RIAMCO

Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online

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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

Scope & content

This collection consists of photographs of the interiors of the Drexel family apartment at 34 rue François-Ier in Paris, France. Many of the photographs have accompanying descriptions written by Mrs. Drexel, which note particular pieces or characteristics of the room as well as the sources of some of the furniture, such as whether the furniture came from the Drexels' New York apartment. The photographs and descriptions of the Paris apartment are numbered, and gaps in the numbering show that these are an incomplete set. Also included in the collection are photographs of Rock Cliff in Newport and duplicates of some other images of Newport.