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Images of America: Block Island
Written by: Donald A. D’AmatoThis book provides a fascinating collection of vintage photographs. Each picture includes an interesting caption and the date taken. Many of the photographs are from the first years of the last century. Incredible pictorial history of Block Island.
Publication date: 1999
Price: $21.99
Pages: 128
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Summer by the Seaside
Written by: Bryant F. Tolles, Jr.What a gorgeous book! It covers all the old, classic seaside hotels of New England. Of course, Block Island is included. Great photographs of Block Island ’s remaining and once great hotels. This book is thoroughly researched. It is amazing how huge and ornate these classic buildings were. Sadly, so many of them were destroyed by fire or hurricane.
Publication date: 2008
Pages: 239
The Bell Tolls: Shipwrecks & Lighthouses of Block
Written by: Henry Keatts and George FarrLighthouses and shipwrecks go hand and hand, without shipwrecks there would be no need for lighthouses. This is the definitive work about Block Island’s shipwrecks. Keatts and Farr cover many of the historically significant wrecks and they go on to describe their present day condition, under the sea. This book is packed with charts, photographs and drawings. There are great narratives of the last moments before these ships met Block Island’s rocky shores.
Publication date: 2002
Pages: 224
Price: $24.99
Block Island History of Photography: Volume 1 1870-1910's
Written by: Robert M. DownieBob Downie has done it again! His new book, is chock full of old Block Island photos and text. Every photograph except one, are new to us. The book is so absorbing, you just can't put it down. Fabulous vistas and views of Block Island. Many have been taken from atop the old Ocean View Hotel.
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Publication date: 2007
Pages: 271
Block Island History of Photography: Volume 2 1917-1960's
Written by: Robert M. DownieRobert Downie continues his fascinating history of Block Island with text and photographs. Volume #2 includes the index for both books in the series.
Publication date: 2008
Pages: 286
Tristram Dodge and His Descendants in America: with Historical and Descriptive Accounts of Block Island and Cow Neck, L.I., Their Original Settlements
Written by Robert DodgeIn the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, the printers have chosen to reproduce this title even though it my possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control.
Pages: 233
Livermore's History of Block Island
Written by: Reverend S.T. LivermoreThe definitive history of Block Island from 1514-1876. This book is published by the Block Island Historical Society. No pictures, but chock full of facts and island lore. Eighty-five years after Reverend Livermore wrote his history an afterward was added at the time of Block Island’s Tricentenary in 1961. Nathan Tuft, its author quickly goes through some remarkable changes that occurred between 1877 and 1961.
Publication date: 1877
Pages: 370