Historic New England

View of Geneva Ave. looking towards Park St., Dorchester, Mass.

Several trolley cars sit on tracks and are attached to overhead lines. A sign indicates that this is the Fields Corner Station and shows an arrow directing passengers to the tunnel trains. Row houses can be seen across the street from the station.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194922

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0080.001

Exterior view of the Fields Corner Delicatessen, 1514A Dorchester Ave., Dorchester, Mass.

Pedestrians walk past the Fields Corner Delicatessen at 1514A Dorchester Avenue in Dorchester. In the storefront windows, canned goods and fruits are displayed, with signs indicating the prices of these items. Two doors down the street is a spa, selling homemade candy and ice cream.

Date: 1930-1950

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194923

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0080.002

Exterior view of the Meeting House Hill Firehouse (Engine No. 17). Parish St., Dorchester, Mass.

This exterior view shows the front façade of the firehouse of Engine No. 17 and Hook and Ladder No. 7 on Parish Street on Meeting House Hill in Dorchester. The fire station is designed in the Second Empire style and the hook and ladder barn has a gambrel roof.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194924

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0090.002

Exterior view of the Lucky Strike Bowling Alley, 289 Adams St., corner of Park St. Dorchester, Mass.

Pedestrians cross the street in front of the entrance to the Lucky Strike Bowling Alley on 289 Adams Street in Dorchester. There is a stylish sign above the doorway.

Date: 1987-03-29

Collection: Robert Bayard Severy photographic collection

GUSN: 194925

Ref. Code: PC045.TMP.001

Exterior view of the house built for Gen. Hazard Stevens, 8 Bowdoin Ave., Dorchester, Mass., 1880

An exterior view shows a side façade of the General Hazard Stevens House, also known as Crest Lawn, at 8 Bowdoin Avenue on Mount Bowdoin in Dorchester, Massachusetts. The mansion, made of brick and a wood frame, was designed by architect Edgar Allen Poe Newcomb in the Queen Anne style in 1879-1880. ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194926

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0060.001

Exterior view of house at 5 Melville Ave., Dorchester, Mass.

This exterior view shows the front façade of a large house at 5 Melville Avenue in Dorchester. A cupola with a spire on top sits on the roof and projects over the eaves with a railing.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194927

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0060.002

Exterior view of an unidentified house, Bullard St. and Bowdoin Ave., Dorchester, Mass., undated

This exterior view shows a side façade of the house at the corner of Bullard Street and Bowdoin Avenue in the Mount Bowdoin neighborhood of Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts. Architect Arthur H. Vinal designed this residence, which may have been built in the 1880s.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194928

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0060.003

Exterior view of Baker Memorial Church, Dorchester, Mass.

An exterior view shows the Baker Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church in the Uphams Corner neighborhood of Dorchester, Massachusetts from across the intersection of Columbia Road and Cushing Avenue. The church was dedicated on June 14, 1891. The congregation left the premises around the 1940s. Sarah ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194929

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0100.001

Group portrait of children standing in Gibson Playground, Dorchester, Mass.

A group of children stand in front of the Christopher Gibson Playground in Fields Corner, Dorchester. A baby carriage stands near the group. Children play on the swing sets in the background. This park is now known as the Doherty/Gibson Playground. Christopher Gibson was one of the original settlers...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194930

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0010.001

Full-length group portrait of children standing in Gibson Playground, Dorchester, Mass., undated

Children of various ages pose next to a tree in the Gibson Playground in Dorchester, Massachusetts. A baby carriage stands in the foreground and in the background children can be seen playing.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194931

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0100.002

View of commercial buildings at the corner of Adams St. and Dorchester Ave., Dorchester, Mass.

Road work is underway at the intersection of Adams Street and Dorchester Avenue in front of various commercial buildings in Fields Corner, Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts. According to the 1908 "Boston City Directory", Fred William Connolly owned a drugstore at 1436 Dorchester Avenue, and Robert H...

Date: 1880-1920

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194932

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0090.003

Transfer Station, Fields Corner, Dorchester, Mass.

A trolley car, with an "Elevated" sign in front and sign on the side that partially reads "Hill," departs from the Fields Corner Transfer Station in Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts. Another trolley car approaches the station from Park Street. The businesses on Park Street include the real estate a...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194933

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0090.004

Exterior view of the Richard Derby House, Salem, Mass.

A view of the front façade of the brick Georgian-style Richard Derby House in Salem, Massachusetts. Icicles hang from the eaves of the gambrel roof, and snow covers the ground in front of the house. The door surround is in the Doric order and crowned with a pediment. Two stringcourses demarcate the ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195475

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2570.0810.001

Cornelius Vanderbilt house, Newport, R.I.

Cornelius Vanderbilt II commissioned architect Richard Morris Hunt to create a villa for him. Hunt designed the mansion in the Renaissance Revival style.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195479

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.100

Wentworth-Gardner House, Portsmouth, N.H.

An exterior view from across Mechanic Street of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House in Posrtsmouth, New Hampshire before the restoration of Wallace Nutting. Two young children sit on the low stonewall surrounding the property. The Second Empire-style entry porch is supported by Corinthian col...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195484

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.101

Balusters, Wentworth-Gardner House, Portsmouth, N.H.

An interior view of the balusters of the railing of the main staircase between the first and second floors of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a wedding gift for her son Thomas, who died in 1768. In 17...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195485

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.102

Detail of parlor fireplace carving, Wentworth-Gardner House, Portsmouth, N.H.

An interior view of the fireplace mantel in one of the parlors of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The frieze of the mantel is adorned with a carved flower and fruit design. It appears that decorative tiles are inset into the fireplace face. The wallpaper bear...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195486

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.103

Wreckage of the schooner "Cox and Green," Hull, Mass.

"On the morning of November 25th 1888, Joshua James (Boat-Keeper of Hulls busy Humane Society lifeboat crews) spotted six schooners anchored in Nantasket Roads, a half mile southwest of Boston Light. The first to run aground in the mounting storm was the Cox and Green, which struck rocks in mid-aft...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195487

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.1430.0040.001

Castle Tucker, Wiscasset, Maine

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Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 195488

Ref. Code: PC006.CTU.01.001

Stereograph of the New Shoreham Life-Saving Station, Block Island, R.I., undated

A stereograph of eight men standing near the boathouse of the New Shoreham Life-Saving Station at Old Harbor on Block Island, Rhode Island. A flag flies from the lookout cupola. The Stick Style building was constructed in 1874 as a station of the United States Life-Saving Service, which later became...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195489

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USRI.0020.0010.001

Stereograph of the New Shoreham Life-Saving Station, Block Island, R.I., undated

A stereograph of the front of the boathouse of the New Shoreham Life-Saving Station at Old Harbor on Block Island, Rhode Island. The door stands open, affording a view of the surfboat inside. A flag flies from the lookout cupola. The Stick Style building was constructed in 1874 as a station of the U...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195490

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USRI.0020.0010.002

Frontispiece from the book, Memorial History of Boston, "View from Cotton or Pemberton Hill, 1816"

This frontispiece to "The Memorial History of Boston", edited by Justin Winsor and published by Ticknor and Company in 1880, is a print of the 1829 painting by Robert Salmon entitled, "Boston Harbor from Mr. Greene's House, Pemberton Hill". Salmon completed the massive painting (95 x 180 inches). Th...

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 195491

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.1000.003

Trade card for Melville Garden clambake, Crow Point, Mass., 1880

Melville Garden was a summer resort in Crow Point (also known as Downer Landing), Massachusetts on the headland at the mouth of the Hingham River. This piece of ephemera contains stereotypical imagery of an African American waiter serving a plate of clams to a white couple seated at a table, inside ...

Date: 1880

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195492

Ref. Code: EP001.01.046.05.01.001

Front cover of the 1870 Atlantic Almanac

The cover of the 1870 edition of "The Atlantic Almanac" features four interlocking rings within a larger ring surrounded by a floral border. A different kind of flower fills each ring.

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 195493

Ref. Code: SC002.TMP.017

Back cover of the 1870 Atlantic Almanac with L. Prang and Co. Fine Art Printers advertisement

The cover of the 1870 edition of "The Atlantic Almanac" features an advertisement for L. Prang & Co., fine art publishers. The ad presents an image of a bust of Alois Senefelder, the German inventor of the lithography, set in an architectural niche, flanked by a lithographic tools, inclusing a rolle...

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 195494

Ref. Code: SC002.TMP.018

Trade card for E.G. Higgins & Co., art wall papers, 284 Main Street, Worcester, Mass., undated

The trade card for the art wallpapers of E. G. Higgins & Co. at 284 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts features elaborate floral and geometric patterns. A woman in Greek-style attire reclines on an armchair near a column and a large flower pot. A bird that appears to be a heron stands among ree...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195495

Ref. Code: EP001.01.123.01.01.005

Trade card for Fiske & Spaulding, artistic paper hangings, 117 Central and 14 Jackson Streets, Lowell, Mass., undated

The business carries window shades, art materials and painters' supplies. The card has a scene of a bird and a frog on the edge of a pond with intricate floral patterns and insect motifs. The bird, which appears to be a kingfisher, holds a sketchbook under one wing and a palette with brushes under t...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195496

Ref. Code: EP001.01.123.01.02.004

Trade card for Charles A. Burnham, artistic wall papers, 174 Main Street, Norwich, Conn., undated

The image features three bands of intricate floral patterns. The card advertises that the company can furnish "brown, buff, and white blanks, satins, grounds, and gold papers, borders, and mouldings, window shades, fixtures, and trimmings. Any colorings to order." The company operated both wholesale...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195497

Ref. Code: EP001.01.123.01.02.005

Christmas card, depicting angels sounding trumpets and the lamb of Christ in the center of a star, undated

Female angels in diaphanous attire with wings of peacock feathers sound trumpets. The lamb of Christ lies in the center of a star, around which are arranged a dove, a wreath, and a crescent moon. A border of multicolored sunburst motifs adorns the right and lower edges of the card. The inscription r...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195498

Ref. Code: EP001.05.TMP.010

Trade card, "He who wastes - prolongs the war", United States Food Administration, circa 1917-1920

This trade card for the United States Food Administration promotes food conservation and discourages waste. A shopping basket is packed with loaves of bread, sugarcubes in a box, meat, butter, and greens. The front text reads: "He who wastes - prolongs the war. Save wheat, sugar, meat, fats." The ba...

Date: circa 1917-1920

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195499

Ref. Code: EP001.01.092.01.01.001

Interior view of the Belfry Bedroom, Beauport, Gloucester, Mass.

This photograph is an interior view of the Belfry Bedroom, Beauport, Gloucester, Massachusetts, facing the hallway.

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 195500

Ref. Code: PC006.BEA.01.003

Interior view of the Belfry Bedroom, Beauport, Gloucester, Mass.

This photograph is an interior view of the Belfry Bedroom, Beauport, Gloucester, Massachusetts facing the bed, which in an alcove.

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 195501

Ref. Code: PC006.BEA.01.004

Recruiting poster for the United States Army, 1939

A woman wearing a wreath, holding an upraised wreath, and wrapped in an American flag stands above a line of soldiers. Each soldier wears a different uniform from periods throughout American history, beginning with the Revolutionary War through the Civil War until 1939, the time period of the poster...

Date: 1939

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195503

Ref. Code: EP001.01.092.01.01.002

Christmas and New Year's card, depicting a roaring fire with toys in front of it, 1883

A blazing fire warms a Christmas scene of toys and a cat and kittens around a fireplace hung with stockings. A snow-covered countryside with carolers standing outside a house fills the rest of the image area. Mistletoe borders the card and encircles the central scene. The card is adorned with a whi...

Date: 1883

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195504

Ref. Code: EP001.05.TMP.011

Valentine's Day card, depicting a woman, man, and dog on a country road, undated

This Valentine Day's card presents a central image surrounded by lace. In a country scene near a body of water with spires in the distance, a woman holds the arm of a man and looks at a small dog jumping at her feet. The inscription is arranged in the border around the central image and reads: "My l...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195505

Ref. Code: EP001.05.TMP.012

Trade card for Whirlpool's Niagara Model 1900, manufactured by the Nineteen Hundred Corporation, Binghamton, N.Y. and sold by Herzog Hardware & Paint Co., Kingston, N.Y., undated

This trade card promotes the Niagara 1900 model washing machine of the Whirlpool Corporation. A wringer is positioned above the tub, and castors render the entire device mobile. The image verso describes the model's features.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195506

Ref. Code: EP001.01.006.04.01.001

Trade card for the Bench Wringer, American Wringer Company, New York, New York, undated

This trade card promotes the covenience of the American Wringer Company's bench wringer in contrast to the difficulties of operating tub wringers. In the left panel, a woman struggles to pour water from one washtub set on a chair into one on the floor, while another woman strains to hand crank washi...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195509

Ref. Code: EP001.01.069.01.01.020

Perspective of the Dr. and Mrs. Paul Harwood House, Essex, Conn., 1973

1 perspective : graphite on tracing paper

Date: 1973

Collection: Remmert W. Huygens architectural collection

GUSN: 195514

Ref. Code: AR012.TMP.002

Trade card for John A. Whipple, daguerreotypes and crystalotypes, No. 96 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated

Crystalotypes, or daguerreotypes on paper, were patented by John A. Whipple in 1850.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195517

Ref. Code: EP001.01.090.02.01.001

Trade card for S.H. Lloyd's Daguerreotype Rooms, No. 11 1/2 Tremont Row, corner of Pemberton Square, Boston, Mass., undated

Lloyd is above a boot and shoe store on Tremont Row. In the street there are men and women as well as a carriage pulled by a single horse. Lloyd's services are described on the card verso.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195518

Ref. Code: EP001.01.090.02.01.002

Handbill for A.S. Southworth and Company, daguerreotype, miniature rooms, No. 5 1/2 Tremont Row, Boston, Mass., 1844

This handbill was distributed at the 1844 Mechanics Fair. The handbill advertised not only what A.S. Southworth & Company had on exhibit at the Fair, but also their studios on Tremont Row. A caricature of a sun painting the earth illustrates the handbill.

Date: 1844

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195519

Ref. Code: EP001.01.090.02.01.003

Trade card for the Queen Sweeper, New York, N.Y., undated

Full color trade card advertising the carpet sweeper Queen Sweeper. The card features a woman dressed in a pink dress using the sweeper. Her hair is ornately done and she wears a tiara and veil.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195520

Ref. Code: EP001.01.021.01.01.001

Handbill for amateur photography in easy lessons, Scovill Manufacturing Company, 419 and 421 Broome Street, New York, June 1882

The handbill is from the "Brooklyn Advance," June 1882. It advertises the "amateur outfits and photographic supplies" available from the Company for upwards of $10. The bill is illustrated with a female photographer standing behind a tripod.

Date: 1882-06

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195522

Ref. Code: EP001.01.090.01.01.001

Price list for detective and concealed cameras, C.H. Codman and Company, 34 Bromfield Street, Boston, Mass., ca. 1880

Various concealed cameras and photographic equipment are described in the item. The back cover advertises "The Photographic Times," a weekly journal published by the Scovill Manufacturing Company, New York.

Date: ca. 1880

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195523

Ref. Code: EP001.01.090.01.01.002

Exterior view of the Hancock House with two women standing on balcony, Boston, Mass., undated

Exterior view of the brick Hancock House and yard. The yard is filled with mature trees and surrounded by a brick wall and fence. There are two women standing on the balcony above the covered porch.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195526

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.0860.001

Boston Bijou Theatre, 352 Washington Street, published by E.O. Skelton, Boston, Mass., 1883

This cover of a Boston Bijou Theatre program depicts an interior view of the stage with actors. The spectators are visible in the front and side balconies and the decorative ceiling and walls are emphasized. At the bottom of the program, it also reads: "Dedicated Dec. 11th 1882 / Edw'd. H. Hasting...

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 195528

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3500.001

Advertisement for the Columbia Chainless Bicycle, Pope Manufacturing Company, Hartford, Connecticut, June 24, 1898

The ad claims that the chainless bike makes hill-climbing easy and is illustrated with a drawing of a young man riding the bicycle. The ad is from "New England home magazine, 24 June 1898."

Date: 1898-06-24

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195529

Ref. Code: EP001.01.121.02.01.001

Advertisements for bicycles, multiple locations, March 1896

The advertising pages are from "Cosmopolitan, March 1896."

Date: 1896-03

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195530

Ref. Code: EP001.01.121.02.01.005

Trade cards for Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil, location uknown, undated

Small trade card features a head-and-shoulders portrait of a young lady. Above her head the copy reads "Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil." She wears a hat with pink feather plumes and a pink shirtwaist. The card verso lists conditions and the time frame it will take to cure each one.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195536

Ref. Code: EP001.01.076.01.01.003

Trade cards for Burdock Blood Bitters, made by T. Millburn Drug Company, Buffalo, New York, undated

The trade card features a wolf making off with a pig. Another pig looks out from a pigsty at the scene. It seems to be a rendition of the Three Little Pigs story. "Burdock Blood Bitters" was a tonic made from burdock root and claimed to purify the blood and cure many other ailments (digestive, etc.)...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195537

Ref. Code: EP001.01.076.01.01.004

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