Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Library and Cabinet of the Rhode Island Historical Society: Their Origin and Leading Features Together With a Classified Summary of Their Contents
The character, scope and marked features of this library are best understood by glancing at the history of the institution to which it belongs.
This Society was organized seventy years ago by men who were deeply interested to secure a truthful history of the State and to per petuate the memory of its founders and benefactors. The work of collecting material to this end was begun at once, and has been car ried forward with more or less interest to the present time. During its first twelve years the Society was provided by the General Assem bly (which early made it, and has continued it, the custodian of valuable documents) with a room in the State House for its meetings and for the safe keeping of its collections. During its next ten years it had quarters elsewhere (three. Years in Brown Ives' counting room and seven years in the Arcade), and during its last forty-eight years it 'has occupied its own two-story building, which was, until a recent date, only 30 by 50 feet, and is situated on lots 66 and 68 Waterman street. With this building has-been joined a structure which greatly enlarges the Society's accommodations and increases its means of usefulness.
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