Providence (R.I.)
Subject
Subject Source: Source Not Specified
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Garrett Byrnes' Research on Field's Point
File — Box Multi-Collection Box: [Barcode: 31116021976466]
Identifier: 161-03
Scope and Contents
Includes research done by Garrett Byrnes in preparation to write a four-part article that ran in the Rhode Islander magazine on September 12, 1971. The collection consists of newspaper and textbook copies, hand-drawn maps on tracing paper, photographs, Byrne’s notes, correspondence to and from Byrnes related to Fields Point, event programs and drafts of the articles. The research materials document Field's Point from the colonial period when it was settled by Thomas Fields in...
Dates:
1907 - 1971
Dorothy Hackney diary
Collection — Box Multi-Collection Box: [Barcode: 31116021977860]
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
William Padget Photograph Collection
Collection — Box Multi-Collection Box: [Barcode: 31116021977860]
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