rhode island

A general map of the middle British colonies in America, viz. Virginia...

Scale ca. 1:2,250,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Shows "West longitude from London" and "from Philadelphia." Differs from other copies in absence of Connecticut River north of "Great Falls." Also ... More

Twenty five dollars - Public domain portrait engraving

Print shows a bank note for $25 with a bust portrait of George Washington, right profile, in a medallion surrounded by text which states: "The President, Directois and Company of Washington Bank in Westerly [Rh... More

[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

Exploding a Whitehead torpedo /

"The torpedo was exploded in fifteen fathoms of water. The picture shows the water, mud and rocks being thrown high up in the air, and will give an idea of the destructiveness of one of these missiles. 25 feet"... More

[The Manger, an experimental negative to show values of white against ...

LOT 10137 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1964). Gift, Mina Turner, Käsebier's granddaughter ; 1964. Title and date from mount of corresponding print... More

Two boys working in Coventry Co. Mill, Anthony, R. I. 6 P.M. April 16,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Navy baseball game at Newport, Rhode Island]

Postcard shows men in navy uniforms gathered around baseball diamond. J168350 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 106. Copyright 1912, N. G. Moser.

Rose Island Lighthouse, 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. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Aerial view of the grounds of the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, on...

The music festival, held every summer, was established in 1954 by socialite Elaine Lorillard, who, together with husband Louis Lorillard, financed the festival for many years. It is often held in the same month... More

National picture. Behold oh! America, your sons. The greatest among me...

A smaller version of no. 1865-7, issued later the same year and printed from one rather than two lithographic stones. In this version the figure of Lincoln is more convincingly drawn, but the continent is cropp... 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

Buddy's Tattoo Shop, Newport, Rhode Island

Index data: 1-4, Exterior of shop; 5-8, Carlton A. "Buddy" Mott; 9-12, Tom Bibbey, customer; 16-17, John D. Painter, customer, member of "Blue Knights," police motorcycle club; 18-20, Curtain drawn while woman ... More

Ebenezer Baptist Church, outside service, Providence, Rhode Island

Index data: 1-20, Outside church service, general views Public domain photograph - historical image of Rhode Island, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Advent wreaths at St. Joseph's Church (Roman Catholic), Central Falls,...

Index data: 1-3, Close up of two Advent wreaths, showing card ("made specially for Frances King"), candles (purple and lavender), and ribbons; 4-6, Close up of one Advent wreath ("made special for Phillip Kryla")

Louis Wolfe and Norman Wolfe, taxidermy (pheasant), Coventry, Rhode Is...

Index data: 1-14, Attaching metal wires to legs and wings; 15-20, Preparing main body mold

Kids fishing, beach club, tetherball game, Bonnet Shores, Rhode Island

Index data: 1-10, Kids fishing on Bonnet Shores; 11-19, Bonnet Shores Beach Club, including; 11-12, Martha Hoey and friend; 14-19, Tetherball game

Houses and businesses, Wickford, Rhode Island

Index data: 1-20, Homes and businesses and Brown Street, north from the Brown House

St. Ann's Church service, baptisms, Woonsocket, Rhode Island

Index data: 2-37, General shots of Catholic service; Congregation mostly French-Canadian; 17-37, Baptism of several babies

C.E.T.A. exhibition, National Black Ensemble Theatre (NBET), Providenc...

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

Noon Hour. All these boys (and more) worked in the Quidwick Co. Mill, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of war, military conflict, infantry, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Seril Dodge House, 10 Thomas Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Significance: This frame house is a typical example of the smaller buildings of the period, with unusually fine detail in the stairway and the mantels. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure... More

William Wilkinson House, 69 College Street, Providence, Providence Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-24 Survey number: HABS RI-24 Building/structure dates: 1818 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1954 Demolished

Fort Hamilton, Bomb-Proof Barracks, Rose Island, Newport, Newport Coun...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N926 Survey number: HAER RI-58-A Building/structure dates: 1798-1800 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 01001158

Warren-Bache House, 86 State Street, Bristol, Bristol County, RI

Significance: 86 State Street was designed by well known regional architect Russell Warren in 1807. Warren lived in the house from 1814 until 1823. This residence as interpreted by Warren is an example of the... More

Samuel B. Tobey, et al. to Abraham Lincoln, Wednesday, January 02, 18...

The Breakers, Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Newport County, RI

Significance: Modeled on the north Italian Villas of Genoa and Turin, "The Breakers" was designed by Richard Morris Hunt. The last of the great Vanderbilt houses he designed, it was erected between 1893 and 18... More

[One of the young spinners in the Quidwick Co. Mill. Anthony, R. I. (A...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Samuel Whitehorne House, 414 Thames Street, Newport, Newport County, R...

Significance: This house built in 1810-1800, was the residence of Samuel Whitehorne, a prosperous Newport merchant in partnership with his brother, John, until they went bankrupt in 1843. It is a fine example ... More

[James Collins, Providence Team, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: American Tobacco Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

David King House, 20 Catherine Street, Newport, Newport County, RI

Significance: This is an unusually well-preserved example of the 1-1/2 story, mansard-roofed houses typical of the decades following the Civil War, particularly in this section of Newport. Survey number: HABS ... More

[Tickets] Providence, R. I. 1826.

4 tickets. 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 168, Folder 13a.

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

Slater Mill, Pawtucket, Providence County, RI

For additional documentation, see also Slater Mill (HABS RI-82). Significance: The Slater Mill was the first successful cotton factory, and the first water powered spinning mill using the Arkwright system of ca... More

Chateau-sur-Mer, Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Newport County, RI

Significance: "Chateau-sur-Mer," its lodge, entrance arch, and greenhouse were built in 1851-1852 by the Newport contractor Seth C. Bradford for William Shepard Wetmore, merchant in the China trade. His son, Ge... More

A map of the most inhabited part of New England, containing the provin...

Scale ca. 1:440,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: London and Ferro. Relief shown pictorially. Includes compilation data and insets of "A plan of the town of Boston" and "A plan of Boston Harbor from an accurat... More

Bowles's new pocket map of the most inhabited part of New England; com...

2d Rhode Island Infantry. American Civil War 1861-1865.

No. 993. Mounted with five other photographs. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Camp Brightwood, D.C.--Contrabands in 2nd R.I. Camp

Capt. B.S. Brown (left); Lt. John P. Shaw, Co. F 2nd Regt. Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry (center); and Lt. Fry (right) with African American men and boy. Title transcribed from item. Purchase; William A. Glad... 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

Veteran Virginia Senator marches to House to hear President Roosevelt....

A couple of men sitting in the back of a car. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[A beautiful young spinner and doffer in Interlaken Mill, Arkwirght, R...

Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Brown University #1, Providence, R.I., Panoramic Photograph

J136150 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Haines Photo Co.; December 20, 1909; DLC/PP-1910:43940.

Soup time for pupils in the open-air school, Providence, R.I., ca. 191...

No. 4. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Stores; Health ca. 1910; Open-air schools; Rhode Island P... More

(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Cigar factory of F. Delloiacono [...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, economic conditions, children workers, exploitation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Women immersing bouchon assemblies for hand grenades in Vatudrip to p...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

House at 1500 Rhode Island Ave. Spiral staircase of house at 1500 Rhod...

Public domain photograph of stairs, steps, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Houses in Woonsocket, Rhode Island

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, 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 historic place interior, salon, hall lobby, living room, 18th-19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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

Sunset off the shore of Block Island, 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. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

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

Architectural detail on building in downtown Providence, Rhode Island

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Charles Arnold, firewood producer, Saunderstown, Rhode Island

Index data: 1-2, General shot of the wood pile; 3-4, The saw and bulldozer scoop for holding the cut logs; 5-6, Starting the motor to run the saw; 7-11, Cutting the wood into 1 1/2-2 ft. lengths; 12-17, The log... More

West Street Bridge, West Street over New Haven Railroad, Westerly, Was...

Significance: Erected in 1913, the West Street Bridge is a significant and massive example of a steel Pratt through-truss, a type of structure that evolved as a common bridge design solution in the early twenti... More

Louis Wolfe and Norman Wolfe, taxidermy (deer), Coventry, Rhode Island

Index data: 1-4, Particular care in cutting around the eyes; 5-7, Particular care where the skin is very thin around the nose and mouth; 8-11, The skin, head and neck portions after skinning; 12-20, Removing an... More

Teens in gym making something out of papier mache, Rhode Island

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

Kids playing, Bonnet Shores Recreation Center, Bonnet Shores, Rhode Is...

Index data: 1-20, Kids playing Public domain photograph - historical image of Rhode Island, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Louis Wolfe and Norman Wolfe, taxidermy (pheasant), Coventry, Rhode Is...

Index data: 1-14, The body and neck forms and their placement in the bird, attaching leg and wing wires through the body form; 15, Louis Wolfe; 16-20, Mounting the bird on a mounting board

Kevin Fallon, fiddler, West Glocester, Rhode Island; Miriam Craig, app...

Index data: 3-19, Kevin Fallon, fiddler, in various poses, West Glocester, Rhode Island; 20, Large Teddy Bear cookie in home of Miriam Craig, Chepachet, Rhode Island; 21, Wooden toy gun carved by Miriam Craig; ... 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.

Fireplace House, Entrance "A" Road to Lincoln Woods Reservation, Sayle...

Significance: Although no longer extant, the Fireplace House was an example of the regional building type, the "stone-ender" wherein the masonry of the chimney is exposed and forms a majority of one end wall. I... 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

Modern Diner, 13 Dexter Street, Pawtucket, Providence County, RI

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

Providence Biltmore Hotel, 11 Dorrance Street, Providence, Providence ...

Significance: The Providence Biltomore Hotel was by far the most modern structure in Providence at the time of its completion in 1922. It was not only the tallest building in Providence, but its facilities and... More

Providence Academy, Tenth Street, Vancouver, Clark County, WA

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

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

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

Thomas Fenner House, 1538 Plainfield Street, Thornton, Providence Coun...

Significance: The Thomas Fenner House is an example of a Rhode Island frame house with the stone of the chimney exposed at one end (i.e., the stone ender). Survey number: HABS RI-72 Building/structure dates: ... More

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

[Patent medicine labels for Perry Davis & Son, showing view of Provide...

Public domain photograph of beverage advertisement, food, drinks, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Excursion steamer wharves, St. Louis, Missouri

Shows steamer City of Providence. No. 2426. Public domain photograph of steamboat ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A look ahead at Newport / J.S. Pughe.

Print shows a late summer scene at Newport, Rhode Island, with a carnival atmosphere, food vendors, merry-go-round, and entertainment at the "Marble House Casino" and "The 'Breakers' Coolest Pleasure Resort in ... More

[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.

Portico of the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence...

Print from The American architect, September 10, 1904, no. 1498. Forms part of: [U.S. Treasury Department Office of the Supervising Architect and General Services Administration resource volumes and scrapbooks... More

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.

["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

["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

Prominent society women to lead women's wet organization for next year...

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

Roger Williams honored. The laying of the wreath on the statue of Roge...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cemetery, memorial, monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

At a Saturday night square dance in Clayville, Rhode Island

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Christmas trees for sale at a gas station. Woonsocket, Rhode Island

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Hand-carved animals at the Looff Carousel in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, ...

The carousel was originally located at Lee Funland in upstate New York and in 1910 it was relocated here, at Pawtucket's Slater Memorial Park, where (as of 2018) it continues to operate. The carousel features a... More

Hanging "street clock" and elegant mural outside the Fine Time Watch a...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-3) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More

Mailbox, Bonnet Shores, Rhode Island; Wickford, Rhode Island; Pow Wow,...

Index data: 1-4, Mailbox at Bonnet Shores; 5-7, Wickford; 8-10, Crafts stand, van had Massachusetts license plates; 11-16, Craft stands; 17-20, Visitors photograph Indian children from New Mexico and show them ... More

Louis Wolfe and Norman Wolfe, taxidermy (pheasant), Coventry, Rhode Is...

Index data: 1-14, Attaching metal wires to legs and wings; 15-20, Preparing main body mold

Welcome party for Alan Jabbour, Biltmore Hotel, Providence, Rhode Isla...

Index data: 3-4, Fieldworkers Gerri Johnson and Michael Bell; 5-20, Claude Boyd, Susanne Vieira Dupre (white woman), Peggy Stith (black woman) -- singing telegram troupe; 21-25, Alan Jabbour opening welcome gift

Louis Wolfe and Norman Wolfe, taxidermy (pheasant), Coventry, Rhode Is...

Index data: 1-14, The body and neck forms and their placement in the bird, attaching leg and wing wires through the body form; 15, Louis Wolfe; 16-20, Mounting the bird on a mounting board

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

Surfing, Narragansett town beach, house signs, cottage, Olivo's beach,...

Index data: 2-27, Surfing and surfers, Narragansett Town Beach; 28-37, House signs and cottage, Olivo's Beach, Narragansett

Exercising horses, Cumberland, Rhode Island, Carl Fleischhauer

Index data: There pictures were taken on Jesse Carpenters' farm in the Town of Cumberland. The two girls were exercising Mr. Carpenters' horses. 1-3, Jumping, with Carpenters' house in background; 4, 5, 6, 11, ... More

Key's Memorial Church of God in Christ, Newport, Rhode Island

Index data: 1-15, General views of outside church service Public domain photograph - historical image of Rhode Island, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Restaurants, cemetery, Woonsocket, Rhode Island - Folklife project col...

Index data: 1-9, Ye Olde English Fish and Chips Restaurant at Market Square in Woonsocket; 10-13, Gabe's Fish and Chips on Rathbun Street in Woonsocket; 14-25, The grave of Marie Rose Ferron, "Little Rose" in P... More

Steere Orchards, Jimmy Steere, loading crates, Greenville, Rhode Islan...

Index data: 1-9, Jimmy Steere (1-6), part-owner, and others loading filled apple crates onto truck; 10-20, Views of orchard

Sand sculptures, Matunuck Beach, Rhode Island

Index data: 1-20, Beach with samples of sand sculpture, Del Bonis is sculptor; 8-11, Henry Horenstein, photographer; 15-20, Del Bonis and sculptures

Harrington brothers, sawmilling, West Greenwich, Rhode Island; Isaac H...

Index data: 1-18, Norman Wolfe removing last vestiges of the flesh from the skin of the head of a deer; 19-20, Current prices at the Wolfe taxidermy shop; 21-25, Isaac Hull's rifle range at the rear of his back... More

Kids fishing, beach club, tetherball game, Bonnet Shores, Rhode Island

Index data: 1-10, Kids fishing on Bonnet Shores; 11-19, Bonnet Shores Beach Club, including; 11-12, Martha Hoey and friend; 14-19, Tetherball game