Guest Post by Margaret Hanson, 2018 Fellow in the Newport Historical Society’s Buchanan Burnham Summer Scholars in Public History Program …Read More
Found: Letters regarding William Claggett and the Looking-Glass dispute
Found: Colonel Edward Cole’s Account of the Battle of Lake George
A letter dated September 16, 1755 detailing Colonel Edward Cole’s account of the Battle of Lake George, part of a …Read More
Found: John Arnold’s Marine Timekeeper #4
A marine pocket watch, believed to have been made as part of the race to determine longitude at sea, was …Read More
Found: update – “Pencil Sketch of a Woman” identified
On May 31, 2013 NHS posted a Found blog entry regarding a sketch donated to the Society in the 1980s by …Read More
Found: Florence Foster Jenkins recital program
After discovering a recital program among a collection of ephemera, NHS staff have learned that Florence Foster Jenkins (1868-1944), the …Read More
Found: L’apôtre de la Liberté Immortalisé
This post is contributed by Rose Durand, Buchanan/Burnham Fellow A beautiful print has been discovered while cataloging a collection of …Read More
Found: A First American Edition of Blackstone’s Commentaries
This post is contributed by Gabriella Angeloni, Supervisory Buchanan/Burnham Fellow William Ellery’s complete four-volume set of Sir William Blackstone’s Commentaries …Read More
Found: Diving Bell Sketch and Record of Underwater Salvage Operations, 1815
A detailed record of underwater salvage operations in and around Narragansett Bay has been discovered in an early 19th century …Read More
Found: “Gulielmi Ellery Liver”: Or, the Book of William Ellery
This post is contributed by Gabriella Angeloni, Supervisory Buchanan/Burnham Fellow This 1740 copy of Isaac Watts’ Improvement of the Mind: …Read More
Found: Ezra Stiles’ “Bill of Mortality for Newport,” 1765-1776
This post is contributed by Cherry Fletcher Bamberg, Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists and Editor of Rhode Island …Read More