Historic New England

Contract accounts, 1901-1913

This series includes records of the accounts associated with contracts.

Date: 1901-1913

Collection: Robert Allen Cook architectural collection

GUSN: 272890

Ref. Code: AR008.10

Contracts, 1893-1928

This series includes approximately 200 contract files.

Date: 1893-1928

Collection: Robert Allen Cook architectural collection

GUSN: 272891

Ref. Code: AR008.11

Specifications, 1893-1933, undated

This series includes approximately 275 specification files for individual projects on which Cook worked.

Date: 1893-1933

Collection: Robert Allen Cook architectural collection

GUSN: 272892

Ref. Code: AR008.12

Printed materials, 1888-1936, undated

This series includes seven subseries: A. Trade cards, B. Trade catalogs, C. Miscellaneous, D. Pamphlets, E. Periodicals, F. Newspapers, and G. Books.

Date: 1888-1936

Collection: Robert Allen Cook architectural collection

GUSN: 272893

Ref. Code: AR008.13

Trade cards, undated

This subseries includes undated trade cards related to architecture and construction.

Collection: Robert Allen Cook architectural collection

GUSN: 272894

Ref. Code: AR008.13.01

Trade catalogs, 1893-1930, undated

This subseries includes a large number of trade catalogs offering building materials, contractor supplies, photography, printing, tools, fences, concrete, masonry, tiles, metalwork, lumber, fireproofing, waterproofing, insulation, roofing, doors, glass, windows, flooring, paint, plaster, varnish, fi...

Date: 1893-1930

Collection: Robert Allen Cook architectural collection

GUSN: 272895

Ref. Code: AR008.13.02

Miscelleneous, undated

This subseries includes letterhead from Cook's firm and a campaign advertisement.

Collection: Robert Allen Cook architectural collection

GUSN: 272896

Ref. Code: AR008.13.03

Pamphlets, 1892-1930

This subseries includes pamphlets for a wide variety of businesses and organizations.

Date: 1892-1930

Collection: Robert Allen Cook architectural collection

GUSN: 272897

Ref. Code: AR008.13.04

Periodicals, 1888-1924

This subseries includes issues of various serial publications, including "American Architect and Building News," "The Cement Age," "Mentor," "The National Builder," "New England Craftsman," "The Oak, Lily and Ivy," "The Pine Cone," and "Scribner's Magazine."

Date: 1888-1924

Collection: Robert Allen Cook architectural collection

GUSN: 272898

Ref. Code: AR008.13.05

Newspapers, 1892-1899

This subseries includes issues of various newspapers collected by Cook.

Date: 1892-1899

Collection: Robert Allen Cook architectural collection

GUSN: 272899

Ref. Code: AR008.13.06

Books, 1891-1936, undated

This subseries includes many books about architecture, construction, and a variety of miscellaneous topics.

Date: 1891-1936

Collection: Robert Allen Cook architectural collection

GUSN: 272900

Ref. Code: AR008.13.07

Centennial Springs House

Album entitled "Centennial Springs House". Album contains eighteen black and white photographs depicting the Centennial Springs House and cottages ( a summer resort, most likely in Maine) comprising several main buildings and accompanying lakeside cottages. Lake views include boats and docks. The...

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 272901

Ref. Code: PC009.220B

The Arnold Trail

Album entitled "The Arnold Trail" ( named for Benedict Arnold), and labeled with a printed commercial sticker that reads: "Bicknell Mfg. Co., Pitt St., Portland, Maine." Album contains forty-one black and white views of ponds and lakes, dirt roads, wooden bridges, woodlands, and two scenes of a saw...

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 272902

Ref. Code: PC009.220C

Carte-de-visite album of William Samuel Eliot

The cloth-bound album is inscribed to William Samuel Eliot "from his Grandma on his Birthday, March 16, 1862 A.D." It contains 25 cartes-de-visite portraits including three of Samuel Eliot; also Mrs. Samuel Eliot, Mrs. William Eliot, Emily Marshall Eliot (pictured as a young girl with her dog "Bounc...

Date: 1862

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 272907

Ref. Code: PC009.222A

Photos taken by S. E. Morison in 1898

The inscription inside the cover of this album reads "Photos taken by S.E. Morison in 1898." These snapshots include images of family members and their residences interspersed with Boston street scenes, the Public Garden and the Beacon Hill neighborhood. One photograph shows a glimpse of an early tr...

Date: 1898

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 272908

Ref. Code: PC009.222B

Peter Henderson & Co.'s manual of everything for the garden, 35 & 37 Cortlandt Street, New York, New York, 1885

Seeds for vegetables and flowers, gardening tools and fertilizers are described in the item. Gardening topics and responses to customer questions are included in the catalog. There are several order forms in the catalog. Portions of some pages have been cut out. The cover has an arcade with a scene ...

Date: 1885

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 272915

Ref. Code: EP001.12.001.004.023

Massachusetts - East Boston - Wood Island Park, 1923

Views of Wood Island Park, possibly taken by Arthur A. Shurcliff as a landscape architect consultant to the Boston Park Commission, March 31, 1923.

Date: 1923-03-31

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 272922

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0850.0180

Family album, Fitchburg, Mass.

This album includes images of houses, pets, haying, landscapes, a horse and buggy, and churches in Fitchburg, Mass. The locations pictured include the George Fay house (or Fay Club) on Main Street in Fitchburg (built in 1884 and designed by Richard M. Upjohn) and the Christ Church (built in 1867 by ...

Date: ca. 1890

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 273032

Ref. Code: PC009.225A

Photographs from Fitchburg, Dorchester, Roxbury, Boston and Kennebunkport

Album of 68 black-and-white 6 x 8 inch photographs. Includes houses, city views, farms, coastal and rural views, a musical group, and family groups in Fitchburg, Dorchester, Roxbury, and Boston, Massachusetts, and Kennebunkport, Maine. There are two very detailed photographs of the construction of P...

Date: ca. 1890

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 273033

Ref. Code: PC009.225B

Photographs of 58 Garden Street and Cambridge, Mass. by E. S. Dixwell

This album includes thirty-seven black and white photographs in a bound album, including four loose photographs. The photographs were taken by Epes Sargent Dixwell, and they document the interior and exterior of Dixwell's home at 58 Garden Street in Cambridge, Mass. This album also includes images o...

Date: 1880-1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 273038

Ref. Code: PC009.215A

Wigglesworth Family in Cambridge, Milton, Maine and North Carolina

An album of 103 B&W photographs showing late 19th century domestic life in North Carolina, Maine and New England, mostly scenery and outdoor activity. This album is the first of three documenting the life of the Wigglesworth family. Mary Wigglesworth was the daughter of E. S. Dixwell. People in th...

Date: 1800-1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 273045

Ref. Code: PC009.215D

Photographs of Cambridge and Petersham, Mass. by E. S. Dixwell

A bound album including forty-nine mounted photographs and one loose photograph, including many cyanotypes. The photographs were taken by E. S. Dixwell, and they include images of houses and streets in Petersham, Mass., the Harvard Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., and interiors of 58 Garden Street i...

Date: ca.1886

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 273048

Ref. Code: PC009.215B

Photographs of 58 Garden Street and Cambridge, Mass. by E. S. Dixwell

An album of photographs taken by Epes S. Dixwell. It contains fifty-two black and white mounted photographs and cyanotypes and four loose photos, along with a note and envelope. Photographs include exterior and interior images of 58 Garden Street, views of Cambridge, Mass., including Harvard Observa...

Date: ca. 1886

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 273049

Ref. Code: PC009.215C

Wigglesworth Family in Cambridge and Boston

Album of 64 black & white photographs of the Wigglesworth family in Cambridge and Boston between 1892-1896. On inside of front cover is a list of photographs. They include Boston Public Garden, Marlboro Street home, George Wigglesworth and children playing. Illustrates 19th century life. A list i...

Date: 1892-1896

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 273050

Ref. Code: PC009.215E

Home of Epes S. Dixwell, Cambridge

1 loose photograph of the home of Epes Sargent Dixwell, Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Date: ca. 1890

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 273051

Ref. Code: PC009.215G

Arthur Elliot graphic collection

This collection includes thirteen watercolors of sights in and around Boston, including Jamaica Pond, the Public Garden, City Point, Nantasket Beach, Revere Beach, Point Shirley (in Winthrop), and Mount Auburn Cemetery (in Cambridge). The collection also includes a scrapbook containing ephemera and ...

Date: 1882

Collection: Arthur Elliot graphic collection

GUSN: 273093

Ref. Code: GC005

[Scrapbook]

Five pages from a scrapbook created by Arthur Elliot while he was visiting the United States. The scrapbook includes photographs, ephemera, and a map.

Date: 1882

Collection: Arthur Elliot graphic collection

GUSN: 273104

Ref. Code: GC005.14

Glass plate negatives

This series includes approximately 2500 glass plate negatives created by Nathaniel Stebbins between 1880 and 1922. Most of the negatives depict marine subjects, but a small number of them depict architectural views. Many of the negatives are reproduced as prints in this collection, but not all are.

Date: 1880-1922

Collection: Nathaniel L. Stebbins photographic collection

GUSN: 273115

Ref. Code: PC047.01

Looking south westerly along Cambridge Street, and over Beacon Hill, Boston from third story of the Harrison Gray Otis House, April, 1925

Automobiles travel on the street while a horse-drawn delivery wagon is in front of the Lincoln Market. The Cambridge Street incline of the East Boston tunnel extension is seen in the image. It was built in 1914-1916 as part of the subway continuation to Scollay Square. The Cambridge Street incline w...

Date: 1925-04

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273183

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.1900.003

Dudley Station, Roxbury, Mass., July 1967

The platform at Dudley Station, designed by Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, is seen in the image.

Date: 1967-07

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273184

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0350.002

Old Boston Library, Franklin and Arch Streets, Tontine Crescent, Boston, Mass., undated

The sign "Boston Library" which can be seen between the pillars is for the Boston Library Society. The Society, later to become the Boston Athenaeum, used the central pavilion of Tontine Crescent as its facility until 1858. The central pavilion was replicated as the façade of the Kirstein Business B...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273192

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.4070.001

J. H. Williams collection

This collection of glass plate negatives is probably from the studio of J. H. Williams, a photographer whose studio was located in South Scituate, Massachusetts. The collection consists of 116 glass plate negatives, most of which appear to be from the 1880s and 1890s. The collection consists of grou...

Collection: J. H. Williams collection

GUSN: 273195

Ref. Code: PC059

Town Hall, Norfolk, Mass., December 23, 1908

Two clocks can be seen at the top of the Norfolk Town Hall.

Date: 1908-12-23

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273290

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.USMA.3360.0040.001

Massachusetts - Dorchester - Savin Hill - Unmounted

File part

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273320

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0551

George Lawley & Son from Tenean Beach

A view of the George Lawley & Son shipbuilding company as seen from Tenean Beach in Dorchester, Massachusetts.

Date: ca. 1900

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273321

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0551.001

Orient Heights railroad station platform construction

1 photograph ; 9 x 7.75 inches

Date: 1950-12-19

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273324

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0850.0080.001

Boston Naval Shipyard Annex

A view of the South Boston Naval Shipyard annex, taken by Benjamin Morse ca. 1919, which shows a large boat anchored inside a closed slip at the shipyard.

Date: ca. 1919

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273325

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2730.0020.005

Commonwealth Pier, South Boston

1 photograph ; 8.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: ca. 1920

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273326

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2730.0020.006

"Lawley Basin"

A view of the "Lawley Basin," an area along the Neponset River with docks run by George Lawley & Son, shipbuilders. The image shows docks, buildings, and water vessels anchored along the docks.

Date: ca. 1900

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273327

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0510.001

Granite Avenue Bridge over the Neponset River

A view of the Granite Avenue Bridge being constructed across the Neponset River in Dorchester, Mass. The image shows the skeleton of the bridge as well as a crane and buildings on the far side of the river.

Date: 1914-04-09

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273328

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0510.002

Maverick Square

A view of the construction of the Maverick Square subway stop in East Boston, Mass., looking north. The image shows workers constructing sidewalls to the tunnel as well as an unfinished stone arch.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273329

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0850.0130.001

Wood Island

A view of a residential neighborhood on Wood Island showing four large buildings, sidewalks, a roadway, and one pedestrian in the distance.

Date: 1923-03-31

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273331

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0850.0180.001

House on Wood Island

1 photograph ; 5 x 3.75 inches

Date: 1932-03-31

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273332

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0850.0180.002

Beach goers at Marine Park in South Boston

A view of many people on the beach at Marine Park looking at the ocean and the swimmers and boats in the water.

Date: 1916-08-14

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273334

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2730.0040.001

Three boys in Belmont Square

A view of Belmont Square showing three boys sitting on a bench in front of the historical stone in the park. On the other side of the park are houses, and there are trees growing around the perimeter of the park.

Date: ca. 1933

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273335

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0850.0030.003

Wood Island train station

A view of what is possibly the train station at Wood Island Park in East Boston, Mass. The image shows a building with a fenced in area to the right (possibly train tracks), a car parked nearby, and another fence along the left side of the image.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273336

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0850.0180.003

Central Square, East Boston, looking north

A view of Central Square in East Boston showing the post office, above-ground subway trains, and pedestrians.

Date: ca. 1933

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273337

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0850.0030.004

Central Square, East Boston, looking south

A view of Central Square in East Boston showing storefronts, the steeple of a church, an above-ground subway train, pedestrians, and horse-drawn carriages.

Date: ca. 1933

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273338

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0850.0030.005