Annual Reports

This segment includes the annual reports of the President, Executive Director, and staff of the Newport Historical Society. These reports detail the progress made during this very productive year in carrying out the Society\u27s mission to collect and preserve the artifacts of Newport County\u27s history

Depth analysis of fatty acids in two caribbean reef corals

Total fatty acid compositions of colonies of two hermatypic, reef-building corals collected during the day-time over a depth range of 21 m were determined to assess the effect of depth-related environmental factors upon the lipid content of these organisms. No systematic changes were found, suggesting a steady-state balance between algal and animal lipogenesis in these symbiotic partnerships. Stephanocoenia michelinii , a day and night feeder, contained lipids indicative of external dietary sources such as copepods, whereas Montastrea annularis , a night feeder, did not.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/46632/1/227_2004_Article_BF00391131.pd

True Professions: Images of Women at Work

This segment is a photograph essay compiled by the Society\u27s Curator and Deputy Director for Collections, Joan Youngken, featuring images of women at work from the colonial period to the 1960s. It demonstrates how women worked within and without the constraints of their particular time period to find their own True Professions, a phrase often used by Catherine Beecher and her sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, in their mid-nineteenth century manuals for women. All of the images used in this photograph essay are from the collections of the Newport Historical Society

Picturesque Localities: The Charles F. McKim Portfolio of Newport Photographs, Part II

The first installment of this article in the last issue of Newport History explored the collaboration in 1874 of architect Charles Follen McKim (1847-1909), artist/ photographer William James Stillman (1828-1901), and publisher James Ripley Osgood (1836-1892) to produce a portfolio of images of Newport and its environs.1 As a collection, these images present an argument for the use of Newport\u27s colonial building fabric as a design source for architects of the day