Connie Armbrust

Connie Armbrust

Click on the images below to see them in our Online Catalog. Jamestown is a haven for writers and artists, and one of our treasures was Constance Armbrust, known to everyone as “Connie.” Connie was born November 7, 1907, to Archie and Emily Dearborn Warren in Concord,...
Harbor View

Harbor View

Click on the images below to see them in our Online Catalog. In 1887, Captain Abbott Chandler, who ran a small boat business, renting rowboats and sailboats from his floating pier south of the East Ferry wharf, hired Charles Bevins to build a boardinghouse for seamen...
Tiny Photos Attached to Larger Documents

Tiny Photos Attached to Larger Documents

Click on the images below to see them in our Online Catalog. The Jamestown Historical Society has more than 11,000 photographs in its collection. Six of these are unique because they are tiny visuals that are attached to larger documents: two postcards, two envelopes,...
Conanicut Island Light Keeper’s Journal

Conanicut Island Light Keeper’s Journal

Click on the images below to see them in our Online Catalog. JHS recently received Elmer V. Newton’s Conanicut Island Light Keeper’s Journal, 1921-1933. Lighthouse keepers were required to keep a journal mostly of day to day life, when inspections were made, and what...
Jamestown Signs

Jamestown Signs

Click on the images below to see them in our Online Catalog. Hanging on a side wall of the JHS Vault is a collection of Jamestown signs from island merchants that have closed in years past. The Lyons Market was a grocery store located first at 17 Narragansett...
Edward Mitchell Bannister  1828 – 1901

Edward Mitchell Bannister 1828 – 1901

Jamestown Harbor at Sunset, 1895 The Providence Art Club recently mounted a tribute to commemorate the life and work of one of their original founders, the Black artist Edward Mitchell Bannister. Bannister, born in New Brunswick, immigrated to Boston in about 1848....