Historic New England

1997

Series

Date: 1997

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169516

Ref. Code: SC001.1997

1995

Series

Date: 1995

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169517

Ref. Code: SC001.1995

1996

Series

Date: 1996

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169518

Ref. Code: SC001.1996

1950

Series

Date: 1950

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169519

Ref. Code: SC001.1950

1951

Series

Date: 1951

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169520

Ref. Code: SC001.1951

1957

Series

Date: 1957

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169521

Ref. Code: SC001.1957

1958

Series

Date: 1958

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169522

Ref. Code: SC001.1958

1959

Series

Date: 1959

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169523

Ref. Code: SC001.1959

1961

Series

Date: 1961

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169524

Ref. Code: SC001.1961

1962

Series

Date: 1962

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169525

Ref. Code: SC001.1962

1963

Series

Date: 1963

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169526

Ref. Code: SC001.1963

1964

Series

Date: 1964

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169527

Ref. Code: SC001.1964

1965

Series

Date: 1965

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169528

Ref. Code: SC001.1965

1966

Series

Date: 1966

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169529

Ref. Code: SC001.1966

1967

Series

Date: 1967

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169530

Ref. Code: SC001.1967

1968

Series

Date: 1968

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169531

Ref. Code: SC001.1968

1969

Series

Date: 1969

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169532

Ref. Code: SC001.1969

1970

Series

Date: 1970

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169533

Ref. Code: SC001.1970

1971

Series

Date: 1971

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169534

Ref. Code: SC001.1971

1972

Series

Date: 1972

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169535

Ref. Code: SC001.1972

1973

Series

Date: 1973

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169536

Ref. Code: SC001.1973

1998

Series

Date: 1998

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169537

Ref. Code: SC001.1998

1999

Series

Date: 1999

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169538

Ref. Code: SC001.1999

1956

Series

Date: 1956

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169539

Ref. Code: SC001.1956

1953

Series

Date: 1953

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169540

Ref. Code: SC001.1953

1954

Series

Date: 1954

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169541

Ref. Code: SC001.1954

Contesting History in 1899 : The Old Goal in York, Maine

As illustrated by the Old Gaol at York, Maine, a preserved monument sometimes has a way of persuading the public to view history in a skewed, one-sided way. Restored using the money of the upper-class summer residents of York in the early-20th century, Kevin D. Murphy looks at the Old Gaol and raise...

Date: 1995

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169692

Ref. Code: SC001.1995.073.260.001

"Bedsteads Should be Painted Green" : Shaker Paints and Varnishes

While the common belief is that Shakers used buttermilk, blueberries and other natural materials to create their paints, research shows that the Shakers made their paints using proven recipes from outside their world and raw materials from New York and New England.

Date: 1995

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169693

Ref. Code: SC001.1995.073.260.002

Inside SPNEA : The Yankee Photograph Collection

In the fall of 1994, Yankee Publishing Inc., donated an important collection of more than 2000 negatives dating between the 1890s and 1930s. These are images of New England cities, towns, bridges, landscapes, disasters - a broad imagistic document of life in New England recorded by such photographer...

Date: 1995

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169694

Ref. Code: SC001.1995.073.260.003

Drawn and Published : The Craft of Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century New England

Care and craft went into the painting of portraits in the 18th century. The most accomplished portraits contained hints of the sitter's character - the way he held his hands, gazed through the painting, what he held, or little symbols contained in the scene. Just like poetry, the painting could exal...

Date: 1995

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169695

Ref. Code: SC001.1995.073.260.004

"To Promote My Countrys Good" : Joseph Whipple and the Oliver Evans Flour Mill in New Hampshire, 1788-1802

The story of Oliver Evans' automated flour mill design is twisty and thorny. While Evans is recognized as one of the most important inventors of his time, and his impact on agriculture in New England is immeasurable, he let the design for the flour mill slip through his hands, as a published version...

Date: 1996

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169696

Ref. Code: SC001.1996.074.261.001

Inside SPNEA : Daguerreotypes of Plymouth

More than 800 daguerreotypes reside in SPNEA's Library and Archives. It is a huge and impressive collection. Of those, there are 14 extraordinary daguerreotypes of Plymouth, Mass. The origin of these images are nebulous at best, but they are fascinating, crystallized moments of a time past in a town...

Date: 1996

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169697

Ref. Code: SC001.1996.074.261.002

"As Time Will Serve" : The Evolution of Plimouth Plantation's Recreated Architecture

While a reproduction is, by definition, never completely accurate, Plimouth Plantation continually changes its buildings and structures in order to represent history as faithfully as possible. It is a work in progress, a canvas that is constantly painted over in order to bring a little of the past i...

Date: 1996

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169698

Ref. Code: SC001.1996.074.261.003

The Province House and the Preservation Movement

When it was demolished in 1922, the Province House in Boston had gone through so many changes, fallen into such disrepair and had been ignored for so long, there was no way to know what it originally looked like. There were a few sketches and drawings, but they were superficial at best. During demol...

Date: 1996

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169699

Ref. Code: SC001.1996.074.262.001

New England Culture on the Ohio Frontier

Inventory records from settler's homes reveal what they thought was necessary in their long, hard journey to their new land. The records of Abner Pinney and Levi Buttles, who died soon after moving to the Ohio frontier, provide a unique look into what these settlers thought was essential to establis...

Date: 1996

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169700

Ref. Code: SC001.1996.074.262.002

Inside SPNEA : Of Pointed Arches

SPNEA's collections reveal how Gothic style informed the architectural and decorative arts during the mid-19th century. While the supporters of the style felt it should be organic and not forced into design, the style often found its way into anything in need of a little pizzazz - architectural desi...

Date: 1996

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169701

Ref. Code: SC001.1996.074.262.003

Guns and Roses : Ritualism, Time Capsules, and the Massachusetts Agricultural College

Though largely ignored in studies of the past, time capsules present us with a clearer voice from, and greater view of, the past than do randomly excavated objects. A capsule dug up on the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, campus in 1991 speaks volumes. In the search for the capsule, the authors...

Date: 1996

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169702

Ref. Code: SC001.1996.074.262.004

Three Hearths : A Sociological Study of Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Bay Probate Inventories

The appearance of a third hearth on the ground floor of homes signalled a change from a late-medievel world view to a mentality that stressed comfort and display of status. New analysis of 17th-century homes and inventory records suggests that the change in world view didn't start until later than p...

Date: 1997

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169703

Ref. Code: SC001.1997.075.263.001

Inside SPNEA : Drawings from the Office of Ogden Codman, Jr.

The daunting task of cataloguing the contents of The Grange, architect and decorator Ogden Codman, Jr.'s, family home in Lincoln, Mass., proved to be bountiful. When the Grange was acquired by SPNEA as a bequest from Dorothy S.F.M. Codman, 1,700 architectural drawings dating from 1883 to 1919 were f...

Date: 1997

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169704

Ref. Code: SC001.1997.075.263.002

The Howland Mill Village : A Missing Chapter in Model Workers' Housing

Had the Howland Mill Corporation survived, worker housing as we know it could have been radically different. Situated between the rigid early version of workers' housing and the more recent triple-decker model, The Howland Mill Village was a radical design. This article examines the Howland Mill Cor...

Date: 1997

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169705

Ref. Code: SC001.1997.075.263.003

A Philadelphian Looks at New England

These are excerpts from "Journal of a Journey by Sea from Philadelphia to Boston" by William Wood Thackara, 1791-1839, on a family visit to Hampstead, N.H., with his bride of eight months. The voyage on the Boston-based schooner "Delaware" was recorded in a 150-page account, which provides modern-da...

Date: 1960

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169706

Ref. Code: SC001.1960.050.179.001

Astronomical Observatories in New England

New England observatories built between 1836 and World War I have little in common, but each shows how the concept of an observatory changed from a simple building with a dome to a building or set of buildings divided up according to function. These observatories were predominately Classical in cons...

Date: 1960

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169707

Ref. Code: SC001.1960.050.179.002

The Lyman Greenhouses

The Greenhouses at Lynam House in Waltham, Mass., built between 1800 and 1804, are important not only because they used a special system of heating, but also because few greenhouses dating from this period still exist today.

Date: 1960

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169708

Ref. Code: SC001.1960.050.179.003

The Historical Society's Part in American Education

A paper delivered by William H. Pierson, Jr., a professor at Williams College's department of art, on the afternoon of May 21, 1960, at SPNEA's 50th Annual Meeting. Pierson stresses the importance of education and the responsibility of historical societies to help educate the masses.

Date: 1960

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169709

Ref. Code: SC001.1960.051.181.001

Christ Church, Boston

Christ Church, located in Boston's North End, which was begun in 1723, had no skilled architect or complete technical plans. Because of this, the architecture, which was inspired by the work of Christopher Wren, was translated into something entirely new and entirely American - the first great Georg...

Date: 1961

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169710

Ref. Code: SC001.1961.051.183.001

Town Commons of New England, 1640-1840

Town commons are one of the best known features of New England, yet their origins are often shrouded in mystery and myth. They were not, as many people believe, used as pasture, nor were they the ornamental centers of towns. Then why and when did they originate, and why are they still found at the c...

Date: 1961

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169711

Ref. Code: SC001.1961.051.183.002

The Boston Exchange Coffee House

The Boston Exchange Coffee House burnt to the ground in 1818 and was never rebuilt. Reactions to the building, completed in 1809, was mixed. While its exteriors was roundly criticized, its public rooms were admired by almost everyone who saw them.

Date: 1961

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169712

Ref. Code: SC001.1961.052.185.001

Charles Bulfinch and Boston's Vanishing West End

During 1960 and 1961, two large-scale land clearances leveled wholesale blocks of buildings, as well of some of the loveliest architecture to grace Boston. While many of these buildings may not have had historical signifigance, standing among them was a house designed in 1793 or 1794 by Boston's fam...

Date: 1961

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169713

Ref. Code: SC001.1961.052.186.001

Lewis and Bartholomew's Mechanical Panorama of the Battle of Bunker Hill

Panoramas provided popular entertainment to the masses before movies, television or radio were even imagined. Large canvas paintings unfurled off of rollers and depicting a story or journey, they provided escape and education to those who witnessed the spectacles. Minard Lewis and Truman C. Bartholo...

Date: 1961

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169714

Ref. Code: SC001.1961.052.186.002

A Genealogical Puzzle

A call to SPNEA members with Essex County ancestry to help with a puzzling piece of an iron fireback.

Date: 1960

Collection: Old-Time New England

GUSN: 169715

Ref. Code: SC001.1960.050.179.004

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