Historic New England

Beauport

Gloucester, Massachusetts: Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House. Over 100 5x7, 8x10 photographs presumably by Samuel Chamberlain documenting interiors and exterior of Beauport. (Note: Based on interior evidence, Richard Nylander feels that these photos cannot be by Chamberlain because they show Slee...

Date: ca. 1940

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194511

Ref. Code: PC009.132

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

Photographs of coastal towns and beaches of New Hampshire and Massachusetts

Bound album of amateur photographs, circa 1897 to 1900. These images depict the following: Hampton Beach, New Hampshire: beach, people, architecture, carriages, and stagecoach Salisbury Beach, Massachusetts: people Newburyport, Massachusetts: back-yard scenes, portraiture, people and horses M...

Date: 1897-1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194521

Ref. Code: PC009.134

Cashbook and ledger of James Rundlet, Portsmouth, N.H., 1847-1851

Monthly cash accounts. Includes personal transactions, retail accounts, and bank investments. Retail accounts chiefly list foodstuffs item by item. Includes town and aqueduct taxes,

Date: 1847-1851

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194516

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-JR-I-12

Daybook of Thomas Stearns, Waltham, Mass., 1804-1807

Lists charges for muffs, genets, and tippets made from a variety of furs, some dyed. Except for two or three of the listed individual customers, most patrons are wholesale merchants, selling and distributing.

Date: 1804-1807

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194054

Ref. Code: MS002.036

Ledger of Asa Titus, Walpole, N.H., 1817

Most pages are covered with clippings in the 1860-70 period by Almira Wier, later owner of the book. Dressing cloth and tapping boots are the only items not concealed.

Date: 1817

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194055

Ref. Code: MS002.037

Ledger of John Barlow, Boston, Mass., 1766-1792

Lists orders and prices for woven cloth with some detail regarding the weaving process. The credit side is a fine example of barter. Many farming items interspersed with genealogical notes on last page and note about one tailoring job done at customer's home.

Date: 1766-1792

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194056

Ref. Code: MS002.038

Account book of Charles Hewins, Boston, Mass., 1850-1854

Account book Charles Hewins, 81 Washington Street, Joy's Building, Boston, Massachusetts. Record of wages earned by a large number of female workers with listing of customers by surname. Daily output in number of shirts, collars, bosoms and waistbands is recorded below the name of each employee. Boo...

Date: 1850-1854

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194057

Ref. Code: MS002.039

Daybooks of J.D. Bulter, Rutland, Vermont, 1805-1910

2 daybooks

Date: 1805-1910

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194058

Ref. Code: MS002.040

Daybook of J.D. Butler, Rutland, Vermont, 1805-1806

Purchases are listed for each customer. Items include foods, notions, dyes, fabrics, books, and housewares. 9 pages at end deal with marketing of cattle. Scythes sold in quantity near front of book. A few personal notes include a hat ordered and made from muskrat and raccoon skins (near end).

Date: 1805-1806

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194059

Ref. Code: MS002.040.01

Daybook of J.D. Bulter, Rutland, Vermont, 1809-1910

General store accounts with prices of items given. Last few pages contain record of cattle selling and a wholesale order of merchandise sent from Boston including a quantity of building materials.

Date: 1809-1910

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194060

Ref. Code: MS002.040.02

Daybook of Oliver Hubbard, Boston, Mass., 1798-1804

Lists charges made for specified custom tailoring work, yardage of various fabrics, and buttons used. No employees.

Date: 1798-1804

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194061

Ref. Code: MS002.041

Account book of Endicott Oliver, Boston, Mass., 1813-1829

Charges for tailoring are listed with minimal information. Occasional specificity and listings of "Stock in hand" (at mid-point in the book). Medicinal remedies for humans and cattle on last 4 pages.

Date: 1813-1829

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194062

Ref. Code: MS002.042

Daybook, Middlebury, Vermont, 1803-1805

Items listed include yardgoods, notions, household wares, food and fresh produce, books, tools, iron stock, and building materials including squares of glass. Considerable business with a paper mill and a sawmill. No index. Figures are recorded in both forms of currency (pounds and dollars).

Date: 1803-1805

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194063

Ref. Code: MS002.045

Country fair, Tunbridge, Vermont, 1955

Reed visited Vermont's Tunbridge Fair, camera in hand, on several occasions. In 1964, Vermont Life published a major photo-essay on the fair, which the editors referred to as "Vermont's own" World's Fair. The fair had a well-earned reputation for being the place where Vermonters let their hair down....

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194064

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.024

Farmer and boys, Tunbridge, Vermont, 1955

Reed visited Vermont's Tunbridge Fair, camera in hand, on several occasions. In 1964, Vermont Life published a major photo-essay on the fair, which the editors referred to as "Vermont's own" World's Fair. The fair had a well-earned reputation for being the place where Vermonters let their hair down....

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194065

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.025

Dreamland, Tunbridge, Vermont, 1963

Reed visited Vermont's Tunbridge Fair, camera in hand, on several occasions. In 1964, Vermont Life published a major photo-essay on the fair, which the editors referred to as "Vermont's own" World's Fair. The fair had a well-earned reputation for being the place where Vermonters let their hair down....

Date: 1963

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194067

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.026

Tunbridge Fair burlesque, Tunbridge, Vermont, 1963

Reed visited Vermont's Tunbridge Fair, camera in hand, on several occasions. In 1964, Vermont Life published a major photo-essay on the fair, which the editors referred to as "Vermont's own" World's Fair. The fair had a well-earned reputation for being the place where Vermonters let their hair down....

Date: 1963

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194068

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.027

Stowe VFD, Stowe, Vermont, 1951

The Volunteer Fire Department in Stowe used an old house to practice their fire-fighting skills. Reed shot with his large format camera, which allowed him to capture the great range of subtleties in the clouds of steam and smoke. The 4" by 5" negative used in this camera permits great richness of to...

Date: 1951

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194070

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.028

Tree branches, Newport, R.I. 1951

Tree branches are outlined against the sky in this abstract photograph.

Date: 1951

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194071

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.029

Adams Wood Mill, Stowe, Vermont, 1952

Reed created this photograph on commission for the mill, probably for an advertisement. Reed was drawn to the way the operator was almost obliterated from view by the shower of wood chips.

Date: 1952

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194073

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.030

Soaped window, Boston, 1953

Reed has described his interest in the calligraphic quality of these random scratches on a soaped window. Images such as this were at the center of much of the creative photography in Boston in the 1950s. Most often referred to as "subjective" in style, it was an approach to photography that paralle...

Date: 1953

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194074

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.031

Charles River, Mass., 1953

Reed photographed industrial sites on several different occasions during his career. In each instance, he worked to make the building appear natural to its surroundings. In this approach, Reed carried on a tradition established by painters and writers living in America a century earlier. The ideal w...

Date: 1953

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194075

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.032

Charlestown, Mass., 1954

Confronted with the problem of how to cover riots in the Charlestown Prison, which were taking place out of sight behind the walls, Reed spent time shooting the environs. Unable to tell the prisoners' story, he created a composition that celebrates the urban landscape while depicting the distance be...

Date: 1954

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194077

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.033

Woman in water, Newport, R.I.

With three simple elements, the body, the water, and the sky, this image exemplifies a tendency towards simplicity characteristic of Reeds creative photography of the mid-1950s.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194078

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.034

Bonfire barrels, Deerfield, Mass., 1955

In New England, many small towns celebrated the Fourth of July with bonfires. Here Reed captures the monumentality of the tower of barrels before they were burned.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194079

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.035

Texas tower, off Cape Cod, Mass., 1955

This rig was an artificial island that served as offshore housing for an early warning radar station for the Continental Air Defense Command. Built in Quincy, it was stationed about 100 miles east of Cape Cod. The five man-made islands in this system, covering 1,000 miles of the eastern seaboard, we...

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194081

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.036

Ledger of Ordway and Williams, Deerfield, N.H., 1807-1808

Merchandise is predominantly fabric and liquors. Other articles range from thimbles to a saddle, with occasional dyes, pieces of clothing, tableware, and food supplies. The credit side of the ledger is an example of barter with goods interspersed with services. Not indexed.

Date: 1807-1808

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194082

Ref. Code: MS002.046

Account books of James Whittemore and Tufts and Whittemore, Weymouth, Mass., 1818-1833

4 account books

Date: 1818-1833

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194083

Ref. Code: MS002.047

Account daybook of James Whittemore, Weymouth, Mass., 1818-1826

Food, fabrics, lumber, and clothing are listed with prices. Individuals' names appear when accounts are settled.

Date: 1818-1826

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194084

Ref. Code: MS002.047.01

Account daybook of James Whittemore and Tufts and Whittemore, Weymouth, Mass., 1826-1833

Food, fabrics, lumber and clothing are listed with prices. Individuals' names appear when accounts are settled.

Date: 1826-1833

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194085

Ref. Code: MS002.047.02

Account book of James Whittemore and Tufts and Whittemore, Weymouth, Mass., 1819

Rentals are itemized for use of horse or of horse and chaise or sleigh. Destinations are in eastern Massachusetts. Clients named only occasionally. Rental of a barn and sale of manure are recorded on last few pages. Back cover appears to be made of printing shop waste - an uncentered page of etc...

Date: 1819

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194086

Ref. Code: MS002.047.03

Album 18-1: Boston Transit Authority : "Photographs of section 2. Beacon Hill Tunnel"

This album includes approximately ninety 5 x 7 inch prints of Tremont Street, especially between Winter and Temple Streets; Boston Common; the construction offices; tunneling operations; and Park Street station underground, including a view of the Cambridge interchange. The images of architectural s...

Date: 1910-1911

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194088

Ref. Code: PC009.018-1

Stock book of James Whittemore and Tufts and Whittemore, Weymouth, Mass., 1823

Inventory of yardgoods, notions, clothing items, hardware (including brass knobs), fish hooks, tools, and books. Outstanding in its variety and listing of small, personal items (shaving brushes, dressing combs, fans etc.). Listing of names having "account in ledge" and of holders of outstanding note...

Date: 1823

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194087

Ref. Code: MS002.047.04

Daybook of James Tirrell, 1825-1833

Items charged include pieces of clothing, foods (with herbs noted), notions, some carpenter's supplies, yardgoods, hides, etc. Also many carting jobs. Charges often offset by labor in making shoes or boots. Newspaper clippings superimposed on pages are mid-nineteenth century. Poetry and editorial...

Date: 1825-1833

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194089

Ref. Code: MS002.048

Daybook of Charles Glines and Co., Canterbury, N.H., Feb. 1883-1884

Transactions are purchases and sales of a variety of foods and household needs.

Date: 1883-1884

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194090

Ref. Code: MS002.049

Horses, Vermont-Quebec border, 1958

Two horses stand nose-to-tail, side-by-side in a field.

Date: 1958

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194098

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.037

Album 18-2: Boston Transit Authority: Boston Common and Public Garden

This album consists of approximately ninety 5 x 7 inch and 8 x 10 inch prints of Boston Common; fences and gates of the Boston Public Garden; fences of the Common along Boylston Street; the Park Square entrance to Common, as standing and in course of removal; birds-eye views of the Public Garden; wo...

Date: 1895

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194092

Ref. Code: PC009.018-2

Daybook of Lewis and Richardson, Boston and Roxbury, Mass., 1811-1815

Listed with cost are foods, hardware, building materials, paper, shoes, leather etc. Several schooners listed on "Adventures to Pleasant River" page.

Date: 1811-1815

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194091

Ref. Code: MS002.050

Daybook of Josiah Sartell, Sartell and Childs, and Sartell and Kendall, Townsend, Mass., 1808-1829

Charges are listed for lumber and sawing, and for labor, in-house construction, and farming chores. Also for hooping barells. Services and purchases from creditors, displaying a barter economy, document details of lifestyle. Arithmetic instruction fills pages 1-97.

Date: 1808-1829

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194093

Ref. Code: MS002.051

Album 18-3: Boston Transit Authority: Tunnel Construction

This album dates from Mar. 22, 1900, to June 28, 1902, and it includes approximately one hundred twenty-five 5 x 7 inch and 8 x 10 inch photographs of tunnel construction; Shawmut Avenue near Pleasant Street, with machinery; construction workers; shafts; Commercial Street; Atlantic Avenue, including...

Date: 1900-1902

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194096

Ref. Code: PC009.018-3

Account book of Nathaniel Brackett, 1817-1822

Livestock dealer Skins, hides, and cattle bought and sold are listed by number or weight with monetary value and customer's name. There is no other type of entry and no suggestion of the tanning process.

Date: 1817-1822

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194094

Ref. Code: MS002.052

Ledgers of Jeremiah and John Pearson, 1673-1741

2 ledgers

Date: 1673-1741

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194095

Ref. Code: MS002.053

Ledger of Jeremiah Pearson, 1673-1689

Listed transactions including those primarily regarding making of meal and fulling of cloth, with weaving and spinning also noted. Some odd jobs and personal business indexed to some extent, including farm chores and construction of a workhouse and prison in 1743 at Salisbury.

Date: 1673-1689

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194097

Ref. Code: MS002.053.01

Album 18-4: Boston Transit Authority: Traffic Congestion

This album is inscribed "Photographs made in connection with investigation of congestion of traffic, etc." It includes approximately forty-five 3 x 5 inch views of Central Wharf; South Market Street; Blackstone Street; North Market Street; Dock Square; Exchange Street; Faneuil Hall Square; Union Str...

Date: 1907

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194099

Ref. Code: PC009.018-4

Ledger of Jeremiah Pearson, 1685-1741

Besides the grinding of corn, rye and wheat into meal and flour, there is a quantity of business in fulling and weaving. Also see 9 pages from end for note regarding hauling masts for six weeks with many other entries specifying logging, drawing, and hauling of masts.

Date: 1685-1741

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194100

Ref. Code: MS002.053.02

Winter, Stowe, Vermont, 1963

Ice and snow accumulate on a window and shutter in Stowe, Vermont.

Date: 1963

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194111

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.038

Album 18-5: Boston Transit Authority: Washington Street

This album includes approximately twenty-seven 5 x 7 inch views of Washington Street, surveyed block by block in 1904. It documents the street from buildings numbered 572 to 754, plus other unnumbered buildings. Some of the photographs in this album have been removed and placed in the appropriate Wa...

Date: 1904

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194101

Ref. Code: PC009.018-5

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