Historic New England

Boston Common during a snow storm

A blanket of snow covers Boston Common and weighs down the branches of the trees. A crew of workers shovel out the pathways. In the middle distance is the Brewer Fountain, which was donated by merchant Gardner Brewer to the city in 1868 and is a copy of a fountain which he saw at the 1855 Paris Worl...

Date: 1900-1920

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194988

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.2580.003

Photomechanical illustration of the interior of the Old Ship Meeting House, Hingham, facing pulpit

This interior view displays the Old Ship Meeting House in Hingham, Massachusetts, the only surviving 17th century meeting house in the United States. Elements of the hip roof structure are visible, such as the curved struts, king post, rafters, and purlins. The ground floor is comprised of box pews ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194989

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.1320.0150.001

Photograph of a woodcut depicting the exterior of the Old Ship Meeting House, Hingham, about 1850.

A woodcut exterior view of the Old Ship Meeting House in Hingham, Massachusetts, the only surviving 17th century meeting house in the United States. A cupola with a spire and weathervane crown the hip roof.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194990

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.1320.0150.002

Underside of roof of Old Ship Meeting House, Hingham.

An interior view of the underside of the roof of the Old Ship Meeting House in Hingham, Massachusetts, the only surviving 17th century meeting house in the United States. The elements of the hip roof structure are visible, such as the curved struts, king post, rafters, and purlins. A set of stairs l...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194991

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.1320.0150.003

Interior of Meeting House, Hingham ("Old Ship Meeting House").

An interior view of the Old Ship Meeting House in Hingham, Massachusetts, the only surviving 17th century meeting house in the United States. Pews fan outward from the pulpit, which has staircases on either side of it, a sounding-board above it, and two Palladian windows behind it. Pews occupy the g...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194992

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.1320.0150.004

Interior of Old Ship Church, Hingham, before restoration and with 18th century pulpit.

An interior view of the Old Ship Meeting House in Hingham, Massachusetts, the only surviving 17th century meeting house in the United States. Pews fan outward from the pulpit, which has staircases on either side of it, a sounding-board above it, and drapes and curtains covering the two windows behin...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194993

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.1320.0150.005

The "Old Church," Hingham

This stereograph shows the exterior of the Old Ship Meeting House in Hingham, Massachusetts, the only surviving 17th century meeting house in the United States. The view is along the driveway up a rise to the side of the church. A cupola with a spire and weathervane crown the hip roof. A group of pe...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194994

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0790.0010.005

Hon. Matthew Bridge's wedding gift to his son, Nathan, 1814

Matthew Bridge, a member of the Massachusetts state legislature and senate, gave this two-story Georgian-style house on Green Street in Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts to his son Nathan, a prominent businessman, on the occasion of his marriage to Elizabeth Bartlett in 1814.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194995

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0560.0010.001

Exterior view of the Tufts House, corner of Prospect and Chelsea Sts., Charlestown

This exterior view from the intersection of Prospect Street and Chelsea Streets shows the Nathan Tufts house, its terraced lawns, and stables in Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts. A widows' walk surmounts the roof of the two-story house. Just past the stable of the house on Prospect Street is the F...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194996

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0560.0020.001

Bunker Hill Monument, as seen from the Grain Elevator, Charlestown, Mass.

This aerial view shows the Bunker Hill Monument and the surrounding area in Charlestown, Massachusetts. The photograph may have been taken from the grain elevator of the Fitchburg Railroad at the Hoosac Tunnel docks in Charlestown.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194997

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0560.0020.002

Interior view of the fireplace, Edward Everett House, 16 Harvard St., Charlestown

An interior view shows a fireplace and mantel in a room in the Edward Everett House in Charlestown, Massachusetts. A fire basket with logs sits in the fireplace. The mantel is decorated with double slender columns and single ogee arches.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194998

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0560.0250.001

Window and door, Harrison Baldwin House, 16-18 School St., Charlestown

This interior view of the Harrison Baldwin House in Charlestown, Massachusetts shows a room in disrepair. A window is boarded up. Refuse is heaped on the floor and plaster has fallen off to reveal the lath. A door leads into a room that appears to be in a similar condition.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194999

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0560.0030.001

Ceiling, pipe, and molding, Harrison Baldwin House, 16-18 School St., Charlestown, Mass.

This interior view of the Harrison Baldwin House in Charlestown, Massachusetts shows various details of a room, including a molded arch and pilaster on the wall and the molding of the ceiling.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195000

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0560.0030.002

View of Inman Square, Cambridge, looking east

The intersection of Cambridge, Hampshire and Beacon Streets is seen in Inman Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Streetcars and horse-drawn vehicles share the road.

Date: 1910-1930

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195001

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0500.0080.001

View of Central Square, Cambridge, Mass.

Central Square, looking west, is seen in this image.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195002

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0500.0080.002

View of Lexington St., East Boston, looking east

Row houses crowd together on Lexington Street in East Boston, Massachusetts. Trees lining the sidewalks almost form a canopy over the cobblestone roadway. A trolley car with the sign "Tunnel" and an advertisement for the Boston Pops travels along the street. On December 30, 1904, the Boston Elevated...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195003

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0850.0030.001

Interior view of H.H. Richardson's office, Brookline, Mass.

An interior view of the private library and office of Henry Hobson Richardson in the residence, originally the Samuel Gardner Perkins House, on 25 Cottage Street in Brookline, Massachusetts where he lived and worked from 1874 to his death in 1886. Bookshelves and bookcases line the walls. Oak beams ...

Collection: Personal photographic collection

GUSN: 195004

Ref. Code: PC004.01.R.0500.01

View of Meridian St., East Boston, looking north

Two trolley cars travel through a commercial area on Meridian Street in East Boston, Massachusetts. One of them has a sign marked "Tunnel" and an advertisement for the Boston Pops. On December 30, 1904, the Boston Elevated Railway Company opened the East Boston Tunnel, the first underwater subway tu...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195005

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0850.0030.002

Steamship City of Columbus at wharf, East Boston, Mass., 1882-1884

The coastal steamer, City of Columbus, is shown at the Fort Point Channel terminal of the New York & New England Railroad. The boat entered service in 1882 and was wrecked on January 17, 1884.

Date: 1882-1884

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195006

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0850.0020.001

View of Chelsea Bridge looking south

Repairs are made to the Chelsea Street Bridge that connects East Boston with Chelsea, Massachusetts over the Chelsea Creek. Workers build scaffolding to work on the piers of the truss bridge. On the roadway, men appear to be examining the components of the truss. The tugboat, Dewitt C. Ivins, can be...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195007

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0850.0150.001

Barkentine "Herbert Fuller", wharf near 81 Summer St., East Boston, "at time of trial for the murder of the captain"

The barkentine "Herbert Fuller" of Harrington, Maine is moored at a wharf near Summer Street in East Boston, Massachusetts. During a voyage to Rosario, Argentina, Captain Charles I. Nash, his wife Laura, and second mate August W. Blomberg were murdered on July 14, 1896. First mate Thomas M. C. Bram ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195008

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0850.0150.002

Old West St. looking towards Bedford St.

A view of West Street in Boston, Massachusetts towards the intersection with Bedford Street. Town houses line both sides of the cobblestone street. A brick wall crowned with an iron fence encloses what appears to be a garden. The first house past the brick wall presents an oriel window and iron balc...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195094

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.9130.001

Lamb Tavern

A photomechanical print of an engraving of Lamb Tavern, also known as the White Lamb, which was located on the west side of Washington Street, between West Street and Boylston Street, in Boston, Massachusetts. Two men converse in the doorway underneath the tavern sign while pedestrians pass by and a...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195095

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.8930.001

Britton House, Dorchester, Mass., undated

The right side of a stereograph of an exterior view of the Britton House in Dorchester, Massachusetts from the end of the driveway that leads to the front porch. A woman and man stand on the front porch, three boys sit on the railing of the balcony above it, and a girl sits in a carriage in the driv...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195099

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0460.0010.001

Annie Fields and Sarah Orne Jewett, 148 Charles St., Boston

In the library at 148 Charles Street, Boston, Massachusetts, the author Sarah Orne Jewett sits near the windows and the writer Annie Fields reads next to the fireplace. Fields, wife of publisher James T. Fields, led a literary salon in this house. They shared this home starting in the early 1880s. M...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195101

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.TMP.047

Whitfield House, from the northwest

A side exterior view from the northwest of the Henry Whitfield House, now the Henry Whitfield State Museum, in Guilford, Connecticut, after the restoration directed by architect John Frederick Kelly in the 1930s. The Puritan leader Henry Whitfield built the stone house in 1639. Two gable dormers wit...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195106

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USCT.0770.0050.001

Whitfield House

A side exterior view of the Henry Whitfield House, now the Henry Whitfield State Museum, in Guilford, Connecticut, before the restoration directed by architect John Frederick Kelly in the 1930s. The Puritan leader Henry Whitfield built the stone house in 1639. The house and chimneys are plasterd ove...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195107

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USCT.0770.0050.002

Whitfield House, from the north

A side exterior view from the north of the Henry Whitfield House, now the Henry Whitfield State Museum, in Guilford, Connecticut, before the restoration directed by architect John Frederick Kelly in the 1930s. The Puritan leader Henry Whitfield built the stone house in 1639. The house and chimneys a...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195108

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USCT.0770.0050.003

Main room of the Whitfield House, first floor, restored, looking north

An interior view looking north of the main room on the first floor of the Henry Whitfield House, now the Henry Whitfield State Museum, in Guilford, Connecticut, after the restoration directed by architect John Frederick Kelly in the 1930s. The Puritan leader Henry Whitfield built the stone house in ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195109

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USCT.0770.0050.004

Main room of the Whitfield House, first floor, looking south

An interior view looking south of the main room on the first floor of the Henry Whitfield House, now the Henry Whitfield State Museum, in Guilford, Connecticut, after the restoration directed by architect John Frederick Kelly in the 1930s. The Puritan leader Henry Whitfield built the stone house in ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195110

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USCT.0770.0050.005

North front chamber, second floor, Whitfield House, looking south

An interior view looking south of the north front chamber on the second floor of the Henry Whitfield House, now the Henry Whitfield State Museum, in Guilford, Connecticut, after the restoration directed by architect John Frederick Kelly in the 1930s. The Puritan leader Henry Whitfield built the ston...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195111

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USCT.0770.0050.006

North front chamber, second floor, Whitfield House, looking north

An interior view looking north of the north front chamber on the second floor of the Henry Whitfield House, now the Henry Whitfield State Museum, in Guilford, Connecticut, after the restoration directed by architect John Frederick Kelly in the 1930s. The Puritan leader Henry Whitfield built the ston...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195112

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USCT.0770.0050.007

North wall, second floor, Whitfield House

An view of the north wall on the second floor of the Henry Whitfield House, now the Henry Whitfield State Museum, in Guilford, Connecticut, possibly during the restoration directed by architect John Frederick Kelly in the 1930s. The Puritan leader Henry Whitfield built the stone house in 1639. The w...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195113

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USCT.0770.0050.008

Whitfield House, restored, from the south

A rear exterior view from the northwest of the Henry Whitfield House, now the Henry Whitfield State Museum, in Guilford, Connecticut, after the restoration directed by architect John Frederick Kelly in the 1930s. The Puritan leader Henry Whitfield built the stone house in 1639. Gable dormers with di...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195114

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USCT.0770.0050.009

Whitfield House, restored, from the northwest

A side exterior view from the northwest of the Henry Whitfield House, now the Henry Whitfield State Museum, in Guilford, Connecticut, after the restoration directed by architect John Frederick Kelly in the 1930s. The Puritan leader Henry Whitfield built the stone house in 1639. A chimney extends al...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195115

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USCT.0770.0050.010

West front of the Whitfield House, restored

A front exterior view from the west of the Henry Whitfield House, now the Henry Whitfield State Museum, in Guilford, Connecticut, after the restoration directed by architect John Frederick Kelly in the 1930s. The Puritan leader Henry Whitfield built the stone house in 1639. Two gable dormers with di...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195116

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USCT.0770.0050.011

Exterior view of the Gropius House, Lincoln, Mass.

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Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 195117

Ref. Code: PC006.GRO.01.005

Detail of Gropius House window, Lincoln, Mass.

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Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 195118

Ref. Code: PC006.GRO.01.006

Kitchen sink, Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House, Gloucester, Mass.

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Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 195120

Ref. Code: PC006.BEA.02.002

Mary Wonson's bedroom, Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House, Gloucester, Mass.

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Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 195121

Ref. Code: PC006.BEA.02.003

The glass room, Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House, Gloucester, Mass.

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Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 195122

Ref. Code: PC006.BEA.02.004

Southeast chamber, Cogswell's Grant, Essex, Mass., ca. 1940

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Date: 1935-1945

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 195123

Ref. Code: PC006.COG.01.001

Nina Fletcher Little and Bertram K. Little working on "American Decorative Wall painting" book in the back parlor of Cogswell's Grant, Essex, Mass.

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Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 195124

Ref. Code: PC006.COG.01.002

Female domestic worker cutting bread

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Collection: Laura Maria Barr photographic collection

GUSN: 195126

Ref. Code: PC014.TMP.002

Meigs Elevated Railroad

Photo is a side view of the Meigs Elevated Railroad. Men stand outside of the train cars.

Collection: Boston Transit Archive, 1895-1960s

GUSN: 195131

Ref. Code: PC017.02.TMP.011

Meigs Elevated Railroad from car platform

A view of the Meigs Elevated Railroad from the car platform. The tracks can be seen continuing into the distance.

Collection: Boston Transit Archive, 1895-1960s

GUSN: 195132

Ref. Code: PC017.02.TMP.012

Meigs Elevated Railroad car interior

An interior view of a Meigs Elevated Railroad car. Seats and windows line the sides of the car, with one row of seats running down the middle.

Collection: Boston Transit Archive, 1895-1960s

GUSN: 195133

Ref. Code: PC017.02.TMP.013

Meigs Elevated Railroad train

An exterior view of the engine and two railroad cars of the Meigs Elevated Railroad train. Three men stand at the head of the train.

Collection: Boston Transit Archive, 1895-1960s

GUSN: 195134

Ref. Code: PC017.02.TMP.014

Meigs Elevated train after fire damage

This photo shows the extensive fire damage to a Meigs Elevated train car. Men are seen inside the damaged car, possibly investigating the incident.

Date: 1887-02

Collection: Boston Transit Archive, 1895-1960s

GUSN: 195135

Ref. Code: PC017.02.TMP.015

"Type 2's," Meridian St. looking north, East Boston, Mass.

Two 'Type 2' train cars run on tracks down the middle of Meridian St. in East Boston, Massachusetts. Pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages are also depicted.

Date: 1908

Collection: Boston Transit Archive, 1895-1960s

GUSN: 195136

Ref. Code: PC017.02.TMP.016

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