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Hundred Acre Cove

Date: 1977
Description: Child overlooking a lake next to an unfinished building.
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Bonnet Shores Club

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Description: View of the Bonnet Shores Club atop a cliff overlooking the ocean.
Photograph

Homestead Plat and Waterfront

Date: 1908
Description: A view of a shoreline. Caption reads: "Part of the homestead plat and waterfront. Prudence Island." Along the left is a rock wall, and a house in the dista...
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Boat Frame on Beach

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Description: View of part of an old boat frame, presumably from a shipwreck at Point Judith. A group of people are sitting and standing near the frame of the boat on th...
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Wharf

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Description: A view of a wharf with fishing boats.
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Wharf at Shoreline

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Description: View looking down toward a wharf with lobster pots, and boats out in the harbor.
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Wharf

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Description: A view toward a wharf with horse-drawn vehicles in the foreground, and a steamship in the distance.
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United States Naval Training Station

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Description: The USS Constellation, the last sail-only warship designed and built by the U.S. Navy, is seen at the United States Naval Training Station, established in ...
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United States Naval Training Station

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Description: A view of sailors marching on the South Drill Field at the Naval Station Newport, established in 1883. In the background, a warship is in the Narragansett ...
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United States Naval Training Station

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Description: A view of three boats during a boat drill at the Naval Station Newport, established in 1883. They row past the shore on which other formations of sailors e...
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"Greetings from Newport, RI"

Date: 1898
Description: A woman in a bathing suit stands on the beach and holds what appears to be a seashell. The ocean is in the background. This woman is contained within a she...
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Homes Along the Coast

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Description: Homes stand along the coast near cliffs on Block Island.
Map or Atlas

Rhode Island

Date: 1799
Description: Map of Rhode Island showing counties, townships, cities, roads, mountains, swamps, islands, reefs, lakes and rivers. Several of the bigger cities include s...
Map or Atlas

The State of Rhode Island Compiled from the Surveys and Observations of Caleb Harris

Date: 1795
Description: Map of Rhode Island showing counties, townships, cities, roads, mountains, swamps, islands, reefs, lakes and rivers. Several of the bigger cities include s...

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