by JHS | Dec 1, 2023 | From the Collection
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...
by JHS | Nov 1, 2023 | From the Collection
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...
by JHS | Oct 1, 2023 | From the Collection
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....
by JHS | Sep 1, 2023 | From the Collection
“Number, Please” Switchboard Telephone Operators Left to right: Nancy Peters, Shirley Whitehead, Maxime VonShade Clark, Jennie Clarke, Ellen “Midge” Matoes Wright, Eva VonShade, Genevieve Matoes Currie, Bess Sheehan, Millie Cullen, Harriet...
by JHS | Aug 1, 2023 | From the Collection
Governor Carr pennant from the maiden voyage, February 1927 Above the Ferry Room door in the Jamestown Museum is the pennant flown on the Governor Carr on the ferryboat’s maiden voyage in February 1927. The Governor Carr carried passengers and vehicles across the East...
by JHS | Jul 1, 2023 | From the Collection
Manuel Nerona’s Ferry Mailbox Newport II Manuel Neronha Sr. was born in 1907 and came to Jamestown as a child. As soon as he was old enough, he went to work for the Jamestown & Newport Ferry Company. Except for a few years in the 1940s, he worked on the...
