Historic New England

Maverick Square, East Boston

A view of Maverick Square in East Boston showing trolley cars, storefronts, pedestrians, cars, and horse-drawn carriages.

Date: ca. 1905

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273340

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0850.0030.007

Savin Hill Avenue

A view up Savin Hill Avenue in Dorchester, Mass., showing houses along the left side of the street and a park on the right.

Date: 1905-1912

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273341

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0551.002

Savin Hill playground

A view of the Savin Hill playground in Dorchester, Mass., showing a baseball team practicing.

Date: ca. 1910

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273342

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0551.003

Intersection of Savin Hill Avenue and Dorchester Avenue

A view of the intersection of Savin Hill Ave. and Dorchester Ave. in Dorchester, Mass., showing storefronts, the street, ad telephone pole

Date: 1905-1912

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273343

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0551.004

Savin Hill Yacht Club

1 photograph ; 7 x 5 inches

Date: ca. 1910

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273344

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0551.005

Greece

Series

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 273345

Ref. Code: GC001.GR

Unknown

Sub-series

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 273346

Ref. Code: GC001.GR.Unknown

Bloomington

File

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 273347

Ref. Code: GC001.USIL.Bloomington

This account book includes information about capital stocks, merchandise values, accounts payable, expenses, salaries of employees, materials and supplies, labor costs, losses and gains, office furniture and fixtures, discounts, interest, and detailed lists of transactions for individual companies. ...

Date: 1903-1906

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 273349

Ref. Code: MS002.140

Long Island

File

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 273352

Ref. Code: GC001.USVA.Long Island

Exterior view of the Shirley-Eusitis House, Roxbury, Mass

An exterior view of the Shirley-Eustis House as seen from the street, showing a fence around the lawn which is covered in mostly melted snow.

Date: 1913-02-20

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273354

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0530.003

Exterior view of the Shirley-Eustis House, Roxbury, Mass.

A view of the Shirley-Eustis House showing a man, identified as Mr. Cordingly, standing on the steps outside the west door of the building.

Date: 1919-12-26

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273355

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0530.004

Exterior view of the Shirley-Eustis House, Roxbury, Mass.

A view of the exterior of the Shirley-Eustis House taken from accross the street, probably from an upper floor of a neighboring building or from uphill. The image shows the house as well as parts of neighboring buildings and their lawns, including a large tree next door.

Date: ca. 1890

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273356

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0530.005

Restoration of the Shirley-Eustis House

An exterior view of the Shirley-Eustis House during its restoration, showing scaffolding around the house, a workman on a ladder, a sign that reads "Shirley Place," and a horse drawn carriage on the street in front of the building.

Date: 1915-07-28

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273360

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0540.002

Day books

This series contains the day books created by Nathaniel Stebbins as he photographed his marine and other subjects. The books are indexes to the negatives created by Stebbins; they include the negative number, subject of the photograph, and date the photograph was taken.

Date: 1880-1922

Collection: Nathaniel L. Stebbins photographic collection

GUSN: 273361

Ref. Code: PC047.03

Lists, correspondence, and collection information

This series of the Nathaniel L. Stebbins photographic collection includes information documenting the acquisition of the collection, the creation of reference works related to the collection, correspondence about the collection, as well as lists of the negatives in the collection.

Date: 1880-1922

Collection: Nathaniel L. Stebbins photographic collection

GUSN: 273362

Ref. Code: PC047.04

Wigglesworth Family album - New Hampshire, Milton, Mass and Manchester, Mass.

The third of the Wigglesworth family albums. 100 black & white photographs identified in a list on the inside cover. Includes photographs of the Flume in New Hampshire, farms, barns, horses, life in Milton, New Hampshire, family photographs, and Manchester beach and sailing. Many photographs of the ...

Date: ca. 1890

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 273378

Ref. Code: PC009.215F

Albums of Silas Parsons Cook

Heavy leather-bound album of 44 cabinet photographs. Appear to have belonged to Silas Parsons Cook, a minister in Swanzey New Hampshire. Related family names are Parsons and MacNeil. All portraits, men, women and children. With one group photograph, probably dating late 19th century. Only a few ...

Date: ca. 1890

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 273393

Ref. Code: PC009.226A

Albums of Silas Parsons Cook

Heavy leather-bound album of 10 cabinet photos and 6 cartes-de-visite. An elegant album with brown marbleized paper. Portraits may all be of one family. There are no identification or dates available, but this is probably also from the late 19th century. Another good study album for presentation, co...

Date: ca. 1890

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 273394

Ref. Code: PC009.226B

Frank Chouteau Brown's Historic American Buildings Survey architectural collection

This collection includes the office records and unfinished drawings generated by Brown during his administration of the Massachusetts district of HABS. It contains measured drawings for numerous pre-Civil War buildings as well as thumbnail perspective sketches which reveal as much about graphic tech...

Date: 1905-1942

Collection: Frank Chouteau Brown's Historic American Buildings Survey architectural collection

GUSN: 273428

Ref. Code: AR023

Introduction and Written Reports

This series includes materials describing the collection, including a memo written by Abbott Lowell Cummings, President of Historic New England (known then as the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities). The series also includes a typewritten catalog of measured drawings located at ...

Date: 1940

Collection: Frank Chouteau Brown's Historic American Buildings Survey architectural collection

GUSN: 273431

Ref. Code: AR023.001

Survey Files

The survey files are arranged alphabetically by locality and contain the following types of materials: WPA Writers' Project Inspection Form #2685, which contains the survey number, if assigned, names of original owner and current occupants, the general size, list of materials, and statement of condi...

Collection: Frank Chouteau Brown's Historic American Buildings Survey architectural collection

GUSN: 273432

Ref. Code: AR023.002

Miscellaneous Correspondence and Information by County

This series includes correspondence and other information arranged alphabetically by county. The materials document properties studied insufficiently to be assigned a survey number.

Collection: Frank Chouteau Brown's Historic American Buildings Survey architectural collection

GUSN: 273433

Ref. Code: AR023.003

Administrative Records

This series includes personnel correspondence and other administrative documentation created during Brown's monitoring and scheduling of field surveys and the production of related drawings.

Collection: Frank Chouteau Brown's Historic American Buildings Survey architectural collection

GUSN: 273434

Ref. Code: AR023.004

New England Correspondence

This series includes Brown's correspondence to and from correspondents within New England. The materials are arranged in two subseries.

Collection: Frank Chouteau Brown's Historic American Buildings Survey architectural collection

GUSN: 273435

Ref. Code: AR023.005

Alphabetical by State

This subseries includes correspondence arranged alphabetically by state.

Collection: Frank Chouteau Brown's Historic American Buildings Survey architectural collection

GUSN: 273437

Ref. Code: AR023.005.001

Chronological

This subseries includes correspondence arranged in loose chronological order.

Collection: Frank Chouteau Brown's Historic American Buildings Survey architectural collection

GUSN: 273438

Ref. Code: AR023.005.002

Papers and Treatises

This subseries includes correspondence related to "Pencil Points," an architecture magazine, and three reports, presumably by students. This series also includes technical reports for the "Outline of the Development of Early American Architecture" which address specific building types and technologi...

Collection: Frank Chouteau Brown's Historic American Buildings Survey architectural collection

GUSN: 273439

Ref. Code: AR023.006

Garden Project

This series consists of an envelope of exploratory notes and sketches for a study of man-made landscapes. Included are measured notes on lanscaping at summer properties arranged alphabetically by location, lists of possibilities, and correspondence.

Collection: Frank Chouteau Brown's Historic American Buildings Survey architectural collection

GUSN: 273440

Ref. Code: AR023.007

Measured Notes

This series includes preliminary graphic information for dozens of properties. Not all of these were reported to the Department of the Interior. Arranged alphabetically by location, they provide the greatest amount of graphic information in the collection. The inventory of the contents (available in...

Collection: Frank Chouteau Brown's Historic American Buildings Survey architectural collection

GUSN: 273441

Ref. Code: AR023.008

Sketchbooks

The sketchbooks contain most of the notes in Series VIII. Those notes were organized and copied into the sketchbooks; the notes include the corresponding sketchbook number. Many of the sketchbooks were sent to the Department of the Interior.

Collection: Frank Chouteau Brown's Historic American Buildings Survey architectural collection

GUSN: 273442

Ref. Code: AR023.009

Boston Elevated Railroad station design competition drawings collection

This collection consists of four drawings submitted by Longfellow to the Boston Elevated Railroad Company's station design contest in 1898. The drawings won the competition. The collection includes two ink on linen views of the station and two presentation drawings of the station. Longfellow signed ...

Date: 1898

Collection: Boston Elevated Railroad station design competition drawings collection

GUSN: 273447

Ref. Code: AR024

Wayside Inn, Sudbury, Mass.

An exterior view of the Wayside Inn in Subury, Mass., showing the white inn building and an attached el or second building.

Collection: Edwin Whitefield graphic collection, 1860s-1880s

GUSN: 273448

Ref. Code: GC004.01.TMP.002

Rhode Island - Bristol - Wardwell House - Photos

File part

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273450

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.USRI.0080.0520

Exterior view of the high school, Winchester, Mass. undated

An open automobile travels down the street in front of the Winchester High School.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273544

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.3460.0020.005

Exterior view of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass., undated

The facade of the Museum of Fine Arts building in Copley Square is seen in the image. Pedestrians walk parallel to the streetcar tracks in the Square. A portion of Dartmouth Street is seen on the right side of the image.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273545

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.2900.001

Stereograph of the Museum of Fine Arts, Copley Square, Boston, Mass., undated

The Museum of Fine Arts is seen from the corner of Huntington Avenue and Dartmouth Street. The stereograph was done by R.E. Lord, 51 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273547

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0170.0682.001

Stereograph of Wadsworth House, Cambridge, Mass., 1876

The sign above the front door reads "Wadsworth House. Built 1726. First Head Quarters of Washington & Lee, July 2, 1775. Officers Quarters During the Siege of Boston, 1775, 6."

Date: 1876

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273548

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0280.0320.001

H. R. Reed House, 46 Water Street, Marion, Mass.

Interior photograph of the Reed (or Reede) residence at 46 Water Street in Marion, Mass.

Collection: Domestic interiors photographic collection

GUSN: 273631

Ref. Code: PC002.USMA.Marion.132.02

Adams House, 57 Mount Vernon Street, Boston, Mass.

A photograph of the Adams House on Mount Vernon Street in Beacon Hill. On the right hand side the Nichols House is visible.

Date: 1920-03

Collection: Codman family papers

GUSN: 273633

Ref. Code: MS001.PC.02.027.001

General Theological Library, Mount Vernon Street, Boston, Mass.

A photograph of the General Theological Library in Beacon Hill. A note on the back of the photograph indicates that the Nichols House is to the left.

Date: 1920-03

Collection: Codman family papers

GUSN: 273634

Ref. Code: MS001.PC.02.027.002

Rhode Island jewelry manufacturer collection

The collection consists of one hundred twenty-six albumen photographs of inventory or catalog pages, an inventory log book, and thirteen sheets of metal samples and parts from an unidentified jewelry manufacturer. It also contains a small collection of advertising art copy attributed to Jorge Epstei...

Date: 1882-1947

Collection: Rhode Island jewelry manufacturer collection

GUSN: 273636

Ref. Code: CC009

Postcard: two women perched on a rock in the ocean

A picture postcard depicting two women sitting on a rock in the ocean at Old Orchard Beach, Maine. One woman waves an American flag. The postcard was never mailed, but on the back is a short poem titled "At Old Orchard - Summer of 1915." The poem reads: "The sea there teems with mermaids fair; / The...

Date: 1915

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 273640

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.USME.2210.0040.001