Guide to the Newport vertical file, 1854-2010

(bulk 1911-2010)


Redwood Library and Athenaeum
50 Bellevue Avenue
Newport, RI 02840
Tel: (401) 847-0292
Fax: (401) 841-5680
email: redwood@redwoodlibrary.org

Published in 2014

Collection Overview

Title: Newport vertical file
Date range: 1854-2010, (bulk 1911-2010)
Creator: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Extent: 10.9 linear feet
Abstract: The Newport vertical file, created and maintained by the Redwood Library and Athenaeum for reference purposes, consists of articles, clippings, newspapers, photocopies, and reprints regarding the people, society, historic homes and buildings, maritime activities, civic organizations, music festivals, public celebrations, sporting events, commerce and industry, art, and history of Newport, Rhode Island.
Language of materials: English
Repository: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
Collection number: RLC.Ms.035

Scope & content

The Newport vertical file, created and maintained by the Redwood Library and Athenaeum for reference purposes, consists of articles, clippings, newspapers, photocopies, and reprints regarding the people, society, historic homes and buildings, maritime activities, civic organizations, music festivals, public celebrations, sporting events, commerce and industry, art, and history of Newport, Rhode Island. This collection has been organized into eleven series, which emphasize various aspects of Newport’s history, society, and culture. General topics concerning Rhode Island history and historic buildings are also included and are found within Series 5. This collection also contains three oversize flat boxes, which cover various series, and are identified by the abbreviation “OS” in the inventory.

Access Points

Subject Names Subject Organizations Subject Topics Geographical Names Subject Topics Document Types

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into the following series:

  • Series 1: Newport artists, artisans, authors and people of note
  • Series 2: Newport social life
  • Series 3: Newport historic homes
  • Series 4: Newport buildings, monuments, sites
  • Series 5: Rhode Island buildings, homes, sites, history
  • Series 6: Maritime resources
  • Series 7: Civic organizations, music festivals, public celebrations, sports tournaments
  • Series 8: Newport commerce, industries
  • Series 9: Art, decorative arts
  • Series 10: Military history
  • Series 11: Newport history


Access & Use

Access to the collection: Access is open to members and researchers at the Redwood Library and Athenaeum.
Use of the materials: This collection is owned by the Redwood Library and Athenaeum. Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Special Collections Librarian of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum.
Preferred citation: Newport vertical file, RLC.Ms.035, Redwood Library and Athenaeum.
Contact information: Redwood Library and Athenaeum
50 Bellevue Avenue
Newport, RI 02840
Tel: (401) 847-0292
Fax: (401) 841-5680
email: redwood@redwoodlibrary.org

Administrative Information

ABOUT THE COLLECTION  
Acquisition: The items in this collection have been gathered by the Redwood Library over a period of many years. Their provenance is unknown.
Accruals: Accruals are expected.
ABOUT THE FINDING AID  
Author: Finding aid prepared by Rob Ostrander.
Encoding: Finding aid encoded by Elizabeth Delmage 2014 March 17
Descriptive rules: Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

Additional Information

Related material: Newport ephemera collection, RLC.Ms.028, Redwood Library and Athenaeum

Inventory

Series 1. Newport artists, artisans, authors and people of note

Container Description Date
Box 1 Allen, W. S. Vanderbilt [Artist]
Box 1 Antone, Sister Therese [President of Salve Regina College]
Box 1 Bailey, John Barrington
Box 1 Barrett, Richard [author]
Box 1 Barry, Robert [author]
Box 1 Beldan, Emma [singer]
Box OS 1 Belles of New York [includes 3 Newporters]
Box 1 Belmont, Perry [statesman]
Box 1 Benson, John E. [stone carver]
Box 1 Benson, John H. [stone carver]
Box OS 1 Benson, Nick [stone carver]
Box 1 Benson, Richard [photography]
Box 1 Bergner, Jonas
Box 1 Berkeley, George [Bishop]
Box 1 Bethune, Ade [artist]
Box 1 Bigelow, Olive (Mrs. H. G. Pell)
Box 1 Boguslav, Raphael [calligrapher]
Box 1 Brenton family
Box 1 Burgin, William L. [architect]
Box 1 Burdick/Hubbard families [17th century Seventh Day Baptists]
Box 1 Carpenter, Ralph
Contents Note: See also Oversize Box 1
Box 1 Casey, Jim [folk artist/craftsman]
Box 1 Casey, Samuel [silversmith]
Box 1 Champlin, Richard [author]
Box 1 Clarke family
Box OS 1 Clarke, John
Box 1 Codman, Ogden [architect and interior decorator]
Box 1 Coggeshall
Box 1 Connelly, Edwin [artist, designed weathervane of Old Colony House]
Box 1 Corné, M. Felice [artist]
Box 1 Covell, William King III [organist]
Box 1 Coxe, Trudy [C.E.O. Newport Preservation Society]
Box 1 Dellman, Lurleen [author]
Box 1 deWeldon, Felix [sculptor]
Box 1 Drury, Bill [botanist - Middletown]
Box 1 Ebbitt family
Box OS 1 Ellery family
Box 1 Ellery, William [politician]
Box 1 Elliott, Maud Howe
Box 1 Engs, William [18th c. sailor]
Box 1 Feke, Robert [artist]
Box 1 Femino, Domenico [Chief Petty Officer, WWII hero]
Box 1 Field, Kate [writer]
Box 1 Fitzpatrick, Theresa [author]
Box 1 Force, Marie Sullivan [author]
Box 1 Freedly, Durr [artist]
Box 1 Gardner, Newport [18th-19th c. African-American leader]
Box 1 Gardner, Ruth Lepper [artist, mapmaker]
Box 1 Geremia, Paul [musician]
Box 1 Grant, Abigail (née Chesebrough)
Box 1 Grosvenor, Richard [artist]
Box 1 Harrison, Peter [architect]
Box 1 Harte, Bret [author]
Box 1 Hazard, Thomas "Nailer Tom" (2 folders) [18th c. blacksmith, farmer, diarist]
Box 1 Heustis, Louise Lyons [artist]
Box 1 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth [writer]
Box 1A Hill, Melvin Francis "Buddy" [real estate developer]
Box 1A Holcomb, Theodore [documentary filmmaker]
Box 1A Homer, Winslow [painter]
Box 1A Hopf, John [photographer]
Box 1A Hopkins, Samuel [18th c. pastor and anti-slavery leader]
Box 1A Horan, Mark [custom home builder]
Box 1A Howe, Julia Ward
Box 1A Hughes, William Dudley Foulke [Reverend]
Box 1A Hunt, William Morris [artist]
Box 1A James, Arthur Curtiss [wealthy philanthrmopist]
Box 1A James, Henry [writer]
Box 1A Johnson, Van [movie star]
Box 1A Jones, William Salford [Reverend]
Box 1A Kay, Stanley [poet]
Box 1A Kennedy family [vacationing and The America's Cup]
Box 1A King, Charles Bird [portraitist]
Box 1A King, Clarence [explorer]
Box 1A King, David [director and president of Redwood Library]
Box 1A King, Edward [businessman]
Box 1A King family [genealogy]
Box 1A Klepper, Max F. [artist]
Box 1A Kraman, Larry [owner Newport Classic record label]
Box 1A LaFarge, John [artist]
Box 1A Lewis, Ida
Box 1A See also Oversize Box 1
Box 1A Lorillard, Elaine [Art Association Director]
Box 1A Malbone, Edward G. [miniaturist]
Box 1A Manuel, Dorothy Holt [painter]
Box 1A Marchant, Henry [member Continental Congress, delegate R.I. Constitutional Convention]
Box 1A Mason, George C. [artist]
Box 1A Matthews, John P. C. [foreign affairs expert]
Box 1A Maxson, John (descendants) [first white settler born in RI]
Box 1A Mays, Maxwell [painter]
Box 1A McAdam family
Box 1A McCurdy, David [environmentalist]
Box 1A McGee, Don [college professor and bookseller]
Box 1A McKillop, Sister Lucille [college president]
Box 1A Millham, Tony [contemporary blacksmith]
Box 1A Moore, Clement C. [author]
Box 1A Moran, Charles [author, USNR Lt. Commander]
Box 1A Murray, Jim [18th c. adventurer]
Box 1A Nesbitt, Ilse [artist]
Box 1A Newell, John P. [artist, iconographer]
Box 1A Newman, Howard [sculptor]
Box 1A Newport authors [list of authors associated with Rhode Island]
Box 1A Nichols, William S. [silversmith]
Box 1A Norman, Charles and Diana [poet and painter]
Box 1A Oliver, Mary H. [poet]
Box 1A Olmsted, Frederick Law [landscape designer]
Box 1A Panaggio, Leonard J. [author]
Box 1A Patten, William [Reverend]
Box 1A Peckham, Reuben Wallace [greenskeeper]
Box 1A Pell, Claiborne
Box 1A Perry, Oliver Hazard
Box 1A Picotte, Jay [historian]
Box 1A Plant, Mike [sailor]
Box 1A Pope, John Russell [architect]
Box 1A Pratt, Elizabeth [18th c. businesswoman]
Box 1A Price, Edith Ballinger
Box 1A Quamino, Charity "Duchess" [18th c. baker, freed slave]
Box 1B Read, Brad [sailor, educator]
Box 1B Redwood, Abraham [library founder]
Box 1B Rice, Alexander Hamilton [amateur explorer, purchased professorship at Harvard]
Box 1B Rice family [African-American RI family since 18th c.]
Box 1B Richards, Laura E. [poet]
Box 1B Roberts, Doyle [estate gardener]
Box 1B Robinson, William Henry [Professor of literature]
Box 1B Rosenzweig, Andy [NYC detective, RI resident]
Box 1B Russell, Daniel [silversmith]
Box 1B Schumacher, Alan T. [book collector--list of titles in his collection]
Box 1B Scott, Winfield T. [author]
Box 1B Seager, Edward [Professor of Drawing. Naval Academy]
Box 1B Senter, Isaac [doctor]
Box 1B Sherman, Diana [International Youth Farm Exchange, Peru]
Box 1B Skinner, Francis [bookbinder]
Box 1B Spooner, Wing [built Redwood Library]
Box 1B Stenhouse, Mae [teacher, author]
Box 1B Stevens, Zingo [stonecutter, 18th c. African-American artist]
Box 1B Stiles, Ezra [mapmaker, preacher, Redwood librarian, President of Yale]
Box 1B Strange, Michael (pen name for Blanche Marie Louise Oelrichs) [poet, playwright, suffragette]
Box 1B Stuart, Gilbert [painter]
Contents Note: See also Oversize Box 1
Box 1B Stuart, Jane [painter]
Box 1B Sundlun, Bruce [businessman, RI governor]
Box 1B Taussig, Jr., J. K. [Admiral, author]
Box 1B Taylor, Adelle [founder of Pineapple Post]
Box 1B Tenney, Caleb [Reverend]
Box 1B Tiedemann, Elizabeth [yacht restorer]
Box 1B Tinney family [stained glass artists]
Box 1B Touro, Judah [philanthropist]
Box 1B Townsend, John [furniture maker]
Box 1B Tschirch, John [Director of Museum Affairs for the Preservation Society of Newport]
Box 1B Turner, Beatrice [heiress]
Box 1B Vanderbilt, Harold S. [heir]
Box 1B van der Wal, Onne [photographer]
Box 1B Vernon, Samuel [silversmith]
Box 1B von Pantz, Kurt [Baron, architect]
Box 1B Vos, Hubert [sculptor]
Box 1B Wady, James [clock maker]
Box 1B Wallace, Joy Gabriel [author]
Box 1B Ward, Remington [printer]
Box 1B Waring, Leo [flag maker]
Box 1B Warren, Russell [architect]
Box 1B Warren, Whitney [architect]
Box 1B Waterhouse, Benjamin [doctor, botanist]
Box 1B Wharton, Edith [author]
Box 1B White, Catherine A. [poet]
Box 1B White, Stanford [architect]
Box 1B Wilson, Marjorie [artist]
Box 1B Wright, Catharine Morris [author]
Box 1B Wurman, Richard [author]

Series 2. Newport social life

Container Description Date
Box 2 Astor family
Box 2 Bakhmeteff, George [Russian Ambassador]
Box 2 Belmont family
Box 2 Belmont, Alva
Box 2 Brown family
Box 2 Brown, Mrs. Harold
Box 2 Burden family
Box 2 Camoys family
Box 2 Charles, Marion Oates
Box 2 Charlestonians at Newport, 1767-1775
Box 2 Clark family
Box 2 Clift, Montgomery
Box 2 Colford (née Knight), Mrs. Sydney Jones
Box 2 Coogan, Mrs. James J.
Box 2 Cortazzo family
Box 2 Curtis, Edith Roelker
Box 2 Dahlgren, Lucy Drexel
Box 2 Dames of Newport Society
Box 2 Donon, Joseph [chef to Vanderbilts]
Box 2 Douglas, Mrs. Gordon J.
Box 2 Drexel, Mrs. John R.
Box 2 Duke, Doris
Box 2 Duncan, Mrs. Stuart
Box 2 Easton family
Box 2 Fish family
Box 2 Fosdick, Mr. and Mrs. Paulding
Box 2 Frazer, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Box 2 Frick, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clay
Box 2 Fullam, Mrs. Rhoda
Box 2 Gilded Age (essay by Katherine Maringas)
Box 2 Goelet family
Box 2 Grace, Russell
Box 2 Harriman family
Box 2 Iselin family
Box 2 Jones family
Box 2 Josephs, Frances
Box 2 Karolik, Maxim
Box 2 Leeds, Mrs. William B.
Box 2 Lewis, Rabbi Theodore (Touro Synagogue)
Box 2 Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon
Box 2 Lipton, Sir Thomas
Box 2 Lorillard, Mrs. Beekman
Box 2 Mackay, Clarence
Box 2 Macy, Jr., V. Everit
Box 2 Manice family
Box 2 Marlborough, Duchess Consuelo
Box 2 McLean, Mrs. Edward
Box 2 Mills family
Box 2 Morgan family
Box 2 Newport butlers
Box 2 "Newport: Report on the 1958 Season" (Vogue)
Box OS 1 "Newport, R.I.: A guide to America's most celebrated social resort in its 82nd year"
Box 2 Newport society: "After the Ball" (New England Monthly)
Box 2 Newport society-- general articles
Box 2 Newport society-- Providence Journal 5 part series
Box 2 Newport society--"Still alive and still aloof"
Box 2 "Newporters shun colds"
Box 2 Newport's golden age [early 1900s]
Box 2 Niesen, Gertrude
Box 2A Oelrichs family
Box OS 1 Oelrichs, Tessie
Box 2A Parsons family
Box 2A The Patriarch's Ball
Box 2A Pell, Senator Claiborne and Nuala
Box 2A Pell, Herbert C.
Box 2A Peters family
Box 2A "Portraits of Places" by Henry James
Box OS 1 "Private Newport"
Box 2A Profiles, American Town [Newport]
Box 2A Rhinelander family
Box 2A Riano family
Box 2A Ridgeley/Thorpe families
Box 2A Rives family
Box 2A Rodewald familuy
Box 2A Seixas, Grace
Box 2A Shipman family
Box 2A Slocum, Eileen
Box 2A Society Portraits (Antiques Magazine)
Box 2A Steward family
Box 2A Stokes, Vivi
Box 2A The Sullivans of Bellevue Avenue
Contents Note: See also Oversize Box 1
Box 2A Summer Residents in 1873 (list of families)
Box 2A Summer visitors from the south, 1860s
Box OS 1 "There are really three Newports"
Box 2A Thompson family
Box OS 1 Town and Country photos
Box 2A Vanderbilt descendants
Box 2A Vanderbilt family
Box 2A Vanderbilt, Jean
Box 2A Vanderbilt photos
Box 2A Vanderbilt/Whitney cousins reunion
Box 2A Vanderlip family
Box 2A Van Alen, James H.
Box 2A Villa
Box 2A von Bulow, Claus
Box 2A von Bulow, Sunny
Box 2A Warren family
Box 2A Whitehouse family
Box 2A Whitney family
Box 2A Widener family
Box 2A Willard family
Box 2A Wilson family

Series 3. Newport historic homes

Container Description Date
Box 3 26 Greenough Place
Box 3 64 Kay Street
Box 3 "The American Experience" (House and Garden, 2003)
Box 3 Astor's Beechwood
Box 3 Banister, John (Main Road, Middletown)
Box 3 Beach Bound and Beacon Rock (Hoffman residence)
Contents Note: See also Oversize Box 1
Box 3 Beacon Hill House
Box 3 Beaumaris
Box 3 Belcourt Castle
Box 3 Bell, Isaac House
Box 3 Belleview House
Box 3 Bleak House
Box 3 Bois Doré
Box 3 Bonniecrest
Contents Note: See also Oversize Box 1
Box 3 Bradley, Edson
Box 3 Breakers
Box 3 The Breakwater [Lippitt's Casle]
Box 3 Jaweel Brenton House [Brenton-Coe House]
Box 3 J. P. Brown House
Box 3 The Cedars
Box 3 Champ Soleil
Box 3 Chateau-Sur-Mer
Box 3 Chepstow
Box 3 Cherry Neck
Box 3 Chetwode
Box 3 Chinese Tea House [at Marble House]
Box 3 Mrs. Bigelow Clarke Home
Box 3 Cliff Lawn Manor
Box 3 The Clock Tower
Box 3 Collins House
Box 3 Coogan House
Box 3 Corné House
Box 3 Corson House
Box 3 Stephen de Blois Homestead
Box 3 Easton Farmhouse
Box 3 Edward King house
Box 3 Ellery House
Box 3 Elmhurst
Box 3 The Elms
Box 3 Fairhaven
Box 3 Fairholme
Box 3 Franklin-Weaver House
Box 3 French in Newport, Army Headquarters
Box 3 Gibbs-Tillinghast
Box 3 John Goddard House
Box 3 Goose Neck
Box 3 Sueton Grant Houser
Box 3 Gray Craig (Middletown)
Contents Note: See also Oversize Box 1
Box OS 1 Greene Lane
Box 3 Hammersmith Farm (2 folders)
Box 3 Harbour Court
Box 3 Hawthorne Court
Box 3 High Tide aka Marée Haute
Box 3 Historic Houses (illustrated article in Country Life)
Box 3 Charles F. Hoffman Estate
Box 3 Hunter House
Box 3 Henry James House
Box 3 Kingscote
Box 3A La Farge, Christopher
Box 3A Land's End
Box 3A Langely-King House (34 Pelham Street)
Box 3A Leverett House
Box 3A Lost Gardens of Newport
Box 3A Linden Gate
Box 3A The Mailands aka Rockmere aka Bellacre
Box 3A Maplehurst aka Cannon Hill
Box 3A Marble House
Box 3A Maudsley House aka Watson Homestead, Gardner House, Pittman House
Box 3A Mercy House
Box 3A Miramar
Box 3A Miscellaneous historic homes
Box OS 1 "Newport Thumbnails," Historic homes and buildings (images), Midtown, the Point, Cliff Walk, Bellevue Ave. mansions, Ocean Drive, Middletown, Portsmouth
Box 3A Normandy - Ocean Drive
Box 3A Notes on various historic homes
Box 3A The Ocean House
Box 3A Ochre Court
Box 3A Old Home Week
Box 3A Operation Clapboard
Box 3A Duncan Pell House (Mary Street)
Box 3A Herbert C. Pell House
Box 3A Pen Craig
Box 3A E. S. Philbrick Home
Box 3A Captain Phillips House - Elm Street
Box 3A The Point (neighborhood)
Box 3A S. F. Pratt House
Box 3A Prescott House
Box 3A Preservation organizations
Box 3A Preservation Society's Mansion Tour
Box 3A Quatrefoil
Box 3A Redwood Farm (Abraham Redwood)
Box 3A The Reef (Ocean Drive tip)
Box 3A Rhinelander House (10 Redwood Street)
Box 3A Richardson House
Box 3A Ridge Lawn aka Ridgemere
Box 3A Jacob Rodriguez Rivera House
Box 3A Rosecliff
Box 3A Rough Point
Box 3A Rhuddlans
Box 3A Seafield
Box 3A Seaview
Box 3A Seaview Carriage House
Box 3A W. Watts Sherman House
Box OS 1 "Some Newport Villas" by Bartlett, Stuart
Box 3A Swanhurst
Box 3A Thomas Treacle Taylor House
Box 3A Terra Mare
Box 3A William Wright Tompkins
Box 3A Unknown houses and estates
Box 3A Vernon Court
Box 3A Villalou or Restmere (1 Ichabod Lane)
Box 3A Wakehurst
Contents Note: See also Oversize Box 1
Box 3A Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House
Box 3A Warren House (Mill Street)
Box 3A The Waves - Ledge Road
Box 3A Mr. and Mrs George D. Weaver House - 9 Chestnut St.
Box 3A William Weisberg Home - Eustis Avenue
Box 3A Whitehall
Box 3A Whiteholme
Box 3A Wyndham
Box 3A Zee Rust

Series 4. Newport buildings, monuments, sites

Container Description Date
Box 4 8 Hose Station (Fire Station)
Box 4 Ahavath Achim Synagogue
Box 4 Architectural Designs
Box 4 Armory (Clarke Street)
Box 4 The Bee Hive (department store)
Box 4 Bellevue Gardens Condominiums
Box 4 Blue Jacket Monument
Box 4 Boyd's Windmill
Box 4 Calvary Methodist Church
Box 4 Cardine's Field
Box 4 Casswell Massey (apothecary shop)
Box 4 Channing Memorial Church
Box 4 Children's Home of Newport 24 School Street
Box 4 Churches - Newport County
Box 4 Cliff Walk
Box 4 Coggeshall Cemetery
Box 4 Colonial doorways
Box 4 Colony House
Contents Note: See also Oversize Box 2
Box 4 The Common Burial Ground
Box 4 Community Playhouse
Box 4 Downing Brothers Pharmacy
Box 4 Easton Beach
Box 4 Emmanuel Church - Spring Street
Box 4 The Exchange Building
Box 4 Fire Stations
Contents Note: See also Oversize Box 2
Box 4 First Church of Christ, Scientist
Box 4 First Congregational Church
Box 4 Fort Adams State Park
Box 4 Fort Lewis (Fort Dumplings)
Box 4 Goat Island
Box 4 Goffe Building (demolished)
Box 4 Billy Goode's Café
Box 4 Ida Lewis Yacht Club
Contents Note: See also Oversize Box 2
Box 4 Industrial sites, 1670-1890
Box 4 Irish cemetery records
Box 4 Jane Pickens Theater
Box 4 Jewish cemetery
Box 4 King's Park monument
Box 4 Lighthouses- various
Box 4 Market Square Park
Box 4 Miantonomi Memorial Tower
Box 4 Miscellaneous images - Historic buildings in a series
Box 4 Morton Park
Box 4 Newport articles on historic buildings
Box 4 Newport Artillery Company
Box 4 Newport Casino Theatre
Contents Note: See also Oversize Box 2
Box 4 Newport Country Club aka Newport Golf Club
Box 4 Newport mansions - decline of
Box 4 Newport mansions - various images
Box 4 Newport Public Library
Box 4 Newport Trust Co. - Warren Street (demolished)
Box 4 Ocean Drive views
Box 4 Old Stone Mill (3 folders)
Box 4A The Old Theater (Brick Market)
Box 4A Olmstead, Frederick Law (Projects in Newport)
Box 4A Opera House Theatre
Box 4A Patriot's Park
Box 4A Photos by Mrs. Lewis G. Morris
Box 4A Pitt's Head Tavern
Box 4A Preservation of Newport historic houses, buildings
Box 4A Preservation Society of Newport
Box 4A Queen Anne's Square
Box 4A The Reading Room
Box 4A Redwood Library and Athenaeum (2 folders)
Box 4A Robinson House (Kay Street)
Box 4A Rochambeau statue
Box 4A Roger's High School (old)
Box 4A Rogers High School- centennial celebration
Box 4A Rose Island Lighthouse
Box 4A St. Augustin Church (Harrison Avenue)
Box 4A St. Catherine's School
Box 4A St. Columba's-Berkeley Memorial Chapel
Box 4A St. John the Evangelist
Box 4A St. Mary's Church
Box 4A St. Paul's Church
Box 4A Salve Regina University
Box 4A Seamen's Church Institute
Box 4A Second Baptist Church
Box 4A Second Congregational Church
Box 4A Seventh Day Baptist Church
Box 4A Spouting Rock Beach Association
Box 4A Stewart's Dry Goods - 260 Thames St.
Box 4A Swiss Village Farm
Box 4A Thames Street
Box 4A Thames Street, 80 Years Ago by William Holt
Box 4A Touro Park
Box 4A Touro Synagogue
Box 4A Trinity Church
Box 4A Unidentified buildings
Box 4A Union Baptist Church
Box 4A United Congregational Church
Box 4A Alfred G. Vanderbilt Memorial Fountain (sculpture)
Box 4A Vernon House
Box 4A White Horse Tavern
Box 4A Wyndham
Box 4A YMCA - USO of Newport - African American Servicemen

Series 5. Rhode Island buildings, homes, sites, history

Container Description Date
Box 5 (Bristol) Colt House
Box 5 (Bristol) Colt State Park
Box 5 (Bristol) Rogers, Robert
Box 5 (Jamestown) Beavertail Lighthouse
Box 5 (Jamestown) Carr House - Conanicut Island
Box 5 (Jamestown) Ferryboats
Box 5 (Jamestown) Jamestown-Verrazano Bridge
Box 5 (Middletown) Gardens
Box 5 (Middletown) Norman Bird Sanctuary
Box 5 (Middletown) Paradise Rock or Hanging Rock
Box 5 (Middletown) Prescott Farm Overing House
Box 5 (Middletown) St. Columba's, Berkeley Memorial Chapel
Box 5 (Middletown) St. George's School
Box 5 (Middletown) Two Mile Corner
Box 5 (Middletown) United Congregational Church
Box 5 (Middletown) Whitehall, Bishop Berkeley
Box 5 (Portsmouth) Bloody Hole
Box 5 (Portsmouth) Butt's Hill Fort
Box 5 (Portsmouth) Carnegie Abbey Club Golf Course
Box 5 (Portsmouth) Friends Meeting House
Box 5 (Portsmouth) The Glen
Box 5 (Portsmouth) Greenvale Winery
Box 5 (Portsmouth) Green Animal Farm
Box 5 (Portsmouth) Historical cemeteries
Box 5 (Portsmouth) Historical Society and Southermost School
Box 5 (Portsmouth) Hutchinson, Anne
Box 5 (Portsmouth) Oakland Farm
Box 5 (Portsmouth) Portsmouth Abbey - Church of Saint Gregory the Great
Box 5 (Portsmouth) Portsmouth Abbey School
Box 5 (Portsmouth) Redwood Country Estate
Box 5 (Portsmouth) Moses Taylor Residence
Box 5 (Portsmouth) Vaucluse Farm
Box 5 (Providence) Brown University (Alum Monthly 1964)
Box 5 (Providence) Brown University - Brown family slave connection
Box 5 (Providence) Cathedral of St. John
Box 5 (Providence) John Brown House
Box 5 (Providence) The Old Coffee House
Box 5 (Providence) The Providence Athenaeum
Box 5 (Providence) Providence cabinetmakers, chairmakers, and allied craftsmen, 1756-1838
Box 5 (Providence) R.I. State House
Box 5 (Providence) Washington Elm
Box OS 2 (Rhode Island) Cornerstone of Medicine
Box 5 (Rhode Island) History
Box OS 2 (Rhode Island) Slave trade (Davis, Paul. "Unrighteous Traffic. Providence Journal. 13-19 March 2003. Series in 6 parts and epilogue) (2 folders)
Box OS 2 (Rhode Island) Society of the Cincinnati
Box 5 (Rhode Island) Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
Box OS 2 (Rhode Island) Spanish American War
Box OS 2 (Rhode Island) Treasures (2003 exhibit program)
Box 5 (Rhode Island) Windmills
Box OS 2 (Rhode Island) World War II
Box 5 (Saunderstown) Robinson House
Box 5 (Saunderstown) Gilbert Stuart Birthplace
Box 5 (South Kingstown) Oliver Hazard Perry Birthplace
Box 5 (Tiverton) Wanton family tree

Series 6. Maritime resources

Container Description Date
Box 6 Alice - yacht
Box 6 Aloha - bark rigged yacht - Arthur Curtiss James
Box 6 Bolero - yawl - John Nicholas Brown
Box 6 Conanicut Yacht Club - Jamestown
Box 6 Constellation - crew list
Box 6 Endeavor - barque
Box 6 Fall River Line
Box 6 Gretel II
Box 6 HMS Rose - replica
Box 6 Marine motor sled - Vincent Astor
Box 6 Narragansett Bay - maritime history
Box 6 Narragansett Bay - nature
Box 6 Newport/Bermuda races
Box 6 Newport-Jamestown ferry
Box 6 New York Yacht Club
Box 6 Pirouette - first aluminum sailboat
Box 6 Providence - sloop - replica
Box 6 Save the Bay - Providence Journal article
Box 6 USS Constellation and unidentified tall ships
Box 6 Various Newport harbor views

Series 7. Civic organizations, music festivals, public celebrations, sports tournaments

Container Description Date
Box 7 America's Cup (1934)
Box 7 America's Cup (1937)
Box 7 America's Cup (1958)
Box OS 2 America's Cup (1974)
Box 7 America's Cup (1977)
Contents Note: See also Oversize Box 2
Box 7 America's Cup (1980)
Contents Note: See also Oversize Box 2
Box 7 America's Cup (1983)
Box 7 America's Cup (2010) "The Winds in Their Sails"
Box 7 America's Cup, history
Box 7 Bicentennial
Contents Note: See also Oversize Box 2
Box 7 Coaching
Box 7 Daughters of the American Republic
Box 7 Elks
Box 7 Germania Musical Society
Box 7 The John Clarke Society
Box 7 Jumping Derby
Box 7 Knights of Columbus
Box 7 Medieval Circus and Crafts Fair, 1976
Box 7 Newport Casino - croquet
Box 7 Newport Casino - Tennis Hall of Fame tournaments
Box 7 Newport Casino - Tennis Week
Box 7 Newport Christmas Festival
Box OS 2 Newport Flower Show
Box 7 Newport Folk Festival
Box 7 Newport Historical Society
Box OS 2 Newport International Film Festival
Box 7 Newport Jazz Festival (2 folders)
Box 7 The Newport Music Festival
Contents Note: See also Oversize Box 2
Box 7 Newport Photographic Society
Box 7 Newport Restoration Foundation (Doris Duke)
Box OS 2 Newport Summer Fete
Box 7 Newport Tercentenary
Box 7 Old Port Days (3 folders)
Box OS 2 Polo
Box 7 Portsmouth Founder's Day
Box 7 Potter League for Animals
Box 7 Preservation Society of Newport
Box 7A Sailing - BOC Challenge
Box 7A Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Box 7A Sports - cricket at Beechwood
Box 7A Sports - heritage
Box 7A Sports - Jai Alai
Box 7A Sports/Tournaments (golf, tennis, jai alai, etc.)
Box 7A Tall Ships - 1976 (2 folders)
Contents Note: See also Oversize Box 2
Box 7A Tall Ships - 1982
Box 7A Tall Ships - 1992
Box 7A Wheelmen, League of
Box 7A Women's organizations

Series 8. Newport commerce, industries

Container Description Date
Box 8 Advertising - TV commercials
Box OS 3 Amistad in Newport
Box 8 Bed and Breakfast industry
Box 8 Casswell-Massey Co., Ltd.
Box 8 Fishing
Box 8 Future industries
Box 8 Hall Communications
Box 8 John Stevens Shop - stone carving
Box 8 Movie locations
Box 8 Newport County Chamber of Commerce
Box 8 Newport Shipyard
Box 8 Real estate development
Box 8 Rentals - boats
Box OS 3 Rhode Island Vacation Guide, 1960
Box OS 3 Tourism
Box 8 Tourism - early years before 1960
Box 8 Tourism - employment
Box 8 Tourism - historic sites and attractions (3 folders)
Box 8 Tourism - impact/criticism
Box OS 3 Tourism - maps

Series 9. Art, decorative arts

Container Description Date
Box 9 Aesthetic movement in Newport
Box 9 Art Association exhibits
Box 9 Art in Newport, general articles
Box 9 Artistic heritage of Newport - chronology
Box 9 Belly - alternative rock band
Box 9 China in Newport 18th-20th century
Box 9 Claggett clocks (Claggett, William)
Box 9 Colonial craftsmen - decorative arts
Box OS 3 Colonial craftsmen - furniture
Box OS 3 Doorknockers
Box 9 Exhibits - featuring Newport artists
Box 9 Film, movies, tv and theatre
Box 9 Flag making
Box 9 Goddard furniture
Box 9 Gravestone carving
Box 9 Interior design
Box 9 Japanning (architectural)
Box OS 3 Martha and Maxim Karolik Collection
Box 9 Monumenta (outdoor sculpture exhibit)
Box 9 Newport antiques
Box 9 Newport Art Museum
Box 9 Newport cabinetmakers
Box 9 Newport connection to the Statue of Liberty
Box 9 Newport cottage style (John Peixnho, Franklin and Company Interiors)
Box OS 3 Newport desks
Box 9 Newport furniture
Box 9 Newport painters, American Barbizon
Box 9 Newport silver
Box 9 Newport style (architecture, furniture, restoration)
Box 9 "The Newport Style: What inspired it. How you recognize it. Why it has endured." House and Garden October 1961
Box 9 Newport
Box OS 3 Rhode Island craftsmen
Box 9 Scrabbletown Press - South County Museum
Box 9 Third and Elm Press
Box 9 Townsend furniture
Box 9 Windsor writing chairs

Series 10. Military history

Container Description Date
Box 10 American Revolution - French troops in Newport
Box 10 American Revolution - general articles (2 folders)
Box 10 American Revolution - naval
Box 10 American Revolution - revolutionary reminiscence
Box 10 Artillery Company of Newport
Box 10 Battle of Rhode Island, 1778
Box 10 First Rhode Island Regiment - "Black Regiment"
Box 10 The Gaspee - ballad
Box 10 Hessian troops in Newport
Box 10 HMS Rose in the Revolution
Box 10 HMS Tartar
Box 10 Luce, Stephen B. - Rear Admiral
Box 10 Militia flags - Rhode Island
Box 10 Naval Torpedo Station
Box 10 Naval War College
Box 10 Navy and Newport society
Box 10 Navy in Newport
Box 10 Newport Artillery Company
Box 10 "Providence" - sloop of American Revolution
Box 10 Reenactments
Box 10 Spruance, Admiral Raymond Ames (Naval War College)
Box 10 Stockdale, James - Vice Admiral (Vietnamese War POW)
Box 10 de Ternay, Admiral [French]
Box 10 U.S. Naval War College
Box 10 USS Niagara (Oliver Hazard Perry's flagship)

Series 11. Newport history

Container Description Date
Box 11 African Americans in Newport
Box 11 American Field Service
Box 11 Beach scene - 1913
Box OS 3 Blizzard of 1978
Box 11 Discovery of Newport
Box 11 Early Medicine in Newport
Box 11 Early Newspaper Printing - Newport
Box 11 Herrick, George "Newport 1853: A Golden Year"
Box 11 Historical Restoration
Box OS 3 Hurricane Bob
Box 11 Hurricane of 1938 (2 folders)
Box 11 James Hammond's Circulating Library
Box 11 "In the Jewish Synagogue in Newport," Lazarus, Emma, 1867
Box 11 Jewish Heritage in Newport
Box 11 Jewish History in Newport
Box 11 King, Edward - Last Will and Testament, 1875
Box 11 Liberty Tree
Box 11 Life in Newport
Box 11 Marsaud and Raymond, murder trial 1838-1839
Box 11 Narragansett Indians to 1750
Box OS 3 Natural history
Box 11 "Newport" by W. C. Brownell
Box 11 "Newport and the Far East" by Thomas Michie
Box 11 Newport colonial life and people
Box OS 3 Newport Daily News - Centennial issue, 1946
Box OS 3 Newport Daily News - 150th Anniversary special section, 1996
Box OS 3 Newport Daily News - Portrait of Newport
Box 11 Newport's revolution 1639-present
Box 11 Newport firsts
Box 11 Newport general information
Box 11 "Newport: Historical and Social" - Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1854
Box 11 Newport Mercury (newspaper)
Box 11 Newport Weather
Box 11 Niantics (Native American tribe)
Box OS 3 Queen Elizabeth II visit to Newport, 1976
Box 11 Religious movements
Box 11 "Renumbering the Streets" - 1882
Box 11 "Rhode Island the Reluctant Pillar"-1987
Box 11 Slave trade - Aaron Lopez
Box 11 Slave trade - "The Unrighteous Traffick", Paul Davis (2 folders)
Box 11 Slave trade - newspaper articles
Box 11 Slave trade - research resources
Box 11 Slave trade - scholarly articles
Box 11 Sons of Newport reunion, 1859