Historic New England

Scrapbook of Herbert Browne

Albums compiled by the architects Arthur Little and Herbert Browne documenting completed work for several clients.The majority of photographs in these albums were probably commissioned by the firm of Little and Browne to the photographic studios of William Clark (formerly of Soule Photograph Company...

Date: ca. 1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194358

Ref. Code: PC009.122B

Temporary

Series

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 194359

Ref. Code: MS008.TMP

Little & Browne Architectural Projects

Albums compiled by the architects Arthur Little and Herbert Browne documenting completed work for several clients.The majority of photographs in these albums were probably commissioned by the firm of Little and Browne to the photographic studios of William Clark (formerly of Soule Photograph Company...

Date: ca. 1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194364

Ref. Code: PC009.122C

Temporary

Series

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194362

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP

Account Books

Sub-series

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194363

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB

Adventure and account book of James Rundlet, Portsmouth, N.H., 1791 - 1793

Brief accounts of shipments of butter, limes, meats, and fish between New Hampshire, West Indies, and Jamaica, naming customer, insurance, and duty charges and profits incurred. Ships mentioned by name.

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194367

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.JR001

Little & Browne Architectural Projects

Albums compiled by the architects Arthur Little and Herbert Browne documenting completed work for several clients.The majority of photographs in these albums were probably commissioned by the firm of Little and Browne to the photographic studios of William Clark (formerly of Soule Photograph Company...

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194368

Ref. Code: PC009.122D

Little & Browne Architectural Projects - Gardens

Albums compiled by the architects Arthur Little and Herbert Browne documenting completed work for several clients.The majority of photographs in these albums were probably commissioned by the firm of Little and Browne to the photographic studios of William Clark (formerly of Soule Photograph Company...

Date: 1908-1909

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194372

Ref. Code: PC009.122E

Account book of Roger Orvis, Goshen, Conn., 1771-1807, 1809-1814

Manuscript account books kept from 1771 to 1807 by builder, furniture-maker, and agricultural worker Roger Orvis of Goshen and Norfolk, Litchfield County, CT, to record his work framing buildings, performing specified agricultural work, and making bedsteads and sleighs, for named Litchfield County ...

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194374

Ref. Code: MS002.136

Account book of Talcott Curtiss, Granville, Hampden County, Mass., 1813-1817

Manuscript business account book, 1813 to 1817, kept by young furniture maker Talcott Curtiss of Granville, Hampden County, MA, to record the wide range of items he built for named customers on specified dates for reported prices, as well as his purchases of cherry, chestnut, hemlock, and pine board...

Date: 1813-1817

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194375

Ref. Code: MS002.137

"Scrap Book": photographs of Pauline Lindsay and her friends and family

Album presumably put together by Pauline Lindsay, with a handwritten title in the front that reads, "The Best Moving Pictures And Entertainments I Have Seen During 1938 And 1939." The first page of the album has a magazine clipping of a photograph of Mickey Rooney glued onto it. The rest of the al...

Date: 1934-1938

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194380

Ref. Code: PC009.093

Picturesque Franklin

Removed to books, 1995.

Date: 1891

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194383

Ref. Code: PC009.096

Roland Newhall interior decoration scrapbook

Removed to scrapbooks, 1995. Interior decoration. A notebook belonging to Roland Newhall, Public School Division (Boston?) 1916. Includes notes on wallpaper, furniture styles, "Colonial doorways," magazine clippings of interiors.

Date: 1916

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194384

Ref. Code: PC009.099

Old North Church, Boston, Mass., 1954

In the image the steeple is lifted by crane to the top of the scaffold enclosed church. The steeple of Boston's Old North Church was seriously damaged by Hurricane Carol on August 31, 1954. The rebuilding of the steeple was a matter of great civic pride in the city. This was the church from which pa...

Date: 1954

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194385

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.052

Mount Vernon Street reflections, Boston, 1955

An open door reflects the image of construction workers across the street. Through the opened door, more construction and rubble can be seen.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194386

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.053

Mount Vernon Street repairs, Boston, 1955

This image depicts a ditch-digger in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood being persistently ignored by three fur-clad women. Reed's instincts drew him to the contrast between the worker and the residents.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194387

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.054

Boston vendor, 1955

A boy investigates goods on a street vendor's table. Other shoppers browse food items.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194388

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.055

North End, Boston, 1955

A female vendor stands outside her shop in the North End of Boston.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194389

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.056

Organ grinder, Boston, 1955

Reed remembers well the afternoon he made this photograph. Every time he had the shot just right, the boy on the left would jump into the picture. Reed's frustration over this intrusion kept him from printing the image for many years. Yet, now we find that the boy adds a spark of interest. Reed is n...

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194391

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.058

Boston Globe, Boston, 1956

For eighty-seven years, the Boston Globe headquarters was located on "Newspaper Row," a section of Washington Street in downtown Boston, before moving to Dorchester in 1958. Until then, for many Bostonians, part of any day included catching the latest news before it was printed. Here we can see the ...

Date: 1956

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194393

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.059

Poker player, Morrisville, Vermont, 1950

Townsmen sit around a card table playing poker. An onlooker smokes a cigarette.

Date: 1950

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194394

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.060

Evening chores, Webster, N.H., 1955

This Life photo-essay, "A Wedding in a Land of Dolls," described the fanciful wedding of dolls at the home of children's book author Tasha Tudor. Tudor famously eschewed the trappings of modern living and created instead a carefully constructed world based on nostalgia for pre-modern America. Reed t...

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 193965

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.022

Outdoor concert, Bolton, Vermont, 1972

A group of people dance and twirl at an outdoor concert. The man closest to the camera is shirtless, and dances with a cigarette in his mouth. Most dancers are barefoot. Two children can be seen in the crowd.

Date: 1972

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 193967

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.005

Boston's finest, 1957

Two smiling police officers flank Senator John F. Kennedy as he walks down a Boston street at night.

Date: 1957

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 193968

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.006

Advertisement for Plymouth Rock Gelatine, Plymouth Rock Gelatine Company, 68 Western Avenue, Boston, Mass., undated

The advertising flyer for Plymouth Rock Gelatine depicts "The courtship of Miles Standish" with an image of Priscilla and Miles eating a pudding made with gelatine. The product was patented on March 5, 1889.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 193969

Ref. Code: EP001.01.045.07.03.035

Advertisement for Ward's Paradise Fruit Cake, Ward Baking Company, New York, New York, 1922

A Pilgrim couple sit on the shore of a bay watching a ship. The man holds a rifle and has shot a turkey. The woman wears a traditionally styled dress and red cape. Above the landscape is an image of the fruit cake and decorative gift tin.

Date: 1922

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 193980

Ref. Code: EP001.01.046.01.01.008

Trade card for Hart, Schaffner and Marx hand-tailored clothes at the Continental Clothing House, Boston, Mass., undated

This trade card is illustrated with two men in fine suits and a worker hauling bags away from a ship. The man in front wears a black suit and appears to have a peg leg.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 193991

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.01.052

Butternut fudge, Tunbridge, Vermont, 1955

Reed visited Vermont's Tunbridge Fair, camera in hand, on several occasions. In 1964, Vermont Life published a major photo-essay on the fair, which the editors referred to as "Vermont's own" World's Fair. The fair had a well-earned reputation for being the place where Vermonters let their hair down....

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 193995

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.023

Advertisement for Priscilla compound, produced by Priscilla Manufacturing Company, Hartford, Conn., 1898

This advertisement for the "Priscilla" Compound shows Priscilla cleaning with the powder and an offer for the "Story of Priscilla", free of charge.

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 193994

Ref. Code: SC002.TMP.014

Advertisement for The Old Homestead Colonial Rugs, R.H. Stearns & Co., Boston, Mass., undated

The rug pictured is a woven rag rug in many colors with short fringe on either end.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 193998

Ref. Code: EP001.01.050.01.01.01.027

Album 1, Book 1: Massachusetts Historic Homes and Landmarks

One of eight scrapbooks of 2.5 x 3.5 inch photographic prints, postcards, and original artwork document historic homes and landmarks in Massachusetts. The scrapbooks are undated, but they were probably created in the 1920s. The quality of the photographs is excellent, despite their small format. Of ...

Date: 1920s

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194001

Ref. Code: PC009.001-1

Album 1, Book 2: Massachusetts Historic Homes and Landmarks

One of eight scrapbooks of 2.5 x 3.5 inch photographic prints, postcards, and original artwork document historic homes and landmarks in Massachusetts. The scrapbooks are undated, but they were probably created in the 1920s. The quality of the photographs is excellent, despite their small format. Of ...

Date: 1920s

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194002

Ref. Code: PC009.001-2

Album 1, Book 3: Massachusetts Historic Homes and Landmarks

One of eight scrapbooks of 2.5 x 3.5 inch photographic prints, postcards, and original artwork document historic homes and landmarks in Massachusetts. The scrapbooks are undated, but they were probably created in the 1920s. The quality of the photographs is excellent, despite their small format. Of ...

Date: 1920s

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194005

Ref. Code: PC009.001-3

Ledger and daybook of Andrew Brabazon, Hartford, Conn., 1858-1863

Stone and stone cutting Itemizes cost of materials used by a stone cutter and his charges for labor and for the finished stone in the form of monuments or architectural lintels, steps, etc. Measurements are specified. "Billheads" section provides customers' names (indexed) and some addresses in C...

Date: 1858-1863

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194004

Ref. Code: MS002.001

Album 1, Book 4: Massachusetts Historic Homes and Landmarks

One of eight scrapbooks of 2.5 x 3.5 inch photographic prints, postcards, and original artwork document historic homes and landmarks in Massachusetts. The scrapbooks are undated, but they were probably created in the 1920s. The quality of the photographs is excellent, despite their small format. Of ...

Date: 1920s

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194006

Ref. Code: PC009.001-4

Album 1, Book 5: Massachusetts Historic Homes and Landmarks

One of eight scrapbooks of 2.5 x 3.5 inch photographic prints, postcards, and original artwork document historic homes and landmarks in Massachusetts. The scrapbooks are undated, but they were probably created in the 1920s. The quality of the photographs is excellent, despite their small format. Of ...

Date: 1920s

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194008

Ref. Code: PC009.001-5

Daybook of Walley, Boston, Mass., July 12-September 8, 1797

Records prices of glass used for architectural purposes. Includes names of purchasers in Boston, Roxbury, and Newburyport, Mass. Mentions carriers and packing costs.

Date: 1797

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194009

Ref. Code: MS002.005

Album 1, Book 6: Massachsuetts Historic Homes and Landmarks

One of eight scrapbooks of 2.5 x 3.5 inch photographic prints, postcards, and original artwork document historic homes and landmarks in Massachusetts. The scrapbooks are undated, but they were probably created in the 1920s. The quality of the photographs is excellent, despite their small format. Of ...

Date: 1920s

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194014

Ref. Code: PC009.001-6

Ledgers of Caleb Nichols, Cohasset, Mass., 1794-1826

3 ledgers

Date: 1794-1826

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194010

Ref. Code: MS002.006

Ledger of Caleb Nichols, Cohasset, Mass., 1794-1826

Itemizes charges for shop work, including wheelwright jobs, and designated aspects of house construction. Also includes some joiner's work on ships. Creditors' side of ledger lists cost of materials, provisions, labor, and "schooling". Some indexing and cross-reference with other account books.

Date: 1794-1826

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194011

Ref. Code: MS002.006.01

Ledger of Caleb Nichols, Cohasset, Mass., 1804-1824

Itemizes supplies and services for work on ships, with a considerable amount of carting. Quantities and variety of provisions listed suggest a supply outlet or general store.

Date: 1804-1824

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194012

Ref. Code: MS002.006.02

Ledger of Caleb Nichols, Cohasset, Mass., 1812-1820

Lists charges primarily for agricultural services, vegetable produce, carting, and some joiner's work. Draft of one personal letter (1832) to a cousin in Portland, possibly Maine, giving local news.

Date: 1812-1820

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194013

Ref. Code: MS002.006.03

Account book of Seba Perrin, Seekonk, Mass., Apr. 1821-May 1829

Lists charges for labor, some specified. Other notes include rules for Amherst College students, a military company roll call, general American history extracts, ingredients for "blacking", a mortgage, and penmanship practice. Tune to "Isle of Sky" musically annotated.

Date: 1821-1829

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194015

Ref. Code: MS002.007

Album 1, Book 7: Massachusetts Historic Homes and Landmarks

One of eight scrapbooks of 2.5 x 3.5 inch photographic prints, postcards, and original artwork document historic homes and landmarks in Massachusetts. The scrapbooks are undated, but they were probably created in the 1920s. The quality of the photographs is excellent, despite their small format. Of ...

Date: 1920s

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194017

Ref. Code: PC009.001-7

Daybook of Jacob Chesley, Wakefield, N.H., Dec. 1810-May 1822

Gives cost of labor in joiner's shop and prices of bricks, wood, window glass, and of labor for construction. Much hauling, buying, and selling of household goods.

Date: 1810-1822

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194016

Ref. Code: MS002.008

Daybook of Roberts, Rochester, N.H., Jan. 1829-Feb. 1835

Itemizes services and materials. Indicates forging and wheelwright work, and jobs in construction. Also household purchases and some tailoring itemized. At one point -- "moving my goods from Great Falls to Rochester". Mentions "carding machine labor" and "engine."

Date: 1829-1835

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194019

Ref. Code: MS002.009

Album 1, Book 8: Massachusetts Historic Homes and Landmarks

One of eight scrapbooks of 2.5 x 3.5 inch photographic prints, postcards, and original artwork document historic homes and landmarks in Massachusetts. The scrapbooks are undated, but they were probably created in the 1920s. The quality of the photographs is excellent, despite their small format. Of ...

Date: 1920s

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194018

Ref. Code: PC009.001-8

Daybook of Eugene M. Josselyn, West Hanover, Mass., Mar. 1860-Feb. 1896

A daybook of Eugene M. Josselyn of King Street in West Hanover, Massachusetts, for the period of March 1860 through February 1896. It lists some supplies and charges for services (rarely specified). Work for town of Hanover includes snow shoveling and work on bridges. Three notes at the end are reme...

Date: 1860-1896

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194020

Ref. Code: MS002.010

Daybook, Maine coast, Mar. 1827-Feb. 1849

Itemizes charges for varied shop work (coffins, sleighs, etc.), carpentry on buildings and ships. Gives cost of tools and supplies including lumber and glass. Creditors' accounts show cost of household items, clothing, and quantities of foods (some designated as "Board Expense"). One contract for jo...

Date: 1827-1849

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194022

Ref. Code: MS002.012

Ledger of Cyrus Josselyn, Boston, Mass., Mar. 1810-Sept. 1854

Specifies jobs in construction with cost of labor to customers and records employees' pay. Names of 6 males residing in towns of western Massachusetts listed inside back cover. 1821 snow storm recorded.

Date: 1810-1854

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194023

Ref. Code: MS002.011

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