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"maps"

Sep 14, 2017
  • Colonial Rhode Island
  • images
  • john brown house
  • maps
  • providence
  • rhode island

You are HERE: Maps at the RIHS

This blog is in honor of our (and very first successful) Netop Night at the Robinson Research Center! We hold … Continue reading You are HERE: Maps at the RIHS

Mar 31, 2017
  • Howard M. Chapin
  • maps
  • providence

Maps in the Rhode Island Historical Society Collection

  There are just over 3,500 maps in our collection, all of which are cataloged and available through NETOP. The … Continue reading Maps in the Rhode Island Historical Society Collection

Oct 3, 2013
  • Children's Books
  • geography
  • maps
  • R.I. Imprints

Object Thursday: R.I. World View in 1822

What makes a world view? In 1822 a geography book for schools was printed in Providence by Miller & Hutchens … Continue reading Object Thursday: R.I. World View in 1822

Jan 20, 2012
  • books
  • damaged books
  • geography
  • maps
  • Printing History
  • R.I. Imprints

Tale of Two Books

When is the same book not the same book? One of my greatest joys at the Library has been cataloging … Continue reading Tale of Two Books

Jul 21, 2011
  • images
  • maps
  • primary source research
  • rhode island

New Policy! Cameras allowed starting July 1 at the RIHS Library!

Credit: BigTallGuy, from Flickr New Policy! Cameras allowed starting July 1 at the RIHS Library! The Rhode Island Historical Society … Continue reading New Policy! Cameras allowed starting July 1 at the RIHS Library!

Aug 31, 2010
  • maps
  • online resources
  • providence
  • tours

Providence Vaudeville

“Spring of ’17“, an online resource created by Micah Salkind, recreates the topography of Providence theaters in the early twentieth … Continue reading Providence Vaudeville

Apr 15, 2010
  • images
  • maps
  • maritime
  • seafaring
  • useful books

Grog O' Clock (Martin Page, part I)

Faced with a diary or a memoir or a collection of someone’s correspondence, it’s a natural impulse to try to … Continue reading Grog O' Clock (Martin Page, part I)

May 9, 2009
  • maps
  • seafaring
  • useful books

The Land of Generica

Nathaniel Bowditch’s American Practical Navigator is the classic manual for sailors, offering practical (not surprisingly) advice for all manner of … Continue reading The Land of Generica

Mar 18, 2009
  • American Revolutionary War
  • maps

Here be Cannons, or, Where the Horses are "Boney and Strong"

War brings a new perspective to most things, including maps. The surveying for this map of the Narragansett Bay was … Continue reading Here be Cannons, or, Where the Horses are "Boney and Strong"

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