Historic New England

Sample back of playing cards

The back of a card in a set of playing cards.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195316

Ref. Code: EP001.08.01.003.003

Letter cards: J

The front of the "J" card in a alphabet card set. A jockey stands before a seated judge and jury, with a giant "J" between them.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195317

Ref. Code: EP001.08.04.002.001

Letter cards: O

The front of the "O" card in a alphabet card set. A giant "O" appears to be standing outside near a house with a crescent moon in the sky.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195318

Ref. Code: EP001.08.04.002.002

Letter cards: K

The front of the "K" card in a alphabet card set. A avian kite perches and an aeronautical kite leans on a giant "K" with a kangaroo behind them.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195319

Ref. Code: EP001.08.04.002.003

Letter cards: E

The front of the "E" card in a alphabet card set. An elephant, an eagle giant, eggs, and eels surround a giant "E."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195320

Ref. Code: EP001.08.04.002.004

Sample back of letter cards

The back of a card in a alphabet card set.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195321

Ref. Code: EP001.08.04.002.005

Trinity Church, Boston, Mass., 4:30 p.m.

An exterior view of Trinity Church in Copley Square in Boston from the opposite side of Boylston Street. The front and side façades of the church are seen as well as the parish house adjacent to the building. To the left of the church is the Brunswick Hotel at Clarendon and Boylston Streets.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195325

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.2940.001

Back of game card 29 from "Characteristics; An Original Game by a Lady"

The back of card 29 in the game, Characteristics, an Original and Amusing Game by a Lady, published by the firm W. & S. B. Ives of Salem, Massachusetts in 1843. The goal of the game was to collect cards by identifying famous personages by their personality traits. When a player failed to match the p...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195326

Ref. Code: EP001.08.01.001.002

Back of game card 34 from "Characteristics; An Original Game by a Lady"

The back of card 34 in the game, Characteristics, an Original and Amusing Game by a Lady, published by the firm W. & S. B. Ives of Salem, Massachusetts in 1843. The goal of the game was to collect cards by identifying famous personages by their personality traits. When a player failed to match the p...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195327

Ref. Code: EP001.08.01.001.004

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

A view of the front façade 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." The property...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195328

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0250.0050.002

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." T...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195329

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0250.0050.003

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

An exterior side view 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." The property was...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195330

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0250.0050.004

Presentation of a silver bowl to Colonel Everett Chamberlin Benton on his birthday by the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts at Bellmont, the Cushing-Col. Benton Estate, Belmont, Mass.

A rear view 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." The property was originall...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195331

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0250.0050.005

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

An exterior rear view, possibly taken in wintertime, 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 ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195332

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0250.0050.006

Carte-de-visite of an unidentified boy and a dog seated on a chair, Newburyport, Mass., undated

This carte-de-visite portrays an unidentified boy and a dog seated on a chair. Author Katherine Grier states that this photograph burlesques the "visual conventions" of studio portraiture of children and their pets that were common by the 1870s.

Collection: Cartes-de-visite photographic collection, c. 1858-1899

GUSN: 195333

Ref. Code: PC008.TMP.007

Exterior view of the Custom House, Boston, Mass., 1:30 PM

An exterior view of the front façade of the Greek Revival United States Customhouse in Boston. Ammi Burnham Young designed the building, whose construction was completed in 1849. Doric columns support the pediment above the sweeping entrance steps. Part of the ribbed saucer dome can be seen. The cob...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195334

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.3200.002

Exterior view of Providence City Hall with Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Providence, R.I.

A view of the front façade of the City Hall in Providence, Rhode Island. Samuel J. F. Thayer designed the five-story granite building in the Second Empire style. The cornerstone was laid on June 24, 1875, and the building was dedicated on November 14, 1878. Sculptor Randolph Rogers created the Soldi...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195335

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USRI.0360.0060.001

Exterior view of Providence City Hall with Carrie Brown Memorial Fountain, Providence, R.I.

This image appears to be flipped. A view of City Hall in Providence, Rhode Island from City Hall Park. Samuel J.F. Thayer designed the five-story granite building in the Second Empire style. The cornerstone was laid on June 24, 1875 and the building was dedicated on November 14, 1878. The Soldiers a...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195336

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USRI.0360.0060.002

Sheep in Franklin Park

A picture postcard shows a herd of sheep keeping the grass trimmed in the meadow of the Country Park section of Franklin Park in Boston. Frederick Law Olmsted intended this part of the park to be an area for contemplative recreation. The city purchased forty lambs in around 1890 and by 1903, the flo...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195337

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.065

View of the Playstead, Franklin Park, Mass.

A picture postcard shows a group of boys playing baseball at the Playstead in the Country Park section of Franklin Park in Boston. Frederick Law Olmsted designed the Playstead as a children's area, which opened on June 12, 1889.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195338

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.066

Polar Bears at Zoological Gardens, Franklin Park, Boston, Mass.

A picture postcard shows two polar bears through the bars of their cage playing near their swimming pool in the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, Massachusetts. Landscape architect Arthur Asahel Shurcliff designed the Franklin Park Zoo.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195339

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.067

Two views of Franklin Park, Roxbury, Mass.

Two views on one sheet of Franklin Park in Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts. The top view is of a road winding through the park. The lower view shows an arch bridge spanning a road.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195340

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0420.011

Elephants, Tony and Waddy, at Zoo, Franklin Park, Boston, Mass.

A picture postcard shows the two Asiatic elephants, Tony and Waddy, grazing on the grass on the grounds at the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston. These two elephants and a third, named Mollie, retired as a vaudeville act and came to the zoo in May 1914.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195341

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.069

The elephants at Franklin Park, Boston, Mass.

A picture postcard shows a zoo keeper feeding the two Asiatic elephants, Mollie and Waddy, in the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston. Another zoo keeper observes the feeding taking place in the yard of the Elephant House, which opened on January 5, 1915. These two elephants and a third, named Tony, retired...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195342

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.070

Boston, Mass., bridge and Scarboro' Pond, Franklin Park

A picture postcard shows a view of Scarboro (also Scarborough) Pond and bridge in Franklin Park in Boston. Named after an early settler of the area, construction of the pond was completed in July 1894. Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge designed the stone arch bridge.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195343

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.071

Panorama showing Duck Pond Bridge, Franklin Park, Boston, Mass.

A picture postcard shows a panoramic view of a duck pond and stone arch bridge in Franklin Park in Boston.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195344

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.072

A resting place, Franklin Park, Roxbury, Mass.

A picture postcard shows a view of a resting area with a stone and wood shelter in Franklin Park in Boston.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195345

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.073

Refectory, Franklin Park, Roxbury, Mass.

A picture postcard shows an exterior view of The Refectory, the restaurant in Franklin Park in Boston. Hartwell & Richardson, 60 Devonshire Street in Boston, designed the building which was completed in 1895. The building featured a pergola, a rooftop garden, and private dining rooms. The archietctu...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195346

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.074

Christmas card from the Pinckney Club Restaurant, Pinckney Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The text reads "Greetings from the Oldest House on Beacon Hill." The image is the George Middleton House at 5 Pinckney Street on Beacon Hill.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195347

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.6410.002

Boston, Mass., feeding the ducks at Franklin Park

A picture postcard shows a group of four girls feeding ducks on the bank of a stream in Franklin Park in Boston.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195348

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.075

Inside of bird cage, Franklin Park, Boston, Mass.

A picture postcard shows a variety of birds in the bird cage in the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195349

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.076

Quarry at Franklin Park, Roxbury, Mass., ca. 1887

A view of the quarry in Franklin Park in Boston. This may be the quarry on Schoolmaster Hill. The view is from the bottom of the quarry upwards to the top. Workers seem to be examining the stone on the face of the quarry. At the bottom, there are two horse-drawn carts. At the top of the quarry, a c...

Date: ca. 1887

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195350

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0420.003

Quarry and derrick at Franklin Park, Roxbury, Mass., ca. 1887

A view of the top of the quarry in Franklin Park in Boston. This may be the quarry on Schoolmaster Hill. A work building on pilings overhangs the quarry. A road leads down to the bottom of the quarry. A streetlight stands next to the road. The derrick is positioned over the quarry beyond the buildin...

Date: ca. 1887

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195351

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0420.004

New Circuit, Franklin Park, Roxbury, Mass.

A view of the construction of Circuit Drive in Franklin Park in Boston. Workers build the roadway using horse-drawn carts. A man wearing a bowler hat and overalls stands in the middle of the road. "Circuit Drive was designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted as a road for carriages throug...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195352

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0420.005

Charles W. Howard and wife on a derrick trestle, Franklin Park Quarry, Roxbury, Mass., ca. 1887

Charles W. Howard and his wife stand on the face of the rock near the top of the quarry in Franklin Park in Boston. This may be the quarry on Schoolmaster Hill.

Date: ca. 1887

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195353

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0420.006

Scarboro Pond, Franklin Park, Roxbury, Mass.

A large group of people ice skate on frozen Scarboro Pond (also known as Scarborough Pond) in Frank Park in Boston.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195354

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0420.007

Williams Home looking towards Forest Hills, Franklin Park, Roxbury, Mass.

A distant view along a road of the Williams Home in Franklin Park in Boston. The two-story Italianate building has a bell and flagpole on its roof. A group of men work near the road in the left foreground.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195355

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0420.008

Construction of overlook wall at Franklin Park, Jamaica Plain [Roxbury], Mass.

A view of the construction of the wall of the Overlook, a building that combined a scenic viewing platform and changing facilities for people using the fields in the Playstead area of Franklin Park in Boston. Several men operate a derrick. The building was partially constructed of boulders from the ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195356

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0420.009

Franklin Park from west end of overlook looking north, Roxbury, Mass.

A view of the construction of the Overlook, a building that combined a scenic viewing platform and changing facilities for people using the fields in the Playstead area of Franklin Park in Boston. A large group of men work on the wall and the road in front of the structure. There are many horse-draw...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195357

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0420.010

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

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

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