Picturing Rhode Island: Images from Everyday Life, 1850a 2006

by Maureen A. Taylor, William Taylor (Foreword)

This is the Rhode Island we never knew, as it looked to our ancestors in the early years of photography. A photo archivist and historian has created this evocative gift for those who care about the Ocean State.

184 pages, Hardcover

First published September 4, 2007

About the author

Maureen Taylor is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London and Canada. She’s the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira). She’s been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany’s top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit, and The New York Times. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website and also writes guidebooks, scholarly articles and online columns for such media as Smithsonian.com.

Currently a contributing editor of Family Tree Magazine, Maureen also writes personal memoirs and narrative family histories for the Newbury St. Press of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.

Reviews

[Sarah McLean · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun look at Rhode Island and how it changed from the late 19th through the late 20th centuries. Would recommend a magnifying glass to really see the detail of some of the photos.