Morris Hunt, 1892-1896. Landscape: Ernest William Bowditch and James Higginson Bowditch. Associated Name: Alice Gwynne (Mrs. Cornelius) Vanderbilt II. Today: Public sit... More

Traffic Cop, Newport - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Officer Freeborn Coggeshall of Newport, Rhode Island standing on a platform he invented to use while directing traffic. In 1915 the community gave him an umbrella to go over it. (Source: Flickr... More

Buddy's Tattoo Shop, Newport, Rhode Island

Index data: 1-20, General shots while Buddy is working on Bill McLaughlin

C.E.T.A. workshop for National Black Ensemble Theatre (NBET) at the "o...

Index data: 1-3, Tracy Anderson; 4-6, Wynetta Johnson (technical assistant for NBET productions); 7, Dayle Harden (technical assistant for NBET productions); 8, Ramona Baily (dancer in "Black Renaissance"); 9, ... More

Mother Key's Memorial Church of God in Christ congregation, Newport, R...

Index data: 2-37, Mother Key church congregation, including 3, 25-28, Mother Key

Nichols-Wanton-Hunter House, 54 Washington Street, Newport, Newport Co...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Rhode Island, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Full-length portrait of an African American boy standing beside a cha...

Public domain photograph of military parade, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Daniel T. Swinburne House, 6 Greenough Place, Newport, Newport County,...

Significance: This is a two story, frame Gothic Revival house. It is one of the best preserved examples of a type seen in several mid 19th century sections of Newport and elsewhere. Survey number: HABS RI-312... More

Lovell Beach House, 1242 West Ocean Front, Newport Beach, Orange Count...

Structure is associated with the DeStijl Movement & Brutalist design. Significance: The Lovell Beach House is generally considered one of the greatest works of pioneering modern architect, R.M. Schindler. It d... More

Naval Torpedo Station, Firing Pier, North end of Gould Island in Narra...

Significance: The firing pier is part of a complex built by the Navy during the World War II expansion of the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island. This complex, located at the north end of Gould Isl... More

Breakers, Newport, R.I., The - Victorian era public domain image

Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

N.Y. Yacht Club Landing - Newport

Public domain photograph of New York building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

N.Y. Yacht Club Landing - Newport J.J. Astor & party

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

A sketch-book at Newport / Raymond Crawford Ewer Newport '04 R.I. ; dr...

Illustration shows a vignette cartoon with several scenes of events at Newport, Rhode Island during the summer: fashionably dressed young women arriving by carriage and automobile, women socializing among thems... More

[Gardener pushing lawn mower, posed to illustrate Rudyard Kipling's po...

No. R.I. 1102. No. 356. Title and date information provided by Sam Watters, 2012. Print made by the Library of Congress. Frances Benjamin Johnston posed gardeners performing gardening jobs to illustrate the pop... More

Architects and their work, Dwight James Baum. Dwight James Baum at Cou...

Public domain photograph of midcentury American portrait, 1940s-1950s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aquidneck Lobster Company, Lobster boat, storing and cleaning lobster,...

Index data: 1, Ship leaving; 2-5, Storing lobster and other fish; 6-20, Cleaning steamed lobster for sale to restaurants -- Johny Walyo

Nichols-Wanton-Hunter House, 54 Washington Street, Newport, Newport Co...

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Augustus Lucas House, 40 Division Street, Newport, Newport County, RI

Survey number: HABS RI-336 Building/structure dates: 1721 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1745- 1750 Subsequent Work National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 71000024

Belle Brittan on a tour at Newport, and here and there.

Also available in digital form.

[House ("The Breakers") for Cornelius Vanderbilt, Newport, Rhode Islan...

Signed: E.L.M. Gift; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:100) Forms part of: The AIA/AAF Collection (Library of Congress) Accession box no. DLC/PP-2010:100 ... More

Exterior, Old Mill, Newport - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woman Suffrage Gathering at Newport Marble House

Suffragists attend lecture on grounds of Marble House, Newport home of Mrs. Alva Belmont.

The Hi Carpenter Memorial Bridge, a cantilever bridge over the Ohio Ri...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Completed in 1977, the bridge replaced a 1928 eyebar suspension bridge that was closed immediately following the collapse of the simil... More

Aerial view of Newport on Aquidneck Island in the U.S. state of Rhode ...

The city is famous for its rich nautical history and its array of elegant mansions owned by the rich and famous. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Hi... More

Newport Black Ensemble Theatre Group (NBET) workshop at the "old Navy ...

Index data: 1, Ramona Baily (dancer in "Black Renaissance"); 2, Barbara McDowell (dancer in "Black Renaissance"); 3-4, Arndra "Weedy" Durden (dancer in "Black Renaissance"); 5, Left to right: Frank S. Young (da... More

Touro Synagogue, Congregation Jeshuat Israel, 85 Touro Street, Newport...

Significance: Touro Synagogue is perhaps Peter Harrison's most successful building. Although it presents a most severe facade to the street, the interior treatment, including carved wooden furnishings and gall... More

The Elms, Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Newport County, RI

Significance: "The Elms," completed in 1901, is an example of the European tradition of palaces interpreted in Newport in the Age of Elegance. Survey number: HABS RI-344 Building/structure dates: 1901 Initial... More

"Belcourt," residence of O.H.P. Belmont Esq., Newport, R.I., 1891, din...

Photograph shows interior of Belcourt, designed by Richard Morris Hunt for Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont. Typed on label on verso: "Photographs of the work of Richard Morris Hunt. Residence of O.H.P. Belmont Esq... More

Marble Palace at Newport. Lectures on Woman Suffrage, Marble House, Au...

Announcing lectures by Anna Howard Shaw and Charles Zueblin; Photomechanical prints of Anna Shaw, Mrs. Belmont and Marble House

An Ideal "Rally" for Woman Suffrage

Reprint of New York Herald editorial notes that the "charming" suffrage gathering at Mrs. O. H.P. Belmont's Newport mansion was on a higher plane than the rioting mobs of British suffragists, the majority of wo... More

Alva Vanderbilt's tea house behind the Vanderbilts' sumptuous Marble H...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carol M. Highsmith - Marble House, Newport, Rhode Island

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. One of the Gilded Age mansions of Newport, now open to ... More

Nichols-Wanton-Hunter House, 54 Washington Street, Newport, Newport Co...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Nichols-Wanton-Hunter House, 54 Washington Street, Newport, Newport Co...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Touro Synagogue, Congregation Jeshuat Israel, 85 Touro Street, Newport...

Significance: Touro Synagogue is perhaps Peter Harrison's most successful building. Although it presents a most severe facade to the street, the interior treatment, including carved wooden furnishings and gall... More

Touro Synagogue, Congregation Jeshuat Israel, 85 Touro Street, Newport...

Significance: Touro Synagogue is perhaps Peter Harrison's most successful building. Although it presents a most severe facade to the street, the interior treatment, including carved wooden furnishings and gall... More

Christmas Newport waltz - Public domain American sheet music

Fort Adams, Warehouse Building No. 93, Newport, Newport County, RI

Survey number: HABS RI-347-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000014

Schooner Yacht Coronet, International Yacht Restoration School, Thames...

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Marble House, William Kissam Vanderbilt house (Newport, Rhode Island)....

Original architectural drawing showing section of Marble House in Newport, Rhode Island, with rendering of interiors. Dates from Wikipedia. Inscribed in pencil: W.K.V., Newport, R.I. Gift; American Institute o... More

5 female Negro officers of Women's League, Newport, R.I.

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Reportedly displayed as part of the American Negro exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900. Caption card tracings: Woman; African American history; RI ... More

[Black and white, an informal portrait of a young Negro woman surround...

A young African American woman working in the midst of clotheslines heavy with sheets and stockings. LOT 10137 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1964).... More

Tennis players on court, Casino, Newport

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Casino entrance, Newport - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tennis finals - Newport - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows the United States National Championship tennis finals at Newport Casino, Newport, Rhode Island. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

Training Station, U.S. Navy, Newport, Rhode Island

Bird's-eye view with pier and boats in foregrd. Photoprint copyrighted by Casablanca. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Navy, U.S.; WWI; Ph. Ind.

Governor Caleb Carr House, Conanicut Island, Jamestown, Newport County...

Significance: The house was evidently built in two phases, one of stone (ashlar) masonry and the other in wood. The house had a gable roof. Unfortunately, the house has been demolished. Survey number: HABS RI-... More

C.E.T.A. workshop for National Black Ensemble Theatre (NBET) at the "o...

Index data: 1-3, Tracy Anderson; 4-6, Wynetta Johnson (technical assistant for NBET productions); 7, Dayle Harden (technical assistant for NBET productions); 8, Ramona Baily (dancer in "Black Renaissance"); 9, ... More

Buddy's Tattoo Shop, including night shots, Newport, Rhode Island

Index data: 2-7, Exterior of shop at night; 8-36, Buddy at work on Bill McLaughlin

Sabbatarian Meetinghouse, 82 Touro Street (moved from Spring & Barney ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-36 Survey number: HABS RI-113 Building/structure dates: 1729 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1887 Subsequent Work Building/struct... More

[John N. A. Griswold house (now Newport Art Museum), Newport, Rhode Is...

Inscribed in pencil J. Griswold [?]. Notation on verso: HWM1.1.3. Also: P.50. Floor plan sketch on verso, also small detail sketch. Gift ; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation ;... More

Naval Torpedo Station, Firing Pier, North end of Gould Island in Narra...

Significance: The firing pier is part of a complex built by the Navy during the World War II expansion of the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island. This complex, located at the north end of Gould Isl... More

Map of the city of Cincinnati / - Public domain old map

Map has profile of the bottom of the Ohio River ; scale recording height of reservoirs and extent of the river's overflow ; landmarks ; ward boundaries. Map includes environs of Cincinnati including parts of Co... More

Road map of the island of Rhode Island or Aquidneck /

Relief shown by hachures. Includes inset of Newport. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Boston, Fall River, Newport, and New York via Taunton. Fastest and mos...

Transportation. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 82, Folder 14.

[Richard Baker Jr. house, Westcliff, Ledge Road, Newport, Rhode Island...

Photograph shows view of mansion designed by Richard Morris Hunt. Handwritten on verso: "[Baker house, Newport ... CEP, 2/4/76]." Gift; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation; 201... More

Marble House, William Kissam Vanderbilt house (Newport, Rhode Island)....

Original architectural drawing showing design for the fireplace and surrounding paneling in the dining room of Marble House in Newport, Rhode Island. Dates from Wikipedia. Title on item: Fireplace elevation wi... More

Newport Black Ensemble Theatre Group (NBET) workshop at the "old Navy ...

Index data: 1, Ramona Baily (dancer in "Black Renaissance"); 2, Barbara McDowell (dancer in "Black Renaissance"); 3-4, Arndra "Weedy" Durden (dancer in "Black Renaissance"); 5, Left to right: Frank S. Young (da... More

Touro Synagogue, Congregation Jeshuat Israel, 85 Touro Street, Newport...

Significance: Touro Synagogue is perhaps Peter Harrison's most successful building. Although it presents a most severe facade to the street, the interior treatment, including carved wooden furnishings and gall... More

Touro Synagogue, Congregation Jeshuat Israel, 85 Touro Street, Newport...

Significance: Touro Synagogue is perhaps Peter Harrison's most successful building. Although it presents a most severe facade to the street, the interior treatment, including carved wooden furnishings and gall... More

Kingscote, Bellevue Avenue & Bowery Street, Newport, Newport County, R...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a victorian era building, victorian house, 19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Executive board of Women's League, Newport, R.I.]

Portrait of six African American women. Displayed as part of the American Negro exhibit at Exposition Universal, 1900, Paris, France.

Naval training Station, Newport, R.I., commissary school - class for b...

Public domain photograph of industrial building, factory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rhode Island. Newport Easton's Beach

Photograph shows crowds of people on the beach; some in bathing suits others fully clothed; some gathered under tents.

["Beacon Hill House," Arthur Curtiss James house, Beacon Hill Road, Ne...

Site History. House Architecture: Howells & Stokes, 1910. Landscape: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Henry Hill Blossom, Olmsted Brothers, 1908-1913, 1915-1916, with Hempsted of Boston, contractors. John Greatorex, ... More

["Hammersmith Farm," Hugh Dudley Auchincloss house, Harrison Avenue, N...

Site History. House Architecture: Originally built for John W. Auchincloss, 1887. Landscape: James Frederick Dawson and Henry Hill Blossom, Olmsted Brothers 1909-1910. Associated Name: Emma Jennings (Mrs. Hugh... More

Newport Black Ensemble Theatre (NBET) presentations, Newport, Rhode Is...

Index data: 1-16, Graduation presentations; 1-3, Michael Bell, fieldworker, taping proceedings; 4, "Sugar Bear"; 9, (on far right) Della Lou Tolbert

Newport Black Ensemble Theatre Group (NBET) workshop at the "old Navy ...

Index data: 1, Ramona Baily (dancer in "Black Renaissance"); 2, Barbara McDowell (dancer in "Black Renaissance"); 3-4, Arndra "Weedy" Durden (dancer in "Black Renaissance"); 5, Left to right: Frank S. Young (da... More

Nichols-Wanton-Hunter House, 54 Washington Street, Newport, Newport Co...

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John N. A. Griswold House, 76 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Newport County...

Significance: This is an early and key example of a major style of domestic architecture in America in the second half of the 19th century. It is characterized by open planning, irregular and picturesque massi... More

The Elms, Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Newport County, RI

Significance: "The Elms," completed in 1901, is an example of the European tradition of palaces interpreted in Newport in the Age of Elegance. Survey number: HABS RI-344 Building/structure dates: 1901 Initial... More

The Elms, Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Newport County, RI

Significance: "The Elms," completed in 1901, is an example of the European tradition of palaces interpreted in Newport in the Age of Elegance. Survey number: HABS RI-344 Building/structure dates: 1901 Initial... More

A plan of the town of Newport in Rhode Island.

Scale ca. 1:6,000. Relief shown by hachures. Appears in William Faden's Atlas of battles of the American Revolution. [1845] Oriented with north to the left. Indexed for points of interest. LC Maps of North Amer... More

Marble House, William K. and Alva Vanderbilt mansion, Newport, Rhode I...

Photograph shows front of mansion designed by Richard Morris Hunt. Gift; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:100) Forms part of: The AIA/AAF Collection (Lib... More

[House ("The Breakers") for Cornelius Vanderbilt, Newport, Rhode Islan...

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Belcourt, summer estate of Oliver H.P. Belmont, Newport, R.I.]

Photograph shows house at Belcourt, designed by Richard Morris Hunt for Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont. Gift; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:100) Forms pa... More

The Breakers from the gate, Newport, R.I.

Picryl description: Public domain image of gates, gateway, passage, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Newport, Mrs. A.G. Vanderbilt's charity bazaar

Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. J.L. Van Alen (Bruguiere), residence in Wakehurst, Newport, Rhode...

Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mrs. J.L. Van Alen (Bruguiere), residence in Wakehurst, Newport, Rhode...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mrs. Louis Brugiere, residence in Newport, Rhode Island. Ballroom II

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic place interior, salon, hall lobby, living room, 18th-19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Aerial view of Newport on Aquidneck Island in the U.S. state of Rhode ...

The 1895 mansion was built as the Newport summer "cottage" of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, a member of the wealthy United States Vanderbilt family, in an architectural style based on the Italian Renaissance. It was... More

Buddy's Tattoo Shop, Newport, Rhode Island

Index data: 1, Michael Bell at Buddy's; 2, Me at Buddy's; 3-10, Billy Wilmers, customer at Buddy's; 11-20, Bill McLaughlin, customer

Newport Bridge, unloading lobsters, Aquidneck Lobster Company, Newport...

Index data: 1-12, General views, Newport Bridge from Goat Island Bridge; 14-36, Unloading lobsters from lobster boat, Iron Horse; 14-17, 19-24, of the pier and the rest of the boat

Wildacre, Ocean Drive, Newport, Newport County, RI

Significance: Designed for Frederic Law Olmsted's brother Albert, Wildacre was Irving Gill's first commission on the East Coast. The house, with its extensive use of glass and pocket windows, invited the outsid... More

Lovell Beach House, 1242 West Ocean Front, Newport Beach, Orange Count...

Structure is associated with the DeStijl Movement & Brutalist design. Significance: The Lovell Beach House is generally considered one of the greatest works of pioneering modern architect, R.M. Schindler. It d... More

Fort Adams, Redoubt, Brenton Point, Newport, Newport County, RI

Public domain photograph - historical image of Rhode Island, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lazy Lawn, 528 Third Beach Road, Middletown, Newport County, RI

Significance: Lazy Lawn was built as the first summer home in Rhode Island, in the early 1700's. It was built by Joseph Angell of Providence. The house was purchased by Samuel Green Arnold in 1843. This piec... More

Map of Newport & vicinity, or Rhode Island.

Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. "Published by M. Dripps, New York, 1860." LC Land ownership maps, 828 Gift; Mrs. Draper L. Kauffmann; 1958. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year... More

Surf bathing - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain photograph - historical image of Rhode Island, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Residence of Commodore James, front view

Photograph shows view of "Beacon Hill House," home of Arthur Curtiss and Harriet Eddy Parsons James, Newport, Rhode Island, with workers in the garden. From group of photos that appears to be a proof for devel... More

Scrub and Wash Clothes -- Naval Training School, Newport

Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is availabl... More

Congressional Union for Woman's Suffrage, National Summer Headquarters...

Photograph shows group portrait of suffragettes standing outside in front of headquarters. Copyright 1914 by Ernst & Thuot, Newport, R. I. Copyright registration title: Congressional union for woman's suffrage,... More

At Mrs. [Alva]] Belmont's [house in] Newport, RI, 1914.

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of women and men on steps leading up to Marble House, Alva Belmont's estate in Newport, RI.

["Mariemont," Thomas Josephus Emery house, 386 Greenwood Ave., Middlet...

Site History. House Architecture: Dr, Charles F. Hawyood House by Richard Morris Hunt, 1871, possibly incorporated into Thomas J. Emery house, circa 1901. Landscape: 19 acres by John Charles Olmsted, Henry Vinc... More