Historic New England

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.

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: Architectual 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Date: 1830

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191950

Ref. Code: EP001.10.TMP.012