Historic New England

Christmas reflections, Boston, 1955

A group of children stand pressed to the glass of a toy store window, looking wistfully at the treasures within.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194322

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.048

Unattributed account book, 1828-1834

Unattributed volume, dating generally from 1828 until 1836, itemizing personal and business expenses. Blank pages in the back of the volume have been used for drafts of essays, addresses, etc. although the author of these is unknown.

Date: 1828-1834

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194312

Ref. Code: MS002.122.02

Factory account book, New Ipswich, N.H. and Skowhegan , Maine, 1825-1837

New Ipswich, NH and Skouhegan [sic], ME factory operating expenses (manufacturing textiles), dating generally from 1825-1837. There are also entries referring to real estate, manufacturing, etc.

Date: 1825-1837

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194313

Ref. Code: MS002.122.03

Ledger of George Barrett, 1835-1850s

"George Barrett" -- "Ledger" (marked on spine), general and business expenses, 1835-1850s.

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194315

Ref. Code: MS002.122.04

Account book of Bullard and Barrett, Boston, Mass., 1829-1834

"Bullard and Barrett" (stamped on front board). Expenses relating to manufacturing in Boston, 1829-1834.

Date: 1829-1834

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194317

Ref. Code: MS002.122.05

Moosehead Lake, Maine

Moosehead Lake, Maine, 1887. 40 scenic views. Variable photographic quality.

Date: 1887

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194320

Ref. Code: PC009.107

Manufacturing account book, New Ipswich, N.H., 1830-1837

New Ipswich, 1830-1837. Primarily manufacturing expenses.

Date: 1830-1837

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194318

Ref. Code: MS002.122.06

The Vale, Waltham

Waltham, The Vale, 1884.13 photographs by Augustine H. Folsom of the exterior and landscaping of the Vale. The taking of these photographs may have coincided with a visit to the Vale by painter Frank Duveneck, whose subsequent landscapes reflect - though only generically - the configuration of some ...

Date: 1884

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194321

Ref. Code: PC009.108B

Washington Street, Boston, 1955

Two teen boys look into the camera. Behind them is a bustling street scene packed with people.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194328

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.049

Account book of George A. Brown, Boston, Mass., 1839-1844

"Account book of George A. Brown from Oct 1, 1839" [inscribed on front page] to 1844 [date of last entry]. The Boston City Directory lists Brown as a cabinetmaker, whose shop was located on Blackstone St., and whose residence was on Belknap St. His accounts list the purchase of mahogany and veneers...

Date: 1839-1844

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194326

Ref. Code: MS002.123

Account book of William Ballard, 1851-1868

"William Ballard's diary, account book, memorandum, copies of letters. First entry March 29, 1851. Last June 1, 1868. (amended to July 16th, 1868). This entry is dated March 29, 1851." [see note below regarding time span.] Accounts of a Boston merchant, itemizing furnishings and other household g...

Date: 1851-1868

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194333

Ref. Code: MS002.124

New England Views

Views of Mooselookmeguntic, Rumford, Paris Hill and Cape Neddick, Maine; Jackson, New Hampshire; and Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Largely scenic in scope. Content includes fishing, clamming, sailboats, summer camps in the 1890s. Also landscapes, churches and homes. Index in album.

Date: 1890-1895

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194329

Ref. Code: PC009.112

Moving Day, Pease Air Force Base, Portsmouth, N.H., 1956

Reed shot this image for "Life" magazine to illustrate a story on how the Air Force aids the families of its personnel. While documenting the relocation of a family, his eye was caught by this young boy on a tricycle making lazy circles around the gas station next door. The image captures perfectly ...

Date: 1956

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194334

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.050

Views of the White Mountains

Views of the White Mountains, with descriptions by M. F. Sweetser, Portland, Maine: Chisholm Brothers, 1879. Includes Bethlehem and North Conway.

Date: 1879

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194332

Ref. Code: PC009.113

Account books, 1807-08, 1817-1833

Bound together: two account books. The first, dating from 1807-1808, evidently was kept by a clerk (as evidenced by the entry for October 1808: "To Theodore Lyman for my services as a clerk [...]," as well as someone making purchases of liquors and cloth for ship's stores or for individuals. This is...

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194341

Ref. Code: MS002.125

In search of snow, Stowe, Vermont, 1964

A young child, dressed warmly, pulls a sled down a dirt road in search of a perfect hill. Snow is piled on either side of the country road.

Date: 1964

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194338

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.051

Picturesque Litchfield County

Picturesque Litchfield County, by Rev. Newell Calhoun. Chicago: The Gravure Illustration Company, 1900.9 part work, including Winsted, Norfolk, New Milford, New Hartford, Torrington, Sharon, Lakeville, Salisbury, Litchfield, Thomaston, Canaan, and Washington. Excellent photographic quality. 9 parts...

Date: 1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194339

Ref. Code: PC009.115

Worcester Illustrated

"Worcester Illustrated." Portfolio of 53 (gravure) plates, excellent quality, wide coverage of local buildings and scenic sites, 1884. Plate #2 titled "Asylum for the Chronic Insane" is missing.

Date: 1884

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194343

Ref. Code: PC009.116

Account book of Samuel Harris, Boston, Mass., Jan. 24, 1800 - Jan. 12, 1809

Records payments to himself for hours worked and to "boy." Also records purchases of lumber and hardware, in addition to rental of shays and other expenses.

Date: 1800-1809

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194344

Ref. Code: MS002.126

Art Work of Plymouth County, Massaschusetts

"Art Work of Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Published in Nine Parts, Chicago: the W. H. Parish Publishing Company, 1896." Cross-referenced in geographic files. Buildings and scenic views. [Gravure] prints are of high quality.

Date: 1896

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194349

Ref. Code: PC009.119

North and South Shore Views

"North and South Shore Views." Photomechanical prints by the Forbes Company, illustrating scenic views and hotels in Nantasket, Marblehead, and Manchester. This volume lacks at least 5 plates, probably of Manchester. The Manchester Historical Society holds the complete volume.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194351

Ref. Code: PC009.121

Little & Browne Architectural Projects

Albums compiled by the architects Arthur Little and Herbert Browne documenting completed work for several clients.The majority of photographs in these albums were probably commissioned by the firm of Little and Browne to the photographic studios of William Clark (formerly of Soule Photograph Company...

Date: ca.1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194354

Ref. Code: PC009.122A

Scrapbook of Herbert Browne

Albums compiled by the architects Arthur Little and Herbert Browne documenting completed work for several clients.The majority of photographs in these albums were probably commissioned by the firm of Little and Browne to the photographic studios of William Clark (formerly of Soule Photograph Company...

Date: ca. 1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194358

Ref. Code: PC009.122B

Temporary

Series

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 194359

Ref. Code: MS008.TMP

Little & Browne Architectural Projects

Albums compiled by the architects Arthur Little and Herbert Browne documenting completed work for several clients.The majority of photographs in these albums were probably commissioned by the firm of Little and Browne to the photographic studios of William Clark (formerly of Soule Photograph Company...

Date: ca. 1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194364

Ref. Code: PC009.122C

Temporary

Series

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194362

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP

Account Books

Sub-series

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194363

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB

Adventure and account book of James Rundlet, Portsmouth, N.H., 1791 - 1793

Brief accounts of shipments of butter, limes, meats, and fish between New Hampshire, West Indies, and Jamaica, naming customer, insurance, and duty charges and profits incurred. Ships mentioned by name.

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194367

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.JR001

Little & Browne Architectural Projects

Albums compiled by the architects Arthur Little and Herbert Browne documenting completed work for several clients.The majority of photographs in these albums were probably commissioned by the firm of Little and Browne to the photographic studios of William Clark (formerly of Soule Photograph Company...

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194368

Ref. Code: PC009.122D

Little & Browne Architectural Projects - Gardens

Albums compiled by the architects Arthur Little and Herbert Browne documenting completed work for several clients.The majority of photographs in these albums were probably commissioned by the firm of Little and Browne to the photographic studios of William Clark (formerly of Soule Photograph Company...

Date: 1908-1909

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194372

Ref. Code: PC009.122E

Account book of Roger Orvis, Goshen, Conn., 1771-1807, 1809-1814

Manuscript account books kept from 1771 to 1807 by builder, furniture-maker, and agricultural worker Roger Orvis of Goshen and Norfolk, Litchfield County, CT, to record his work framing buildings, performing specified agricultural work, and making bedsteads and sleighs, for named Litchfield County ...

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194374

Ref. Code: MS002.136

Account book of Talcott Curtiss, Granville, Hampden County, Mass., 1813-1817

Manuscript business account book, 1813 to 1817, kept by young furniture maker Talcott Curtiss of Granville, Hampden County, MA, to record the wide range of items he built for named customers on specified dates for reported prices, as well as his purchases of cherry, chestnut, hemlock, and pine board...

Date: 1813-1817

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194375

Ref. Code: MS002.137

"Scrap Book": photographs of Pauline Lindsay and her friends and family

Album presumably put together by Pauline Lindsay, with a handwritten title in the front that reads, "The Best Moving Pictures And Entertainments I Have Seen During 1938 And 1939." The first page of the album has a magazine clipping of a photograph of Mickey Rooney glued onto it. The rest of the al...

Date: 1934-1938

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194380

Ref. Code: PC009.093

Picturesque Franklin

Removed to books, 1995.

Date: 1891

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194383

Ref. Code: PC009.096

Roland Newhall interior decoration scrapbook

Removed to scrapbooks, 1995. Interior decoration. A notebook belonging to Roland Newhall, Public School Division (Boston?) 1916. Includes notes on wallpaper, furniture styles, "Colonial doorways," magazine clippings of interiors.

Date: 1916

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194384

Ref. Code: PC009.099

Old North Church, Boston, Mass., 1954

In the image the steeple is lifted by crane to the top of the scaffold enclosed church. The steeple of Boston's Old North Church was seriously damaged by Hurricane Carol on August 31, 1954. The rebuilding of the steeple was a matter of great civic pride in the city. This was the church from which pa...

Date: 1954

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194385

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.052

Mount Vernon Street reflections, Boston, 1955

An open door reflects the image of construction workers across the street. Through the opened door, more construction and rubble can be seen.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194386

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.053

Mount Vernon Street repairs, Boston, 1955

This image depicts a ditch-digger in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood being persistently ignored by three fur-clad women. Reed's instincts drew him to the contrast between the worker and the residents.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194387

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.054

Boston vendor, 1955

A boy investigates goods on a street vendor's table. Other shoppers browse food items.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194388

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.055

North End, Boston, 1955

A female vendor stands outside her shop in the North End of Boston.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194389

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.056

Organ grinder, Boston, 1955

Reed remembers well the afternoon he made this photograph. Every time he had the shot just right, the boy on the left would jump into the picture. Reed's frustration over this intrusion kept him from printing the image for many years. Yet, now we find that the boy adds a spark of interest. Reed is n...

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194391

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.058

Boston Globe, Boston, 1956

For eighty-seven years, the Boston Globe headquarters was located on "Newspaper Row," a section of Washington Street in downtown Boston, before moving to Dorchester in 1958. Until then, for many Bostonians, part of any day included catching the latest news before it was printed. Here we can see the ...

Date: 1956

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194393

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.059

Poker player, Morrisville, Vermont, 1950

Townsmen sit around a card table playing poker. An onlooker smokes a cigarette.

Date: 1950

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194394

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.060

Twenty below zero, Waterbury, Vermont, 1951

A car, house, and buggy sit in the icy snow in Waterbury, Vermont.

Date: 1951

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194405

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.061

Men at cattle auction, Morrisville, Vermont, 1953

In this study of a group of farmers watching a cattle auction, Reed was clearly interested in the character revealed by their weathered faces. The image was published in the National Humane Review as part of a story documenting inhumane treatment of animals during auctions.

Date: 1953

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194408

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.062

Dowser, Plainfield, Vermont, 1953

A weathered man in overalls, possibly a farmer, holds a v-shaped stick in search of natural elements.

Date: 1953

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194410

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.063

Advertisement for tinned beef, canned by Colonial Provision Company, Boston, Mass., 1948

The advertisement for canned beef with gravy was originally printed in The Epicure's October 1948 issue. The Colonial Provision Company used an image of a chef wearing a large toque on both the cans and in their advertisements. The recipe is branded as "Traditionally New England!"

Date: 1948

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 194412

Ref. Code: SC002.TMP.015

Ledger of James Rundlet, Portsmouth, N.H., 1821-1822

A list of debts. Includes personal, real estate, bank, and business transactions. Lists debts associated with the purchase of Salmon Falls (woolen mill in Somersworth, NH).

Date: 1821-1822

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194510

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-JR-I-10

Wall paintings at the Sullivan Dorr residence, Providence, Rhode Island

Bound album of 10 albumen prints, 1877, documenting wall paintings at the Sullivan Dorr residence, Benefit Street, Providence, Rhode Island. Title page indicates that the purpose of the album was specifically to record these frescoes on the walls of the front entry and parlor. Inscribed Sullivan D...

Date: 1877

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194513

Ref. Code: PC009.133

Ledger of James Rundlet, investor, 1831-1846

Lists investments in bank shares, Portsmouth and Piscataqua bridges, real estate, and personal accounts.

Date: 1831-1846

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194514

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-JR-I-11

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