RIAMCO

Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online

For Participating Institutions

The Breakers Collection (PSNCA.H.001)

The Preservation Society of Newport County

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

Scope & content

The Marble House Collection is comprised of photographs, correspondence, documents and a separate photo album. The objects date from 1892-1990, and formats include photographic prints, postcards, correspondence, documents, and diaries. The photographs depict the exterior and the interior of the house under various periods of ownership, as well as the various people who resided there throughout its time as a family home. The correspondence and diaries document much about the running of the house and the album holds more recent photographs, taken after the house was acquired by the Preservation Society of Newport County.

This collection has been mostly digitized and is available for viewing online at newportalri.org