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Welcome to the Warren Preservation Society
Featured Collection Items
Poster: RI Equal Suffrage Association (1919), Providence. Urges women of Rhode Island to vote in the next presidential election following the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
Photograph (circa 1935-1940) of the interior of the Industrial Trust Bank, Main St., Warren, by Henry Cady. Features Edwin A. Cady at the desk.
Photograph (1935-1940) taken from the Methodist Church steeple (130 feet tall), looking northwest. Features Miller St. School, Masonic Lodge, Abbot-Miller House, and Warren Manufacturing Company. Photo by Henry Cady.
Poster: Warren on Wheels (May 25, 1995), illustrated by David McCaulay. Ink on paper, sponsored by the Warren Preservation Society.
Painting: Maine Seascape (Date unknown) by Henry Cady (1840-1935). Oil on canvas board, two-sided, 8"x12". Cady, a marine painter from Warren, was also an illustrator, author and composer.
Newspaper Series Old Rhode Island Ships (circa 1935), published in the Providence Evening Bulletin.
The History of Warren, RI, in the War of the Revolution, 1776-1783 (1901) by Virginia Baker. Self-published in Warren. A detailed account of Warren's role in the American Revolution covering key battles, military leaders, and contributions from its residents.
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Information about Warren's historic buildings, people and publications, maritime industries; mills and manufacturing; neighborhoods; photographs and maps; slave trade and enslavement in Warren; and whaling is included. Research help is available by contacting the Society.
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