Close-up view of a person kneeling and holding onto a bear trap in a field.

Image shows a beam engine on the deck of a steamboat. A water tower reading "Cranston Worsted Mills" (125 Thames Street) and wharves are visible in background.

Image shows Beacon Rock mansion. Image is taken from viewpoint of Brenton Cove. Boats are docked at pier at bottom of cliffs.

Image shows the Beacon Rock mansion built on the top of rocky cliffs. A triple arch bridge leads to the mansion. Brenton Cove is in background. Boats are docked at covered pier in foreground.

Image shows two women sitting on a blanket on a Jamestown beach. A house and changing stalls are visible in background. Woman on left is fully dressed in hat, long sleeved blouse and floor length skirt. Woman on right is wearing a bathing suit, tights and shoes. Another woman sits with a parasol on chair in background.

Image shows beach goers sitting on benches inside a pavilion overlooking a beach. The beach is crowded with sunbathers and visitors. Swimmers are visible in the water and people and a parking lot is filled with cars.

Image shows a beauty contestant walking a runway. A man stands near a microphone behind her. He is smoking a pipe and is clapping. Spectators watch the contest from a beach. Swimmers are visible in the ocean in the background.

Image shows a beauty contestant walking a runway. A man speaks into a microphone behind her. Spectators watch the contest from a beach. Swimmers are visible in the ocean in the background.

People standing outside of a row of buildings near the beach. Tents in the sand are seen in the background.

Aerial view of a beach. The beach is long and has water on either side. Cars are lined in a parking lot. Sunbathers and swimmers are visible.

Image shows the Bay View Hotel. Figures are visible on the large wrap around porch of the hotel. A lunch room, parlor and bicycle repair shop are in foreground left.

Street view of Bayside Grocery, with other buildings and trees in the background. People and a dog are seated at the entrance.

Image shows the moving of the Bay Voyage Hotel. The Hotel is sitting on a barge in the Narragansett Bay in Portsmouth, RI. Workers stand on around house on barge and on shore. A tugboat is in background.

Image is a photograph of a framed painting of the SS Bay Queen Steamboat.

Steamboat Bay Queen at the Continental Steam Boat Co. Wharf. Another steamboat, the Baltimore, is visible in the background at right. At left behind the boat is the Hay Building (117-135 Dyer Street).

Image shows boats docked at wharf in foreground, and ferry passing through opened Point Street Bridge in background.

Image shows display of Battle Flags between two marble columns.

Image shows the Newport National Guard marching in a VFW parade. Guards are in uniform and hold guns over their right shoulder.

View along the length of a sandy beach, showing crowds of people on the shore and in the water. Houses are seen in the background. Name was changed from Sand Hill Cove Beach to Roger W. Wheeler State Beach in 1970.

View along the length of a sandy beach, showing crowds of people on the shore and in the water. Houses are seen in the background. Name was changed from Sand Hill Cove Beach to Roger W. Wheeler State Beach in 1970.

Image shows three men wearing bowler hats standing in front of the Newport Trust Company. The building is on the corner of Bath Rd (now Memorial Boulevard) n Bellevue Ave.

Somerville, Mass., and Westerly, R.I., players fall reaching for ball which is picked up by Tom [Brennan] (15), of Somerville in second period of their semifinal game in the New England Schoolboy tournament at Boston Garden, March 21. Somerville won 66-53 and will play Wilbur Cross of Connecticut in the finals.

Image shows a baseball players playing a nighttime game in a stadium. The stands are filled with spectators.

Group portrait of players in a baseball club, taken at Messer Park, their home field. In uniform, most players stand while some kneel and lie on the field, with an arrangement of bats. Bleachers are seen in the background.

Photograph of a framed painting of Commodore John Barry, 1745-1803, that is hanging in the Rhode Island State House. Commodore Barry is posing with a cannon on a ship.

View from the dock of Barrington Yacht Club, showing a building on the shore leading to the dock. Rowboats and small motor boats are docked in the foreground.

Aerial view looking north of the Barrington and Palmer Rivers.

Image shows two ballet dancers performing.

Image shows cars on highway with median in center of photograph. Houses and trees are in background.

A group of people tend a clambake. Several men place boxes of clams on the prepared firepit while a man stands in a cloud of steam. A woman in the background is folding a cloth. Several tools and implements are on the ground including a pitchfork and a wooden basket.