More From My Postcard Collection
More scans of old postcards I have collected of places I have lived and liked.

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Portsmouth, RI

The John T. Pierce, Sr., Portsmouth Historical Collection Library
Main Street, Portsmouth, R. I. "Main Street, Portsmouth, R. I." The card has no date, but would have been printed before the first world war. Portsmouth is at the opposite end of Aquidneck Island from Newport.
Coal Mine Portsmouth Both Cards: "Coal Mine, Portsmouth." These real photo postcards of the coal breaker were mailed in 1911.
Portsmouth Stone BridgeLeft: Coal Mine 1909. Right: Stone Bridge from Portsmouth side" Built in 1907 to replace an earlier stone bridge over the Sakonnet River between Portsmouth and Tiverton. Replaced in by the Sakonnet River Bridge in 1956.
Prudence, R. I. (an island in Narragansett Bay) with the sidewheeler City of Newport at the dock. The card was printed and mailed in 1907.
Right: a detail of the sidewheeler.
More of my Newport Postcards are on the Newport County, RIGenWeb site.
For a great site with many more old postcards of Newport and terrific descriptions, visit the
Newport Postcard Museum
Also see Rhode Island Pictorial Post Cards at Rhode Island Postal History for selections that cover the state and many decades.
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