Historic New England

Governor Bouck's grand quick step

Copied from a daguerreotype by Johnson & Mead, Albany, New York. Cover depicts the State and City Halls of Albany, New York, as seen from the Capitol. "As performed by the National Brass Band, Albany. Composed and arranged for the Piano Forte and respectfully dedicated To His Excellency."

Date: 1842

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191707

Ref. Code: MS007.01.18.07

Advertisement for Colonial style rugs, manufactured by Eden Manufacturing Company, New York, New York, 1905

Eden Manufacturing Company originally placed this advertisement in the October, 1905 issue of Interior Decoration. The advertisement is for their Colonial Styles Pilgrim Rug and illustrated with a medalion showing a galleon style ship on rough seas.

Date: 1905-10-05

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 191714

Ref. Code: SC002.TMP.009

Gordon's quick step

Cover depicts Captain Gordon in uniform, holding a sword. A military encampment is in the background. Performed by the Boston Brass Band. "Respectfully dedicated to Capt. Charles Gordon by the members of the New England Guards."

Date: 1842

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191731

Ref. Code: MS007.01.18.08

Jeannette & Jeannot

Cover depicts two scenes: one in which a military conscript (Jeannot) is saying goodbye to his sweetheart (Jeannette) and one in which the conscript, now a changed man and soldier, is greeting his sweetheart upon returning from war. "Dedicated to Charles Jeffereys."

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191740

Ref. Code: MS007.01.18.09

Trade card for the Old South Clothing House, opposite the Old South Church, 315 and 317 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The card features an illustration of the Old South Meeting House, listed as the Old South Church, surrounding buildings and a trolley car.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191770

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.01.02.009

List to the convent bells

Cover depicts a woman seated near a window with her chin propped on her hand. Grapes and a pitcher are on a table beside her. A large floral arrangement is near the window. "A Favorite Song or Duet, Written Composed and Dedicated to Miss Ester and Miss Ellen Lewis."

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191753

Ref. Code: MS007.01.19.01

Light may the boat row

Cover depicts men, women, and children standing on a promenade and watching numerous boats on the water. A military fort is nearby. Second edition. "Sung with the most enthusiastic applause by Mrs. And Miss Watson at the Park Theatre, Concerts, Etc. The Music arranged from a Northumbrian Melody, the...

Date: 1836

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191766

Ref. Code: MS007.01.19.02

The Dutchess of Kent

Border with flower motif and urn. Musical Flowers series by W. Spratt. All musical notation replaced by flowers and leaves: "The Flowers represent Notes, Quavers are joined together, Crotchets are single, & Minims grow out of a Flower Pot -- A Crotchet rest is a Leaf." "Mozart's Celebrated Love Walt...

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191776

Ref. Code: MS007.01.19.03

I stood amid the glittering throng

Cover depicts the head and shoulders of an unidentified woman, possibly Miss Hughes. "Sung by Miss Hughes."

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191786

Ref. Code: MS007.01.20.02

The archer boy

Cover depicts a woman standing near a stone tower, possibly a parapet. A city and river are in the background. "The Celebrated Cavelina Sung by Miss Love, in the Historical Play, The Partizans, Performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane."

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191796

Ref. Code: MS007.01.20.01

When wakes the sun at early dawn

Cover adapted from an original sketch by Stewart Watson. Cover depicts Miss Watson in costume as her character "Cellio" in the opera Native Land. "A Favorite Alpine Melody."

Date: 1835

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191801

Ref. Code: MS007.01.21.01

The bright rosy morning

Cover depicts a lyre. Orphean Lyre series. "Containing a Collection of the Most Harmonious Glees, Catches, and Duets; Arranged with Accompaniments for the Piano Forte." "The Bright Rosy Morning arranged for One or Three Voices with an accompaniment for the Piano Forte by a Professor."

Date: 1835

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191812

Ref. Code: MS007.01.21.02

Child of the west

Cover depicts a man in traditional Scotch dress with his arms around a woman. He is gesturing away from where they are standing. "A Highland Ballad Written by F. W. N. Bayley and inscribed to Mrs. Oswald Wood."

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191819

Ref. Code: MS007.01.21.03

The Persian rose

Cover depicts the head and shoulders of a woman in Persian costume.

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191827

Ref. Code: MS007.01.21.04

Album 2: Views of Eastern New York by Henry Peabody

This album contains one hundred three 8 x 10 inch photographs by Henry Peabody. The images are of excellent quality and were taken circa 1900 to 1901. An inventory of the images is included with the album. Images include the Hudson River from West Point, Lake George and steamboats, Lake Champlain, F...

Date: 1900-1907

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191823

Ref. Code: PC009.002

Album 3: Hand-colored views of Massachusetts and New York by Henry Peabody

These hand-colored photographs by Henry Peabody were created circa 1900 to 1906 for the Detroit Publishing Company. In addition to views of Boston landmarks and streets, there are images of Lexington, Concord, Wellesley, Sudbury, Salem, Gloucester, South Hadley, Northampton and Quincy, Massachusetts...

Date: 1900-1906

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191824

Ref. Code: PC009.003

Album 4: "New England Vol. 3," views of New England by Henry Peabody

This album includes seventy five 8 x 10 inch black and white photographs by Henry Peabody. There is an index to the images in the album, which were taken circa 1900. There is an emphasis is on historic buildings (by virtue of antiquity or association with political, literary, or other notable New En...

Date: ca. 1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191825

Ref. Code: PC009.004

Album 5: Home of Harry G. Converse, Marion, Mass.

A photographic survey of "The Moorings," the residence of Harry G. Converse in Marion, Massachusetts. This album includes approximately fifty 5 x 7 inch photographs of the exterior and interior of the estate taken circa 1900. The album includes portraits of household staff, estate grounds, and stabl...

Date: ca. 1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191826

Ref. Code: PC009.005

Lowell Massachusetts and other Massachusetts communities, ca 1872

Album of 144 mounted albumen prints, approximately 2 ½ x 2 ½ inches, exposed circa 1872. Album is inscribed "regards W. E. Pollock, 1872." Included are 10 pages of Lowell, Massachusetts views, of municipal, commercial and church buildings, trains, bridges, canals, and cemeteries. Also includes loca...

Date: ca. 1872

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191828

Ref. Code: PC009.061

Norris G. Osborn Prison Farm, Enfield, CT

This album contains 44 2 x 4 inch snapshots of buildings at the Norris G. Osborn Prison Farm in Enfield, Connecticut, formerly a Shaker community. Each view is carefully annotated with notes regarding construction and interior conveniences. Two letters are included from the donor at Aetna Insurance ...

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191830

Ref. Code: PC009.054

Souvenir of October Days in North Adams

"Souvenir of October Days in North Adams" by Chas. W. Eddy, Ware, Mass 1892. One of a number of albums produced by Charles Eddy between the mid-1880s to the mid-1890s, the majority relating to central and western Massachusetts towns and cities. This album of nine mounted prints depicts street an...

Date: 1892

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191831

Ref. Code: PC009.058

"'I am going there', or, The death of little Eva"

Cover depicts Eva on her deathbed, her father by her side. Above her, two angels look down as if they are calling her to Heaven. "Written and inscribed to the readers of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' by John S. Adams. Adapted to a favorite melody."

Date: 1852

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191849

Ref. Code: EP001.10.TMP.070

Album 11: Historic Houses of Boston and Vicinity

This album of 3 x 4 inch photographs was compiled in 1905 by Sara Sprague of Everett, Massachusetts. It includes exterior views of First Period buildings in Lexington, Everett, Salem, Gloucester, Medford, Boston, Chelsea, Woburn, Marblehead, Saugus, Cambridge, Neponset, Hingham, Quincy, Dorchester, ...

Date: 1905

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191832

Ref. Code: PC009.011

Album 14: Architectural Details of Buildings in Newburyport, Mass.

"Book prepared by S. C. Reed, Artist, Newburyport. Dalton Club." This album consists of two hundred 4 x 5 inch photographs of exterior and interior details of houses in Newburyport, Newbury, East Haverhill, Byfield, Groveland, and Northampton, Massachusetts. The album includes images of doorways, wi...

Date: undated

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191833

Ref. Code: PC009.014

Album 15: Historic Buildings and Landmarks in New England

This album contains approximately fifty 4 x 5 inch "gaslight" prints from circa 1895-1900 taken by an amateur photographer. The images illustrate buildings, gravestones and monuments in Plymouth, Boston, Cambridge, Duxbury, Marshfield, and Stockbridge, Massachusetts; Newport, Rhode Island; Derby and...

Date: 1895-1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191834

Ref. Code: PC009.015

Album 16: New Hampshire and Western Massachusetts Views by Henry Peabody

This album contains one hundred one 8 x 10 inch prints (including some platinum toned) taken by Henry G. Peabody ca. 1890s to early 1900s, apparently for the Detroit Publishing Company, and similar to other photographic surveys in Historic New England's collection as well as at the Library of Congre...

Date: ca. 1890

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191835

Ref. Code: PC009.016

Advertisement for Minute Tapioca, for Whitman Grocery Company, Orange, Mass., 1908

Advertisment for the Minute Tapioca brand instant tapioca originally placed in The Boston Cooking-School Magazine by the Whitman Grocery Company in the January 1908 issue. Minute Tapioca is the "tapioca with the picture of the Minute Man on the package." In addition to selling the tapioca itself Whi...

Date: 1908-01-01

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 191863

Ref. Code: SC002.TMP.010

Funeral march to the memory of Abraham Lincoln, the martyr president

Head-and-shoulders portrait of Abraham Lincoln in three-quarter profile.

Date: 1865

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191862

Ref. Code: EP001.10.TMP.001

The battle cry of freedom

Cover depicts five scenes from the American Civil War (1861-1865) and its impact on home life.

Date: 1861

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191879

Ref. Code: MS007.01.17.10

Advertisement for meat grinder, manufactured by the Enterprise Manufacturing Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1897

Advertisement for the Enterprise Meat Chopper was originally published in the February 1897 issue of The Puritan. It is illustrated with a drawing of a Puritan woman chopping meat with a knife and an illustration of the meat chopper itself. The copy compares the work of a Puritan housewife to the wo...

Date: 1897-02-01

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 191893

Ref. Code: SC002.TMP.011

The children of the battle field

Cover depicts the three orphaned children of Amos Humiston, two boys and one girl. "To J. Francis Bourns M.D. of Philadelphia, Pa. this song is most cordially and respectfully dedicated by the author. The net proceeds of the sales of this music are reserved for the support and education of the orpha...

Date: 1864

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191891

Ref. Code: MS007.01.17.11

Dost thou love me, Sister Ruth?

Cover depicts a man and woman standing in a room, facing the audience. Though their stance is very proper, they glance at one another from the corners of their eyes. A comic duet sung by Madame Vestris and Mr. Harley.

Date: ca. 1830

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191898

Ref. Code: MS007.01.46.01

Nicholson's quick step

Cover depicts a naval ship with the Charlestown Navy Yard and Bunker Hill Monuments in the background. Dedicated to Commodore Nicholson, U.S.N. View of the Charlestown Navy Yard and the Bunker Hill Monument.

Date: 1844

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191912

Ref. Code: EP001.10.TMP.005

Oh! Show me some blue distant isle

Cover depicts an idyllic island surrounded by a decorative floral border. Dedicated to J. Chickering, Esq.

Date: 1841

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191926

Ref. Code: MS007.01.45.02

Parker's Quick Step

Cover depicts a row of marching infantrymen following their captain. Dedicated to Capt. Charles Henry Parker of the Boston Light Infantry

Date: 1842

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191932

Ref. Code: MS007.01.47.01

The prairie lea

Cover depicts a man riding a horse through a partially wooded area.

Date: 1840

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191935

Ref. Code: MS007.01.15.08

Prize Banner Quick Step

Cover depicts cavalry troops in formation in front of a bandstand, on which a woman holds a banner. Above this main scene is a vignette of cavalry troops in battle.

Date: 1857

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191937

Ref. Code: EP001.10.TMP.009

Sweet bird that shun'st the noise of folly

Cover depicts a woman standing on a garden pathway. A house can be seen in the background. "Sung by Miss E. Gillingham."

Date: ca. 1830

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191944

Ref. Code: EP001.10.TMP.010

What Norah said : the reply of Norah O'Neal

Cover depicts a woman standing on a beach. "To Miss Virginia Le Comte."

Date: 1867

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191947

Ref. Code: EP001.10.TMP.011

Grand centennial march, as performed by the Boston bands, composed & respectfully dedicated to the Hon. Harrison Gray Otis, Mayor of Boston, by Ch. Zeuner, Boston, published by C. Bradley, 164 Washington Street

The march was composed for the centennial of the founding of Boston, September 17, 1830. The Massachusetts State House can be seen beyond the Boston Common. People are strolling on the Tremont Street Mall. Dedicated to Harrison Gray Otis, mayor of Boston.

Date: 1830

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191950

Ref. Code: EP001.10.TMP.012

The Sicilian knight : a cavatina

A knight kneels before his lady on a garden path. A horse is in the background. Sung by Mrs. Austin in the romantic opera of Rokeby. The subject of the music is from Von Weber's opera La Preciosa.

Date: ca. 1831

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191957

Ref. Code: MS007.01.43.01

The moon is up! a serenade in answer to Rise Gentle Moon!

A man stands before a castle tower in a moonlit mountain landscape, serenading his lady at the window. Inscribed by the author to Mr. John Barnett.

Date: ca. 1832

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191961

Ref. Code: MS007.01.13.10

The sailor's tear

A sailor says goodbye to his family with a sailing ship and lighthouse in the background. Written, composed for and sung by Madame Vestris.

Date: ca. 1832

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191963

Ref. Code: MS007.01.13.09

Rangers' trip to Westborough, or, Lion quick step

Cover depicts a lion looking at the Rifle Rangers and the Brigade Band. Railroad cars are behind them. "Respectfully Dedicated to Capt. Chas. C. Paine, and the Officers and Members of the Rifle Rangers, Boston. Performed for the first time on their visit to the Lyon Farm by the Brigade Band at the o...

Date: 1834

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191969

Ref. Code: EP001.10.TMP.016

Advertisement for Pabst Malt Extract, manufactured by Pabst Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1897

Originally printed in the May 1897 issue of The Puritan the advertisement features "the Light of Liberty 1776" as illustrated by a Patriot standing atop the Pabst tower with lanterns. The Pabst Malt Extract tonic was sold as a sleep aid.

Date: 1897-05-01

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 191970

Ref. Code: SC002.TMP.012

Bangor march

View of the north front of Mercantile Row with a distant view of the Bangor House hotel, Bangor, Maine. Composed and arranged for the piano forte. Dedicated to Samuel P. Dutton.

Date: ca. 1835

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191973

Ref. Code: EP001.10.TMP.017

City guards quick step

Cover depicts a military exercise on Boston Common with the Great Elm in the distance. Arranged for the piano forte with flute accompaniment, and also for two flutes by Charles Zeuner. Dedicated to the City Guards by the Boston Brigade Band.

Date: 1835

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191977

Ref. Code: MS007.01.43.02

Decal for "A John Alden Store," The Meyercord Co., Chicago, Illinois, undated

The decal for "A John Alden Store" features Priscilla Alden, John Alden's wife, spinning flax on a wheel. Printed in three colors, the decal is in the shape of a medallion with a banner beneath it. John Alden Stores sold groceries. The item verso has directions for applying the decal to a window. Th...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191979

Ref. Code: EP001.01.046.04.01.052

New England Guards quick step

Cover depicts a military exercise on Boston Common with the Massachusetts State House behind. Dedicated to Capt. Thomas Dwight, the officers and members of the corps.

Date: 1835

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191980

Ref. Code: EP001.10.TMP.019

Massachusetts - Boston - Brattle Street

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Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 192248

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0170.0800

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