Historic New England

Foundation with Spout, Exterior, Boardman House, Saugus, Mass., 1970

Note reads "East end wall, 1st floor as found prior to repairs, photo by M. Phillips"

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 360302

Ref. Code: PC006.BOA.01.112

East End Wall, Boardman House, Saugus, Mass., 1970

Note on back reads "East end wall, 1st floor, as found prior to repairs"

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 360304

Ref. Code: PC006.BOA.01.113

East Wall, Exterior, Boardman House, Saugus, Mass., 1970

Note on back reads "East end wall, 1st floor. As found prior to repairs."

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 360305

Ref. Code: PC006.BOA.01.114

East Wall, Interior, Boardman House, Saugus, Mass., 1970

Note on back reads "New work at (H) viewed from inside"

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 360306

Ref. Code: PC006.BOA.01.115

East Wall, Exterior, Boardman House, Saugus, Mass., 1970

Note on back reads "East end wall, 1st floor as found prior to repairs"

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 360307

Ref. Code: PC006.BOA.01.116

Foundation with overgrowth, Boardman House, Saugus, Mass., 1970

Note reads "As found prior to repairs east end wall, 1st floor"

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 360308

Ref. Code: PC006.BOA.01.117

Opening in East Wall, Boardman House, Saugus, Mass., 1970

Note reads "New work at (H) on drawing"

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 360309

Ref. Code: PC006.BOA.01.118

Home builder's plan book, fifty small house plans, Building Plan Holding Corporation, 24 West 39th Street, New York, N.Y., 1921

Plan book published by the Building Plan Holding Corporation. The book has a collection of small house designs by numerous architects. Accompanying each design is a floor plan, a photographic print of the completed design, total measurements, and cross sections of the house.

Date: 1921

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 360310

Ref. Code: EP005.464

"Close-to-nature" collapsible canvas houses, Close-To-Nature Company, Colfax, Iowa, 1920

Plan book for collapsible canvas houses published by the Close-to-Nature company. The plan book includes multiple photographic prints of these canvas houses in nature, accompanied usually by testimonials and in-depth descriptions of the houses' design and uses. The back of the plan book includes a p...

Date: 1920

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 360312

Ref. Code: EP005.465

The big 4 for '54 by Continental, Continental Trailer Company, 4820 South Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, Ill., 1954

Plan book for Continental mobile homes. Each listing is accompanied by a depiction of the mobile home, a floor plan, dimensions, a short description of unique features, and a photographic print of women in various areas of the mobile home.

Date: 1954

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 360314

Ref. Code: EP005.466

Better built homes, Curtis Companies Inc., Clinton, Iowa, 1923

Plan book of house designs published by Curtis Companies Inc. Each listing comes with a colored depiction of the completed house design, the name of the design, floor plans, a description of the unique design choices, and depictions of these design choices.

Date: 1923

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 360315

Ref. Code: EP005.467

A home of your own, National Plan Service, Inc., Chicago, Ill., undated

Plan book of house designs published by the National Plan Service. Each design is accompanied by a photographic print of the completed design, the design number, a floor plan, dimensions, and a brief description of the house's unique features. There is an order form in the back. The front cover a...

Date: undated

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 360316

Ref. Code: EP005.468

Two family homes and apartments, Harris, McHenry & Baker, Elmira, N.Y., undated

Plan book for two family homes and apartments published by Harris, McHenry & Baker. Each design comes with a photographic print, the name of the design, floor plans of each apartment or section of the house, overall dimensions, and a brief description of the design.

Date: undated

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 360317

Ref. Code: EP005.469

Lesco homes, factory built, Lester Bros., Inc., Martinsville, Va., 1955

Plan book for factory-built homes published by Lester Bros., Inc. Each listing comes with an illustration or photographic print of the completed design, the name of the design, design options, floor plans, a brief description of the design, and on the opposite side of the design page are the full sp...

Date: 1955

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 360319

Ref. Code: EP005.470

Purdy's plan book of popular American homes, vol. 1, W. W. Purdy, architect, Minneapolis, Minn., 1925

Plan book showcasing designs designed by architect W. W. Purdy. Each of Purdy's designs comes with an illustration of the plan, a design number, a description of the design's unique features, floor plans, and the cost of plans and specifications. The back of the plan book has testimonials from consu...

Date: 1925

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 360321

Ref. Code: EP005.471

Your own home, 25 new designs and floor plans, vol. 1, no. 2, Style Publications, Inc., 221 Conyngham Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 1946

Plan book for single-family homes designed by architects such as Royal Barry Wills, George Nemeny, Kay Hardy, and James Beard. The first part of the catalog has the house designs (each accompanied with a brief description, a photographic print of the design, and floor plans), while the second portio...

Date: 1946

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 360323

Ref. Code: EP005.472

Mill cut-to-fit homes, Bay City Ready-Cut Home Co., Bay City, Mich., 1917

Plan book for cut-to-fit homes published by Bay City Ready-Cut Home Co. Each home listing comes with a name, a photographic print of the completed home, the price of the home, dimensions, a brief description of the home's unique qualities, and floor plans. There is also an article in the back explai...

Date: 1917

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 360325

Ref. Code: EP005.473

Ideal homes in garden communities: a book of house plans, Robert M. McBride & Co., New York, N.Y., 1919

Plan book for homes in garden cities published by Robert M. McBride & Co. Each home design comes with an illustration of the home, a short description of the home's unqiue features, floor plans, and associated costs.

Date: 1919

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 360326

Ref. Code: EP005.474

Sterling homes, International Mill & Timber Co., Bay City, Mich., 1920

Plan book for house designs published by the International Mill & Timber Company. Each design comes with an illustration of the completed design, the name of the design, a paragraph describing the home's unique features, and floor plans. Prices for each of the homes are located at the beginning of t...

Date: 1920

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 360327

Ref. Code: EP005.475

Sterling homes, International Mill & Timber Co., Bay City, Mich., 1921

Plan book for house designs published by the International Mill & Timber Company. Each design comes with an illustration of the completed design, the name of the design, a paragraph describing the home's unique features, and floor plans. Prices for each of the homes are located at the beginning of t...

Date: 1921

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 360328

Ref. Code: EP005.476

Cartoons scrapbook

Some of the cartoons in this scrapbook contain harmful imagery and language, including but not limited to exaggerated stereotypical depictions of Black, Asian, and Native Americans and other Indigenous individuals, language and imagery reinforcing binary gender expectations, and exaggerated stereoty...

Date: 1896-1948, undated

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 359332

Ref. Code: MS004.060

Samuel Gragg manuscript collection

This collection contains manuscript materials related to the life and business operations of Boston chairmaker Samuel Gragg, his son Washington Parker Gragg, and other relatives. Materials include financial documents such as receipts, promissory notes, and an account book, legal documents such as a ...

Date: 1796-1885, undated, predominant 1801-1810

Collection: Samuel Gragg manuscript collection

GUSN: 359376

Ref. Code: MS067

Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture catalogue, Groton, Massachusetts, 1942

Course catalogue for the Lowthorpe School for Landscape Architecture and Horticulture. The catalogue contains information on the facilities, a breakdown of the staff and the school's history, options for financial assistance, a map showing the school's location and campus layout, and a table of the ...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 359378

Ref. Code: EP001.01.034.01.01.024

New North Station crochure, Boston and Maine Railroad, Boston, Mass., ca. 1935

Brochure advertising the newly-constructed North Station in downtown Boston. Throughout the borchure are images of the new structure's exterior and interior. The brochure gives details about how the concourse is organized, locations of important offices, The back of the brochure lists the architects...

Date: 1935

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 359395

Ref. Code: EP001.01.117.01.01.043

Papers of Samuel Gragg

Series contains receipts, including an 1810 receipt documenting the sale of Gragg's chairs in Sierra Leone, Africa; an account ledger; a summons; letters; a mortgage contract; promissory notes; a creditor's notice; and miscellaneous manuscripts related to the household and business operations of Sam...

Date: 1796-1846, undated, predominant 1801-1810

Collection: Samuel Gragg manuscript collection

GUSN: 359456

Ref. Code: MS067.001

Papers of Washington Parker Gragg, 1832-1885 (bulk 1830s, 1860-1863)

Series contains receipts; relinquishment of shares; interrogatory notes; materials related to land conveyances; and letters related to Washington Parker Gragg.

Date: 1832-1885, undated, predominant 1830-1863

Collection: Samuel Gragg manuscript collection

GUSN: 359457

Ref. Code: MS067.002

Other papers, 1804-1882, undated

Series contains a receipt; a land conveyance; a letter; a partial genealogy; and miscellaneous manuscripts related to various members of the Gragg family.

Date: 1804-1882, undated

Collection: Samuel Gragg manuscript collection

GUSN: 359458

Ref. Code: MS067.003

Letter to John Langdon, Esq., 1783 25 September

Letter received by John Langdon, Esq. in 1783 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The letter was written on September 25, 1783 in London, England, by London-based merchant bank Lane, Son & Fraser. It discusses the repayment of a bill by the author to John Langdon and clarifies the author will be cautious ...

Date: September 25, 1783

Collection: Miscellaneous manuscript collection

GUSN: 359474

Ref. Code: MS029.002.029

Cabinet cards, circa 1890

Series contains thirty-six cabinet cards of funerary monuments manufactured by various marble manufacturers in Rutland, Vermont, including eleven cabinet cards of monuments from Everson & Co.; seven cabinet cards of monuments from Producers' Marble Co.; fifteen cabinet cards of monuments from Ripley...

Date: circa 1890

Collection: Monument salesman collection

GUSN: 359475

Ref. Code: CC026.001

Lithographs, 1892, undated

Series contains forty lithographs and one pencil sketch of funerary monuments manufactured by various marble manufacturers in Rutland, Vermont. Two lithographs are dated 1892 and signed by H. G. Kotten. The rest of the collection are undated and not associated with any artists of marble manufacturer...

Date: 1892, undated

Collection: Monument salesman collection

GUSN: 359480

Ref. Code: CC026.002

Frank N. Nathan Company and Church Co. collection

Collection contains eighty-three mounted and unmounted pencil and watercolor design drawings from two Boston jewelry companies: the Frank N. Nathan Company and Church Co. The drawings illustrate designs for rings, brooches, and pendants among other jewelry items. Items in the collection are dated 19...

Date: 1928-1960, undated, predominant 1940-1949

Collection: Frank N. Nathan Company and Church Co. collection

GUSN: 359532

Ref. Code: CC027

Advertisement for Tremont on the Common, 151 Tremont Street, York Realty Company, 120 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass., ca 1960

Advertisement for the Tremont on the Common Apartment complex distributed by the York Realty Company. The front of the advertisement displays a color image of the building's exterior as viewed from Boston Common. The interior images utilize both conceptual images of the apartment interiors and photo...

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 359537

Ref. Code: EP001.01.097.01.01.010

Mental Photographs: An Album for Confessions, 1874-1879

Album titled "Mental Photographs: An Album for Confessions of Tastes, Habits, and Convictions" belonging to Elizabeth J. Gilman. This is the cartes-de-visite edition of the album meant to hold "76 Photographs of 23 questions each," although the album contains no cartes-de-visites. The album was publ...

Date: 1874-1879

Collection: Miscellaneous manuscript collection

GUSN: 359608

Ref. Code: MS029.002.030

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Collection: Domestic interiors photographic collection

GUSN: 359652

Ref. Code: PC002.USMA.Southbridge

George E. WIlliams standing in front of a shed, circa 1930

One black-and-white photographic print of George E. Williams standing outdoors in front of a shed with the door open. Photographer is unknown. Photograph is dated circa 1930.

Date: circa 1930

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 359681

Ref. Code: PC001.02.02.1850.0100.001

New England parades photographic collection

Collection contains fourteen mounted photographic prints, twenty-three postcards, and three unmounted photographic prints. Materials depict parades in towns across New England. Towns pictured in the collection are: Littleton, New Hampshire; Dover, New Hampshire; Madbury, New Hampshire; Hartford, Con...

Date: 1865-1936, undated

Collection: New England parades photographic collection

GUSN: 359682

Ref. Code: PC081

The Small Home, Architects Small House Service Bureau, 1200 Second Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minn., 1931

Bound volume containing issues of The Small Home magazines and pattern books published by the Architects' Small House Service Bureau between January and December of 1931. The content of the periodicals range from articles about proper home upkeep and interior design to advertisements and testimonial...

Date: 1931

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 359688

Ref. Code: EP005.462

Hodgson portable houses, E. F. Hodgson Co., 116-118 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., 1910

Plan book published by E. F. Hodgson Co. advertising portable houses. Although only two pages, the catalog serves as a preview for a larger catalog to come out later in the year. Within are black-and-white photographic prints showcasing the types of homes to be advertised. Each photographic print co...

Date: 1910

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 359689

Ref. Code: EP005.463

152 Tremont Street, Boston, MA

Image is of 152 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass., between West and Boylston Streets. Image shows horse drawn carriages in front of Chickering & Sons piano makers. There is a paino displayed in each store front window. Also in the photograph is The Berlitz School of Languages and Mason & Hamlin Co.

Date: undated

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 359706

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.8210.001

Sav-A-Chair rung fastener, Fulton Products Co., New York, NY, circa 1935

Advertisement for rung fasteners from the Fulton Products Company. Advertisement shows consumer how to attach rung fasteners onto chairs, and provides 10 samples. Three samples are missing from this advertisement. The top of the card lists the patent number for the rung fasteners, and the back of th...

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 359712

Ref. Code: EP001.01.050.02.03.01.024

Carley Life Float Company collection, circa 1915, 1917

Collection contains one albumen print on mount, one letter and envelope, one postal card, and one product specifications related to the Carley Life Float Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The albumen print depicts approximately thirty undidentified boys in a Carley Life Float. It is undated and...

Date: circa 1915, 1917

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 359713

Ref. Code: EP001.12.016.078

Papers of Silas Casey III (1841-1913)

Series XLI, Papers of Silas Casey III (1841-1913), 1882-1917, undated, contains biographical materials; correspondence sent by Silas Casey III; financial records in the form of receipts; portraits of Casey; and miscellaneous printed materials.

Date: 1882-1917, undated

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 359723

Ref. Code: MS008.42

Papers of Florida Gordon Casey (1841-1898)

Papers of Florida Gordon Casey (1841-1898), 1861-1898, undated, contains correspondence sent and received by Florida Gordon Casey as well as correspondence sent by others; financial records; legal records; notebooks; objects; photographs and prints; and miscellaneous printed matter. The vast majorit...

Date: 1861-1898, undated

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 359724

Ref. Code: MS008.43

Papers of Edward Wanton Casey (1850-1981)

Series XLIV, Papers of Edward Wanton Casey (1850-1891), 1890-1891, undated, contains portraits of Casey; a photograph of Casey's headstone; two group photographs depicting Sicangu Lakota Plenty Horses, the Native American warrior who shot and killed Casey in 1891, during his trial; a mounted photogr...

Date: 1890-1891, undated

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 359725

Ref. Code: MS008.44

Papers of Julia Clifford Bloodgood (1865-1911)

Series XLV, Papers of Julia Clifford Bloodgood (1865-1911), 1886-1889, contains correspondence received by Casey and a bond purchased by Casey. The series is arranged alphabetically by record type, and thereunder chronologically.

Date: 1886-1889

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 359726

Ref. Code: MS008.45

Papers of Elizabeth Casey Scott (1844-1912)

Series XLVI, Papers of Elizabeth Casey Scott (1844-1912), 1912, contains a news clipping of Scott's obituary.

Date: 1912

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 359727

Ref. Code: MS008.46

Miscellaneous papers

Series XLVII, Miscellaneous papers, [ADD DATES], undated, contains correspondence; printed matter; objects; photographs and prints; and miscellaneous papers. Materials are not related to one particular individual and further document the history of the Casey family and the Civil War.

Date: 1858-2009, undated

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 359728

Ref. Code: MS008.47

Photographs and prints

Subseries T, Photographic and prints, undated, contains two cabinet cards depicting Thomas Lincoln Casey in uniform and one boudoir card depicting the complete Washington Monument.

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 359730

Ref. Code: MS008.22.20

Correspondence received

Subseries A, Correspondence received, 1880-1893, undated, contains correspondence received by Florida Gordon Casey. The vast majority of correspondence are dated following the death of Casey's husband General Silas Casey (1807-1882) and relate to her efforts to obtain a pension. Other topics include...

Date: 1880-1893, undated

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 359731

Ref. Code: MS008.43.01

Correspondence sent

i720Subseries B, Correspondence sent, 1882-1896, contains correspondence sent by Florida Gordon Casey. Materials are dated following the death of Casey's husband General Silas Casey (1807-1882). Topics include execution of her husband's will, her efforts to obtain a pension, and invitations to her d...

Date: 1882-1896

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 359732

Ref. Code: MS008.43.02

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