Historic New England

American Decorative Wall Painting (1952, 1972, 1989)

This series contains correspondence, drafts, photographs, and related research accumulated while Nina Fletcher Little was working on the various editions of her book American Decorative Wall Painting (1952, 1972, and 1989). These files, originally contained in five record cartons, relate to the stud...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301812

Ref. Code: MS015.02.02

Early Years of the McLean Hospital (1972)

This series includes correspondence, drafts, research, and illustrations for Nina Fletcher Little's book Early Years of the McLean Hospital, published in 1972. The research material includes primary source manuscripts, such as the early nineteenth-century journal of George Folsom and Folsom family l...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301813

Ref. Code: MS015.02.03

Country Arts in Early American Homes (1975)

This series pertains to the research and publication of Country Arts in Early American Homes, published in 1975. The book explores daily life and objects in eighteenth- to nineteenth-century New England homes. Items include numerous photographs, book proofs, correspondence, and papers related to con...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301814

Ref. Code: MS015.02.04

Neat and Tidy (1980)

The following files correspond with Nina Fletcher Little's research and organization of the book Neat and Tidy: Boxes and Their Contents Used in Early American Households published in 1980. Mrs. Little conducted expansive research on boxes from private and museum collections. There are considerable ...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301815

Ref. Code: MS015.02.05

Little by Little (1981)

Nina Fletcher Little's book Little by Little is an anecdotal account of Bert and Nina Little's journey as collectors. The book was published in 1984, toward the end of Nina Fletcher Little's career, and offers a very intimate picture of their interests in decorative arts. These files are arranged pr...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301816

Ref. Code: MS015.02.06

Other Publications

This series contains published articles and other writing by Nina Fletcher Little that were not integrated into other parts of the collection. Some of the files contain manuscripts, correspondence, and research notes, while many simply contain a copy of Little's published article. There are also sev...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301817

Ref. Code: MS015.02.07

Photocopies of Articles

This series contains photocopies of articles by Nina Fletcher Little arranged by publication. Many of the articles came from Antiques, though other historical and arts publications, such as Art in America and Old-Time New England, are also represented. There are also three articles by other authors ...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301818

Ref. Code: MS015.02.08

Exhibitions

This series contains papers related to exhibitions that Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little contributed to through object loans and/or research and writing. Papers include correspondence, photographs, articles, article drafts, exhibition catalogues, clippings, research material, and other papers. ...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301820

Ref. Code: MS015.03.01

Loans

This series contains files on loans that Nina Fletcher Little made to museums for temporary exhibitions. Most of the files are for bicentennial era exhibitions. The papers include correspondence, loan forms, shipping receipts, and information on the exhibitions. The majority of the files are restric...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301821

Ref. Code: MS015.03.02

Exhibition Catalogues, Pamphlets, and Other Publications

This series consists of exhibition catalogues, pamphlets, scholarly articles, auction catalogues, and other publications collected by Nina Fletcher Little. They reflect Little's interest in many forms of American art, and likely were used as reference and research tools for Little's own scholarly w...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301822

Ref. Code: MS015.03.03

Decorative Arts and Furnishings

This subseries includes articles, auction catalogues, and museum guidebooks in addition to many exhibition catalogues. Correspondence or other papers accompanied several of the publications. The publications were originally contained in three document boxes. Nina Fletcher Little labeled the boxes wi...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301823

Ref. Code: MS015.03.03.01

Individual Artists

In addition to exhibition catalogues, this subseries includes many articles from historical and decorative arts periodicals. They were originally contained in three document boxes. Nina Fletcher Little labeled the boxes with date spans, though the publication dates of the catalogues and articles wit...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301824

Ref. Code: MS015.03.03.02

Ceramics

This subseries has fewer exhibition catalogues than other subseries. Rather, it contains a wide variety of publications including pamphlets, newsletters, articles, and other scholarly sources on ceramics. Nina Fletcher Little's involvement in the China Students' Club of Boston and the Wedgwood Club ...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301825

Ref. Code: MS015.03.03.03

Architecture

This subseries contains pamphlets, brochures, articles, and other publications on historic architecture. Many relate to specific historic house museums, while others offer advice on dating historic structures. The publications were originally contained in a single document box, with a cardboard divi...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301826

Ref. Code: MS015.03.03.04

Local History

This subseries contains pamphlets, articles, and other publications that Nina Fletcher Little has categorized as pertaining to local (i.e., New England) history. This includes catalogues for exhibitions on local topics; guides to Boston area historical research institutions; and publications on hist...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301827

Ref. Code: MS015.03.03.05

American Fine Art Paintings

This subseries includes numerous exhibition catalogues, along with articles and other publications. Many of the exhibition catalogues feature paintings loaned by the Littles. The publications were originally contained in two document boxes, bearing labels from Nina Fletcher Little. The division of t...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301828

Ref. Code: MS015.03.03.06

American Folk Art Paintings and Sculptures

This subseries includes exhibition catalogues and scholarly articles, along with some auction catalogues and other publications. Many of the exhibition catalogues feature paintings loaned by the Littles. The publications were originally contained in three document boxes, bearing labels from Nina Fle...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301829

Ref. Code: MS015.03.03.07

Additional Publications Added by Selina Fletcher Little

This subseries is made up of issues of The Old Print Shop Portfolio, a gallery catalogue produced by Harry Shaw Newman's Old Print Shop in New York City. These catalogues were found with a carton of publications that Selina Fletcher Little indicated should be incorporated into the Exhibition Catalog...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301830

Ref. Code: MS015.03.03.08

Rules for obtaining rights of lands granted to soldiers by the United States Congress

Signed by Secretary of War James McHenry.

Date: 1796

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 301839

Ref. Code: MS008.03.04.23.001

Collectors Clubs

This series contains news clippings, correspondence, photographs, ephemera, exhibition files, and other papers related to several decorative arts collectors' clubs in which Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little were members. Many of the clubs originated in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and the Littl...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301832

Ref. Code: MS015.04.01

Lectures, Seminars, and Forums

These papers document the Littles' involvement in the field of American decorative arts and material culture as lecturers, seminar faculty and sponsors, and museum board members. Much of the series relate to Nina Fletcher Little's work as a lecturer from the 1930s through the 1970s. The lecture file...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301833

Ref. Code: MS015.04.02

Old Sturbridge Village

This series contains a variety of papers related to Nina Fletcher Little's work with Old Sturbridge Village living history museum in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Little served as a trustee beginning in 1955 and was a member of the institution's curatorial committee. General papers related to her work ...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301834

Ref. Code: MS015.04.03

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection

In 1954, Nina Fletcher Little was hired as a consultant for a new folk installation at Colonial Williamsburg sponsored by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. Little catalogued and helped design gallery arrangements for the collection. The papers in this series document Little's work with the Colonial Williams...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301835

Ref. Code: MS015.04.04

Nina Fletcher Little Correspondence

This series contains Nina Fletcher Little's professional correspondence as well as letters and receipts pertaining to Nina and Bertram K. Littles' collection of artwork and decorative objects. There are several distinct clusters within this series. The first seventeen folders are a chronological seq...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301836

Ref. Code: MS015.04.05

Nina Fletcher Little Professional Scrapbook

This series consists of a single scrapbook compiled by Nina Fletcher Little. The volume is a commercially manufactured "Elite Scrap Book" from Samuel Ward in Boston. Nina Little maintained this scrapbook from 1930 to 1944. It contains letters, news clippings, programs, pamphlets, and small publicati...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301837

Ref. Code: MS015.04.06

Awards

This series contains plaques, trophies, certificates, and other objects given to Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little as awards or honors. There are also several folders of papers and certificates related to awards.

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301838

Ref. Code: MS015.04.07

Nina F. Little papers

This series unites a variety of Nina Fletcher Little's personal papers. It is divided into the following subseries: Early Writings, Brookline Organizations, "An Evening With Nina Aboard the Yacht Cristina," and Miscellaneous Loose Papers. The archival processor, rather than Selina Fletcher Little...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301840

Ref. Code: MS015.05.01

Biographical Materials and Personal Photographs

The biographical materials assembled in this series include articles, news clippings, and personal papers related to Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little and their folk art collection. Examples include numerous magazine profiles, obituaries, images, and items related to the auction of part of the Lit...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301841

Ref. Code: MS015.05.02

Colleagues of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

News clippings, correspondence, and other papers related to colleagues of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little. These papers were found together in one carton, arranged alphabetically by colleague with several additional articles and publications stored out of alphabetical order at the end. The se...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301842

Ref. Code: MS015.05.03

Early Writings

Poems and essays by Nina Fletcher Little, written from the ages of eight to eighteen, when her name was Nina Jarvie Fletcher. Includes some photocopies received from Selina Fletcher Little.

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301843

Ref. Code: MS015.05.01.01

Brookline Organizations

This subseries contains papers related to Nina Fletcher Little's involvement in the following interrelated Brookline charitable organizations: the Brookline Friendly Society, a public health and family services charitable organization, of which Nina Fletcher Little served as president from 1947-1957...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301844

Ref. Code: MS015.05.01.02

Binder "An Evening with Nina Aboard the Yacht Cristina"

Scrapbook of memories from a black tie dinner honoring Nina Fletcher Little held on April 1, 1977. Carl Crossman and Roger Howelett of the Childs Gallery hosted the dinner at their home, 257 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. The Yacht Christina is a reference to the steam yacht owned by Nina F. Little's ...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301845

Ref. Code: MS015.05.01.03

Miscellaneous Loose Papers

Sub-series

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301846

Ref. Code: MS015.05.01.04

Cogswell's Grant

This series relates to Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little's home in Essex, Massachusetts, Cogswell's Grant. This tidewater farm was the Littles' summer home from 1937 until their deaths in 1993. In 1962, Nina Fletcher Little initiated plans to bequeath the property, buildings, and the outstanding f...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301847

Ref. Code: MS015.06.01

Little Collection Catalogues and Inventories

This series illustrates the different methods the Littles employed for documenting their personal collection of artwork and objects. The series includes a set of binders containing catalogue worksheets, as well as a set of card catalogues. Both cover the collections in Brookline and Essex, Massachus...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301848

Ref. Code: MS015.06.02

Subject Files

Miscellaneous files related to Cogswell's Grant, including maintenance records, papers related to the donation to SPNEA, and Essex town issues. Those files that were organized by Selina Fletcher Little appear first, while files added to this subseries by the archival processor appear after Selina Li...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301849

Ref. Code: MS015.06.01.01

Financial Records

This series contains bound volumes of check stubs from the First National Bank, Ipswich, for expenses related to Cogswell's Grant. It also includes three account ledgers for the farm, covering the years 1938-1981. The entire subseries is restricted.

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301850

Ref. Code: MS015.06.01.02

Appraisals

This series contains two appraisals related to Cogswell's Grant. One, conducted by R. M. Bradley & Co. in 1984, appraises the land and buildings and was conducted in conjunction with the establishment of preservation restrictions. The other is for the contents of the house and was conducted by Rolan...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301851

Ref. Code: MS015.06.01.03

Publications

This series contains articles, booklets, and a book concerning Cogswell's Grant.

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301852

Ref. Code: MS015.06.01.04

Photographs

Professional and family photographs, negatives, slides, and transparencies of Cogswell's Grant, 1936-1985. Includes room interiors, landscapes, aerial views, and farm activities. Also includes several Christmas cards printed by Bertram K. Little featuring images of the property.

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301853

Ref. Code: MS015.06.01.05

Collection Inventory Binders

This subseries consists of six binders containing catalogue worksheets for Little collection objects, as well as correspondence, clippings, and other documents related objects. There are separate inventories for the collections in Brookline and Essex, Massachusetts, as well as a separate inventory f...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301854

Ref. Code: MS015.06.02.01

Card Catalogues

This subseries contains eight boxes of catalogue cards. There are separate catalogues for the Littles' collections in Brookline and Essex, Massachusetts, as well as a catalogue of objects they sold or donated. Most of the objects cataloged here are two-dimensional works of art, such as paintings and...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301855

Ref. Code: MS015.06.02.02

Bertram K. Little papers

The papers of Bertram K. Little (1899-1993) organized in this series thoroughly document Little's career in publishing and non-profit management, and illustrate his expertise in history, decorative arts, and historic preservation. His involvement in dozens of museums and preservation organizations -...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301856

Ref. Code: MS015.07.01

SPNEA Papers

The papers in this subseries cover a wide array of topics, but are arranged together in this subseries because they are products of Bertram K. Little's work for SPNEA. This arrangement was created by the collections processor, in order to avoid moving some of the papers to the SPNEA/Historic New Eng...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301857

Ref. Code: MS015.07.01.01

Professional Papers

Bertram K. Little's professional papers thoroughly document his career from 1926 to 1947, before he assumed the position of Director at SPNEA. Little began his career in 1926 as a clerk in the advertising department of the publishing house Little, Brown & Company. From 1930 to 1934, Little operated ...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301858

Ref. Code: MS015.07.01.02

Organizations

Papers related to Bertram K. Little's many organizational affiliations, including as a member of the Board of Trustees at the Shirley-Eustis House and the Fruitlands Museums, an Overseer at Strawberry Banke, and an active member of the Walpole Society and the Rushlight Club. In additional to the his...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301859

Ref. Code: MS015.07.01.03

Lectures and Conferences

Correspondence, programs, clippings, and other papers related to lectures and presentations given by Bertram K. Little for historical organizations.

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301860

Ref. Code: MS015.07.01.04

Publications and Writings

Typescripts, manuscripts, and published writing by Bertram K. Little, including student works, pieces written for clubs or historical organizations, and journal articles. Also includes numerous files related to his 1971 history of the Brookline Savings Bank.

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301861

Ref. Code: MS015.07.01.05

Harvard University

Papers related to Bertram K. Little's involvement with his alma mater, Harvard University; Little was part of the class of 1923. Includes correspondence, clippings, notes, and other papers related to the organization of Harvard University's tercentenary exhibition of 1936, for which Bertram K. Littl...

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 301862

Ref. Code: MS015.07.01.06

Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA): YMCA of the North Shore, Salem YMCA (Salem, Massachusetts)

File part

Date: 1966

Collection: Phillips family papers. Stephen "Stevie" Phillips (1907-1971) papers

GUSN: 301743

Ref. Code: MS044.03.76

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