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Author
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Newport, Rhode Island nicknamed "the Queen of Resorts," has been celebrated in beautiful postcard portrayals for over a hundred years. Today, these vintage cards illuminate the glories of the Gilded Age, when huge mansions or "cottages" built by competing industrialists blossomed along Bellevue Avenue and the Cliff Walk, turning a once-quiet New England watering hole into the apex of nouveau riche destinations. This updated and expanded second...
222) America's castles
Publisher
A & E Television Network
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Showcases several fabulous homes built by legends America's wealthiest tycoons, combining architectural, cultural and biographical commentary. Estates included are Beechwood and Cliveden (the Astors), the castle shared by Consuelo vanderbilt and the Duke of Marlborough, Skibo (Andrew Carnegie), Chateau Sur Mer (two Vanderbilt brothers), The Breakers (Cornelius and Alice Vanderbilt), and Marble House (William and Alva Vanderbilt).
Author
Publisher
Applewood Books
Language
English
Description
"Featuring more than 190 vintage views of cottages built from the early nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, Lost Newport highlights 59 summer houses, now lost, in an evocative guide that gives depth to any Newport experience." --
Author
Pub. Date
1920
Language
English
Description
The collection consists of eleven scrapbooks created by John Hutchins Cady. The scrapbooks are organized topically and include photographs, postcards, clippings and Photostats of buildings of architectural interest in Rhode Island with a strong emphasis on the City of Providence.
The collection consists of eleven scrapbooks originally housed in three ring binders. The scrapbooks are organized topically and include photographs, postcards, clippings...
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Take a private tour of one of Bellevue Avenue's most famous, privately-owned mansions dubbed 'Belcourt Castle" by the Tinney family. Packed with over 100 color illustrations, this book covers 100 years of the mansion's history in Newport Rhode Island. Your guide is Harle Tinney--the woman who lived there and nurtured the concept of 'Belcourt Castle' for 52 years"--Back cover.
Author
Language
English
Description
This record group contains photographs of Newport buildings (mansions, clapboard houses, churches, public structures, and libraries); natural and sculptural landmarks; Newport Harbor and its docks, as well as aerial views of Sakonnet River; and USN ships and submarines.
Author
Pub. Date
1940
Language
English
Description
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...
