Historic New England

Contents : Volume 68, Number 251

Winter/Spring, 1978

Date: 1978

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169993

Ref. Code: SC001.1978.068.251.007

Contents : Volume 69, Number 255

Winter/Spring, 1979

Date: 1979

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169994

Ref. Code: SC001.1979.069.255.006

Contents : Volume 71, Number 258

1981

Date: 1981

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169995

Ref. Code: SC001.1981.071.258.0011

Contents : Volume 40, Number 140

April, 1950

Date: 1950

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169996

Ref. Code: SC001.1950.040.140.006

Contents : Volume 41, Number 141

Summer, 1950

Date: 1950

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169997

Ref. Code: SC001.1950.041.141.006

Contents : Volume 41, Number 142

Fall, 1950

Date: 1950

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169998

Ref. Code: SC001.1950.041.142.006

Contents : Volume 42, Number 146

Fall, 1951

Date: 1951

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169999

Ref. Code: SC001.1951.042.146.004

Contents : Volume 44, Number 153

Summer, 1953

Date: 1953

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 170000

Ref. Code: SC001.1953.044.153.002

Contents : Volume 45, Number 157

Summer, 1954

Date: 1954

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 170001

Ref. Code: SC001.1954.045.157.002

Contents : Volume 46, Number 161

Summer, 1955

Date: 1955

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 170002

Ref. Code: SC001.1955.046.161.002

Contents : Volume 46, Number 163

Winter, 1956

Date: 1956

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 170003

Ref. Code: SC001.1956.046.163.007

Contents : Volume 46, Number 164

Spring, 1956

Date: 1956

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 170004

Ref. Code: SC001.1956.046.164.005

Contents : Volume 47, Number 165

Summer, 1956

Date: 1956

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 170005

Ref. Code: SC001.1956.047.165.001

Contents : Volume 47, Number 167

Winter, 1957

Date: 1957

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 170006

Ref. Code: SC001.1957.047.167.004

Contents : Volume 47, Number 168

Spring, 1957

Date: 1957

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 170007

Ref. Code: SC001.1957.047.168.004

Contents : Volume 48, Number 169

Summer, 1957

Date: 1957

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 170008

Ref. Code: SC001.1957.048.169.002

Contents : Volume 48, Number 170

Fall, 1957

Date: 1957

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 170009

Ref. Code: SC001.1957.048.170.004

Contents : Volume 49, Number 173

Summer, 1958

Date: 1958

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 170010

Ref. Code: SC001.1958.049.173.002

Contents : Volume 49, Number 174

Fall, 1958

Date: 1958

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 170011

Ref. Code: SC001.1958.049.174.004

Contents : Volume 49, Number 175

Winter 1959

Date: 1959

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 170012

Ref. Code: SC001.1959.049.175.004

Contents : Volume 50, Number 177

Summer 1959

Date: 1959

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 170013

Ref. Code: SC001.1959.050.177.001

Contents : Volume 50, Number 178

Fall 1959

Date: 1959

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 170014

Ref. Code: SC001.1959.050.178.004

Contents : Volume 65, Number 239

Winter-Spring 1975

Date: 1975

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 170015

Ref. Code: SC001.1975.065.239.003

Contents : Volume 67, Number 245

Summer-Fall 1976

Date: 1976

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 170016

Ref. Code: SC001.1976.067.245.005

Asher Benjamin Begins : The Samuel and Dorothy Hinckley House

The young architect's house designed for the Federalist Samuel Hinckley, perhaps the first neoclassical dwelling in Massachusetts' Connecticut Valley, may have been a stepping stone in securing a federal commission from a Republican administration.

Date: 1999

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 170017

Ref. Code: SC001.1999.077.266.002

Gaining Ground : Landmaking in Boston's West End

Enlarging the narrow Shawmut Peninsula to create the residential district called Back Bay is Boston's best-known topographical creation. But land was repeatedly made in the West End as well for wharves, less fashionable dwellings, and the city's necessary institutions--a hospital, a jail, and an alm...

Date: 1999

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 170018

Ref. Code: SC001.1999.077.266.003

Inside SPNEA : Sarah de St. Prix Wyman Whitman

In its museum collection and the Sarah Orne Jewett House, SPNEA preserves the art of one of the most successful women painters in Boston in the late 1800s.

Date: 1999

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 170019

Ref. Code: SC001.1999.077.266.004

"To Exist for Centuries" : Gridley Bryant and the Boston City Hospital

Designing a hospital for the "respectable poor" of Boston combined an innovative European model with attention to the concerns of homeowners in its South End neighborhood.

Date: 1999

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 170020

Ref. Code: SC001.1999.077.266.005

A House for Widow Brown : Architectural Statement and Social Position in Providence, 1791

Newly restored, the Seril Dodge house in Providence, Rhode Island, is small yet elegant. Built around 1786, the house was bought for Avis Brown after the death of her husband. Robert P. Emlen examines the message sent by the house: that although it was small, there was no doubting the social positio...

Date: 1999

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 170021

Ref. Code: SC001.1999.077.267.001

Inside SPNEA : Newbury Furniture

This article surveys the summer 2000 exhibition of selected Newbury and Newburyport, Massachusetts, furniture hosted by SPNEA.

Date: 1999

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 170022

Ref. Code: SC001.1999.077.267.002

Hepsibeth Hemenway's Portrait : A Native American Story

Hepsibeth Hemingway was a cook and laundress who, although she lived on the margins of Worcester, Massachusetts, society, had a legacy that lived on past her death. Her painting, which hangs in the Worcester Historical Museum, helped to preserve her story.

Date: 1999

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 170023

Ref. Code: SC001.1999.077.267.003

Contents : Volume 77, Number 267

Fall/Winter 1999

Date: 1999

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 170024

Ref. Code: SC001.1999.077.267.004

Trade card for the New Home Sewing Machine Company, Orange, Mass., depicting a man on ice skates pushing a woman seated on top of a sewing machine, undated

This trade card for sewing machine manufacturer, New Home Machine Company of Orange, Massachusetts, depicts a man in a jacket, cap, and striped pants skating and pushing a woman, who is attired in overcoat, hat, and muff, and is seated on a sewing machine on runners. These sewing machines are sold b...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 170025

Ref. Code: EP001.01.102.03.03.001

Trade card for Silver King Ice Skates, The Dodge Skate Company, Providence, Rhode Island, undated

A woman seated on a birch wood bench puts on a pair of ice skates. She is attired in a fur-trimmed hat, collar, jacket, and skirt. Birch trees and mountains surround the frozen body of water on which she is about to skate. The skates can be purchased from E.G. Billings, Butler Exchange, Providence, ...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 170028

Ref. Code: EP001.01.116.01.01.001

Trade card for Kirchberg & Keenan, manufacturers of and dealers in parlor, chamber and dining room suits and all kinds of furniture, 213, 215 & 217 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, undated

This trade card contains harmful imagery and language including stereotypical caricatures of Irish people. Historic New England acknowledges historical records / objects may contain harmful imagery and language reflecting attitudes and biases of their creators and time in which they were made. Histo...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 170031

Ref. Code: EP001.01.050.02.01.01.001

Trade card for Fanny Farmer Christmas candy, undated

This trade card for Fanny Farmer Candy Shops presents a scene in which a boy, wearing a sleeper and holding the top of a candy box, accuses Santa Claus, who is hiding a box of chocolates behind the armchair in which he is seated, of taking his treats.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 170033

Ref. Code: EP001.01.045.04.01.001

Trade card for P.B. Robinson fine boots and shoes, Lawrence, Mass., undated

Phineas B. Robinson, a maker of fine boots and shoes, is located at 221 Essex Street in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He served as a city alderman in 1880 and also acted as an agent for the Florence Sewing Machine Company. The image on the card, entitled "La Musique", presents a young flautist dressed in...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 170035

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.07.01.002

Trade card for celluloid collars and cuffs featuring a boy in a tuxedo, undated

This trade card advertises celluloid collars, cuffs, and shirt bosoms. A boy, who is dressed in a tuxedo and wears a cuff formed into a hat with a cufflink on his head, demonstrates that the cuffs are waterproof by dunking one into a bowl of water set on a pedestal.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 170037

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.01.01.001

Trade card for Hart, Schaffner and Marx clothing, at the Continental Clothing House, Boston, Mass., 1905

A trade card for Hart, Schaffner and Marx hand-tailored clothing, sold at the Continental Clothing House, located at Washington Street and Boylston Street in Boston, Massachusetts. A princely figure sits on a cushioned throne, with a dog sitting on his right. In the lower right corner is the name S....

Date: 1905

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 170039

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.01.001

Trade card for The Old Homestead Colonial Rugs, R.H. Stearns and Co., Boston, Mass., undated

A trade card for "Old Homestead Colonial Rugs," manufactured for the department store R.H. Stearns and Co. of Boston.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 170044

Ref. Code: EP001.01.050.01.01.01.001

Trade card for furniture with an illustration of a chair, location unknown, undated

A trade card for furniture. The illustration presents a chair with an eagle back, sabre legs, and a rush seat in the center of a wreath. "Rest for the weary" appears on a banner above the illustration.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 170046

Ref. Code: EP001.01.050.02.03.01.001

Stereograph of a street with attached buildings and horse-drawn carts, Greenfield, Mass., undated

This stereo view from an elevated vantage point depicts a street scene in Greenfield, Massachusetts. On the left side of the street, there is a row of attached buildings. On the right side of the street, there is a grassy area. Horse-drawn carts and wagons are parked along both sides of the street.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 170174

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0680.0010.001

Exterior view of Tebo's Mill, Enfield, Mass., undated

Tebo's Mill in Enfield, Massachusetts produced woolen goods. In order to create the Quabbin Reservoir, the state government disincorporated four towns on April 28, 1938, including Enfield. The reservoir was filled to capacity for the first time on June 22, 1946.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 170179

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0930.0010.001

Life-saving team standing around a surfboat on the beach, Marshfield, Mass., undated

Members of a life-saving crew stand around a surfboat on skids at the edge of the water on the beach at Marshfield, Massachusetts. Six of the eight men wear life jackets, and two of them wear thigh boots. A dog lies curled up on the rocky beach near the boat.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 170183

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.1730.0040.001

Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848) professional papers

Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848) professional papers (MS020) reflect the planning and work of Harrison Gray Otis (1765-1848), the Proprietors of Mount Vernon, and the Boston Mill Corporation in developing the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The papers are largely comprised of profe...

Date: 1658-1966, undated, predominant 1746-1893

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

GUSN: 171178

Ref. Code: MS020

Small photographs and postcards, 1890s-1980s

The Small photographs and postcards series of the General Photographic Collection contains approximately 5,000 prints smaller than 4 x 5 inches and 5,000 picture postcards that cover a wide range of subjects, especially historic buildings and transportation. There is a significant group of images of...

Date: 1890-1989

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 171253

Ref. Code: PC001.03

Domestic interiors photographic collection

The Domestic Interiors Photographic Collection consists of more than 2,500 images dating from the mid-1870s to circa 1920 and approximately 100 stereo views from circa 1860 to 1885. These photographs document interior design and decoration in the latter part of the nineteenth century. In many instan...

Date: 1855-1925

Collection: Domestic interiors photographic collection

GUSN: 171254

Ref. Code: PC002

Ambrotypes collection, 1853-1865

The Ambrotype Collection consists of approximately 400 items of this photographic medium. An ambrotype is a type of photograph created by mounting a negative, produced through a variation of the wet collodion process, on glass with a dark backing. This mounting produces the appearance of a positive ...

Date: 1853-1865

Collection: Ambrotypes collection, 1853-1865

GUSN: 171256

Ref. Code: PC003

Personal photographic collection

Collection

Collection: Personal photographic collection

GUSN: 171257

Ref. Code: PC004

Daguerreotypes collection, c. 1845-1865

This collection consists of approximately 800 daguerreotypes, ranging from 1/16 inch to full-plates, dating from the early 1840s to the early 1860s. The majority of the items are cased portraits and many of the sitters have been identified. Several of New England's leading daguerreotypists are repre...

Date: 1840-1865

Collection: Daguerreotypes collection, c. 1845-1865

GUSN: 171258

Ref. Code: PC005

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