Historic New England

Trade cards for medicines featuring weather and medicine signals for daily reference, J.C. Ayer and Company, Lowell, Mass., 1886

Trade card for medicinal tonics made by J.C. Ayer and Company. The card depicts bottles and compacts of medicines dancing around a globe. Weather and medicine signals surround the globe and offer tips for daily reference.

Date: 1886

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195538

Ref. Code: EP001.01.076.01.01.005

Trade cards for the Bell-Cap-Sic Plaster, J.M. Grosvenor & Company, 50 Pearl Street, Boston, Mass., 1891

The card for pain relieving plasters features a litter of puppies and copy stating "No Home Complete Without One."

Date: 1891

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195539

Ref. Code: EP001.01.076.01.01.006

Trade cards for bitters tonic, Brown's Iron Bitters Company, St. Louis, Missouri, undated

Trade card for Brown's Iron Bitters, a tonic for indigestion, dyspepsia and other ailments. The card features a woman pouring a cordial-glass full of the tonic for a man. Both are standing over a shield with the copy written on it.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195540

Ref. Code: EP001.01.076.01.01.007

Trade card for The Best Tonic, an extract of malt and hops, unknown manufacturer, undated

Trade card featuring Hygeia (daughter of the of the god of medicine, Asclepius) holding a wreath. The tonic is designed to aid digestion, and is made from an extract of malt and hops.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195541

Ref. Code: EP001.01.076.01.01.008

Trade cards for Warner's Safe Rheumatic Cure, H.H. Warner Company, Rochester, New York, undated

The trade card depicts a young woman dispensing the Safe Rheumatic Cure to an older man with his bandaged feet up on an ottoman.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195542

Ref. Code: EP001.01.076.01.01.009

Trade card for Carter's Little Nerve Pills, Carter Medicine Company, New York, New York, undated

Trade card advertising patent medicine for nervousness and dyspepsia. The card depicts an older woman hiding behind a younger woman. The copy reads "Why Aunty! what makes you so nervous? It is only a cow. If you would but take CARTER'S LITTLE NERVE PILLS, you could not be thrown into such nervous sp...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195543

Ref. Code: EP001.01.076.01.01.010

Trade card for Lactart Milk Acid, Avery Lactate Company, Boston, Mass., 1884

Trade card for the Lactart patent medicine. It was said to relieve fevers, headaches, wakefulness, nervous depression, and urinary troubles. The card depicts a milkmaid and cows in a pastoral scene.

Date: 1884

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195544

Ref. Code: EP001.01.076.01.01.011

Trade card for Ayer's Sarsaparilla, Dr. J.C. Ayer & Company, Lowell, Mass., undated

Ayer's Sarsaparilla, a patent medicine for "health and sunny hours," is described on the card verso. The card features a woman wearing a Victorian period pink dress and carrying a small boy on her shoulder.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195545

Ref. Code: EP001.01.076.02.01.001

Trade cards for Nichols' Bark and Iron, manufactured by Billings Clapp and Company, Boston, Mass., undated

Black and white trade card depicting a young boy playing a bugle to a small toy dog. The dog stands on a box of Nichols' Bark and Iron tonic. Nichols Bark and Iron was advertised as an iron tonic capable of curing numerous ailments.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195546

Ref. Code: EP001.01.076.01.01.012

Billhead for S.S. Rich and Sons, undertakers, 162 Pearl Street, Portland, Maine, dated Nov. 27, 1917

Billhead for the S.S. Rich and Son "practical embalmers." The printed bill is for the Estate of Annie H. Beckett and includes a casket, embalming services, moving services, and a funeral notice. The billhead is illustrated with a depiction of the Rich Building.

Date: 1917-11-27

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195547

Ref. Code: EP001.01.048.01.01.001

Handbill for L. Briggs & Co., architects, engineers and surveyors, No. 35 Joy's Building, 81 Washington Street, opp. State Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The work and services of the firm is described for potential customers. The names Luther Briggs and Samuel D. Kelley are listed. The item has an illustration of a large house with wrought-iron railing on the roof.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195549

Ref. Code: EP001.01.007.01.03.002

Wedding invitation for the marriage of Lizzie Munson and H.P. Sutton, location unknown, June 3, 1886

A fairly plain invitation to the wedding ceremony of Lizze Munson and H.P. Sutton. The invitation is from Ms. Munson's parents and is mostly hand written. The ceremony was an late evening one (9 p.m.) and took place at a Methodist church.

Date: 1886-06-03

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195550

Ref. Code: EP001.18.02.001

Detail working drawing of the Head House, Marine Park, South Boston, Mass., 1898

Boston city architect Edmund March Wheelwright designed these working drawings for the Head House at Marine Park in South Boston, Massachusetts. This is plate 89 from the publication, "Municipal Architecture in Boston by Edmund M. Wheelwright, City Architect, 1891-1895", volume II, edited by Francis...

Date: 1898

Collection: General architectural and cartographic collection

GUSN: 195359

Ref. Code: AR001.USMA.0250.003

Margaret Burne-Jones, Sally Norton, and Lily Norton

Photographer William John Naudin took this cabinet card of Margaret Burne-Jones, Sara "Sally" Norton, and Elizabeth "Lily" Gaskell Norton. Margaret Burne-Jones (center), holding a kitten in her lap, was the daughter of English artist Edward Burne-Jones, and the Nortons were the daughters of Charles ...

Collection: Norton family photographic collection

GUSN: 195360

Ref. Code: PC035.TMP.001

John Ruskin and Constance Hilliard

A carte-de-visite portrays critic and author, John Ruskin, and Constance Hilliard Churchill, who was a close associate of his. Both were friends of Charles Eliot Norton, who was the first professor of fine arts at Harvard University and a man of letters.

Collection: Norton family photographic collection

GUSN: 195361

Ref. Code: PC035.TMP.002

Photographic copy of a portrait of Susan R.S. Norton

A photograph of a drawn portrait of Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton, wife of Charles Eliot Norton.

Collection: Norton family photographic collection

GUSN: 195362

Ref. Code: PC035.TMP.003

Portrait of Charles Eliot Norton from Harpers Magazine

A portrait of Harvard art professor and author, Charles Eliot Norton, from the article, "Literary and Social Boston" by George Parsons Lathrop that appeared on page 385 in the February 1881 issue of "Harper's Magazine".

Collection: Norton family photographic collection

GUSN: 195363

Ref. Code: PC035.TMP.004

Calendar for New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., Post Office Square, Boston, Mass., 1885

This 1885 calendar was published by the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston and engraved by John A. Lowell and Co. of Boston. The calendar is comprised of two images. The scene in the top half of the calendar is entitled "The New England of Years Ago" and depicts a young woman, who i...

Date: 1885

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195364

Ref. Code: EP001.13.02.003

Old State House and Ames Building, Boston, Mass.

At the center of the view from 53 State Street is the Old State House and its balcony from which the Declaration of Independence was first read in Boston. The taller Ames Building, in view up Court Street, was the second tallest mason bearing-wall structure in the world (after the Monadnock Building...

Date: undated

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195365

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.7430.001

Announcement for Halloween at the Tavern Club

A program for a Halloween banquet and lecture on November 11, 1910 at the Tavern Club at 4 Boylston Place in Boston. Lorin Fuller Deland, Harvard University football coach and author, gave the illustrated lecture. Totem of Bear, which the Club adopted as its mascot in February, 1885, plays a violin ...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195366

Ref. Code: EP001.09.TMP.002

Business card for Frank Chouteau Brown illustrating his design for a home at Newton, Mass.

A business card for architect Frank Chouteau Brown, 9 Mount Vernon Square in Boston. The card displays a presentation drawing of a southeast view of a Tudor Revival house in Newton, Massachusetts.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195367

Ref. Code: EP001.01.007.01.03.001

Portrait of William Sumner Appleton

A three-quarter portrait of William Sumner Appleton taken at the studio of Colonel Theodore C. Marceau at 160 Tremont Street in Boston. Marceau owned a string of photographic studios in New York, Boston, San Francisco, and several other cities.

Collection: Personal photographic collection

GUSN: 195368

Ref. Code: PC004.01.A.1775.01.001

Exterior rear view of Bellmont, the Cushing-Col. Benton Estate, Belmont, Mass.

An exterior view of the rear elevation of the John Perkins Cushing-Colonel Everett Chamberlin Benton House at 75 Oakley Road in Belmont, Massachusetts. J. P. Cushing named his estate "Bellmont" after a "gentle eminence at its center that provided views toward Fresh Pond and the Mystic River valley."...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195369

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0250.0050.001

Chinatown, Harrison Ave., Boston, Mass.

A picture postcard view of Chinatown in Boston from Harrison Avenue. Horse-drawn carts line each side of the street. The sign for Jacob Wirth's Restaurant on Eliot Street, renamed Stuart Street, Cosmopolitan Drug Co. 42 Kneeland St.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195371

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.077

New Year's card, depicting a young girl holding an umbrella in a snowstorm, 1888

This New Year greeting card depicts a young girl trudging through a snowstorm underneath a large umbrella on its cover. The inscription reads: "Happy New Year! It's I, of course! I knew you'd guess. You couldn't help but know. Who else would come to wish you joy in such a driving snow?"

Date: 1888

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195373

Ref. Code: EP001.05.TMP.006

New Year's card, depicting white Christmas roses and holly, 1876

This New Year greeting card features a spray of white Christmas roses and holly on its cover. The inscription reads: "Happy New Year!"

Date: 1876

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195374

Ref. Code: EP001.05.TMP.007

New Year's card, depicting pink roses and a white daisy, 1876

This New Year greeting card features a spray of pink roses and a white daisy on its cover. The inscription reads: "Happy New Year!"

Date: 1876

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195375

Ref. Code: EP001.05.TMP.008

New Year's card, depicting a calla lily, 1876

This New Year greeting card features a calla lily on the cover. The inscription reads: "Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, allelulia." The verse matches the text of Zechariah 9:9 and Matthew 21:4.

Date: 1876

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195376

Ref. Code: EP001.05.TMP.009

Wentworth-Gardner House exterior

A black-and-white print of this Wallace Nutting photograph of a front exterior view of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire after the restoration by Nutting. The front door is surmounted by a broken scroll pediment with a pineapple finial, a symb...

Collection: Norman Morrison Isham photographic collection

GUSN: 195377

Ref. Code: PC032.TMP.001

A Colonial three decker

This view shows the front façade of the Federal-style triple-decker John Peirce House on Court Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Built in 1799, the house is painted yellow and has a rectangular door surround and entry porch. Pilasters extend from the first to the upper floors. Swags in panels are...

Date: 1910-1919

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195378

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.04.008

Dresser, Gardner House, Portsmouth

This interior view shows the kitchen of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire before the Wallace Nutting restoration. A dresser displays dishes and platters. A candlestick telephone sits on the cupboard top. Two birdcages hang from the ceiling. Mr...

Date: 1914

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195379

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.047

Upper hall, Gardner House, Portsmouth

This interior view shows the second floor landing and hall of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A Palladian window, flanked by Ionic pilasters, fills the front wall. Wallpaper covers the panels between Ionic pilasters along the stairwell. Woo...

Date: 1914

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195380

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.010

Detail of stair in paneled hall, Gardner House, Portsmouth

This interior view shows the upper hall from the landing of the main staircase between the first and second floors of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Wainscoting and wallpaper with scenes of a forest, river, and waterfall adorn the wall. Th...

Date: 1914

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195381

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.011

Detail of front door, Gardner House, Portsmouth

This exterior view shows the front door and entry porch of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire before the Wallace Nutting restoration. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a wedding gift for her son Thomas, who died in 1768...

Date: 1914

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195382

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.008

A 48-inch panel, Gardner House

This interior view shows the north parlor in the Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire before the Wallace Nutting restoration. A marine painting of a ship hangs above the mantelpiece of the fireplace, which has been filled in. Corinthian pilasters flank the fireplac...

Date: 1914

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195383

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.009

Exterior view of the Wentworth-Gardner House, Portsmouth, N.H.

An exterior view from across Mechanic Street of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The Second Empire-style entry porch is supported by Corinthian columns and is surmounted by a balustrade. The front louver doors are closed. A two-seat swing set stands next to th...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195384

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USNH.1380.0520.001

Hall, Wentworth-Gardner-Nutting, House, Mechanic & Gardner Sts., Portsmouth

This interior view shows the main staircase and entrance hall of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire before the Wallace Nutting restoration. A light fixture hangs from below the keystone of the arched wall. Wainscotting and wallpaper adorn the w...

Date: 1914

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195385

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.016

South parlor chamber

Wallace Nutting took this photograph of the south parlor chamber of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Chairs and rugs are arranged around the room. Several hats and a hatbox lay on the furniture. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the hous...

Date: 1916

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195386

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.012

Wentworth-Gardner, restored door head

This exterior view shows the front door of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire after the Wallace Nutting restoration. The paneled door is surmounted by a broken scrolled pediment. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a wed...

Date: 1915

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195387

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.046

In the brave days of old

Wallace Nutting staged this photograph in the entrance hall of the Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A model in period costume walks down the main staircase beneath a molded elliptical arch into the entrance hall, resting her right hand on the railing and holdi...

Date: 1915

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195388

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.027

Descending the Gardner stair

Wallace Nutting staged this photograph in the entrance hall of the Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A model in period costume and hat walks down the main staircase beneath a molded elliptical arch into the entrance hall, holding a garment that may be a scarf o...

Date: 1915

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195389

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.030

Detail of upper landing, Wentworth-Gardner House, Portsmouth

This interior view shows the upper landing of the staircase of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street 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 1793, Major William Gardner bo...

Date: 1915

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195391

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.024

A surprise visitation

Wallace Nutting staged this photograph in a parlor of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A model in period costume stands in the doorway, apparently surprising another model in period costume sitting in a chair near a window. Mrs. Elizabeth Ri...

Date: ca. 1916

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195392

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.028

Hanging summer herbs

Wallace Nutting staged this photograph of a model in period costume hanging herbs in the attic of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street 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...

Date: 1915

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195393

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.037

Chamber, Wentworth-Gardner House, Portsmouth

This interior view shows the south parlor chamber in the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street 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 1793, Major William Gardner bought the h...

Date: 1912-1914

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195394

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.015

Photograph titled, "Feminine finery"

Wallace Nutting staged this photograph of a model in period costume holding and looking at a hat in the south parlor in the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a wedding gift for her son Th...

Date: 1916

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195395

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.001

A Portsmouth parlor corner

Wallace Nutting staged this photograph of a model in period costume of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She sits by a fireplace holding a cup. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a wedding gift for her son Thomas, who ...

Date: 1915

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195396

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.035

A Portsmouth front door

Wallace Nutting staged his photograph in the front hall of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A model in period costume stands at the door. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a wedding gift for her son Thomas, who died ...

Date: 1915

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195397

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.029

A Gardner parlor

Wallace Nutting staged this photograph in a parlor of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Two models in period costume sit next to the fireplace and hold cups of tea or coffee. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a weddin...

Date: 1915

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195398

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.036

Wentworth-Gardner, lower hall

This interior view shows the main staircase and entrance hall of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street 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 1793, Major William Gardner ...

Date: 1915

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195399

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.005

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