Doorways -- Rhode Island -- Providence
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Rhode Island Mills and Mill Villages Photograph Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 002-03-03
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of negatives, glossy photographic prints, and oversized photographic prints of mills and mill villages within Rhode Island. All of the photographs were taken by Joseph McCarthy as a Federal Works Agency project, a part of the WPA, in 1940 and given to the Providence Public Library as part of the Nickerson Architectural Collection that same year. A written reference work listing the prints and including an essay of the various architectural styles seen in the...
Dates:
1940
Frank Sayles photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: 032-03
Scope and Contents
The Frank Sayles Photography Collection contains primarily color photographs of buildings in and around Providence, Rhode Island. There are also photographs of monuments, statues, close-ups of architectural detail, and several bridges in the area.
Dates:
1950 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1993 - 1995