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World War II

Bertram K. Little papers related to Civil Defense organizations and World War II. See also the files related to his wartime job at the American Red Cross in the Professional Papers subseries.

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Miscellaneous Papers

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Printing Plates

This series contains three sets of printing plates kept by Nina Fletcher Little. Two sets relate to publications by Little: her first book Some Old Brookline Houses, as well as four articles about individual artists published in the magazine Antiques. The final set of printing plates do not relate t...

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Selina Fletcher Little Binders

This series contains three self-published, illustrated histories and scrapbooks completed by Selina Fletcher Little with assistance from Lauren MacDonald. Two volumes offer a personal history of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little, their collections, and their Brookline home. The third volume thorou...

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Little Collection Auctions

This series contains several copies of the Sotheby's auction catalogues for the Little collection auctions held in 1993 and 1994. There is also a copy of the catalogue for an auction held by Northeast Auctions in 1997, containing 42 lots from the Little estate. This series also contains some press m...

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Elena Sarni Project

This series contains two copies of a project completed in 2001 by Elena Sarni, the Nina Fletcher and Bertram Kimball Little Folk Arts Fellow from 2000 to 2001. The product of this fellowship was Sarni's twenty-eight page essay, "The Collection of Nina Fletcher and Bertram Kimball Little: A Living Le...

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Oral History Interviews

This series contains tape recordings, transcripts, and other material related to two sets of oral history interviews: Richard Nylander interviewing Nina Fletcher Little and Bertram K. Little in 1976 and Erica Lindamood interviewing the Littles' sons, John B. Little and Warren M. Little, in 2002. The...

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Richard Nylander Interviews

Richard C. Nylander interviewed Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little over the course of two full days in August and September of 1976. The interviews were done at the urging of the Littles' daughter, Selina Fletcher Little, who was present at the first interview. The interviews were conducted at the ...

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Erica Lindamood Interviews

Erica B. Lindamood, the 2002 Little Fellow at the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, interviewed John B. "Jack" Little and Warren M. "Renny" Little, the two sons of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little. The interviews were conducted separately and focused on the life history of ...

Letter from Ogden Codman, Jr., January 25, 1897

A seven page letter from Ogden Codman, Jr., to his mother, Sarah Bradlee Codman.

Observations about the Charlestown Bridge

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Massachusetts semi-annual state lottery ticket, no. 2320

Signed by George R. Minot.

Birth certificate for Abigail, Jemima, and Eunice Coffin

Birth certificate for Abigail, Jemima, and Eunice Coffin, daughters of Peter Coffin, Esq., probably recorded after 1695.

Agreement between Charles Harris and Susan Coffin regarding the care of the twins, Chang and Eng Bunker

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Agreement making Joshua Coffin the representaive of six women

Agreement created in 1827 making Joshua Coffin the representaive of six women with shares in "common or undivided land" in Newbury, Mass. It is signed by [Joylina?] C. Plummer, Eunice Plummer, Sarah K. [Rogers?], Margaret Pilsbury, Catherine D. Bunker, and Elizabeth C. George.

Letter from George Moore to Richard Thomas Austin

Written from George Moore at the Quincy House in Quincy, Ill., to Richard Thomas Austin in Cambridge, Mass., on December 15, 1840.

Deed for land purchased from Stephen Prentice by Gideon Frost in Cambridge, Mass.

1 deed

"An Herculean Love Knot"

A complex drawing of a knot with fine lettering throughout, inscribed H. Clark, Jr.

Portrait of Halfdan "Dick" M. Hanson

1 photograph

Letter from R. W. Burnham to Halfdan M. Hanson, January 15, 1916

1 letter

Letter from Henry Davis Sleeper to Halfdan M. Hanson, Dec. 26, 1917

A letter from Henry Davis Sleeper to Halfdan M. Hanson, written on December 26, 1917, asking Hanson to, for friendship's sake, make weekly visits to Beauport to see that the work being done proceeds as it should while Sleeper recovers from a broken leg.

Letter from Henry Davis Sleeper to Halfdan M. Hanson, January 4, 1921

Sleeper thanks Hanson for plans Hanson created, commenting that Hanson "solved all the problems, as usual, with great success." Sleeper mentions Caroline Sinkler and the Cogswell house.

Letter from Henry Davis Sleeper to Halfdan M. Hanson, March 4, 1921

Sleeper suggests that Hanson spend time in Colorado for his health, a suggestion Hanson took.

Guestbook page: Joan Miro

A page from Walter and Ise's guestbook with a watercolor sketch created by Joan Miro.

Letter from Isabella Stewart Gardner to Sarah Orne Jewett, Oct. 25, [1902]

1 letter

Program, 2nd Congrès International des Oeuvres et Institutions Féminines

The program for the 2nd Congrès International des Oeuvres et Institutions Féminines (2nd International Congress of Feminine Works and Institutions) held in Paris in 1899.

Letter from Theodore Jewett Eastman to his aunts Mary and Sarah, Oct. 28, 1901

Letter from Theodore Eastman Jewett to his aunts Mary and Sarah Jewett discussing school, written on October 28, 1901.

Page of account book, February 1824

Includes entry for payment made to Alexander Parris for a plan drawn for Charles Russell Codman.

"Piratical Barbarity, or the female captive"

1 booklet

Sketches of sailors, inside back cover of book of invoices

1 page of book

Invitation to the wedding of Sophia Munroe and William Coombs Codman

1 wedding invitation

William Coombs Codman's seaman's journal of a voyage from Boston to Calcutta, entry from March 10, 1841

Entry from the day the ship reached Calcutta. Describes local characters. Includes small sketch.

Invoice to Miss Emily Elwyn from W. C. Philbrick for masonry

1 invoice

Invoice to Mrs. Woodbury Langdon from S. S. Pierce Co. for groceries

Includes items such as a Virginia ham, a hair brush, bacon, paper, wheatmeal biscuits, Ceylon tea, Czarina tea, and marshmallow creme.

Handwritten excerpt from a letter from Susan Quincy to "Aunt Anna," August 30, 1881

The letter discusses a ball held at the Vale which was attended by John Quincy Adams, possibly ca. 1815.

Resolutions of appreciation of the services of Miss Frances S. Marrett and Miss Sarah M. Lilley

Unanimously adopted by the Perkins Institution Alumnae Association at the annual meeting, June 5, 1913.

Poem

A poem inscribed with the initials S. M. L. at the top of the page above the date May 29, 1914. It is unclear if the item was addressed to or written by S. M. L. The initials probably stand for Sarah M. Lilley.

Invitation from Helen Keller to Frances S. Marrett

1 invitation

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American Red Cross Blood Donor Center (8)

Two posters advertising blood donorship.

Red Cross poster

1 poster

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Civil Defense Organizations and World War II (2)

World War II era ephemera; Bertram Little's official MA Committee on Public Safety identity card; Nina Fletcher Little's Red Cross first aid cards; and an eleven page Army-Navy press release about the Bataan death march, 1944.

25 Cent Stamp Album for the purchase of United States War Savings Bonds

1 pamphlet

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Correspondence, 1959

Photograph: Major Moses Hurd (Robert Carlen Collection). Correspondence: Mary Black, Graham Hood and Beatrix Rumford (AARFAC); ?? Seltzer; Thomas Maytham and Perry Rathbone (MFA, Boston); Robert Vose (Vose Galleries); Wilbur Peat (John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis).

Letter from Nina Fletcher Little to Mary C. Black, curator of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection

Letter discusses a Civil War show, a Brewster show, a loan of "Washington Crossing" and "There Shall Be No More War," and the Brazer Guild.

Cold Water Army of Massachusetts pledge

The Cold Water Army was a temperance association of which Lucy Smith Anderson was a member.

Invitation to see Sarah Bernhardt at the Boston Opera House

Written in French.

Civil War muster roll

A Civil War muster roll for the Windham Infantry Militia, 1862.

Account book

1 account book

Boards for house construction

1 page from account book

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Financial records: account sheet

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