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

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

The Collections of the Newport Historical Society: Photographs and Graphics Collections

The graphics collections of the Newport Historical Society, managed within the Museum department, include photographs in all historical formats, postcards, prints, architectural plans and drawings, and maps. Of these, the photograph collection is by far the largest, comprising over 200,000 images dating from the 1840s to the present

From the Collection: The Armstrong Stomacher

This issue\u27s selection From the Collection examines a late seventeenth century women\u27s garment called a stomacher. At first glance, it looks like a medieval garment: stiff as armor, beautifully embroidered in silk, silver, and gold threads on a ribbed silk ground. At first glance, this couldn\u27t possibly be American-made. It evokes images of court costume, of ladies and knights, of the things romance novels are made of

Our Cabinet of Curiosities: The Early Collections of the Newport Historical Society

This article points out that before there was a headquarters building or museum, before there was even a Newport Historical Society, there was a collection of artifacts and memorabilia gathered by individuals interested in the preservation of Newport County\u27s history. These individuals were motivated to form Cabinets by their own curiosity in local and national history and in how that history was influenced by the natural and physical world surrounding them. Youngken has been Collections Manager and Curator at the Newport Historical Society since 1990. She brought with her over twenty years of museum and curatorial experience gained at the Adirondack Museum, the Glens Falls Queensbury (New York) Historical Society, the Peace Dale Library, and as a free-lance collections consultant

Newport Schools in the News

Since the advent of photography in newspaper journalism, the Newport Daily News has kept the community apprized of progress, difficulties, and activities at the many Newport city schools through the use of pictures. Hundreds of such images comprise an important segment of the Daily News Collection at the Newport Historical Society. which were included in an exhibit at the Newport Historical Society in 1999-2000, are only a small number of that collection Its intent was, rather, to present an assortment of images illustrating a variety of locales, grades, and activities, curricular and extracurricular, within the city school system

The Collections of the Newport Historical Society: Museum Collections

The museum collections are stored and exhibited in four historic properties concentrated within a four-block area of Newport\u27s colonial city. Three of those properties are owned by the Society: its headquarters at 82 Touro Street, including the Seventh Day Baptist Meeting House (built in 1730 and enlarged in 1905 and 1915); the Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House (built in the 1660s and restored by the Society in the 1920s); and the Great Friends Meeting House (built in 1699 with several subsequent additions, and restored in the late 1960s). The fourth property, the 1762 Brick Market designed by Peter Harrison, is owned by the City of Newport and maintained by the Historical Society as the Museum of Newport History, its principal exhibition space. Of the Society\u27s 10,000 objects, the vast majority-over 95 percent- is in storage

From the Collection: The James Franklin Printing Press

In this From the Collection, we examine the James Franklin printing press. The arrival of this press in the eighteenth century signaled and facilitated Newport\u27s transformation from a provincial town to a cosmopolitan colonial city

Annual Reports

This section contains annual reports from Society President, Samuel M. C. Barker, Executive Director, Daniel Snydacker, Jr., Ph.D., Collections Manager, M. Joan Youngken, and Librarian, Bertram Lippincott III

Annual Reports

This section contains annual reports from Society President, Samuel M. C. Barker, Executive Director, Daniel Snydacker, Jr., Ph.D., Collections Manager, M. Joan Youngken, and Librarian, Bertram Lippincott III