Guide to the Wilfred E. Stone photographs, circa 1895-1929
Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
Rhode Island College
600 Mount Pleasant Ave
Providence, RI, 02908
Tel: 401-456-9653
email:digitalcollections@ric.edu
Published in 2025
Collection Overview
| Title: |
Wilfred E. Stone photographs |
| Date range: |
circa 1895-1929 |
| Creator: |
Stone, Wilfred E. |
| Extent: |
0.2 cubic feet
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| Abstract: |
The collection consists of photographs taken by Wilfred E. Stone in various places of New England, mostly in Rhode Island. |
| Language of materials: |
English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
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| Collection number: |
MSS-0052 |
Scope & content
The collection contains a series of photographs taken by Wilfred E. Stone that depict different places in Rhode Island. Subject of the photographs include various buildings, outdoor scenery, and ships.
Access Points
Subject Names
Subject Topics
Geographical Names
Document Types
Arrangement
The collection is not arranged in any particular order.
Biographical/Historical Note
Wilfred E. Stone was born on the 22nd of October 1880 in Cranston, Rhode Island. Stone was a photographer that took pictures all around the New England area, especially in Rhode Island. Stoned died in 1957 at 77 years of age.
Access & Use
| Access to the collection: |
The collection is open for research. |
| Use of the materials: |
Researchers are advised to contact Rhode Island College Special Collections for questions regarding permissions to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise publish material from this collection. Although Rhode Island College has physical ownership of the collection, it does not necessarily hold literary rights. It is up to the researcher to determine the owners of the literary rights and to obtain any necessary permissions from them. |
| Alternate form: |
This collection has been digitized and select images are available in RIC Digital Commons. Please contact Rhode Island College Special Collections for additional information. |
| Preferred citation: |
Wilfred E. Stone photographs, MSS-0052, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College. |
| Contact information: |
Special Collections, James P. Adams Library
Rhode Island College
600 Mount Pleasant Ave
Providence, RI, 02908
Tel: 401-456-9653
email:digitalcollections@ric.edu
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Administrative Information
| ABOUT THE COLLECTION |
| Acquisition: |
Provenance of the collection is unknown. It was in the holdings of Special Collections prior to 1980. |
| Processing information: |
An inventory to the collection was created in 1980 by Special Collections staff. The guide to the collection was converted to current archival standards and further description provided by Special Collections intern, Alan Martinez Valdez, under the direction of Digital Archives and Special Collections Librarian, Veronica L. Denison. Additional edits were made by Special Collections Assistant, Anne Boylan, in 2025. |
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| ABOUT THE FINDING AID |
| Author: |
Finding aid prepared by Alan E. Martinez Valdez, Anne Boylan, and Veronica L. Denison. |
| Encoding: |
This finding aid was encoded by Veronica L. Denison, 2025 |
| Descriptive rules: |
Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) |
Additional Information
| Related material: |
Providence Public Library (PPL) holds the Wilfred E. Stone Collection. |
| Location/Existence of copies: |
This collection has been digitized and select images are available in RIC Digital Commons. Please contact Rhode Island College Special Collections for additional information. |
| Other information: |
Works used in preparation of inventory:
FamilySearch.org. https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LCQ7-NHB/wilfred-eugene-stone-1880-1957.
Providence Public Library. (n.d.). https://www.provlib.org/wp-content/uploads/finding-aids/042-03-FA.pdf |
Inventory
| Box 1, Folder 1 |
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“Amos D. Smith House—Hope and George St.”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 2 |
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“Haying Scene on Old ‘Charity Lot’—“Back Around Turn of Century”
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circa 1895-1905 |
| Box 1, Folder 3 |
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“Barkentine Westmoreland in Providence Harbour”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 4 |
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Unmarked – Beach outing. (School, band . . ?)Groups of young people at beach, in a field : Blank, unmarked postcards depicting groups of mostly children with few adults; the children are in uniform and the settings include unidentified beaches and fields
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 5 |
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“Block Island”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 6 |
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“Block Island, the road to the new harbour”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 7 |
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“City Hall, Cranston”: Caption on the reverse reads, “This is the appearance of the building as it was built in 1885; This picture made about 1908. Notice entrance on west side—this was moved to the Cranston St. (east) side when the record vault was built about 1912. The record vault is now the cell room. W.E.S.”
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circa 1908 |
| Box 1, Folder 8 |
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“Cross town Cranston car crew about 1910”
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circa 1910 |
| Box 1, Folder 9 |
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Dorrance Hotel
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 10 |
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“East Greenwich”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 11 |
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“Exeter -Austin School”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 12 |
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“The Old Snuff Mill”; “The Gilbert Stuart Birthplace,” North Kingstown, R.I.: Two unmarked postcards
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 13 |
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“Fort Griswold and Groton Monument Groton, Conn.”
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circa 1925 |
| Box 1, Folder 14 |
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“Hoeing spinach on the old time path Patt farm about 1900”: Billy Patt farm located on Pontiac Ave in Cranston, RI. Stone wrote about this image, and other farms, in the article, "Echoes of Cranston: When Auburn Was Covered With Farms" in the Cranston Herald. (unknown date - ca. 1952)".
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circa 1900 |
| Box 1, Folder 15 |
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“Hospital Street Playground, Providence”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 16 |
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“Hoyle Square”: Now called Canonicus Square, in Providence’s West End at the intersection of Cranston St. and Westminster St.
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 17 |
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“Inside court of Charles Warren Lippitt place, Newport, Rhode Island”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 18 |
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“Jamestown”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 19 |
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“Laying out new marks on Greenville-Woonsocket Road”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 20 |
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“The Mauderer Wanderer New Bedford Whaler”
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1920 |
| Box 1, Folder 21 |
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“Memorial to Canonicus in Nnorth Burial gGround”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 22 |
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“Meshanticutt School Ggarden”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 23 |
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“Moses Brown School, Providence, RLIL”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 24 |
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“Mount Hope Bridge – 2 weeks before opening” out
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1929 October |
| Box 1, Folder 25 |
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“Municipal Court Office Providence”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 26 |
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“New Bedford”: Photo depicts mostly sailing ships docked in a harbor (ships)
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 27 |
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“New Hampshire”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 28 |
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“New London from Fort Griswold”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 29 |
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“No.rth Main Street”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 30 |
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“Old Harbour, Block Island”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 31 |
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“Old School at Potawamut Potowomut where school is still ‘“kept”’”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 32 |
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“Olneyville Sq.”uare
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 33 |
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“On Post Road at . Hunt’s River”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 34 |
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Portuguese Immigrant Schooner
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 35 |
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Unmarked- Providencetown Street SquareProvincetown
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 36 |
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Rhode Island Normal School and State House
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 37 |
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“Round Top Church”: The Beneficent Congregational Church located at 300 Weybosset Street in Providence. Also known as the Round Top Church, it was originally constructed in 1809 as the Second Congregational Church, representing a theological split with the First Congregational Church (located on College Hill). This 1926 photograph shows the church alongside businesses and automobiles in downtown Providence, including the embedded trolley car rails in the streets. The reverse of the photograph is captioned, "Round top church, W.E.S, Aug. 27, 1926. With 6" Cold. III 3-a Graflex." The later part of the caption refers to the camera and the processing of the photograph. (Jordy, W. H., Onorato, R. J., & Woodward, W. M. K. (2004). Buildings of Rhode Island (Ser. Buildings of the United States). New York. p. 43.)
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1926 August 27 |
| Box 1, Folder 38 |
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St. Joseph’s Hospital
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 38 |
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“Scituate—Hope Dam”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 40 |
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“Scituate—Ponaganset Reservoir”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 41 |
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A subdrawn subdrain—one of the preliminaries to building the filter building beds”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 42 |
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“State Highways”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 43 |
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“Scituate, Town Clerks Office”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 44 |
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“Unity Building—Woonsocket”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 45 |
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“The upper Connecticut near Brattleboro”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 46 |
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“Where New Town Hill Road Leaves Allerton”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 47 |
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“Ben’s Dry Goods Store”
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undated |
| Box 1, Folder 48 |
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West Warwick
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circa 1920 |