Slide Title

Providence (Aerial): Looking East

Photographer/Creator

Chester Smolski, Rhode Island College

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Date

1-1-1975

Description

Aerial view of Providence downtown area. Among America’s oldest cities, Providence has a special sense of place. Like its contemporaries, it has been built and rebuilt many times. Development, however, has not resulted in wholesale destruction and replacement, but in complex layering, which reveals the built legacies created by generations of earlier residents. Together, Providence, as Rhode Island’s capital city, and Newport have since the American Revolution been the state’s economic, political, social, and architectural pacesetters.

Notes

Jordy, Buildings of Rhode Island (Oxford, 2004), 29.

Creator 1 Role

Photographer

Themes

Downtown

Subject Headings

Aerial photography in land use -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Land use, Urban -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Providence (R.I.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.; Providence River (Providence, R.I.); United States Highway 195 (Providence, R.I.); Providence River (Providence, R.I); Dunkin Donuts Center (Providence, R.I.)

Country Name

United States

Region Name

Rhode Island

City Name

Providence

Recommended Citation

Smolski, Chester, "Providence (Aerial): Looking East" (1975). Browse All. 85.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/85