Historic New England

Point Alderton, Boston Harbor

"This is a high bluff or point of land, situated at the outermost part of Boston harbor, about nine miles from the city. The light-house seen in our picture is the Boston outer light, and between it and Point Alderton is the entrance to the harbor. The land to the left slopes till it forms Nantask...

Date: 1854

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198444

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.2250.002

A view of part of the town of Boston in New England and Brittish ships of war landing their troops, 1768

This engraving depicts a huge panoramic view of the harbor full of sailing vessels, with troops of men in the boats and on the dock standing at attention. The background view is of Boston and houses.

Date: ca. 1780

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198445

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.1000.005

Deer Island Hospital, Boston Harbor

This item consists of two pages of newspaper sheets picturing the hospital grounds of Deer Island Hospital. It includes smaller interior settings depicting life inside the state hospital. The second sheet depicts images of a prison.

Date: 1856

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198448

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.2250.005

Bird's Eye View of Fort Independence, in Boston Harbor

This engraving is a detailed overall view of the grounds and site of Fort Independence. The Harbor, with ships, is in the background.

Date: 1852

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198449

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.2250.007

A Fishing Party in Boston Harbor Yacht

This engraving is a detailed view of sailing vessels. Includes a small article entitled "A Fishing Party."

Date: 1852

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198451

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.1000.001

Fort Independence, Boston Harbor

This engraving presents a detailed view of the fort and grounds. There are two small insets of surounding sites: "Ancient Tombstone at Castle Island" and "Monument on Castle Island."

Date: 1853

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198452

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.1000.002

Back Channel, Boston Harbor and Main Channel, Boston Harbor

This engraving depicts Harbor views looking at two traffic channels for boats.

Date: 1854

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198453

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.2250.006

New store of Hennessy & Co., Winter Street, Boston

Engraving showing an exterior view of Hennessy & Company, Auctioneers & Commission Merchants. A carriage passes in front of the building.

Date: 1856

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198455

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3600.001

Scene in Winter Street, Boston, during the late snow storm

This engraving is a detailed view of the horse-drawn sleigh carriage for the Boston & Jamaica Plains line struggling through a snow storm. People shovel and walk nearby.

Date: 1857

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198456

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3600.002

Church of the Messiah, Florence St. Boston

Lithograph showing a detailed exterior view of the Church of the Messiah. J.E. Billings was the architect of this building.

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198457

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3750.005

Sons of New Hampshire Festival at Fitchburg Hall, Boston

Engraving depicting the dinner at the Sons of New Hampshire Festival. The image shows a patriotic event with the hall decorated with streamers and flags. Attendees are sitting at formal table settings arranged at long tables. Several men are standing and gesturing.

Date: 1860-1865

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198458

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3750.004

Dr. Hammersley's Gymnasium, Chapman Place, Boston

This engraving shows an interior view of the gymnasium, with men taking part in a variety of acrobatic exercises.

Date: 1853-11-19

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198459

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3700.005

Hovey and Co., importers and dealers in seed, 53 North Market Street, Boston, Mass., 1850s

This lithograph depicts a full detailed view of Hovey & Co.'s seed store. According to the print, the company also sells plants and fertilizers by the ton. A street scene is in the foreground, with pedestrians, horses and wagons. Below the image is a statement that says the lithography was made f...

Date: 1850s

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198463

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.2700.003

Ancient building at the corner of Ann-Street and Market-Square, view from the N.E. corner of Elm-Street

This engraving depicts a small building showing the view of the corner site where the ancient building, constructed circa 1695, once stood.

Date: 1828

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198465

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.1900.002

Salem Church, Salem Street and Christ Church

This clipping shows two small engravings of churches: Salem Church and Christ Church, both on Salem Street.

Date: 1845

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198764

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.2950.008

The Piper Books for Christmas, 1927

A detailed cover design for Piper Books which illustrates men at work loading and unloading cargo from the ships at the docks, while other boats are leaving the docks to sail. Also shows the skyline behind the many ships and sails.

Date: 1927

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198765

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3850.004

The New City Hall, Boston, Massachusetts

This engraving features a large, detailed architectural view of the City Hall yard. The foreground shows a statue and people strolling about the grounds.

Date: 1865

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198766

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3000.002

The Gee-Gray House

"This building stands on Prince Street, at the corner of Lafayette Avenue. It was probably built by the Reverend Gee; at all events it belonged to him when he died, in 1750. This house was used as a military hospital during the occupation of Boston by the British troops, especially after the Battl...

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198768

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3850.016

Parker's New Marble Building, School St., Boston

This engraving from Ballou's Pictorial depicts the marble building of the Parker Hotel as viewed from the street. The foreground includes people, horses, and carriages.

Date: 1855

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198769

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3000.001

Second Universalist Church, School Street, Boston

This engraving depicts a front, detailed, architectural view of the church. There is also an inset portrait of Rev. Alonzo A. Miner with an article from Gleason's Pictorial entitled "Boston Pulpit--No. 6 / School Street Universalist Church / Rev. Alonzo A. Miner, Paster / by Rev. Luther Farnham."

Date: 1853

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198770

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3000.004

Architectural Plans, Boston City Hall

These lithographs depict plans and sections of the interior of the Old City Hall building, by architect Gridley J.F. Bryant. Included are images of the basement story, a vertical transverse section and a vertical longitudinal section. Each plate was removed from some other publication.

Date: ca. 1850

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198772

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3000.003

Kimball-Parker House

"This peculiar old house stands on Unity Street; was built by Ebenezer Kimball about 1710, or perhaps somewhat earlier, and he sold it to Caleb Parker in 1724, and it has continued in the possession of his descendants until the present time. The bricks are said to have been imported from England, a...

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198774

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3850.015

First Baptist Church

This etching presents a detailed, close-up architectural view of the steeple of First Baptist Church.

Date: 1888

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198776

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.2950.009

Capen House

"This was built by a descendant of Bernard Capen, who came to this country 1633, and settled in Dorchester. He was a very old man when he came to this country, as he died five years afterward, aged seventy-six. His gravestone is supposed to have been the oldest in New England. "This house is on...

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198779

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3850.017

Primary Schoolhouse, Suffolk Street

This engraving is a street view of the large schoolhouse and fence.

Date: 1859

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198778

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3150.002

Suffolk St. Chapel, Boston, dedicated Feb. 5th 1840

This lithograph shows the chapel and street. A horse and carriage and wait in front of the chapel, while a procession of people advance from behind the building.

Date: 1840

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198780

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3150.001

Ship Street, Boston

"Boston Engine, No. 15 / Organized, 1822. Not disbanded, 1837 / Ship St., (now Commercial St..) from Chelsea Ferry to Clark St." The image shows men marching in rows past buildings on Ship Street.

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198787

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3850.002

Trinity Church, Summer Street, Boston, Mass.

This engraving depicts a detailed view of the church front from the street. There is also an inset portrait of Right Rev. Bishop Manton Eastburn, D.D. The article for Gleason's Pictorial that accompanies the engravings is called "Boston Pulpit--No. 19 / Trinity Church / Right Rev. Bishop Manton Eas...

Date: 1853

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198782

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3200.003

Mercantile Library, Summer Street, Boston

This engraving shows a corner view of the Mercantile Library from the street. The street is full of people and carriages.

Date: 1856

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198785

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3200.002

Interior view of Mercantile Library, Boston

This engraving shows gentlemen using the Mercantile Library, reading the news from locations all over the country. Other men are seated at tables, chatting or reading books.

Date: ca. 1856

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198789

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3200.001

Bowditch Grammar School House, South Street, erected 1861

A detailed view of the school house, front and side, with people entering the school yard at the front gate.

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198790

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3850.019

State Street 1801, undated

Tradesmen and pedestrians can be seen on State Street with commercial buildings in the foreground and the Old State House in the background.

Date: 1801

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198791

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3100.002

Interior of the Art Union Exhibition Rooms, Boston

A detailed vew of the interior of the exhibition room on Tremont Row. Much of the wall space is filled with oil paintings. There are all sizes and types of frames with both men and women seen examining the works.

Date: 1852-02-14

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198796

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3850.003

Old State House, Boston

This engraving depicts a simple front view of the Old State House in color. The item verso has handwritten text which appears to read "Purch at D. Lyons book July 13 1821."

Date: 1821

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198794

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3100.001

Advertisement for Brown & Lawrence, wholesale and retail clothing warehouse, in the entire basement of the Old State House, fronting State St., Boston, Mass., 1851

The advertisement is from the Boston Directory 1851. The Brown & Lawrence ad has an engraved image of the Old State House with the dome of the new State House visible in the background. The second page, not photographed, is from the Boston Directory for 1879 and has ads for businesses on State Stre...

Date: 1851

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198797

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3100.003

Paged account books, manufactured and for sale By Thomas Groom & Co. and Brown and Lawrence Clothing Warehouse

Two large pages of advertising, one with an advertisement for Thomas Groom & Co., including an engraving called "East View of State Street, Boston" (same as seen in GUSN 198807 and GUSN 198213). The second advertisment is for Brown & Lawrence Clothing Warehouse (same as seen in GUSN 198797).

Date: 1840

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198800

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3100.006

Old State House, Washington Street, Boston, Mass., ca. 1854

This matted etching is an impressionistic view of the Old State House, with an image of a newspaper boy and pedestrians in the foreground.

Date: ca. 1854

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198803

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3100.004

Old State House, Boston, 1880

This etching presents the eastern side of the Old State House and adjacent buildings. The Sears Building is behind the Old State House. The First National Bank Building is to the left of the Old State House. The item is signed in the lower left corner "S.L.S." The stamp below the left side of the im...

Date: 1880

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198805

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3100.008

Old house on Parer St., Boston

A detailed view of the old house with broken down fences, broken wagons, and scattered tools.

Date: ca. 1840

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198806

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3850.006

East view of State Street, Boston

Similar view to GUSN 198213. This image is a tinted, detailed view of the Old State House in left background and buildings lined along State Street in the foreground. Thos. Groom & Co., publishers at Stationers' Hall, 82 State Street, appears on the right side. An awning for Firemens Insurance Off...

Date: 1865

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198807

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3050.004

Willard Everett and Co., 130, 131 & 134, North St. Boston, Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers of Furniture

This lithograph depicts two views of the manufacturing site and wholesale rooms for Willard Everett & Co. They show the manufacturing building outside of the city, possibly Norwood, Mass., with a small railyard and some buildings with a smokestack. The other half of the image shows the building on ...

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198809

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3800.011

Boston Court House

Historic New England acknowledges historical records / objects may contain harmful imagery and language reflecting attitudes and biases of their creators and time in which they were made. Historic New England does not alter or edit objects and / or historical text. The image depicts the Boston Co...

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198810

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3700.004

Hamilton Prints, Joy, Langdon & Co., Boston and New York

Engraving showing a detailed depiction of the dry goods company of Joy, Langdon & Co. at 76 Chauncey St. in Boston. There is a set of train tracks going toward a smoke stack in the middle of the image, along with a building with a bell tower on the left side.

Date: 1873

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198814

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.1550.001

Residence of Jeffrey Richardson

A detailed illustration of the Richardson House and neighboring buildings. Includes many pedestrians and a view of the streets. Also has a duplicate with information on the verso that is faded and difficult to read.

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198816

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3850.010

Mystic Seaport, Connecticut

This seaside village was identified as Mystic Seaport. The view is from the harbor toward the docks and village, with the ship "Charles W. Morgan" slightly left of center.

Date: ca. 1993

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198817

Ref. Code: GC002.01.CT.0200.001

Grosser Ball zu Ehren des Prinzen von Wales in der Academy of Music zu Boston, 12. November, 1860

A detailed engraving of a gala event in the theatre. Shows decorations, flags from several countries, floral arrangements, orchestras, dancing, men and women in formal attire and above, the words "Welcome Prince."

Date: 1860-11-12

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198818

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3750.009

Central part of Dorchester and Milton Village

A detail of the village community and streets with a bridge crossing a river in the center. There are people walking and talking. Across the bottom, someone has handwritten "1839" and "EAH."

Date: 1839

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198822

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.4600.001

Old South Church, Dorchester, 1848

A detailed picture of the front and side of the church, with men, women, and children on the front lawn. This is actually a picture of the Second Church of Dorchester, mis-named "Old South Church."

Date: 1848

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198823

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.4600.008

Pierce Mansion

"This house, which stands on Oak Avenue, in what was formerly the town of Dorchester, now a part of Boston, was built by Robert Pierce, in the year 1640, ten years after he arrived from England in the ship Mary and John. It was occupied by him until his death, 1664, and since that time until the pr...

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198824

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.4600.003

The Gardner House

This is a very old house on Pleasant Street, in Dorchester, built in all probability at least 200 years ago, but by whom cannot be ascertained. Ebenezer Niles lived here in the early part of the century. He was a merchant on Central Wharf, Boston, of the firm of Newell & Niles; but whether an ance...

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198826

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.4600.005

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