Historic New England

Unidentified or unpublished manuscripts

Eight folders containing a variety of unpublished or unidentified writings relating to architecture by Royal Barry Wills. Four oversize folders of illustrations which were not included in any publication. Some illustrations are signed by Amelia Brooks Valtz, Anne Rosie, or Hugh Asher Stubbins Jr. On...

Date: 1925-1961, undated

Collection: Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

GUSN: 325877

Ref. Code: AR029.02.01.13

Permite Mirror-Chrome Aluminum, Paint and Varnish Division, Aluminum Industries, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

The paint, for interior and exterior uses can be used on radiators, furnace pipes, engines, trash cans, shelving and toys.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 325888

Ref. Code: EP001.12.013.005.135

Most-wanted colors in America! Odor-Free Mercotone Velvet Flow Flat Enamel, M.J. Merkin Paint Co., Inc., 1441 Broadway, New York, New York

The brochure has a chart for easy to make blends and a chart for determining how much paint to buy based on the room size and wall height.

Date: 1957

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 325890

Ref. Code: EP001.12.013.005.136

New England Homes, Inc., design collection, Freemans' Point, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Custom house plans are described with floor plans. The pocket inside the back cover has a separate catalog for vacation homes titled "New England Homes, Inc. Design Collection for Leisure Living."

Date: 1966

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 325891

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.154

Billhead, painting done for Daniel Denison Rogers, Esq. in Boston, B. George Vaughan, Boston, Mass.

The billhead is for work done by the artist at the Rogers home on Beacon HIll.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 325898

Ref. Code: EP001.01.009.01.03.005

Trade card, the only genuine R.I. clam bake, served every day, at the Arlington House, Strawberry Hill, Bethlehem, New Hampshire

1 trade card ; 4 x 2 3/4 inches

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 325897

Ref. Code: EP001.01.062.05.01.030

The Summer Camp Memory Book, 1893-2005

This series contains materials directly related to the publication of The Summer Camp Memory Book. This includes research materials, correspondence with Crown Publishers, Inc., contracts, book graphics and artwork, and responses to the book. There are numerous photographic agreements and corresponde...

Date: 1893-2005, undated

Collection: Richard J. S. Gutman and Kellie O. Gutman Summer Camp collection, 1886-2010

GUSN: 325902

Ref. Code: MS056.01

Summer Camp Exhibition, 1968-1999, undated

This series contains materials directly related to the curation and installation of the Summer Camp exhibition at Museum of Our National Heritage (now the Scottish Rite and Masonic Museum and Library). This series includes exhibition diagrams, curatorial agreements, newspaper clippings about the exh...

Date: 1968-1999, undated

Collection: Richard J. S. Gutman and Kellie O. Gutman Summer Camp collection, 1886-2010

GUSN: 325912

Ref. Code: MS056.02

Publications, ca. 1921-2010

This series contains published materials about summer camps and by summer camps. A large portion of this series is comprised of issues of Camping Magazine, but this series also includes other magazines, brochures, pamphlets, booklets, and yearbooks. There are also some camp guides and directories an...

Date: 1921-2010, undated

Collection: Richard J. S. Gutman and Kellie O. Gutman Summer Camp collection, 1886-2010

GUSN: 325913

Ref. Code: MS056.03

Photographic Materials, ca. 1889-1998, undated

This series includes photographic materials related to summer camps including negatives, slides, photographs, contact sheets, and photograph albums. Many of these photographs and related materials were taken by Richard and Kellie Gutman during research trips for The Summer Camp Memory Book or the Su...

Date: 1889-1998, undated

Collection: Richard J. S. Gutman and Kellie O. Gutman Summer Camp collection, 1886-2010

GUSN: 325914

Ref. Code: MS056.04

Ephemera and Memorabilia, ca. 1909-1984, undated

This series includes ephemera and memorabilia primarily from New England summer camps. This series includes camp postcards that span the twentieth century, and a scrapbook kept by Mildred Largman, a camper at Camp Somerset in the 1920s and 1930s. Many of the crafts in this series were made by Richar...

Date: 1909-1984, undated

Collection: Richard J. S. Gutman and Kellie O. Gutman Summer Camp collection, 1886-2010

GUSN: 325915

Ref. Code: MS056.05

Audio and Audiovisual Materials, ca. 1930, 1996-1998, undated

This series includes all audio and audiovisual materials in the collection including recordings of camp songs and audiovisual programming used in the Summer Camp exhibition. Written descriptions of the content of the Summer Camp audiovisual programming can be found in series II. Items in this series...

Date: 1930-1998, undated

Collection: Richard J. S. Gutman and Kellie O. Gutman Summer Camp collection, 1886-2010

GUSN: 325916

Ref. Code: MS056.06

Magazines, 1929-1997

This subseries contains regularly published magazines related to summer camps. Magazine clippings and singular articles are located in Series III. Subseries H, and regularly published camp guides and directories are located in Series III. Subseries D. The majority of this subseries is comprised of C...

Date: 1929-1997

Collection: Richard J. S. Gutman and Kellie O. Gutman Summer Camp collection, 1886-2010

GUSN: 325917

Ref. Code: MS056.03.01

Camp Brochures, Pamphlets, Booklets, and Yearbooks, ca. 1909-1997

This subseries includes brochures, pamphlets, booklets, yearbooks, and similar items published by summer camps. Some items, specifically the Camp Walden yearbooks, were written by campers themselves. Several issues of the Camp Somerset Somer-Settings, a weekly publication likely written by campers...

Date: 1909-1997, undated

Collection: Richard J. S. Gutman and Kellie O. Gutman Summer Camp collection, 1886-2010

GUSN: 325918

Ref. Code: MS056.03.02

Songbooks and Song Sheet, ca. 1939-2010

This subseries includes songbooks and one song sheet that include the lyrics and/or the sheet music to songs commonly sung at summer camp or at summer camp reunions. The majority of these items bear the names of specific summer camps, but there is one general songbook that does not. Camps and organi...

Date: 1939-2010, undated

Collection: Richard J. S. Gutman and Kellie O. Gutman Summer Camp collection, 1886-2010

GUSN: 325919

Ref. Code: MS056.03.03

Camp Guides and Directories, 1922-2004

This subseries includes camp guides and directories that span the majority of the twentieth century. Four guides in this subseries were published by American Camping Association, and four guides in this subseries were published by Porter Sargent. In addition to information about summer camps, the 19...

Date: 1922-2004

Collection: Richard J. S. Gutman and Kellie O. Gutman Summer Camp collection, 1886-2010

GUSN: 325920

Ref. Code: MS056.03.04

Books, 1973-2003

This subseries includes the following books: Clark, F. G. (1994). Camp Tecumseh, 1903-1993. West Kennebunk, ME: Phoenix Publishing. Eells, E. (1986). Eleanor Eells' history of organized camping: The first 100 years. Martinsville, IN: American Camping Association. Gutman, R. J. S., & Gutman...

Date: 1973-2003

Collection: Richard J. S. Gutman and Kellie O. Gutman Summer Camp collection, 1886-2010

GUSN: 325921

Ref. Code: MS056.03.05

Instructional Materials, 1958-1994, undated

This subseries includes instructional materials including a large number of how-to guides. Many of these guides are from the Girl Scout Museum at Cedar Hill, but there is also a guide to knotting and braiding Pyro lace cord. This subseries also includes an American Camping Association standards book...

Date: 1958-1994, undated

Collection: Richard J. S. Gutman and Kellie O. Gutman Summer Camp collection, 1886-2010

GUSN: 325922

Ref. Code: MS056.03.06

Order Forms and Catalog, ca. 1983-1995

This subseries includes an order form for The Summer Camp Memory Book, an order form for a film rental catalogue, and an order form for camp bedding and furniture. The bedding and furniture order form is included in a Bourdon's Institutional Sales, Inc. catalogue. Items in this subseries are from th...

Date: 1983-1995, undated

Collection: Richard J. S. Gutman and Kellie O. Gutman Summer Camp collection, 1886-2010

GUSN: 325923

Ref. Code: MS056.03.07

Clippings and Interview, ca. 1976-2006

This subseries includes clippings from other publications and an oral history interview with Leonard S. Clark. There is a New Yorker cartoon titled City Camps which pokes fun at summer activities in the city and a Kodak advertisement from LIFE Magazine featuring images of young campers. There is a...

Date: 1976-20006, undated

Collection: Richard J. S. Gutman and Kellie O. Gutman Summer Camp collection, 1886-2010

GUSN: 325924

Ref. Code: MS056.03.08

Negatives, ca. 1983-1998, undated

This subseries includes photographic negatives from Richard and Kellie Gutman's research trips and from various other photographs in this collection. The majority of the negatives in this subseries and all of the negatives taken on research trips are 35mm. The negatives in folder 68 correspond to th...

Date: 1983-1998, undated

Collection: Richard J. S. Gutman and Kellie O. Gutman Summer Camp collection, 1886-2010

GUSN: 325925

Ref. Code: MS056.04.01

Contact Sheets, ca. 1983

This subseries includes the contact sheets that correspond to the 35mm negatives in Series IV, Subseries A, Folder 68. The majority of the images on these contact sheets depict camp crafts or camp facilities. In some places, white squares have been drawn around specific images on the contact sheets.

Date: 1983, undated

Collection: Richard J. S. Gutman and Kellie O. Gutman Summer Camp collection, 1886-2010

GUSN: 325926

Ref. Code: MS056.04.02

Photographs, ca. 1927-1998, undated

This subseries includes photographs of or related to summer camps. Early photographs in this series feature campers at Camp K, but the majority of the photographs in this series were likely taken by Richard and Kellie Gutman during research trips for The Summer Camp Memory Book or the Summer Camp ...

Date: 1927-1998, undated

Collection: Richard J. S. Gutman and Kellie O. Gutman Summer Camp collection, 1886-2010

GUSN: 325927

Ref. Code: MS056.04.03

Slides, ca. 1886-1998, undated

This subseries includes 35mm slides. With the exception of one set of public relations slides located in Series II, Folder 26, all of the slides in this collection are located in this series. That set of public relations slides remains in series II to preserve the original order of the folder, and a...

Date: 1886-1998, undated

Collection: Richard J. S. Gutman and Kellie O. Gutman Summer Camp collection, 1886-2010

GUSN: 325928

Ref. Code: MS056.04.04

Photo Albums, ca. 1911-1955

This subseries contains three photograph albums. Steve Farnham's 1955 Camp Namequoit photograph album features photographs of campers and camp activities such as archery and sailing, and Mildred Largman's photograph album includes photographs of campers at Camp Somerset. The names of campers in Mild...

Date: 1911-1955, undated

Collection: Richard J. S. Gutman and Kellie O. Gutman Summer Camp collection, 1886-2010

GUSN: 325929

Ref. Code: MS056.04.05

Ephemera, ca. 1909-1984

This subseries includes summer camp ephemera like an Alford Lake Camp schedule, a Camp Wigwam library bookplate, mailing stickers, and name tapes designed to be sewn into a camper's clothes. The name tapes in this subseries feature Hank Gutman's name. This subseries also includes a large number of s...

Date: 1909-1984, undated

Collection: Richard J. S. Gutman and Kellie O. Gutman Summer Camp collection, 1886-2010

GUSN: 325930

Ref. Code: MS056.05.01

The New Bedford, Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority summer schedule, 1953

a 1953 summer schedule of the New Bedford, Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority Cape Cod and island routes.

Date: 1953

Collection: Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection

GUSN: 324109

Ref. Code: MS028.01.024.012

My Cranberry Scrapbook

Printed scrapbook on the the cranberry industry possibly for advertisement purposes.

Date: undated

Collection: Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection

GUSN: 324110

Ref. Code: MS028.02.002.011

The United Cape Cod Cranberry Company

A photocopied document by the United Cape Cod Cranberry Company detailing the cranberry industry on Cape Cod.

Date: undated

Collection: Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection

GUSN: 324111

Ref. Code: MS028.02.002.012

The New England Hurricane of 1938 manuscript

A typewritten manscript detailing the Hurrican of 1938 firsthand; teacher comments and grade are on the verso.

Date: undated

Collection: Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection

GUSN: 324112

Ref. Code: MS028.02.002.013

Naval Ship, Cape Cod Canal

Color slide of a naval ship entering the Cape Cod Canal in 1956.

Collection: Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection

GUSN: 324113

Ref. Code: MS028.04.033.003

United States Navy Ship 661 at Bourne, Mass, 1961

A color slide depicting a U. S. Navy vessel entering Cape Cod Canal in 1961.

Date: 1961

Collection: Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection

GUSN: 324114

Ref. Code: MS028.04.033.004

Galileo in Passage Through Cape Cod Canal, 1984

A color slide depicting the vessel Galileo passing through the Cape Cod Canal in 1984.

Date: 1984

Collection: Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection

GUSN: 324115

Ref. Code: MS028.04.033.005

Tanker Westbound Cape Cod Canal

A color slide depicting a tanker headed westbound in the Cape Cod Canal in 1975.

Date: 1975

Collection: Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection

GUSN: 324116

Ref. Code: MS028.04.033.006

Set of scrapbook photographs

One set of scrapbook photos, some with images of Cape Cod Canal. No other information is known about the images or their context.

Date: undated

Collection: Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection

GUSN: 324117

Ref. Code: MS028.04.026.014

Two seated Maine Conference basketball players, 1921

A seated portrait of two male basketball players from E.M.C.S. in 1921. Verso information identifies the players as Leon Cousins (right) and Frank Dorr (left).

Date: 1921-05-11

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 324118

Ref. Code: PC001.02.02.3000.0100.012

Maine Conference basketball player, 1921

A studio portrait of an E.M.C.S. basketball player in 1921.

Date: 1921-05-13

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 324119

Ref. Code: PC001.02.02.3000.0100.013

"Cape Cod Magazine, 1918"

Cape Cod magazine, Vol. IV, No. 1 with a picture of a monument on the front cover.

Date: 1918-05-00

Collection: Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection

GUSN: 324120

Ref. Code: MS028.05.017.003

Cape Cod: The Perfect Summer Vacationland

Be cool on sea-cooled Cape Cod, the perfect summer vacationland, includign pictures and illustrations of tourist destinations and things to do.

Date: undated

Collection: Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection

GUSN: 324121

Ref. Code: MS028.05.017.004

"Ship Canal Across Cape Cod"

"Ship Canal Across Cape Cod" by Livingston Wright was published in "The Technical World Magazine," date unknown.

Date: undated

Collection: Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection

GUSN: 324122

Ref. Code: MS028.05.017.005

"Cape Cod Magazine, 1925"

The December 1925 issue of Cape Cod Magazine featuring an illustration of the Provincetown Pilgrim's monument.

Date: 1925-12-00

Collection: Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection

GUSN: 324123

Ref. Code: MS028.05.017.006

Hurricane Number, 1939 (2)

Hurricane Number magazine, from 1939, by "The Collecting Net."

Date: 1939-03-00

Collection: Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection

GUSN: 324124

Ref. Code: MS028.05.018.009

"Telephone Topics, 1938"

"Telephone Topics" magazine, volume 32, number 6; featuring two men working with cables on the cover.

Date: 1938

Collection: Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection

GUSN: 324125

Ref. Code: MS028.05.018.010

"Hurricane Pictures, 1938"

A book depicting 1938 hurricane damage with a brief history and over four hundred views of the destruction in New Bedford and Vicinity.

Date: 1938

Collection: Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection

GUSN: 324126

Ref. Code: MS028.05.003.008

"Hurricane Pictures of Greater Fall River, 1938"

A pictorial publication by the Fall River Herald News of the devatation of the September 21, 1938 hurricane.

Date: 1938

Collection: Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection

GUSN: 324129

Ref. Code: MS028.05.003.009

"The Hurricane at Falmouth, September 21, 1938"

A commemorative history with photographs of the damage caused by the hurricane of 1938 in Falmouth, on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Date: 1938

Collection: Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection

GUSN: 324130

Ref. Code: MS028.05.003.010

"The Complete Historical Record of New England's Stricken Area, September 21, 1938"

A commemorative book published by the Brockton Enterprise featuring over 700 images from the 1938 hurricane on the South Shore and Cape Cod.

Date: 1938

Collection: Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection

GUSN: 324131

Ref. Code: MS028.05.003.011

Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

This collection documents the history and work of the Boston architectural firm of Royal Barry Wills (later Royal Barry Wills Associates); the materials date from 1925 to 2013, with the bulk dating from the 1920s to 1980. The collection includes architectural drawings, photographs and negatives, scr...

Date: 1926-2013

Collection: Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

GUSN: 324136

Ref. Code: AR029