RIAMCO

Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online

For Participating Institutions

The Rives Family Photographs Collection (PSNCA.H.023)

The Preservation Society of Newport County

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

Scope & content

The Rives Family Photographs Collection is comprised of photographs of individual people, pairs of people, groups of people, and locations related to the Rives family. Some of the photographs have handwritten notes in German or English written on them. Some of the photographs were used as postcards. The items date from around 1860-1960, the bulk of them dating from the early 20th century, around 1900-1930.

This collection has been completely digitized and is available for viewing online at newportalri.org