Historic New England

Album 17: Views of Boston and Vicinity by Henry Peabody

This album consists of approximately one hundred 8 x 10 inch prints (including some platinum-toned) taken by Henry Peabody circa 1903 to 1904, apparently for the Detroit Publishing Company. An index accompanies this volume which includes several outstanding panoramas of Boston Harbor from various di...

Date: ca. 1903

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191305

Ref. Code: PC009.017

Temporary

Sub-series

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191306

Ref. Code: PC001.01.TMP

Temporary

Sub-sub-series

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191307

Ref. Code: PC001.04.02.TMP

Temporary

Subgroup

Collection: Bowen family papers

GUSN: 191308

Ref. Code: MS006.TMP

Amy Robsart to the Earl of Leicester

Cover depicts Amy Robsart and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191315

Ref. Code: MS007.01.14.02

Oh swift we go, a sleighing song

Cover depicts two men watching a large sleigh with many passengers pass them. Snow covers the landscape and four horses pull the carriage.

Date: 1840

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191327

Ref. Code: MS007.01.15.01

Temporary

Series

Collection: Robert Bayard Severy photographic collection

GUSN: 191316

Ref. Code: PC045.TMP

Massachusetts Towns and Landscapes

46 black and white photographs probably from the end of the 19th century. Locations include Gloucester, Sudbury, Andover (Abbot House), Saugus, Newburyport, Franklin Park, Northboro (including the Eames' house and Eames' house boarders), the Neponset River in Mattapan, the Charles River, Norumbega ...

Date: ca. 1890

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191323

Ref. Code: PC009.199

Woodman! Spare that tree!

Cover depicts a gentleman talking to a farmer holding an axe underneath a large tree. The farmer's house and water well are visible.

Date: 1837

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191335

Ref. Code: MS007.01.15.02

Kind, kind and gentle is she

Cover depicts a woman standing in front of a garden gate.

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191353

Ref. Code: MS007.01.15.03

Old Tippecanoe : a patriotic Whig song

Cover depicts William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) at various stages in his military and political career.

Date: 1840

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191359

Ref. Code: MS007.01.15.04

The lament of the Irish emigrant

Cover depicts a man, presumably an Irish immigrant, leaning against a fence.

Date: 1840

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191364

Ref. Code: MS007.01.15.05

The golden dream

Cover depicts a man and a woman talking beneath an arbor.

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191372

Ref. Code: MS007.01.15.06

Song of the Greek Amazon

Cover depicts a Greek man standing on a rampart next to a cannon. He is holding a knife and sword. Two men restraining a horse are behind him.

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191381

Ref. Code: MS007.01.15.07

Temporary

Series

Collection: Norton family photographic collection

GUSN: 191385

Ref. Code: PC035.TMP

Trade advertisement for the Colonial Furniture Co. featuring a rocking chair, Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 1899

This advertisement was printed in the April, 1899 issue of The Ladies' Home Journal. The ad features a colonial style rocking chair as an example of the Colonial Furniture Company's wide ranging catalog. The chair cost $5.75 and was made from golden oak.

Date: 1899

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 191392

Ref. Code: SC002.TMP.001

Temporary

Series

Collection: Norman Morrison Isham photographic collection

GUSN: 191397

Ref. Code: PC032.TMP

Photographs by Elise Tyson Vaughan

Photographs by Elise Tyson Vaughan, compiled by her into four albums, documenting, among many other subjects, the grounds at Hamilton House, South Berwick, Maine which she purchased on the advice of Sarah Orne Jewett. Some photographs can be reproduced from her original negatives which were found ...

Date: 1904-1905

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191401

Ref. Code: PC009.135D

Hamilton and Jewett Houses, photographs by Elise Tyson Vaughan

Photographs by Elise Tyson Vaughan, compiled by her into four albums, documenting, among many other subjects, the grounds at Hamilton House, South Berwick, Maine which she purchased on the advice of Sarah Orne Jewett. Some photographs can be reproduced from her original negatives which were found ...

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191404

Ref. Code: PC009.135C

Photographs by Elise Tyson Vaughan

Photographs by Elise Tyson Vaughan, compiled by her into four albums, documenting, among many other subjects, the grounds at Hamilton House, South Berwick, Maine which she purchased on the advice of Sarah Orne Jewett. Some photographs can be reproduced from her original negatives which were found ...

Date: 1902-1905

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191405

Ref. Code: PC009.135B

Hamilton and Jewett Houses, photographs by Elise Tyson Vaughan

Photographs by Elise Tyson Vaughan, compiled by her into four albums, documenting, among many other subjects, the grounds at Hamilton House, South Berwick, Maine which she purchased on the advice of Sarah Orne Jewett. Some photographs can be reproduced from her original negatives which were found ...

Date: 1890-1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191406

Ref. Code: PC009.135A

Trade advertisement for the John Alden silver pattern, sold at Stowell's, Boston, Mass., 1923

Advertisement for the "John Alden" silver pattern sold exclusively at Stowell's in Boston. The ad features an example of the pattern on a fork and spoon over a depiction of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins sitting near a fireplace. Behind their rocking chairs is a spinning wheel. The advertisement ...

Date: 1923

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 191415

Ref. Code: SC002.TMP.002

Grand Harmonicon, musical glasses

Cover depicts a Grand Harmonicon, with lid open to reveal "musical glasses." Published in Baltimore, MD.

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191411

Ref. Code: MS007.01.16.01

Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! : the prisoner's hope

Cover depicts scenes from the American Civil War (1861-1865).

Date: 1864

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191418

Ref. Code: MS007.01.17.01

Just before the battle, Mother

Cover depicts scenes from the American Civil War (1861-1865).

Date: 1864

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191423

Ref. Code: MS007.01.17.03

Listen to the mocking bird

Cover depicts a mocking bird on a tree branch.

Date: 1856

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191430

Ref. Code: MS007.01.17.04

Three fishers went sailing

Cover depicts a sailboat.

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191433

Ref. Code: MS007.01.17.05

Scenes of happiness

Cover depicts men and women cutting and pitching hay in a field. A windmill is in the background. A gentleman (presumably the landowner) assists a woman riding sidesaddle on a horse in the foreground.

Date: 1859

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191436

Ref. Code: MS007.01.17.06

Home, sweet home

Cover depicts a woman seated under a tree. A thatched cottage is in the background.

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191440

Ref. Code: MS007.01.17.07

Would I were with thee

Cover depicts a man seated near a river, a mandolin at his side.

Date: 1850

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191445

Ref. Code: MS007.01.17.08

Little Nell

Cover depicts Nell on on her deathbed on one side, and her grandfather kneeling over a grave on the other.

Date: 1863

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191450

Ref. Code: MS007.01.17.09

Trade card for The American Shoe Tip Company (A.S.T. Co.), shoe tips, Boston, Mass., undated

The card reads: "Moral - Children should never venture into a shoe unless protected by a Tip. Safe with the A.S.T. Co. beautiful black Tip."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191459

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.07.04.042

He left my snow clad hills

Cover depicts the head and shoulders of opera singer Johanna Maria "Jenny" Lind (1820-1887) in three-quarter profile.

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191465

Ref. Code: MS007.01.18.01

Trade advertisement for Simmons Beds, Mattresses and Springs, 1923

This trade advertisement features a view of a bedroom adorned with Winsor style furniture and beds. The copy alerts the reader to the simple and comfortable furniture produced by Simmons. The "period designs and modern interpretations of historic styles" are ready to fit your style, whatever it migh...

Date: 1923

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 191467

Ref. Code: SC002.TMP.003

The blind boy

Cover depicts a seated boy surrounded by other boys and a woman. One boy is playing a mandolin. Second edition.

Date: 1842

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191470

Ref. Code: MS007.01.18.02

"The Sorrowing Jew", sheet music, undated.

Historic New England acknowledges historical records / objects may contain harmful imagery and language reflecting attitudes and biases of their creators and time in which they were made. Historic New England does not alter or edit objects and / or historical text. The cover of this sheet music d...

Date: undated

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191474

Ref. Code: MS007.01.18.03

Man the life boat

Cover depicts men rowing a life boat away from a sinking ship during a stom at sea. Lightning in the sky illuminates the scene.

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191478

Ref. Code: MS007.01.18.04

Temporary

Sub-series

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191476

Ref. Code: EP001.08.TMP

The Irish mother's lament

Cover depicts a woman in mourning dress seated at her kitchen table. A storm is raging outside. Second edition.

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191481

Ref. Code: MS007.01.18.05

Round hill quick step

Cover depicts the encampment of the New England Guards, Round Hill, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1840.

Date: 1840

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191484

Ref. Code: MS007.01.18.06

Temporary

Series

Collection: Mary H. Northend photographic collection, 1904-1926

GUSN: 191611

Ref. Code: PC034.TMP

Temporary

Series

Collection: Riegel-Emory family papers

GUSN: 191614

Ref. Code: MS024.TMP

Temporary

Series

Collection: Eleanor Raymond photographic collection

GUSN: 191624

Ref. Code: PC043.TMP

Advertisement for weather-proof coats, Plymouth Manufacturing Company, Boston, Mass., 1946

This advertisement was originally printed in The Boston Herald on August 25, 1946. It features a man wearing a Plymouth of Boston "Weather-Ready" trench coat outside the Massachusetts State House. The copy describes the coat as the "result of over 35 years of tailoring, the finest in rainwear."

Date: 1946-08-25

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 191654

Ref. Code: SC002.TMP.004

Cover of The Puritan magazine, New York, New York, July 1898

Cover of the July 1898 issue of The Puritan magazine. It is illustrated with an image of a young woman in "Puritan" dress sitting and spinning flax on a wheel. Nearby is an intricately carved chest with a large book on top. Subscriptions to the magazine were one dollar for a year or 10 cents an issu...

Date: 1898-07-01

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 191656

Ref. Code: SC002.TMP.005

Letterhead for F.A. Foster and Company, Puritan Drapery Fabrics, 322-330 Summer Street, Boston, Mass., 1928

It is illustrated with their trademark Puritan woman. The Company has offices in New York and Chicago.

Date: 1928

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191659

Ref. Code: EP001.01.066.01.01.009

Sample card for Bay State Liquid Paint, manufactured by Wadsworth Howland & Co, Boston, Mass., undated

The sample card is illustrated with a caricature of a pilgrim man standing on the state of Massachusetts with a paint brush and bucket at the ready. The item lists the Company's locations and includes a place for a color swatch.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191661

Ref. Code: EP001.01.086.01.01.034

Unloading Gorton's codfish, Gloucester, Massachusetts

Full color postcard featuring fishermen unloading codfish onto the Gloucester docks. The fish are gutted and piled on the dock while the men work on unloading more.

Date: 1906

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 190986

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.032

Trolley trips, Bay State Street Railroad Company, 309 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., 1912

The brochure describes the trolley lines run by the Company to vacation spots throughout New England. The cover illustration shows the outline of pine trees against a full moon with a trolley car below.

Date: 1912

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 190988

Ref. Code: EP001.01.117.01.02.025

Love is lightest

Cover depicts Justice holding a scale, with Cupid on one side of the scale and a butterfly on the other. The butterfly weighs more than Cupid.

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191027

Ref. Code: MS007.01.13.01

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