The postcard collection boasts some wonderful images of familiar, and some not so familiar buildings around downtown Providence and the East Side. These are just a sampling of what we have. The postcards are not as accessible as the rest of the Picture Collection folders, but are available for browsing upon request. Eventually we hope to be able to make more of these available digitally in our image database.
Dates are only available on postcards that have a postmark on them. Most are from the early 1900′s.
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- Arcade
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- Arcade
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- Arcade-Interior
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- City Hall, old Union Station, and Central Fire Station
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- Hotel Dorrance Built in 1880, torn down and replaced with the Woolworth Building.
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- Journal Building. Built in 1906, this building has frontage on Westminster, Eddy and Fulton Streets
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- Market Square
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- Market Square
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- Old Turks Head, Westminster Street. Torn down and replaced by the current Turks Head building in 1913.
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- Prospect Street
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- Prospect Terrace, 1904
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- Providence Athenaeum, 1906
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- Providence waterfront, 1910
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- RISD and Providence County Court House, ca. 1940′s
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- RISD Waterman Building
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- Shortline Bus Terminal ca. 1960′s. The RI Convention Center and Westin Hotel are on this site now.
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- Train Tunnel, Benefit Street entrance
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- Turks Head Building, Westminster Street, 1914
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- Union Station
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- View from City Hall Tower, now called Kennedy Plaza. Look–no buses, and no trees!
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- Woolworth Building. Corner of Dorrance and Westminster, this building replaced the Hotel Dorrance.
