US-RPRC-mss-0052 Guide to the Wilfred E. Stone photographscirca 1895-1929 Finding aid prepared by Alan E. Martinez Valdez, Anne Boylan, and Veronica L. Denison. Special Collections

James P. Adams Library Rhode Island College 600 Mount Pleasant Ave Providence, RI, 02908 Tel: 401-456-9653 email:digitalcollections@ric.edu

2025 This finding aid was encoded by Veronica L. Denison, 2025 EnglishEnglish Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) Wilfred E. Stone photographs Stone (Wilfred E.) photographs MSS-0052 Special Collections, James P. Adams Library

Rhode Island College 600 Mount Pleasant Ave Providence, RI, 02908 Tel: 401-456-9653 email:digitalcollections@ric.edu

English 0.2 cubic feet circa 1895-1929 Stone, Wilfred E. The collection consists of photographs taken by Wilfred E. Stone in various places of New England, mostly in Rhode Island. 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.

Collection information

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.

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.

The collection is open for research.

Wilfred E. Stone photographs, MSS-0052, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.

The collection is not arranged in any particular order.

Administrative information

Provenance of the collection is unknown. It was in the holdings of Special Collections prior to 1980.

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.

Additional 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

Providence Public Library (PPL) holds the Wilfred E. Stone Collection.

This collection has been digitized and select images are available in RIC Digital Commons. Please contact Rhode Island College Special Collections for additional information.

Names Stone, Wilfred E. Subjects People Schooners Buildings Dams Rivers Rhode Island Types of Materials Photographs “Amos D. Smith House—Hope and George St.”11undated “Haying Scene on Old ‘Charity Lot’—“Back Around Turn of Century”12circa 1895-1905 “Barkentine Westmoreland in Providence Harbour”13undated 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 fields14undated “Block Island”15undated “Block Island, the road to the new harbour”16undated “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.”17circa 1908 “Cross town Cranston car crew about 1910”18circa 1910 Dorrance Hotel19undated “East Greenwich”110undated “Exeter -Austin School”111undated “The Old Snuff Mill”; “The Gilbert Stuart Birthplace,” North Kingstown, R.I.: Two unmarked postcards112undated “Fort Griswold and Groton Monument Groton, Conn.”113circa 1925 “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)".114circa 1900 “Hospital Street Playground, Providence”115undated “Hoyle Square”: Now called Canonicus Square, in Providence’s West End at the intersection of Cranston St. and Westminster St.116undated “Inside court of Charles Warren Lippitt place, Newport, Rhode Island”117undated “Jamestown”118undated “Laying out new marks on Greenville-Woonsocket Road”119undated “The Mauderer Wanderer New Bedford Whaler”1201920 “Memorial to Canonicus in Nnorth Burial gGround”121undated “Meshanticutt School Ggarden”122undated “Moses Brown School, Providence, RLIL”123undated “Mount Hope Bridge – 2 weeks before opening” out1241929 October “Municipal Court Office Providence”125undated “New Bedford”: Photo depicts mostly sailing ships docked in a harbor (ships)126undated “New Hampshire”127undated “New London from Fort Griswold”128undated “No.rth Main Street”129undated “Old Harbour, Block Island”130undated “Old School at Potawamut Potowomut where school is still ‘“kept”’”131undated “Olneyville Sq.”uare132undated “On Post Road at . Hunt’s River”133undated Portuguese Immigrant Schooner134undated Unmarked- Providencetown Street SquareProvincetown135undated Rhode Island Normal School and State House136undated “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.)1371926 August 27 St. Joseph’s Hospital138undated “Scituate—Hope Dam”138undated “Scituate—Ponaganset Reservoir”140undated A subdrawn subdrain—one of the preliminaries to building the filter building beds”141undated “State Highways”142undated “Scituate, Town Clerks Office”143undated “Unity Building—Woonsocket”144undated “The upper Connecticut near Brattleboro”145undated “Where New Town Hill Road Leaves Allerton”146undated “Ben’s Dry Goods Store”147undated West Warwick148circa 1920