Historic New England

Check sample, eagle holding arrows, shield, olive branch, Fred. W. Barry, stationer and bookseller, Washington, corner of Elm Street, Boston, Mass., 1880s

The left side of the check has a form with lines to record "On," "For," "Date," "Time," "Due," "No." and "$." The United States seal is displayed in the image with an eagle holding arrows, a shield and an olive branch.

Date: 1880s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 298795

Ref. Code: EP001.01.111.01.04.050

Letterhead for Aldermen's Room, City Hall, Boston, Mass., 1800s

"Bostonia" the Boston seal is shown on the letterhead.

Date: 1800s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 298797

Ref. Code: EP001.01.092.01.01.011

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Photo album. Album has a heavy textured dark brown covering and is held together with two metal brads. Binding is missing on spine where title had been affixed with a paper label. Label is not present. Album has 112 olive green pages; twenty of the pages are blank. Album contains 92 mounted black-an...

Date: 1880-1973, undated

Collection: Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport -- Collection I

GUSN: 298798

Ref. Code: CC010.002.151

Receipt for the Herald Association, Rutland, Vermont, November 29, 1876

The receipt is for a subscription to the "Rutland herald" during the Vermont legislative session in 1876. The receipt appears to be made out to "J.C. Coolidge" who was John Calvin Collidge, a member of the Vermont House of Representatives, 1872-1878. Coolidge was the father of United States Presiden...

Date: 1876-11-29

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 298799

Ref. Code: EP001.01.088.01.02.016

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Photo album with a heavy textured dark brown covering and held together with two metal brads. Binding is missing on spine where title had been affixed with a paper label. Label is not present. Volume number "77" is handwritten on a paper label affixed to spine. Album has 112 olive green pages; ninet...

Date: 1880-1973, undated

Collection: Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport -- Collection I

GUSN: 298801

Ref. Code: CC010.002.152

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Photo album with a heavy textured dark brown covering and held together with two metal brads. Binding is missing on spine where title and volume numbers had been affixed with paper labels. Album has 112 olive green pages; 23 of the pages are blank. Album contains 89 mounted black-and-white photograp...

Date: 1880-1973, undated

Collection: Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport -- Collection I

GUSN: 298802

Ref. Code: CC010.002.153

Autumn, Frank Vernon, New York, 1883

Blooming flowers highlight a rural autumn scene in the illustration.

Date: 1883

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 298804

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.01.022

Correspondence received

File part

Date: 1793-1807

Collection: Codman family papers

GUSN: 298808

Ref. Code: MS001.17.01

Financial records: account of sales

File part

Date: 1794-1795

Collection: Codman family papers

GUSN: 298809

Ref. Code: MS001.17.02

Financial records: bills paid

File part

Date: 1794-1801

Collection: Codman family papers

GUSN: 298810

Ref. Code: MS001.17.03

Financial records: financial correspondence, general

File part

Date: 1793-1803

Collection: Codman family papers

GUSN: 298811

Ref. Code: MS001.17.04

Financial records: financial correspondence, T. Amory and Company

File part

Date: 1794-1796

Collection: Codman family papers

GUSN: 298812

Ref. Code: MS001.17.05

Financial records: invoices re: raven's-duck (sailcloth) and hemp

File part

Date: 1794

Collection: Codman family papers

GUSN: 298817

Ref. Code: MS001.17.06

Financial records: memorandums

File part

Date: undated

Collection: Codman family papers

GUSN: 298818

Ref. Code: MS001.17.07

Financial records: notes payable

File part

Date: 1789-1800

Collection: Codman family papers

GUSN: 298819

Ref. Code: MS001.17.08

Showing samples, James R. Harrison, New York, 1881

A young salesman shows samples to an older man in the card illustration.

Date: 1881

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 298825

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.01.023

Robert Pierce (ca.1600-1664) papers

Series I, Robert Pierce (ca.1600-1664) papers, ca.1652 (#1.1), contains an unrecorded deed from a John Smith to Robert Pierce (ca.1600-1664). The deed is for six acres of plowing land in Dorchester, Massachusetts. On the verso of the deed is a handwritten notation (presumably penned by Pierce): "J...

Date: circa 1652

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298820

Ref. Code: MS023.01

Thomas Pierce (1635-1706) papers

Series II, Thomas Pierce (1635-1706) papers, 1692-1706 (#1.2-1.3; OB.x.x), contains legal documents relating to Pierce's land purchases and the settling of his estate. The five deeds relate to Pierce's acquisitions of small land parcels (including upland, meadow, and woodland) in Dorchester, Massac...

Date: 1692-1706

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298823

Ref. Code: MS023.02

John Pierce (1668-1744) papers

Series III, John Pierce (1668-1744) papers, 1701-1743 (#1.4-1.7), contains deeds, deed extracts, and the will of John Pierce (1668-1744). The deeds relate to Pierce's acquisition of small land parcels (swampland and upland) in Dorchester, Massachusetts, which were purchased from Stephen Minott; Joh...

Date: 1701-1743

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298824

Ref. Code: MS023.03

Samuel Pierce (1702-1768) papers

Series IV, Samuel Pierce (1702-1768) papers, 1725-1768 (#1.8-1.15), contains account books, an account/tally sheet, and other financial accounts; land deeds; letters of guardianship; official appointment papers; an estate inventory; a small pocket almanac/diary; and a booklet of sermons preached by ...

Date: 1725-1768

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298826

Ref. Code: MS023.04

Taking order, James R. Harrison, New York, 1881

A young salesman relaxes while he checks his orders.

Date: 1881

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 298827

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.01.024

Edward Pierce (1735-1818) papers

Series V, Edward Pierce (1735-1818) papers, 1780 (#OB1.1-OB1.2), contains a collection of newspapers from the Boston Gazette and the Country Journal. The collection is comprised of twenty-seven issues and one supplementary issue, which were published between April 3 and December 18, 1780; each issu...

Date: 1780

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298831

Ref. Code: MS023.05

Colonel Samuel Pierce (1739-1815) papers

Series VI, Colonel Samuel Pierce (1739-1815) papers, 1739-1811, undated (#1.16-1.67, OB.x.x-OB.x.x, OB.1.3-OB.1.5), contains account books; account sheets; agreements and contracts; bills and receipts; bonds; library catalogs; inventories; personal and professional correspondence; deeds; diaries; mi...

Date: 1739-1811, undated

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298832

Ref. Code: MS023.06

Abraham Pierce (1769-1822) papers

Series VII, Abraham Pierce (1769-1822) papers, 1796 (#1.68), is comprised of a 1796 document containing an account sheet on one side and a short household inventory on the verso. The informal account notations mention hides received from Samuel Pierce, Jr. (1766-1796), which were to be tanned and r...

Date: 1796

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298833

Ref. Code: MS023.07

James Pierce (1786-1827) papers

Series VIII, James Pierce (1786-1827) papers, 1798-1800, undated (#1.69), contains six poems written or copied from other sources by Pierce, aged 11-13 years. Two of the poems were presumably produced while Pierce attended the South Grammar School [? Dorchester, Massachusetts]. Some of the works ar...

Date: 1798-1800, undated

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298834

Ref. Code: MS023.08

Lewis Pierce (1786-1874) papers

Series IX, Lewis Pierce (1786-1874) papers, 1833-1853 (#1.70-1.73), contains documents relating to Pierce's active participation in the civic affairs of Dorchester, Massachusetts, from the 1830s through the 1850s and include three reports from the meetings of the Dorchester town selectmen; Pierce's ...

Date: 1833-1853

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298835

Ref. Code: MS023.09

Susanna Pierce (1786-1874) papers

Series X, Susanna Pierce (1786-1874) papers, 1828 (#1.74), contains the publication Covenant, and Declaration of Faith, of the Second Church of Christ in Dorchester published by the Second Church of Christ in Dorchester, Massachusetts.

Date: 1828

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298836

Ref. Code: MS023.10

Jonathan Tallman (1789-1850) papers

Series XI, Jonathan Tallman (1789-1850) papers, 1834 (#1.75), contains a warrant requiring Tallman to call a meeting of the Dresden (Maine) school district.

Date: 1834

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298837

Ref. Code: MS023.11

Sarah Moseley Pierce (1788-1871) papers

Series XII, Sarah Moseley Pierce (1788-1871) papers, 1808-1832 (#OB.1.6), contains a folio volume, entitled "Sarah Moseley's Second Memorandum Book, begun May 19th, 1808." The notebook contains daily diary entries from 1808 to 1810. Entries mention family members; visitors and visits; invitations ...

Date: 1808-1832

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298838

Ref. Code: MS023.12

Thomas Pierce (1790-1875) papers

Series XIII, Thomas Pierce (1790-1875) papers, 1860-1875 (#1.76-1.79), contains deeds, a will, and an estate account belonging to Thomas Pierce (1790-1875). The series is arranged alphabetically by record type.

Date: 1860-1875

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298839

Ref. Code: MS023.13

Phineas Pierce (1794-1878) papers

Series XIV, Phineas Pierce (1794-1878) papers, 1862-1864 (#1.80), contains a $100 war bond certificate issued to Pierce by the Confederate States of America and a small collection of Confederate currency.

Date: 1862-1864

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298841

Ref. Code: MS023.14

Samuel P. Hawes (1799-1866) papers

Series XV, Samuel P. Hawes (1799-1866) papers, undated (#1.81), contains a satirical cartoon drawing, entitled "Grand Entré of the Great History Pole Sea Serpent through the Broad Avenue of the Main Street of Delaware, Ohio," by William Walcutt. The pen and ink drawing made on a long, narrow piece ...

Date: undated

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298842

Ref. Code: MS023.15

Lewis Francis Pierce (1809-1888), papers

Series XVI, Lewis Francis Pierce (1809-1888), papers, 1815-1846 (#1.82-1.84), contains a letter received from Samuel P. Hawes (1799-1866), an 1876 mortgage, and a copy of Catechism of Universal History, for the Use of Schools and Families. The letter from Samuel P. Hawes represents enduring kinship...

Date: 1815-1846

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298843

Ref. Code: MS023.16

Melissa (Withington) Pierce (1809-1887) papers

Series XVII, Melissa (Withington) Pierce (1809-1887) papers, 1820-1822 (#2.1), contains two "award of merit" certificates with illustrations mounted on a piece of cardboard. The two school certificates were presented to Melissa Withington for diligence, good behavior, and attention to her studies, ...

Date: 1820-1822

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298844

Ref. Code: MS023.17

Samuel H.L. Pierce (born 1826) papers

Series XVIII, Samuel H.L. Pierce (born 1826) papers, undated (#2.2), contains an undated manuscript autobiography describing Pierce's early memories and his schooling in Dorchester, Massachusetts; Pierce's apprenticeship in the neighborhood of South Boston in Boston, Massachusetts; Pierce's constru...

Date: undated

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298845

Ref. Code: MS023.18

William Augustus Pierce (1827-1905) papers

Series XIX, William Augustus Pierce (1827-1905) papers, 1883-1899 (#2.3-2.4, 4.49, 7.1), contains a business account book and a program from the reunion and banquet of the Society of California Pioneers of New England. The account book kept by Pierce as a masonry contractor in Dorchester, Massachus...

Date: 1883-1899

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298846

Ref. Code: MS023.19

George P. Pierce (1827-1894) papers

Series XX, George P. Pierce (1827-1894) papers, 1870-1871 (#2.5), contains two property deeds sold by George P. Pierce (1827-1894) to Frederick Leeds Pierce (1829-1910).

Date: 1870-1871

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298847

Ref. Code: MS023.20

Antoinette E. (Reed) Pierce (1827-1904) papers

Series XXI, Antoinette E. (Reed) Pierce (1827-1904) papers, 1842 (#2.6-2.7, 10.1), contains a letter written by 15-year-old Antoinette E. Reed from the family home in Edgecomb, Maine, to her sister Margaret P. Reed, in Boston, Massachusetts. The letter relates family news and an account of an outin...

Date: 1842-circa 1861

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298848

Ref. Code: MS023.21

Charles Henry Pierce (born 1829) papers

Series XXII, Charles Henry Pierce (born 1829) papers, 1851 (#2.8), contains a copy of Christian Hymns (Boston, 1851), with two tintypes inserted into it. The first is of two men posed in front of a painted backdrop, and the second is of a woman.

Date: 1851

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298849

Ref. Code: MS023.22

Frederick Leeds Pierce (1829-1910) papers

Series XXIII, Frederick Leeds Pierce (1829-1910) papers, 1892-1899, undated (#2.9-2.15, 7.2), contains a record book for the Codman Club, financial records, legal documents, and plot plans. The record book for the Codman Club includes meeting minutes regarding the founding of the club; the official...

Date: 1865-1912, undated

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298850

Ref. Code: MS023.23

Almira N. (Haven) Pierce (1835-1919) papers

Series XXIV, Almira N. (Haven) Pierce (1835-1919) papers, 1919 (#2.16), contains a copy of Almira's will. The terms of the will include Almira's wishes that all the commissions, books, and papers of her late husband, George Francis Pierce (1838-1919), should go to her husband's first cousin, Antoin...

Date: 1919

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298851

Ref. Code: MS023.24

George Francis Pierce (1838-1919) papers

Series XXV, George Francis Pierce (1838-1919) papers, 1773-1960s, undated (#2.17-2.31, 10.3), contains correspondence; genealogical material; research notes; printed material; a speech; a will; and material relating to club/ organization activities. The correspondence and genealogical material incl...

Date: 1773-circa 1960, undated

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298852

Ref. Code: MS023.25

Antoinette Louise Pierce (1863-1937) papers

Series XXVII, Antoinette Louise Pierce (1863-1937) papers, 1827-1986, undated (#2.36-2.52, 3.1-3.23, 3.54, 7.5-7.7, 8.7, OB1.11-OB1.12, OB2.1-OB2.3), contains The papers of Antoinette Louise Pierce consist of correspondence, compositions, ephemera, legal and financial documents, genealogical materi...

Date: 1827-1986, undated

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298853

Ref. Code: MS023.27

Roger Grenway Pierce (1888-1962) papers

Series XXVIII. Roger Grenway Pierce (1888-1962) papers, 1910-1968, undated (#3.24-3.48) The papers of Roger Grenway Pierce contain mainly financial records and materials related to Pierce's military service in World War I and World War II; he served in the United States Naval Reserve Forces (USNRF) ...

Date: 1908-1968, undated

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298854

Ref. Code: MS023.28

Frederick William Pierce (1895-1951) papers

Series XXIX, Frederick William Pierce (1895-1951) papers, 1937-1938 (#3.49, 3.52-3.53), contains a letter from attorney Paul Troy regarding a certificate of the land court (includes a tracing of a plot plan and a copy of the certificate); a receipt for the funeral of Antoinette Louise Pierce (1863-1...

Date: 1937-1938

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298855

Ref. Code: MS023.29

Marjorie Hazel (Curtis) Pierce (1895-1941) papers

Series XXX, Marjorie Hazel (Curtis) Pierce (1895-1941), undated papers, 1913-1916, undated (#3.50-3.51, 8.8), contains Marjories commencement program for her 1913 graduation from Richmond High School, an undated letter to Mrs. B. F. Curtis and a 1916 diary. The series is arranged alphabetically by ...

Date: 1913-1916, undated

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298856

Ref. Code: MS023.30

Anne Grenway (Pierce) Shaughnessey (born 1924) papers

Series XXXI, Anne Grenway (Pierce) Shaughnessey (born 1924), papers, 1941-1985 (#4.1-4.5), contains correspondence; a membership application; cemetery records; and a key. The correspondence include a letter from Mary Tansy Pierce (born 1925) and letters from a Mary Ellen Rogan regarding Pierce fami...

Date: 1941-1985, undated

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298858

Ref. Code: MS023.31

Mary (Tousey) Pierce (1925-2010) papers

Series XXXII, Mary (Tousey) Pierce (1925-2010) papers, 1984 (#4.6), contains a letter regarding Pierce family genealogy from a Mary Ellen Rogan; the correspondence is continued with Anne Grenway (Pierce) Shaughnessey (born 1924).

Date: 1984

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298859

Ref. Code: MS023.32

Pauline (Curtis) Cronk (1899-1986) papers

Series XXXIII, Pauline (Curtis) Cronk (1899-1986) papers, 1955, undated (#4.7-4.8), contains a typed manuscript entitled, Hand-Made Candy Artist, which recalls her father's career as a confectioner and two clippings. The series is arranged alphabetically by record type.

Date: 1955, undated

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 298860

Ref. Code: MS023.33

Codman, Hugh (1875-1946)

File part

Date: 1910

Collection: Codman family papers

GUSN: 298453

Ref. Code: MS001.16.01.06

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