RIAMCO

Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online

For Participating Institutions

The Breakers Collection (PSNCA.H.001)

The Preservation Society of Newport County

424 Bellevue Avenue
Newport, RI 02840
Tel: 401-847-1000
museumaffairs@newportmansions.org

Administrative Information

ABOUT THE COLLECTION  
Acquisition: Some architectural photographs were taken by the Preservation Society of Newport County, some by Hopf Photography; The Breakers Construction Album was a gift of the Estate of Countess László Széchényi; some family photographs were gifts of Ms. Elizabeth Henry, Mrs. Karl B. Smith, and Mrs. Madeleine Souza; some postcards were gifted by Arnold Art; other family materials were gifts of Mr. Donald Magee, Mrs. William Souza, Mrs. Irene Hallowell, or were purchased from Gustave J.S. White Auction.
ABOUT THE FINDING AID  
Author: Finding aid written and encoded by Kate McNally, Digitization Archivist.
Encoding: This finding aid was encoded using Oxygen XML Editor, 2019
Descriptive rules: Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard(DACS).