The Redwood’s aim to be a comprehensive resource for researchers in architectural history, colonial to Gilded Age, involves systematic acquisition of period materials that can inform both scholars and craftsmen, and help us–like they did for their original 19th-c. audiences–better appreciate Newport’s many remarkable historic structures. Some early American architectural books as this new purchase […]
With early modern architecture one of the Library’s five key Special Collections areas, the Redwood aims to be an indispensable resource for researchers, historians and restoration architects. This two-leaf pamphlet in its original blue wrappers gives the wholesale pricing in dollars & cents of lumber in Boston for the year 1805, extremely valuable historical information […]
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In Library of Amorphous Matter, Curator, Leora Malt-Leca described how Jocelyne Prince considers the material properties of glass, an amorphous or noncrystalline solid that is the central protagonist of a fantastical library of cracks, drips and scars. Slide Library (2002-present), exhibited in the Redwood’s Rovensky Delivery Room on custom “atheneum-like” bookcases. She examined the features of hundreds of […]
Spectacles, ca. 18th century. These spectacles once belonged to Abraham Redwood, founder of the Redwood Library. Circular lens holders are filled with clear glass lenses within tortoise-shell frames and earpieces are adjustable in length by folding. The artist is unknown
Silver Teapot, c.1745-1750. Samuel Casey (c.1723-c.1773). South Kingstown & Newport, RI. This teapot has particulary fine engraving at the shoulder. The earliest monogram on this teapot is that of Sarah Pope (1742-1819), who was married to William Redwood (son of our founder Abraham Redwood) in 1757.
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