Historic New England

Set of architectural drawings of an unidentified house, designed by Alexander R. Esty, location unknown, ca. 1855

1 set of 23 architectural drawings

Date: ca. 1855

Collection: General architectural and cartographic collection

GUSN: 180758

Ref. Code: AR001.UNK.015

Front elevation of an unidentified house, designed by Alexander R. Esty, location unknown, ca. 1855

1 exterior elevation : black ink, and/or watercolor washes, and graphite underwriting and emendations on wove paper ; 23 7/16 x 17 13/16 inches

Date: ca. 1855

Collection: General architectural and cartographic collection

GUSN: 180761

Ref. Code: AR001.UNK.015.001

Set of architectural drawings of the Ephraim Merriam House, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass., 1856-1857

1 set of 8 architectural drawings

Date: 1856-1857

Collection: Luther Briggs, Jr. architectural collection

GUSN: 180770

Ref. Code: AR002.TMP.001

Landscaping plan of the Ephraim Merriam House, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass., Oct. 1856

1 landscaping plan : black and brown ink, watercolor, and graphite underdrawing and notations on wove paper ; 19 1/2 x 13 inches

Date: 1856

Collection: Luther Briggs, Jr. architectural collection

GUSN: 180771

Ref. Code: AR002.TMP.001.001

Set of elevations of stores and tenements for Matthew Bartlett, Broad and Belmont Streets, Boston, Mass., 1856

1 set of 6 elevations

Date: 1856

Collection: Luther Briggs, Jr. architectural collection

GUSN: 180773

Ref. Code: AR002.TMP.002

Front elevation of stores and tenements for Matthew Bartlett, Broad and Belmont Streets, Boston, Mass., 1856

1 exterior elevation : black and red ink, watercolor, and graphite on wove paper ; 19 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches

Date: 1856

Collection: Luther Briggs, Jr. architectural collection

GUSN: 180775

Ref. Code: AR002.TMP.002.001

First floor plan of stores and tenements for Matthew Bartlett, Broad and Belmont Streets, Boston, Mass., 1856

1 floor plan : black ink, watercolor, graphite, and graphite underdrawing on wove paper ; 12 13/16 x 19 inches

Date: 1856

Collection: Luther Briggs, Jr. architectural collection

GUSN: 180776

Ref. Code: AR002.TMP.003.001

Miscellaneous

Subseries C. Miscellaneous, undated, contains craft paper and the back page of a Bible study book, undated schoolwork, and the "Rhyme of the Tory Tollevers" with hand-decorated cover. The subseries is arranged roughly by document type.

Date: undated

Collection: Little family papers

GUSN: 180857

Ref. Code: MS016.22.03

Printed material

Subseries D. Printed material, 1909, undated, contains booklets of Apostolic Church history (1st, 3rd, 4th quarters 1909) and the Gospel History of Christ (3rd quarter); miscellaneous church bulletins, postcards, newspaper clippings, and programs (1909); sheets of music and hymns; and postcards of s...

Date: 1909, undated

Collection: Little family papers

GUSN: 180868

Ref. Code: MS016.22.04

Correspondence

Subseries A, Correspondence, 1939-1969 (#14.233) contains letters sent and received regarding the Reading Club between 1939 and the 1960s. The subseries is arranged chronologically.

Date: 1939-1969

Collection: Little family papers

GUSN: 180870

Ref. Code: MS016.23.01

Financial records

Subseries B, Financial, 1921-1976 (#14.234-17.256) contains household account books kept between October 1921 and August 1962; an account book and membership list for the Newburyport Choral Society (1923-1924); bills and receipts for building, property, and household repairs (1958-1965); cancelled c...

Date: 1921-1976

Collection: Little family papers

GUSN: 180876

Ref. Code: MS016.23.02

Correspondence

Subseries A, Correspondence, 1900-1985, undated (#18.257-19.266) contains includes a letter for Amelia on genealogy (1910); cards received, blank cards, envelopes (undated); cards received (1982); birthday and Easter cards received in 1983; letters and cards received (1983-1985, undated), postcards ...

Date: 1900-1985

Collection: Little family papers

GUSN: 180881

Ref. Code: MS016.24.01

Financial records

Subseries B, Financial, 1969-1983 (#20.267-20.275) contains account books (1969-1980, 1983); bank statements and a health insurance certificate (1980-82); check stubs (1977-1982); Little family farm appraisal (1972); and miscellaneous undated bills. The subseries is arranged by document type and chr...

Date: 1969-1983

Collection: Little family papers

GUSN: 180884

Ref. Code: MS016.24.02

Genealogy

Subseries C, Genealogy, undated (#20.276) contains an undated Grafton Chart index with notes.

Date: undated

Collection: Little family papers

GUSN: 180886

Ref. Code: MS016.24.03

Inventories

Subseries D, Inventories, undated (#21.277-21.279) contains a loose-leaf binder with an inventory of furniture and book of quotations (undated); an inventory of linens, silver, and furniture, which also includes an inventory of Ebenezer Little's parlor furniture (undated); and an inventory of the fa...

Date: undated

Collection: Little family papers

GUSN: 180888

Ref. Code: MS016.24.04

Legal papers

Subseries E, Legal, 1933-1970, undated (#21.280-21.282) contains a birth certificate (1933), information about wetlands designation (1970), the wills of Eliza A. Little, Margaret Little, and Agnes Little, and letters from the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, now Historic New ...

Date: 1933-1970

Collection: Little family papers

GUSN: 180893

Ref. Code: MS016.24.05

Literary papers

Subseries F, Literary, 1964, undated (#21.283-21.285) contains undated address books, an undated notebook with lists of books read and movies and plays seen, and a travel diary and letters sent from traveling (1964). The subseries is arranged alphabetically.

Date: 1964, undated

Collection: Little family papers

GUSN: 180894

Ref. Code: MS016.24.06

Miscellaneous

Subseries G, Miscellaneous, 1900-1983, undated (#22.286-22.293, 22.313) contains undated loose leaf notes; telephone numbers and a calendar (1983); an undated story titled "Spires and Towers of Newburyport"; tributes to Eleanor Little Baker and Eliza Little (1917, undated); graduate pamphlets, calli...

Date: 1900-1983, undated

Collection: Little family papers

GUSN: 180903

Ref. Code: MS016.24.07

Edwin Whitefield graphic collection, 1860s-1880s

In the 1860s, after nearly thirty years of traveling throughout Canada and the United States for the purpose of sketching architectural structures and landscapes, artist Edwin Whitefield settled in Massachusetts. From there he commenced the huge undertaking of visually recording hundreds of historic...

Date: 1860-1889

Collection: Edwin Whitefield graphic collection, 1860s-1880s

GUSN: 180980

Ref. Code: GC004

Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

The Prints and Engravings Collection consists of approximately 2,500 engravings, lithographs, woodcuts, and wood engravings, dating from the 1830s until the 1920s. The collection contains rare examples of the work of J. H. Bufford, Hammatt Billings, and other Boston printmakers. These materials a...

Date: 1830-1929

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 180981

Ref. Code: GC002

View books graphic collection, 1880s-1920s

View books were a popular medium for promoting the assets of New England cites and towns, particularly those wishing to attract tourism, or to draw attention to their up-to-date manufacturing, educational, and commercial activities. Those in Historic New England's collections are in two formats: bou...

Date: 1880-1929

Collection: View books graphic collection, 1880s-1920s

GUSN: 180982

Ref. Code: GC003

Massachusetts maps collection, 1800s-1900s

The Maps and Atlases Collection is composed of over 500 maps of New England localities and 50 bound atlases. The majority relate to Boston and vicinity. The maps provide especially good coverage for the 19th century, some of which are occasionally illustrated with vignettes of architectural and scen...

Date: 1800-1909

Collection: Massachusetts maps collection, 1800s-1900s

GUSN: 180989

Ref. Code: AR020

George A. Clough architectural collection

The George A. Clough architectural collection represents a mix of municipal and private commissions. The majority of the commissions were for structures in Massachusetts with a few buildings designed for towns in Maine. The collection includes architectural drawings for public buildings, such as Eng...

Date: 1870-1910

Collection: George A. Clough architectural collection

GUSN: 180991

Ref. Code: AR005

Arland A. Dirlam architectural collection

Arland Augustus Dirlam was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, on October 17, 1905. After completing his studies at Tufts in civil engineering in 1926, he obtained a master's degree from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design in 1929. From his office in Malden, Massachusetts, he was best know...

Collection: Arland A. Dirlam architectural collection

GUSN: 180993

Ref. Code: AR006

Two women in the Blaisdell Office, Boston, Mass., undated

There are two women sitting in the Blaisdell Office in Hamilton Place, Boston, Massachusetts. One woman sits at a large desk and the other sits in a chair in front of a fireplace.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179739

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.4330.001

Interior view of an office, location unknown, 1937

This is the interior of an office in an unknown location with a long table in the center of the room. On top of the table is a shelf with compartments in it. There are also phones hooked into the ceiling on top of the compartments.

Date: 1937-09-17

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179741

Ref. Code: PC001.02.02.4150.0100.002

Check writing machine, location unknown, 1943

This is a Burroughs check writing machine used to write checks for employees at a business. This particular machine is used to write the checks for the Boston Elevated Railway Company.

Date: 1943

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179744

Ref. Code: PC001.02.02.4150.0100.003

Master Builders Association

A man sits at a desk at the Master Builders Association in Boston, Massachusetts. On the desk there are files, a telephone, office supplies and behind him there is a window with the name of the business painted on it.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179749

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.7640.001

Woman at a machine, location unknown, 1938

A woman sits at a machine putting rows of paper into a feeder in an unknown location. She is sitting in an office chair and there is a large machine in front of her.

Date: 1938-05-26

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179753

Ref. Code: PC001.02.02.4150.0100.004

Presentation exterior perspective of the Henry C. Bowen House, Woodstock, Conn., 1846

1 exterior perspective : black and blue ink and watercolor on wove paper ; 13 3/4 x 21 inches

Date: 1846

Collection: General architectural and cartographic collection

GUSN: 179757

Ref. Code: AR001.USCT.3350.002

Interior view of a living room, location unknown, undated

This is an interior view of a living room with table set up with a sign that says " R.H. Lufkin Manuf. of Vamp Folding Machines 38 Chardon St. Boston, Mass. USA." The table also has photographs in frames, flowers in a vase and a replica of a machine placed on it. The living room has a couch, chair...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179761

Ref. Code: PC001.02.02.4150.0200.001

Exterior view of a house with three people on the porch, Newport, R.I., undated

This is the exterior view of a house with three people standing on a porch in Newport, Rhode Island. There are trees that surround the sides and front of the house.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179763

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USRI.0290.0530.001

Interior of adjutant general's office, Charleston, West Virginia

Adjutant General John W. M. Appleton, Assistant Adjutant General Colonel D. T. E. Casteel, and First Lieutenant Douglas Settle, sit at a desk in the office of the adjutant general in Charleston, West Virginia. Settle served as inspector general.John W. M. Appleton was born in Massachusetts in 1833. ...

Collection: Personal photographic collection

GUSN: 179769

Ref. Code: PC004.01.A.1450.01

Cartes-de-visite photographic collection, c. 1858-1899

Chronologically, the carte-de-visite era overlaps with the waning popularity of daguerreotypes and ambrotypes as the predominant media of photographic portraiture. The earliest carte-de-visite in this collection dates from approximately 1858, although the majority of the items cluster between 1862 a...

Date: 1853-1866, predominant 1862-1866

Collection: Cartes-de-visite photographic collection, c. 1858-1899

GUSN: 179770

Ref. Code: PC008

Men on a schooner with fish, Boston, Mass., ca. 1885

This is a group of men on a fishing schooner preparing their catch in Boston, Massachusetts. The men stand around a large fish that is hooked to a mast while other men prepare smaller fish. The ship is scattered with rope, barrels, and life boats.

Date: ca. 1885

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179775

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.7790.001

The Launch "Sagitta"

There is a group of men and children sitting and standing on the steam boat, "Sagitta", in Falmouth, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The boat is tied to a dock that is located near warehouses. Buildings line the dock and stretch down the pier.

Date: 1897

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179785

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0980.0080.001

Gathering seaweed near the jetties, Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts

Three people stand on the beach collecting seaweed into a wagon pulled by a horse. To the left there are two rock formations that extend out into the ocean with light posts on each end. There are people sitting out on the rocks and in the distance they can see a steamship driving across the ocean.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179787

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2200.0010.003

Invertebrates M.B.L., July 25, 1896

A group of men and women sit on a boat called the Vigilant in Woods Hole, Falmouth, Massachusetts to have their photograph taken. The boat is docked at a pier and there is land in the background.

Date: 1896-07-25

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179791

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0980.0080.002

Captain Sandsbury at the Muskeget Life-Saving Station, Nantucket, Mass., undated

Captain Sandsbury stands in his room at the Muskeget Life Saving Station and writes on a slate with chalk at his desk. There is a woodstove in the middle of the room and the door is open to the hallway.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179796

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.1960.0370.001

Exterior view of a fishing storage shed, Biddeford, Maine, ca. 1880

This is the exterior of a fishing storage shed in Biddeford Pool, Maine. There are tools, canvas, barrels and netting strewn on the platform leading into the building.

Date: ca. 1880

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179806

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USME.0210.0020.001

Fish splitting, Biddeford Pool, Maine

This is an exterior view of a group of men working on splitting fish over barrels in front of the ocean. There are five men in front with knives and in the back of them are three storage buildings with several places to store fishing tools such as nets and lobster traps.

Date: 1880

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179809

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USME.0210.0020.002

Old fashioned county school house

This is an interior of a school house with a teacher and some students sitting on wooden benches. There is a wood stove in the middle of the room and a blackboard on the wall.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179812

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USME.0170.0010.001

Dennis Bunker

This is a portrait of Dennis Bunker drawing a person on a sketch board in an unknown location. In front of him is a large painting and a chair.

Collection: Personal photographic collection

GUSN: 179817

Ref. Code: PC004.01.B.5000.01

Men in front of a life-saving station, Eastham, Mass., May 13, 1901

A group of eight men in uniforms stand outside the life-saving station in Eastham, Massachusetts. A boat is seen in the open door of the station.

Date: 1901-05-13

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179824

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0880.0040.001

Correspondence

Subseries A, Correspondence, 1893-1912, contains correspondence received in the following years: 1893-1899, 1907-1910, and 1912. The subseries is arranged chronologically.

Date: 1893-1912

Collection: Little family papers

GUSN: 179859

Ref. Code: MS016.22.01

Literary papers

Subseries B, Literary, undated, contains undated school papers, workbooks and papers from school and a story "An Incident of Local History."

Date: undated

Collection: Little family papers

GUSN: 179860

Ref. Code: MS016.22.02

Panoramic view showing State House, Boston

This is a panoramic view of the State House in Boston, Massachusetts. The city is in the foreground showing different commercial and residential buildings.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179912

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.027

Beacon Hill from river

This is an exterior view of the Charles River shoreline and Beacon Hill in Boston, Massachusetts.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179913

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.028

View from cupola of State House looking west, Boston, Massachusetts

This is a view from the cupola of the State House overlooking part of the city of Boston, Massachusetts and the Charles River.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179915

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.029

Bulfinch Hall, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts

A group of students are gathered in front of the entrance of a building at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. One student lies atop the entablature of the doorway to the building.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179923

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.007

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