Historic New England

Snapshots of Beacon Hill and Back Bay

This album consists primarily of 4.5 x 2.5 inch amateur snapshots of buildings on Beacon Hill and in the Back Bay. The photographs date from the late 1920s to the 1930s. The album is from the manuscript collection of John Codman (1898-1989) and may have been compiled by him or by his father, William...

Date: 1920-1930

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194687

Ref. Code: PC009.174

Snapshots of Chatham, Mass., Nantucket, Mass., and Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire

Album primarily consists of snapshots of an unidentified family and their friends in Chatham, Nantucket, and Lake Winnepesauke, in the summers of 1920-1923. Beach scenes; a masquerade party; and a few architectural views are included as well as views of Hyde Park, Marblehead, South Boston, and Waver...

Date: 1920-1923

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194688

Ref. Code: PC009.184

Album 175: Beacon Hill newspaper clippings (now Scrapbook 12)

Now scrapbook 12. See GUSN 318621 or reference code MS004.012.

Date: 1920-1930

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194689

Ref. Code: PC009.175

Martha Thacher, Kodaks. Yarmouth Port, Cape Cod

An album of early Kodak snapshots (including bulls-eye type) dating probably to the 1890s to very early 1900s. Inscribed "Martha Thacher. Kodaks. Yarmouth Port, Cape Cod" no date. A note which accompanied the album states that there is a photograph of Mr. Perera as a baby, posed in the Thacher f...

Date: 1890-1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194693

Ref. Code: PC009.176

Family Photographs, 1919-1927

Photograph album of an unidentified family, circa 1919-1927. Includes group shots at home, on the beach and farm, in costume, and in an airplane, identified only by date.

Date: 1919-1927

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194694

Ref. Code: PC009.185

Cape Cod Houses

The album consists of 24 leaves, of which four are empty. The majority of the photographs depict domestic architecture in the following communities: Sandwich, West Barnstable, Marston Mills, Yarmouth, Dennis (including East and South Dennis), Chatham, Eastham and Wellfleet. There are also 2 pages ...

Date: 1910-1920

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194696

Ref. Code: PC009.177

Mullikin Family snapshots

Album of snapshots (three hand-tinted) of Mullikin family members, 1898-1904. Found in the Otis House, 1995. Approximately 30 snapshots. Two images document several generations of the male line: Samuel Mullikin, M.G. Mullikin, T.E.M. White (who may be the principle photographer for the album) an...

Date: 1898-1904

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194698

Ref. Code: PC009.186

Boston Terminal Company construction views: South Station, Boston, Mass.

Bound in hard cover, stamped on the front "John C. Sanborn" though inscribed inside "R.G. Baker". Consists entirely of cyanotype (blue print) views of the building of South Station. A title page is inscribed: "The Boston Terminal Company Construction Views, Southern Station, Boston," suggesting it...

Date: 1896-1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194700

Ref. Code: PC009.178A

Boston School Buildings

Album of loose photomechanicals of Boston "School Buildings," circa 1903. Album is subdivided by tabbed cardboard sheets labeled "1-9," and "S." Loose photomechanical views of schools, with printed titles, have typewritten identification as to Division (1-9), District, and Report (1900-1903); and ha...

Date: ca. 1903

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194701

Ref. Code: PC009.187

Boston Terminal Company, South Station

Covers are detached. Stamped "Boston Terminal Co., Boston. John C. Sanborn, and Westinghouse, Church, Kerr and Co. Engineers," suggesting it to have been compiled by or presented by this company, if they were the engineering firm involved in the station's construction. Prints are mounted to canva...

Date: 1896-1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194706

Ref. Code: PC009.178B

Views of Woodstock, Vermont

Album compiled by K.A.P. containing 75 views of Woodstock, VT and surroundings, including Tyson, VT, circa 1901-1915. K.A.P., who studied architecture with George Edward Barton, photographed the interior of Barton's office in the Billings Block, Woodstock. Interiors of another architects' office ove...

Date: 1902-1915

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194705

Ref. Code: PC009.188

Blair Eyrie, DeWitt Clinton Blair Estate

Album of "Blair Eyrie," De Witt Clinton Blair Estate, Bar Harbor, Maine, circa 1905. 27 photographs by H.L. Bradley (of Bar Harbor) and by E.E. Soderholtz document the interiors, exterior elevations, grounds, outbuildings, and views of "Blair Eyrie." The house designed by Andrews, Jacques, and Rant...

Date: ca. 1905

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194708

Ref. Code: PC009.189

Colonial Revival House

Album of 21 photographs on 18 sheets of an unidentified colonial revival house signed and dated by photographer Hart, 1920-1924, with a leather cover. The series begins with the exterior, stairhall, living room, music room and gardens of the house and continues with the large greenhouse and its con...

Date: 1920-1924

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194709

Ref. Code: PC009.179

Rutland , Massachusetts

Album of Rutland, MA including Moulton's Pond, church and town hall, "Muschopauge," the Soldier's Monument, Putman House, sheep (titled "Inquisitiveness"), Rufus Putnam's House, Princeton Road, Gate's Estate, sheep (titled "Luncheon"), Muschopauge Lake, Pumping Station, the Central Tree, Sanatoriu...

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194711

Ref. Code: PC009.190

Trade card for Bradford & Anthony, importers & dealers in American, English, French & German cutlery, 374 Washington Street, Boston, Mass.

Bradford & Anthony carries the Winslow Skates. Bradford deals in fancy hardware and fishing tackle. Winslow's Double Clamp Skates are made by Samuel Winslow Skate Manufacturing Company, Worcester, Massachusetts. The ice skates attach to the sole and heel of the shoe with a screw clamp.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 194712

Ref. Code: EP001.01.029.01.01.011

Brick House

"Brick House' 30 formal 7 1/2 x 9 1/2" photographs of Newport, Rhode Island estate. Ownership unknown. Photographs include gardens, 2 exterior views of house, porch, interiors including dining room, living rooms, formal staircase, and bedrooms. Also included are a picture of a couple with thei...

Date: ca. 1940

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194710

Ref. Code: PC009.211

340 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

"340 Commonwealth' A leather bound album of 18 black and white photographs of the townhouse at 340 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Photographs show townhouse exterior and interior shots of front hallway with lovely circular staircase, parlors, dining room, bedrooms. Photos show fami...

Date: ca. 1925

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194714

Ref. Code: PC009.212

Postcards of New England

Postcard album containing views of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Scandinavia, undated. The following towns are represented: Boston, Cambridge, Charlestown, Cohasset, Dudley, Fall River, Fitchburg, Hopedale, Martha's Vineyard, Milford, Nantucket, Newtown, North Adams, Provinceto...

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194713

Ref. Code: PC009.191

Historic wallpapers album

This album consists of photographs of historic wallpapers, and it was compiled and annotated by Howard Livingstone Shurtleff of Boston, Mass. Many of the wallpapers documented are mural style, and some are in the style of Rufus Porter. Some of the photographs have been attached to eachother, creatin...

Date: ca. 1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194718

Ref. Code: PC009.192

Massachusetts Towns and Landscapes

Album of photographs of Massachusets towns and landscapes. 103 black and white photographs. Locations include Newton, Gloucester, Charles River at West Roxbury, Dedham and Needham, Malden, Stoneham, Fells, Melrose, Boston Harbor, Milton Lower Falls, Blue Hill, Neponset, Neponset River, Dorcheste...

Date: ca. 1890

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194715

Ref. Code: PC009.200

Clibourne Tower. Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Frank I. Dorr, Framingham, MA

Bound album marked "Clibourne Tower. Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Frank I. Dorr, Framingham, MA" Contains 16 black and white photographs: The Tower, driveway, residence, boxer and kittens, sun room interior, garden, greenhouse, lake looking South, panoramic view Eustis Estate, Lake looking West, cows in...

Date: ca. 1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194719

Ref. Code: PC009.201

Family and Friends in Salisbury, Massachusetts

Album of photographs of family and friends in Salisbury, MA probably compiled by H.G. Little, 1917-1938. Since the bulk of the photographs date from the World War I era, the home front is well represented through the Salisbury Coast Guard and "Salisbury's Welcome Home, October 12, 1919." A photo...

Date: 1917-1938

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194722

Ref. Code: PC009.193

Mother Scott's Farm

Album of photographs from a farm called "Mother Scotts" at an unidentified location near a lake, woods, and "Gulf Road," probably late nineteenth century. Family is shown posing in sunbonnets, haying, waiting for the mail man (who is also shown), hiking toward the "Lookout," relaxing on the porch an...

Date: ca. 1890

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194723

Ref. Code: PC009.194

Exterior view of Riegel Point just after completion, Fairfield, Conn., undated

Extierior view of the mansion at Riegel Point just after completion (1920s). The lawn and house are both expansive. Designed by New York architect Henry C. Pelton, the mansion has 28 rooms and includes a bathing pavilion.

Collection: Riegel-Emory family papers

GUSN: 194726

Ref. Code: MS024.TMP.005

The old nurse's visit

This trade card contains harmful imagery and employs racist stereotypes. Historic New England acknowledges historical records / objects may contain harmful imagery and language reflecting attitudes and biases of their creators and time in which they were made. Historic New England does not alter...

Date: 1873-01-01

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 194745

Ref. Code: SC002.01.1873.01.001

Trade card advertising Madame Walsh, fashionable millinery & dressmaking, No. 1 Bowdoin Square Block, Boston, Mass., undated

In the illustration one woman shows a hat to a woman with two girls. Text on the card reads "Parisian style, American taste, Exquisite contour."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 194751

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.06.01.026

"Morning start in the cotton fields"

Stereograph depicts men and women picking cotton in fields.

Date: 1867-1877

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194749

Ref. Code: PC001.04.02.2700.001

Temporary

Series

Collection: Sears and Cutting families papers

GUSN: 194755

Ref. Code: MS026.TMP

Woman with parasol and puppy, Rundlet-May House, Portsmouth, N.H.

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Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194757

Ref. Code: PC006.RUN.01.004

Canine cemetery on grounds with view of house, Rundlet-May House, Portsmouth, N.H., undated

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Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194758

Ref. Code: PC006.RUN.01.003

Stone steps on Lyman Estate grounds

Stone steps wind through the grounds of the Lyman Estate.

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194759

Ref. Code: PC006.LYM.01.001

Stone wall and picket fence on Lyman Estate grounds

A roof and chimney can barely be seen behind a stone wall and picket fence on the Lyman Estate grounds.

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194760

Ref. Code: PC006.LYM.01.002

Two men working on a hay wagon, Lyman Estate Grounds

Two men work on a hay wagon on the Lyman Estate Grounds. A young girl and woman stand behind the wagon.

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194761

Ref. Code: PC006.LYM.01.003

Hay mounds on Lyman Estate grounds

Mounds of hay are scattered throughout a field on the Lyman Estate grounds.

Date: 1942-10-11

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194762

Ref. Code: PC006.LYM.01.004

Watercolor painting by Alvan Fisher of the Lyman Estate.

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Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194763

Ref. Code: PC006.LYM.01.062

Painted Sketch of Lyman Estate.

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Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194764

Ref. Code: PC006.LYM.01.063

Landscape view of Lyman Estate porch, lawn, and greenhouses

The Lyman Estate porch, lawn, and greenhouses are seen in this photo.

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194765

Ref. Code: PC006.LYM.01.005

Interior view of 1800 Lyman Estate greenhouse

Brick walls create a walkway down the center of the 1800 Lyman Estate greenhouse.

Date: 1979-03

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194766

Ref. Code: PC006.LYM.01.006

View of the Lyman Estate garden

The Lyman Estate gardens, bordered by a brick wall, are seem in this photo.

Date: 1959-06-05

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194767

Ref. Code: PC006.LYM.01.007

Exterior view of summer house, Lyman Estate

An exterior view of the summer house, Lyman Estate. Tall brick walls surround the house. Stairs lead up to a porch with a door.

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194768

Ref. Code: PC006.LYM.01.008

Aerial view of the Lyman Estate

An aerial view shows the extent of the Lyman Estate in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194769

Ref. Code: PC006.LYM.01.009

Exterior view of the Lyman Estate, winter

An exterior view of the Lyman Estate Main House in winter, with snow covering the ground.

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194770

Ref. Code: PC006.LYM.01.010

Glimpse of Silver Lake from the Cottage House, Wilmington, Mass.

A group of young women and girls prepare to get into rowboats at the pier of the Cottage House on the shores of Silver Lake in Wilmington, Massachusetts.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194773

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.3440.0010.001

Fishing, Kendall's Pond Bridge, Windham, N.H.

A young woman and a boy fish from the Kendall Pond Bridge in Windham, New Hampshire, she with a fishing pole and he with a line. A man squats on a stone in the pond just below them.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194774

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USNH.1790.0010.004

On Hampton Beach, N.H.

People sit and stand on the sand in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194775

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USNH.0680.0060.002

Croquet at Rotch Cottage, New Bedford, Mass.

A group of young women and men play croquet on the front lawn of the Rotch Cottage in New Bedford, Massachusetts, with a view of the verandah and gabled central pavilion and doorway.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194776

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.041