Historic New England

Historic New England properties photographic collection

Collection

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 171259

Ref. Code: PC006

Lantern slides collection

Collection

Collection: Lantern slides collection

GUSN: 171260

Ref. Code: PC007

The photograph album collection is a complex mix of snapshot albums, professional work, and amateur photographs of high quality, photogravure prints bound as albums, some view books, and even albums of clippings. The collection consists of approximately 270 albums that contain an estimated 20,000 or...

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 171261

Ref. Code: PC009

Douglas J. Armsden photographic collection

The Douglas J. Armsden Photographic Collection contains approximately 400 photographic negatives. His work as a photographer included hundreds of weddings and portraits, scenic photography for the Maine and New Hampshire Chambers of Commerce, early documentation of Strawberry Banke, coverage of news...

Collection: Douglas J. Armsden photographic collection

GUSN: 171262

Ref. Code: PC010

Babcock-Denham family photographic collection

The Babcock-Denham Family Photographic Collection is comprised of several thousand photographs, ranging from cartes-de-visite to snapshots, documenting the various generations of a family associated with Westborough, Massachusetts. In addition to portraits, it includes some views of streets, interio...

Collection: Babcock-Denham family photographic collection

GUSN: 171263

Ref. Code: PC011

Frank W. Bayley photographic collection

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Collection: Frank W. Bayley photographic collection

GUSN: 171264

Ref. Code: PC012

James Wallace Black photographic collection of the Boston Fire, 1872

The James Wallace Black Photographic Collection of the Boston Fire, 1872 contains 26 albumen prints that document the destruction and aftermath of this major conflagration. On November 9, a fire started in a dry goods store in the city's commercial district and blazed for 15 hours. The inferno flatt...

Date: 1872

Collection: James Wallace Black photographic collection of the Boston Fire, 1872

GUSN: 171265

Ref. Code: PC013

Laura Maria Barr photographic collection

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Collection: Laura Maria Barr photographic collection

GUSN: 171266

Ref. Code: PC014

Boston & Albany Railroad Company photographic collection, 1890s-c. 1920

The Boston & Albany Railroad Photographic Collection consists of more than 2,500 original negatives and study prints. These images constitute a record of the company's construction activities, rolling stock, stations, and specialized equipment from the late 1890s until approximately 1920. While t...

Date: 1890-1925

Collection: Boston & Albany Railroad Company photographic collection, 1890s-c. 1920

GUSN: 171267

Ref. Code: PC015

Boston Building Department photographic collection, 1920s-1930s

The Boston Building Department Photographic Collection includes over 1,000 original prints and negatives by W. W. K. Campbell. The prints document buildings that had come to the Department's attention as a result of complaints about their safety. Many items possess attached documentation regarding t...

Date: 1920-1939

Collection: Boston Building Department photographic collection, 1920s-1930s

GUSN: 171268

Ref. Code: PC016

Boston Transit Archive, 1895-1960s

In transit history, Boston was the site of many "firsts": the first subway in the United States, the first underwater tunnel in North America, and the first professionally staffed agency for urban transit, the Boston Transit Commission. In the 1880s and 1890s, Boston experienced traffic congestion t...

Date: 1895-1969

Collection: Boston Transit Archive, 1895-1960s

GUSN: 171269

Ref. Code: PC017

Alice Augusta Rogerson Brown photographic collection, 1898-1909, undated

The collection is comprised principally of exterior views of buildings and landscapes of architectural or historic interest, rural farms and woods, as well as individual and group portraits of friends, family, school groups, workers, and animals. Most of the collection is of exterior views, and the ...

Date: 1898-1909, undated

Collection: Alice Augusta Rogerson Brown photographic collection, 1898-1909, undated

GUSN: 171270

Ref. Code: PC018

Horace Parker Chandler photographic collection

ca. 500 glass-plate negatives : black-and-white

Collection: Horace Parker Chandler photographic collection

GUSN: 171271

Ref. Code: PC019

William T. Clark photographic collection, 1920s-1930s

The William T. Clark Photographic Collection consists of nearly 500 glass plate negatives documenting local businesses, residences, and streets in Boston and its suburbs. The collection also includes several hundred original prints. Source: Guide to the Library and Archives, 11.

Date: 1920-1939

Collection: William T. Clark photographic collection, 1920s-1930s

GUSN: 171272

Ref. Code: PC020

Emma Lewis Coleman photographic collection, 1880s

The Emma Lewis Coleman Photographic Collection consists of nearly 300 glass plate negatives, from which study prints have been made. Coleman's work covers many of the same subjects as the Frederick B. Quimby Photographic Collection but with the marked difference that she was concerned with achie...

Date: 1880-1889

Collection: Emma Lewis Coleman photographic collection, 1880s

GUSN: 171273

Ref. Code: PC021

Baldwin Coolidge photographic collection, c. 1878-1917

The Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection is comprised of over 2,000 original negatives, copy prints of the negatives, and a small number of original prints. Coolidge developed his prints on delicately toned Aristo paper. Coolidge was active as a professional photographer from the late 1870s unti...

Date: 1878-1917

Collection: Baldwin Coolidge photographic collection, c. 1878-1917

GUSN: 171274

Ref. Code: PC022

Harriot Appleton Curtis photographic collection

Collection

Collection: Harriot Appleton Curtis photographic collection

GUSN: 171275

Ref. Code: PC023

Harold Stearns Davis photographic collection

Collection

Collection: Harold Stearns Davis photographic collection

GUSN: 171276

Ref. Code: PC024

Wilfred A. French photographic collection, 1880s

The Wilfred A. French Photographic Collection consists of original glass plate negatives and prints. His foremost interest was historic houses, especially those of the 17th century. The geographic scope tends to be limited to buildings in cities and towns in eastern Massachusetts, including Boston, ...

Date: 1880s

Collection: Wilfred A. French photographic collection, 1880s

GUSN: 171277

Ref. Code: PC025

Henry L. Hadcock photographic collection, 1880s-1900s

The Henry L. Hadcock Photographic Collection contains approximately 400 original negatives, from which study prints have been made. Hadcock focused his interest as a photographer on the idea of the neighborhood and its homes, stores, parks, vistas, and families, viewed in association with their ...

Date: 1880-1909

Collection: Henry L. Hadcock photographic collection, 1880s-1900s

GUSN: 171278

Ref. Code: PC026

Halliday Historic Photograph Company photographic collection, 1890s-1930s

There are over 3,000 original negatives in the Halliday Historic Photograph Company Photographic Collection, most with corresponding original prints. Supplementary information about the dates of individual photographs is available from a small collection of the firm's published catalogues (located i...

Date: 1890-1939

Collection: Halliday Historic Photograph Company photographic collection, 1890s-1930s

GUSN: 171279

Ref. Code: PC027

Hand-colored photographs collection

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Collection: Hand-colored photographs collection

GUSN: 171280

Ref. Code: PC028

Hiram Harlow photographic collection, 1890s-1920s

The Hiram Harlow Photographic Collection consists of over 1,000 original negatives and many original prints. Coverage is primarily of local residences and farms, often viewed in association with their occupants, in Shrewsbury, Northborough, Westborough, and other nearby towns in Massachusetts. Of...

Date: 1890-1929

Collection: Hiram Harlow photographic collection, 1890s-1920s

GUSN: 171281

Ref. Code: PC029

Arthur C. Haskell photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

The Arthur C. Haskell Photographic Collection is comprised of approximately 3,000 original prints and negatives. Nearly all of the negatives have been printed. Haskell was one of the major architectural photographers in New England, making capturing the visual aspects of buildings and structures his...

Date: 1910-1939

Collection: Arthur C. Haskell photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 171282

Ref. Code: PC030

Donald W. Howe photographic collection of Quabbin Valley views, 1900s-1930s

The Donald W. Howe Collection of Quabbin Valley Views of nearly 1,000 prints and negatives provides a rare glimpse of several towns and their inhabitants who were displaced by the construction of the Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts in the mid-1930s. Assembled by Donald Howe, these images ...

Date: 1900-1939

Collection: Donald W. Howe photographic collection of Quabbin Valley views, 1900s-1930s

GUSN: 171283

Ref. Code: PC031

Norman Morrison Isham photographic collection

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Collection: Norman Morrison Isham photographic collection

GUSN: 171284

Ref. Code: PC032

Knowles family postcard collection

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Collection: Knowles family postcard collection

GUSN: 171285

Ref. Code: PC033

Mary H. Northend photographic collection, 1904-1926

The Mary H. Northend Photographic Collection is comprised of over 6,000 glass plate negatives in 8 x 10 and 5 x 7 inch sizes and several thousand photographic prints. Many of the negatives remain unprinted. The manuscript material, contained in 17 folders, is chiefly made up of typed articles and dr...

Date: 1904-1926

Collection: Mary H. Northend photographic collection, 1904-1926

GUSN: 171286

Ref. Code: PC034

Norton family photographic collection

10 documents cases and 3 short lid boxes

Collection: Norton family photographic collection

GUSN: 171287

Ref. Code: PC035

Betsy Fuchs photographic collection

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Collection: Betsy Fuchs photographic collection

GUSN: 171288

Ref. Code: PC036

Alaux Keller photographic collection

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Collection: Alaux Keller photographic collection

GUSN: 171289

Ref. Code: PC037

George E. Noyes photographic collection, 1860s-1940s

The George E. Noyes Photographic Collection includes over 1,000 negatives, not all of which have been printed. The collection contains materials produced by other local photographers, including Selwyn C. Reed, Hiram P. McIntosh, and Robert E. Moseley. The emphasis is on the architecture, streets,...

Date: 1860-1949, predominant 1890-1945

Collection: George E. Noyes photographic collection, 1860s-1940s

GUSN: 171290

Ref. Code: PC038

Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

The Wallace Nutting Photographic Collection contains approximately 450 of his hand-tinted works and original photographs. Nutting staged scenes of domestic life set in the colonial period of New England's history. A number of these images are purely scenic in nature, including localities in New Engl...

Date: 1910-1939

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 171293

Ref. Code: PC039

Henry G. Peabody photographic collection, 1880s-1900s

The Henry G. Peabody Photographic Collection contains more than 250 of his original prints. His long and distinguished career as a view photographer began in Boston in the 1880s, when for a short period he specialized in marine views. Peabody and Nathaniel L. Stebbins photographed the same races in ...

Date: 1880-1909

Collection: Henry G. Peabody photographic collection, 1880s-1900s

GUSN: 171294

Ref. Code: PC040

Preserving New England photographic collection

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Collection: Preserving New England photographic collection

GUSN: 171296

Ref. Code: PC041

Frederick B. Quimby photographic collection, 1890s

The Frederick B. Quimby Photographic Collection includes over 250 glass plate negatives from which study prints were made. These images are annotated in detail, and their pictorial quality is unusually high. The subject coverage of the collection is similar to that of the Emma Lewis Coleman Photogra...

Date: 1890s

Collection: Frederick B. Quimby photographic collection, 1890s

GUSN: 171297

Ref. Code: PC042

Eleanor Raymond photographic collection

This collection consists of nine portfolio cases of black and white photographs and one folder of reference material. The photographs in the portfolio cases document Eleanor Raymond and her colleagues work on thirty-four homes and represent Raymonds work from between 1919 to 1940. The photographs ...

Date: 1922-1940, undated

Collection: Eleanor Raymond photographic collection

GUSN: 171298

Ref. Code: PC043

Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

The Verner Reed Photographic Collection contains more than 26,000 negatives and prints. His work came to encompass what it means to be a New Englander. We discover in Reed's photographs a turbulent, lively, changeable New England--a place that defies its long-held reputation as being overly dependen...

Date: 1950-1972

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 171300

Ref. Code: PC044

Robert Bayard Severy photographic collection

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Collection: Robert Bayard Severy photographic collection

GUSN: 171301

Ref. Code: PC045

Soule Photographic Art Company photographic collection, 1880s-1890s

The Soule Photographic Art Company Photographic Collection includes over 1,000 original prints of exteriors and interiors of buildings, largely in Boston and its surrounding suburbs and summer communities. The works of major architects, such as Peabody and Stearns, Arthur Little, and Henry Hobson Ri...

Date: 1880-1899

Collection: Soule Photographic Art Company photographic collection, 1880s-1890s

GUSN: 171302

Ref. Code: PC046

Nathaniel L. Stebbins photographic collection

The Nathaniel L. Stebbins photographic collection is a robust collection of images of sailing vessels that were once familiar sights around Boston and New York. Over the course of Stebbins's career, sailing vessels were largely replaced by other forms of water transportation. Most of the collection ...

Date: 1880-1922

Collection: Nathaniel L. Stebbins photographic collection

GUSN: 171304

Ref. Code: PC047

Thomson & Thomson/New England News Company photographic collection, c. 1904-1916

The Thomson & Thomson/New England News Company Photographic Collection contains approximately 3,000 photographic prints. These images were the proofs from which postcards were eventually manufactured. Many of them display evidence of manipulation. Although there are no original negatives, many copy ...

Date: 1899-1921

Collection: Thomson & Thomson/New England News Company photographic collection, c. 1904-1916

GUSN: 171305

Ref. Code: PC048

Peter Vanderwarker photographic collection

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Collection: Peter Vanderwarker photographic collection

GUSN: 171306

Ref. Code: PC049

Vermont covered bridges photographic collection

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Collection: Vermont covered bridges photographic collection

GUSN: 171307

Ref. Code: PC050

White Mountains stereo views collection, 1850s-1890s

The White Mountains Stereo Views Collection consists of approximately 1,600 images. Geographically, these stereo views cover an area from Mount Chocorua and Conway in the south, Mount Moosilauke in the west, the Maine border and the Baldface peaks in the east, to Gorham and Mount Waumbek in the nort...

Date: 1850-1899

Collection: White Mountains stereo views collection, 1850s-1890s

GUSN: 171308

Ref. Code: PC051

Louis Woodbury photographic collection, c. 1890s-1900s

The Louis Woodbury Photographic Collections is comprised of over 400 original negatives and prints of views of the town of Groveland, Massachusetts. Dr. Louis Augustus Woodbury was a resident of Groveland, Massachusetts. In the years before 1910, he photographed the town in its entirety with his Kod...

Date: 1890-1909

Collection: Louis Woodbury photographic collection, c. 1890s-1900s

GUSN: 171309

Ref. Code: PC052

Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

The Yankee Publishing photographic collection contains about 6,000 glass plate, acetate, and nitrate negatives from Yankee Publishing, Inc. of Dublin, New Hampshire. The negatives come in a variety of sizes, including 4 x 5, 5 x 7, 5 x 8, and 8 x 10 inches. When the negatives were donated to the So...

Date: 1890-1950

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 171310

Ref. Code: PC053

Deeds and papers

*This series contains approximately twenty-five items in four main types of materials: miscellaneous financial papers, such as accounts and a Massachusetts Bay treasury note; miscellaneous correspondence and memos; deeds related to properties in Boston and possibly other locations; and legal documen...

Date: 1773-1844, undated

Collection: Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848) professional papers

GUSN: 171795

Ref. Code: MS020.04.01

Plot and house plans

*This series contains approximately thirty-six house plans and site plans for properties in Boston, Winslow, Maine, Greenwood, Pennsylvania, and possibly other locations. There are several plans for other types of buildings, such as tenements. For a substantial number of the drawings, the surveyors ...

Date: 1794-1833, undated

Collection: Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848) professional papers

GUSN: 171798

Ref. Code: MS020.04.02

Jewett family papers

The Jewett family papers (MS014) reflect the personal, social, and professional life and work of noted author, (Theodora) Sarah Orne Jewett, and the Jewett family of South Berwick, Maine. Included in the papers are biographical and genealogical material; clippings; correspondence (includes letters,...

Date: 1811-2001, undated, predominant 1832-1915

Collection: Jewett family papers

GUSN: 171831

Ref. Code: MS014

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