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Drexel family homes photographs (PSNCA.H.027)

The Preservation Society of Newport County

424 Bellevue Avenue
Newport, RI 02840
Tel: 401-847-1000
museumaffairs@newportmansions.org

Additional Information

Related material:
  • MC-00-071, John R. Drexel III and Alice Troth Drexel papers, Drexel University Archives, https://archivalcollections.drexel.edu/repositories/4/resources/1432.
  • The Preservation Society holds a Louis XVI revival table from the Jules Allard et ses Fils workshops, from the Drexels' Paris residence: http://newportalri.org/items/show/23751. The table was a gift of Noreen Stonor Drexel and John R. Drexel, III, and is on display at The Elms.
Separated material: Some reproduction copies of the photographs, most likely made by Noreen Stonor Drexel or her husband John R. Drexel III, were removed from the collection. These were not contemporary to the creation of the originals, having been created from photographs of the originals.
Bibliography:
  • Drexel University Libraries. "University Archives Drexel Family Research Guide." Last modified December 23, 2021. https://libguides.library.drexel.edu/archives-drexel-family/genealogy.
  • HWA. "Edwin Gerald William Barrett." Find a Grave. Last modified September 22, 2020. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/215932008/edwin-gerald_william-barrett.
  • "Mrs. Spreckels Seeks Barrett's Extradition." The New York Times, September 25, 1920. https://www.nytimes.com/1920/09/25/archives/mrs-spreckels-seeks-accuses-husband-of-alice-drexel-of-theft-of.html.
  • Newport County, Rhode Island, Recorded Land Records Volume 192:16-18, Document #85042, Jessie W. Donahue and John R. Drexel III, December 3, 1956.
  • Newport County, Rhode Island, Recorded Land Records Volume 202:472-474, Document #88565, John R. Drexel III and Harold S. Vanderbilt, Feburary 3, 1961.
  • Item description for Robert Yarnall Richie, [Roger Wilson Cutler's 'Ames Villa' Estate and Mrs. Ogden L. Mills's 'Ocean View' estate, Newport, RI], Southern Methodist University Libraries, https://digitalcollections.smu.edu/digital/collection/ryr/id/383. Accessed October 16, 2023.