Historic New England

Two women in the Blaisdell Office, Boston, Mass., undated

There are two women sitting in the Blaisdell Office in Hamilton Place, Boston, Massachusetts. One woman sits at a large desk and the other sits in a chair in front of a fireplace.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179739

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.4330.001

Interior view of an office, location unknown, 1937

This is the interior of an office in an unknown location with a long table in the center of the room. On top of the table is a shelf with compartments in it. There are also phones hooked into the ceiling on top of the compartments.

Date: 1937-09-17

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179741

Ref. Code: PC001.02.02.4150.0100.002

Check writing machine, location unknown, 1943

This is a Burroughs check writing machine used to write checks for employees at a business. This particular machine is used to write the checks for the Boston Elevated Railway Company.

Date: 1943

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179744

Ref. Code: PC001.02.02.4150.0100.003

Master Builders Association

A man sits at a desk at the Master Builders Association in Boston, Massachusetts. On the desk there are files, a telephone, office supplies and behind him there is a window with the name of the business painted on it.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179749

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.7640.001

Woman at a machine, location unknown, 1938

A woman sits at a machine putting rows of paper into a feeder in an unknown location. She is sitting in an office chair and there is a large machine in front of her.

Date: 1938-05-26

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179753

Ref. Code: PC001.02.02.4150.0100.004

Presentation exterior perspective of the Henry C. Bowen House, Woodstock, Conn., 1846

1 exterior perspective : black and blue ink and watercolor on wove paper ; 13 3/4 x 21 inches

Date: 1846

Collection: General architectural and cartographic collection

GUSN: 179757

Ref. Code: AR001.USCT.3350.002

Interior view of a living room, location unknown, undated

This is an interior view of a living room with table set up with a sign that says " R.H. Lufkin Manuf. of Vamp Folding Machines 38 Chardon St. Boston, Mass. USA." The table also has photographs in frames, flowers in a vase and a replica of a machine placed on it. The living room has a couch, chair...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179761

Ref. Code: PC001.02.02.4150.0200.001

Exterior view of a house with three people on the porch, Newport, R.I., undated

This is the exterior view of a house with three people standing on a porch in Newport, Rhode Island. There are trees that surround the sides and front of the house.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179763

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USRI.0290.0530.001

Interior of adjutant general's office, Charleston, West Virginia

Adjutant General John W. M. Appleton, Assistant Adjutant General Colonel D. T. E. Casteel, and First Lieutenant Douglas Settle, sit at a desk in the office of the adjutant general in Charleston, West Virginia. Settle served as inspector general.John W. M. Appleton was born in Massachusetts in 1833. ...

Collection: Personal photographic collection

GUSN: 179769

Ref. Code: PC004.01.A.1450.01

Cartes-de-visite photographic collection, c. 1858-1899

Chronologically, the carte-de-visite era overlaps with the waning popularity of daguerreotypes and ambrotypes as the predominant media of photographic portraiture. The earliest carte-de-visite in this collection dates from approximately 1858, although the majority of the items cluster between 1862 a...

Date: 1853-1866, predominant 1862-1866

Collection: Cartes-de-visite photographic collection, c. 1858-1899

GUSN: 179770

Ref. Code: PC008

Men on a schooner with fish, Boston, Mass., ca. 1885

This is a group of men on a fishing schooner preparing their catch in Boston, Massachusetts. The men stand around a large fish that is hooked to a mast while other men prepare smaller fish. The ship is scattered with rope, barrels, and life boats.

Date: ca. 1885

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179775

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.7790.001

The Launch "Sagitta"

There is a group of men and children sitting and standing on the steam boat, "Sagitta", in Falmouth, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The boat is tied to a dock that is located near warehouses. Buildings line the dock and stretch down the pier.

Date: 1897

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179785

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0980.0080.001

Gathering seaweed near the jetties, Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts

Three people stand on the beach collecting seaweed into a wagon pulled by a horse. To the left there are two rock formations that extend out into the ocean with light posts on each end. There are people sitting out on the rocks and in the distance they can see a steamship driving across the ocean.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179787

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2200.0010.003

Invertebrates M.B.L., July 25, 1896

A group of men and women sit on a boat called the Vigilant in Woods Hole, Falmouth, Massachusetts to have their photograph taken. The boat is docked at a pier and there is land in the background.

Date: 1896-07-25

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179791

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0980.0080.002

Captain Sandsbury at the Muskeget Life-Saving Station, Nantucket, Mass., undated

Captain Sandsbury stands in his room at the Muskeget Life Saving Station and writes on a slate with chalk at his desk. There is a woodstove in the middle of the room and the door is open to the hallway.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179796

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.1960.0370.001

Exterior view of a fishing storage shed, Biddeford, Maine, ca. 1880

This is the exterior of a fishing storage shed in Biddeford Pool, Maine. There are tools, canvas, barrels and netting strewn on the platform leading into the building.

Date: ca. 1880

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179806

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USME.0210.0020.001

Fish splitting, Biddeford Pool, Maine

This is an exterior view of a group of men working on splitting fish over barrels in front of the ocean. There are five men in front with knives and in the back of them are three storage buildings with several places to store fishing tools such as nets and lobster traps.

Date: 1880

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179809

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USME.0210.0020.002

Old fashioned county school house

This is an interior of a school house with a teacher and some students sitting on wooden benches. There is a wood stove in the middle of the room and a blackboard on the wall.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179812

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USME.0170.0010.001

Dennis Bunker

This is a portrait of Dennis Bunker drawing a person on a sketch board in an unknown location. In front of him is a large painting and a chair.

Collection: Personal photographic collection

GUSN: 179817

Ref. Code: PC004.01.B.5000.01

Men in front of a life-saving station, Eastham, Mass., May 13, 1901

A group of eight men in uniforms stand outside the life-saving station in Eastham, Massachusetts. A boat is seen in the open door of the station.

Date: 1901-05-13

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179824

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0880.0040.001

Correspondence

Subseries A, Correspondence, 1893-1912, contains correspondence received in the following years: 1893-1899, 1907-1910, and 1912. The subseries is arranged chronologically.

Date: 1893-1912

Collection: Little family papers

GUSN: 179859

Ref. Code: MS016.22.01

Literary papers

Subseries B, Literary, undated, contains undated school papers, workbooks and papers from school and a story "An Incident of Local History."

Date: undated

Collection: Little family papers

GUSN: 179860

Ref. Code: MS016.22.02

Panoramic view showing State House, Boston

This is a panoramic view of the State House in Boston, Massachusetts. The city is in the foreground showing different commercial and residential buildings.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179912

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.027

Beacon Hill from river

This is an exterior view of the Charles River shoreline and Beacon Hill in Boston, Massachusetts.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179913

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.028

View from cupola of State House looking west, Boston, Massachusetts

This is a view from the cupola of the State House overlooking part of the city of Boston, Massachusetts and the Charles River.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179915

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.029

Bulfinch Hall, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts

A group of students are gathered in front of the entrance of a building at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. One student lies atop the entablature of the doorway to the building.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179923

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.007

Students outside the Barnstable Academy, Barnstable, Massachusetts, 1849-1850

This is the Barnstable Academy students outside the school building in Barnstable, Massachusetts.

Date: 1849-1850

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179937

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.009

Schooner Head, Maine, 1870

This the outside of Honorable Lincoln Flagg Brigham, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, home on Schooner Head in Mount Desert, Maine. There is a rock formation in the foreground and a view of the ocean.

Date: 1870

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179947

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.036

"On the cliffs"

An image of Otter Cliffs overlooking the ocean in Mount Desert, Maine, in 1875. The title of the image, "On the cliffs," is taken from the verso of the image. Otter Cliffs is now part of Acadia National Park.

Date: 1875

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179948

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.037

Mount Desert, Great Head

This is a view of a cliff or rock formation overlooking the ocean in Mount Desert, Maine. This rock formation may be called Great Head.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179949

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.038

Civil War cadets

The photograph is a depiction of lines of Civil War cadets marching in formation on the lawn of the Andover Theological Seminary in Andover, Massachusetts.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179955

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.008

Arlington Street Church

This is the exterior view of the Arlington Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts located on a corner surrounded by residential and commercial buildings.

Date: 1867

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179991

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.030

Atlantic Ave., Boston, Mass., between Oliver St. and Cotton Place

This is an exterior view of the J.O'Harra, Junk Dealer, E. Hobart, Carpenter, the Globe Theater and the Columbia Theater commercial buildings in Boston, Massachusetts. There is a group of men standing outside the Columbia Theater and a man in a horse and carriage waits on the sidewalk.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179997

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.031

Avon Street

This is the exterior view of houses on Avon Street in Boston, Massachusetts. Trinity Church can be seen in the background, and Washington Street is to the left.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 179999

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.010

Old Beach Street Church

This is the exterior view of the Old Beach Street Church across from the Boston Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts.

Date: 1860

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 180001

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.011

Exterior view of G.A. Gardener's House of Beacon St. & Somerset Club House, Boston, Mass., undated

This is an exterior view of George A. Gardener's home on Beacon Street as well as Somerset Club House in Boston, Massachusetts.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 180003

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.012

Exterior view of 33 to 30 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The photographs shows no. 33, the Parkman house on the left, and on the right no. 30, the Beebe side of the Brewer-Beebe house.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 180010

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.013

Exterior view of the corner of Beacon Street & Hancock Ave., Boston, Mass., undated

This is the exterior of the house or apartment building on the corner of Beacon Street and Hancock Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 180013

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.014

Exterior view of Beacon Street & Hancock Ave., Boston, Mass., undated

This is the exterior view of houses and apartment buildings on Beacon Street and Hancock Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 180018

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.015

Exterior view of No. 18 Beacon Street, corner Walnut, Mason House, Boston, Mass., ca. 1890

A building at the corner of Beacon and Walnut Streets is seen in the image.

Date: ca. 1890

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 180025

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.016

Exterior view of Beacon & Joy Street, Boston, Mass., undated

This is the exterior of houses and apartment buildings on Beacon and Joy streets in Boston, Massachusetts. The driver of a horse and carriage wait for a person to board the carriage.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 180028

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.017

Exterior view of Beacon St. at River St., Boston, Mass., undated

This is the exterior view of apartment buildings and houses on Beacon and River streets in Boston, Massachusetts.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 180032

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.018

Exterior view of Beacon and Joy Streets, Boston, Massachsuetts, undated

This is the exterior view of an apartment building located on the corner of Beacon and Joy streets in Boston, Massachusetts.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 180034

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.019

Exterior view of the corner of Beacon and Brimmer Streets, Boston, Mass., undated

This is the exterior view of an apartment, house or office building located on Beacon and Brimmer streets in Boston, Massachusetts.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 180037

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.020

Exterior view of buildings on Beacon Street, Boston, Mass., undated

This the exterior view of apartment houses or office buildings located on Beacon Street in Boston, Massachusetts.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 180042

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.021

Exterior view of the Beacon-Granite Block, Boston, Mass., undated

This is the exterior view of the Granite Block on Beacon Street in Boston, Massachusetts.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 180045

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.022

Dayton Bicycle Club, Boston Bicycle Parade, Boston, Mass., 1896

This is a crowd of young men on bicycles in the Bicycle Parade of 1896 in Boston, Massachusetts. All of the men have a patch on their clothing that says "Dayton" and they are proceeding down a city street. Within the crowd of cyclists there is a decorated cart with a woman inside and a man dressed...

Date: 1896

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 180097

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.025

Men and women in the Boston Bicycle Parade, Boston, Mass., 1896

This is a group of men and women in parade formation for the Bicycle Parade in Boston, Massachusetts in 1896. They are wearing sashes that say "Howard" on them indicating the bicycle club they belong to. They are all standing with their bikes and some of them have flags attached indicating the club...

Date: 1896

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 180102

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.026

Josiah Bartlett birthplace

This is the exterior of the Bartlett House in Amesbury, Massachusetts with a group of people standing outside the home. There is a large fence that surrounds the yard leading to the entrance. Josiah Bartlett was part of the Continental Congress and second to sign the Declaration of Independence in...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 180106

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.006

North Castine-West Brooksville Ferry, Castine, Maine, ca. 1896

This is the North Castine-West Brooksville Ferry in Castine, Maine in 1896. A group of people are on board being carried across the Bagaduce River. In the aft Mr. Jones is operating the ferry and his daughter Sadie is helping in the bow. The wagon or buckboard on the ferry was developed for the t...

Date: ca. 1896

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 180174

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USME.0400.0010.001

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