Box Multi-Collection Box RI-09
Container
Contains 37 Results:
Storefront of A. MacDougall “Saddlery Travelling and Sporting Goods” with six men standing in the entryway and automobile on the right, 1900
Item — Box: Multi-Collection Box RI-09, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection includes a variety of photographs, 1880s-1920s, of Providence and other locations around Rhode Island including Newport Harbor, Block Island and Rock Hill. Images from album pages are primarily of Old Home Week in Providence, July 28-August 3, 1907, and other landscapes around Rhode Island. The loose images include group and individual portraits, domestic buildings, a schoolhouse, log cabin, storefront and the Providence fire department. Several photographs included images of...
Dates:
1900
Girl outside one-room schoolhouse with lettering on it: “Rock Hill 1893 / 13” -- labeled “Rock Hill School House and Ida”
Item — Box: Multi-Collection Box RI-09, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection includes a variety of photographs, 1880s-1920s, of Providence and other locations around Rhode Island including Newport Harbor, Block Island and Rock Hill. Images from album pages are primarily of Old Home Week in Providence, July 28-August 3, 1907, and other landscapes around Rhode Island. The loose images include group and individual portraits, domestic buildings, a schoolhouse, log cabin, storefront and the Providence fire department. Several photographs included images of...
Dates:
1880 - 1929
Four men in uniform each seated in a horse-drawn wagon posed outside a large brick building -- labeled “Pix may be district fire chiefs / Exchange Place / ‘Three ones’ Fire units where P.O. is now / John Ward / Wickford RI”
Item — Box: Multi-Collection Box RI-09, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection includes a variety of photographs, 1880s-1920s, of Providence and other locations around Rhode Island including Newport Harbor, Block Island and Rock Hill. Images from album pages are primarily of Old Home Week in Providence, July 28-August 3, 1907, and other landscapes around Rhode Island. The loose images include group and individual portraits, domestic buildings, a schoolhouse, log cabin, storefront and the Providence fire department. Several photographs included images of...
Dates:
1880 - 1929
Drawn color portrait of older woman. Handwritten “Marie Kilroy Leahy 1947”, 1947
Item — Box: Multi-Collection Box RI-09, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection includes a variety of photographs, 1880s-1920s, of Providence and other locations around Rhode Island including Newport Harbor, Block Island and Rock Hill. Images from album pages are primarily of Old Home Week in Providence, July 28-August 3, 1907, and other landscapes around Rhode Island. The loose images include group and individual portraits, domestic buildings, a schoolhouse, log cabin, storefront and the Providence fire department. Several photographs included images of...
Dates:
1947
Dorothy Hackney diary
Collection — Box: Multi-Collection Box RI-09
Identifier: 055-02
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a line-a-day diary of Dorothy Hackney kept while she lived in Providence and Dobbs Ferry, New York during the years of the First World War. The diary represents the musings and activities of a young female student from an upper class family who lived on the East Side of Providence. Prominent Providence families are mentioned throughout the years such as Chapin, Herreshoff, Allen and Rathbun. The bulk of the diary describes her social life, school, friends and...
Dates:
June 20, 1914-December 31, 1918
Found in:
Providence Public Library
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Dorothy Hackney diary
Album of Theodore Francis Green’s 1941 Birthday Party
Item — Box: Multi-Collection Box RI-09
Identifier: 058-03
Scope and Contents
Collection includes one photograph album holding photographs and captions documenting U.S. Senator Theodore Francis Green’s 74th birthday dinner sponsored by the Town Criers of Rhode Island at the Providence Biltmore, October 2, 1941. Guests include a number of United States Senators as well as prominent Rhode Island figures.
Dates:
1941-10-02
William Padget Photograph Collection
Collection — Box: Multi-Collection Box RI-09
Identifier: 060-03
Scope and Contents
Collection includes a variety of photographs, 1880s-1920s, of Providence and other locations around Rhode Island including Newport Harbor, Block Island and Rock Hill. Images from album pages are primarily of Old Home Week in Providence, July 28-August 3, 1907, and other landscapes around Rhode Island. The loose images include group and individual portraits, domestic buildings, a schoolhouse, log cabin, storefront and the Providence fire department. Several photographs included images of...
Dates:
1880 - 1929