Historic New England

Lyman Family snapshots

A photograph album which is inscribed inside the front cover, "Margaret Lyman from Mamma, December 30, 1909." Some of the photographs at the beginning of the album are dated 1909, but many are dated 1910 or are undated. The handwriting of the captions remains the same throughout, so presumably the c...

Date: 1910

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194678

Ref. Code: PC009.181

Royall House, Medford, MA

An album depicting the rooms of the Royall House, Medford, Massachusetts as restored by Joseph Chandler. There are 14 leaves, some of which have photographs on both sides. Photographs by Howard Shurtleff, brother of Arthur Shurcliff (the landscape architect), who, in turn, was the father of the dono...

Date: ca. 1920

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194672

Ref. Code: PC009.166

Postcards of Bangor, Maine

A postcard album of particular interest because it is devoted entirely to Bangor, Maine with the exception of a few views relating to Moosehead Lake. May have been compiled by Edwin B. Sears, from whose estate it was obtained in 1987-88.

Date: 1900-1945

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194675

Ref. Code: PC009.170A

Postcard Album of Edwin Sears

Postcards compiled by Edwin B. Sears of Weston and Camden, Maine. The first dozen or so pages have some excellent views of Boston sites, streets, etc. by the Detroit Publishing Company. These are possibly based on the work of photographer Henry Peabody (whose original photographs of Boston sites, ...

Date: 1900-1946

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194677

Ref. Code: PC009.170B

Photographs of New England by Edwin B. Sears

A bound but untitled photograph album compiled and evidently photographed by Edwin B. Sears of Weston, Massachusetts from whose estate this was acquired. It is decoratively annotated in his hand, and includes snapshots of buildings in Salem, Lancaster, Nantucket, Provincetown and Weston/Wayland. T...

Date: ca. 1920

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194680

Ref. Code: PC009.171

Old Houses and Towns

Removed to scrapbooks. Scrapbook titled "Old Houses and Towns" by author Annie Haven Thwing. The scrapbook contains photomechanicals chiefly of colonial residences and meetinghouses throughout New England, but also of English vernacular houses, New England landscapes, birds eye views of major Americ...

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194681

Ref. Code: PC009.182

The C. S. Fiske Family and Petersham, Mass

An album of family photographs dating from 1883 to 1925 with annotations of Petersham, Mass and the C. S. Fiske Famly. Great album for family life and costume in the late 1880s. Many architectural and scenic views, children, pastimes, interiors, sports, horse drawn carriages, family groups, childr...

Date: 1883-1925

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194682

Ref. Code: PC009.172

Carte de Visite Album of Hattie [L] Hutchinson Paine

"Hattie (L?)eema Hutchinson Paine, Boston" - inscribed on flyleaf. Undated. Carte de visite album with badly frayed (boards) and split spine. Includes paper prints and tintypes of family members, printed scraps, and an unidentified lock of hair. Additionally, there are identified photographs of ...

Date: 1881-1888

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194683

Ref. Code: PC009.173

Snapshots of Beacon Hill and Back Bay

This album consists primarily of 4.5 x 2.5 inch amateur snapshots of buildings on Beacon Hill and in the Back Bay. The photographs date from the late 1920s to the 1930s. The album is from the manuscript collection of John Codman (1898-1989) and may have been compiled by him or by his father, William...

Date: 1920-1930

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194687

Ref. Code: PC009.174

Snapshots of Chatham, Mass., Nantucket, Mass., and Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire

Album primarily consists of snapshots of an unidentified family and their friends in Chatham, Nantucket, and Lake Winnepesauke, in the summers of 1920-1923. Beach scenes; a masquerade party; and a few architectural views are included as well as views of Hyde Park, Marblehead, South Boston, and Waver...

Date: 1920-1923

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194688

Ref. Code: PC009.184

Album 175: Beacon Hill newspaper clippings (now Scrapbook 12)

Now scrapbook 12. See GUSN 318621 or reference code MS004.012.

Date: 1920-1930

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194689

Ref. Code: PC009.175

Martha Thacher, Kodaks. Yarmouth Port, Cape Cod

An album of early Kodak snapshots (including bulls-eye type) dating probably to the 1890s to very early 1900s. Inscribed "Martha Thacher. Kodaks. Yarmouth Port, Cape Cod" no date. A note which accompanied the album states that there is a photograph of Mr. Perera as a baby, posed in the Thacher f...

Date: 1890-1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194693

Ref. Code: PC009.176

Family Photographs, 1919-1927

Photograph album of an unidentified family, circa 1919-1927. Includes group shots at home, on the beach and farm, in costume, and in an airplane, identified only by date.

Date: 1919-1927

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194694

Ref. Code: PC009.185

Cape Cod Houses

The album consists of 24 leaves, of which four are empty. The majority of the photographs depict domestic architecture in the following communities: Sandwich, West Barnstable, Marston Mills, Yarmouth, Dennis (including East and South Dennis), Chatham, Eastham and Wellfleet. There are also 2 pages ...

Date: 1910-1920

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194696

Ref. Code: PC009.177

Mullikin Family snapshots

Album of snapshots (three hand-tinted) of Mullikin family members, 1898-1904. Found in the Otis House, 1995. Approximately 30 snapshots. Two images document several generations of the male line: Samuel Mullikin, M.G. Mullikin, T.E.M. White (who may be the principle photographer for the album) an...

Date: 1898-1904

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194698

Ref. Code: PC009.186

Boston Terminal Company construction views: South Station, Boston, Mass.

Bound in hard cover, stamped on the front "John C. Sanborn" though inscribed inside "R.G. Baker". Consists entirely of cyanotype (blue print) views of the building of South Station. A title page is inscribed: "The Boston Terminal Company Construction Views, Southern Station, Boston," suggesting it...

Date: 1896-1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194700

Ref. Code: PC009.178A

Boston School Buildings

Album of loose photomechanicals of Boston "School Buildings," circa 1903. Album is subdivided by tabbed cardboard sheets labeled "1-9," and "S." Loose photomechanical views of schools, with printed titles, have typewritten identification as to Division (1-9), District, and Report (1900-1903); and ha...

Date: ca. 1903

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194701

Ref. Code: PC009.187

Boston Terminal Company, South Station

Covers are detached. Stamped "Boston Terminal Co., Boston. John C. Sanborn, and Westinghouse, Church, Kerr and Co. Engineers," suggesting it to have been compiled by or presented by this company, if they were the engineering firm involved in the station's construction. Prints are mounted to canva...

Date: 1896-1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194706

Ref. Code: PC009.178B

Views of Woodstock, Vermont

Album compiled by K.A.P. containing 75 views of Woodstock, VT and surroundings, including Tyson, VT, circa 1901-1915. K.A.P., who studied architecture with George Edward Barton, photographed the interior of Barton's office in the Billings Block, Woodstock. Interiors of another architects' office ove...

Date: 1902-1915

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194705

Ref. Code: PC009.188

Blair Eyrie, DeWitt Clinton Blair Estate

Album of "Blair Eyrie," De Witt Clinton Blair Estate, Bar Harbor, Maine, circa 1905. 27 photographs by H.L. Bradley (of Bar Harbor) and by E.E. Soderholtz document the interiors, exterior elevations, grounds, outbuildings, and views of "Blair Eyrie." The house designed by Andrews, Jacques, and Rant...

Date: ca. 1905

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194708

Ref. Code: PC009.189

Colonial Revival House

Album of 21 photographs on 18 sheets of an unidentified colonial revival house signed and dated by photographer Hart, 1920-1924, with a leather cover. The series begins with the exterior, stairhall, living room, music room and gardens of the house and continues with the large greenhouse and its con...

Date: 1920-1924

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194709

Ref. Code: PC009.179

Rutland , Massachusetts

Album of Rutland, MA including Moulton's Pond, church and town hall, "Muschopauge," the Soldier's Monument, Putman House, sheep (titled "Inquisitiveness"), Rufus Putnam's House, Princeton Road, Gate's Estate, sheep (titled "Luncheon"), Muschopauge Lake, Pumping Station, the Central Tree, Sanatoriu...

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194711

Ref. Code: PC009.190

Trade card for Bradford & Anthony, importers & dealers in American, English, French & German cutlery, 374 Washington Street, Boston, Mass.

Bradford & Anthony carries the Winslow Skates. Bradford deals in fancy hardware and fishing tackle. Winslow's Double Clamp Skates are made by Samuel Winslow Skate Manufacturing Company, Worcester, Massachusetts. The ice skates attach to the sole and heel of the shoe with a screw clamp.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 194712

Ref. Code: EP001.01.029.01.01.011

Brick House

"Brick House' 30 formal 7 1/2 x 9 1/2" photographs of Newport, Rhode Island estate. Ownership unknown. Photographs include gardens, 2 exterior views of house, porch, interiors including dining room, living rooms, formal staircase, and bedrooms. Also included are a picture of a couple with thei...

Date: ca. 1940

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194710

Ref. Code: PC009.211

340 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

"340 Commonwealth' A leather bound album of 18 black and white photographs of the townhouse at 340 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Photographs show townhouse exterior and interior shots of front hallway with lovely circular staircase, parlors, dining room, bedrooms. Photos show fami...

Date: ca. 1925

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194714

Ref. Code: PC009.212

Postcards of New England

Postcard album containing views of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Scandinavia, undated. The following towns are represented: Boston, Cambridge, Charlestown, Cohasset, Dudley, Fall River, Fitchburg, Hopedale, Martha's Vineyard, Milford, Nantucket, Newtown, North Adams, Provinceto...

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194713

Ref. Code: PC009.191

Historic wallpapers album

This album consists of photographs of historic wallpapers, and it was compiled and annotated by Howard Livingstone Shurtleff of Boston, Mass. Many of the wallpapers documented are mural style, and some are in the style of Rufus Porter. Some of the photographs have been attached to eachother, creatin...

Date: ca. 1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194718

Ref. Code: PC009.192

Massachusetts Towns and Landscapes

Album of photographs of Massachusets towns and landscapes. 103 black and white photographs. Locations include Newton, Gloucester, Charles River at West Roxbury, Dedham and Needham, Malden, Stoneham, Fells, Melrose, Boston Harbor, Milton Lower Falls, Blue Hill, Neponset, Neponset River, Dorcheste...

Date: ca. 1890

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194715

Ref. Code: PC009.200

Clibourne Tower. Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Frank I. Dorr, Framingham, MA

Bound album marked "Clibourne Tower. Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Frank I. Dorr, Framingham, MA" Contains 16 black and white photographs: The Tower, driveway, residence, boxer and kittens, sun room interior, garden, greenhouse, lake looking South, panoramic view Eustis Estate, Lake looking West, cows in...

Date: ca. 1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194719

Ref. Code: PC009.201

Family and Friends in Salisbury, Massachusetts

Album of photographs of family and friends in Salisbury, MA probably compiled by H.G. Little, 1917-1938. Since the bulk of the photographs date from the World War I era, the home front is well represented through the Salisbury Coast Guard and "Salisbury's Welcome Home, October 12, 1919." A photo...

Date: 1917-1938

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194722

Ref. Code: PC009.193

Mother Scott's Farm

Album of photographs from a farm called "Mother Scotts" at an unidentified location near a lake, woods, and "Gulf Road," probably late nineteenth century. Family is shown posing in sunbonnets, haying, waiting for the mail man (who is also shown), hiking toward the "Lookout," relaxing on the porch an...

Date: ca. 1890

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194723

Ref. Code: PC009.194

Exterior view of Riegel Point just after completion, Fairfield, Conn., undated

Extierior view of the mansion at Riegel Point just after completion (1920s). The lawn and house are both expansive. Designed by New York architect Henry C. Pelton, the mansion has 28 rooms and includes a bathing pavilion.

Collection: Riegel-Emory family papers

GUSN: 194726

Ref. Code: MS024.TMP.005

The old nurse's visit

This trade card contains harmful imagery and employs racist stereotypes. 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...

Date: 1873-01-01

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 194745

Ref. Code: SC002.01.1873.01.001

Trade card advertising Madame Walsh, fashionable millinery & dressmaking, No. 1 Bowdoin Square Block, Boston, Mass., undated

In the illustration one woman shows a hat to a woman with two girls. Text on the card reads "Parisian style, American taste, Exquisite contour."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 194751

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.06.01.026

"Morning start in the cotton fields"

Stereograph depicts men and women picking cotton in fields.

Date: 1867-1877

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194749

Ref. Code: PC001.04.02.2700.001

Temporary

Series

Collection: Sears and Cutting family papers

GUSN: 194755

Ref. Code: MS026.TMP

Woman with parasol and puppy, Rundlet-May House, Portsmouth, N.H.

Item

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194757

Ref. Code: PC006.RUN.01.004

Canine cemetery on grounds with view of house, Rundlet-May House, Portsmouth, N.H., undated

Item

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194758

Ref. Code: PC006.RUN.01.003

Stone Store, corner of Walnut Ave. and Warren St., Roxbury, Mass.

An exterior view of a two-story stone commercial building at Walnut Avenue and Warren Street in Ward 21 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. The first floor is occupied by various businesses including Peter A. Riley, plumber, 8 Walnut Avenue; Farley, plumber; and John Melville Haynes, upholsterer and cabinetm...

Date: 1890-1899

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195167

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0050.001

Morse House, 145 Walnut Ave., Roxbury, Mass.

A view of the front façade of the Greek Revival Morse House at 145 Walnut Avenue in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Two-story Ionic columns support a pediment punctuated with a window surmounted by a fanlight. A picket fence on top of a stone wall fronts the property. A sign hangs on a tree in the front yar...

Date: 1890-1899

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195168

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0050.002

Roxbury Gas Co., 39 Dudley St., Roxbury, Mass.

An exterior view from across Kenilworth Street of the Roxbury Light Gas Co. gasworks at 39 Dudley Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. The Gothic Revival structure features a central tower with a lancet arched entrance and lancet arched windows above the front door and on the side walls. A group of chi...

Date: 1899

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195169

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0120.001

Buena Vista, Roxbury, Mass.

An exterior view of Buena Vista, the mansion of Isaac Fenno and his wife Almira Blake Fenno on Buena Vista Street (also known as Buena Vista Avenue) in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Trees partially hide the house, which is set on a small hill. The view seems to be from the house across the street as the ...

Date: 1880-1909

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195170

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0290.001

Dudley St. at Warren St., Roxbury, Mass.

A view of the intersection of Warren Street and Dudley Street in Dudley Square, Roxbury, Massachusetts. A trolley car enters the intersection along Warren Street as another approaches from Dudley Street. The Second Empire-style Hotel Dartmouth occupies the northwest corner of the intersection at 144...

Date: 1901-1930

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195171

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0100.003

Roxbury Court House, Roxbury St., Roxbury, Mass.

A view from across the street of the front façade of the two-story, Beaux-Arts Roxbury Municipal Courthouse at 88 Roxbury Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Built in red brick with Indiana limestone trimmings, a two-level set of low steps lead up to the arched doorway. The second floor windows are pe...

Date: 1902-1929

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195172

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0100.004

Little Sisters of the Poor, Roxbury, Mass.

An exterior view of the Home for the Aged Poor of the Little Sisters of the Poor at 424 Dudley Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts from the intersection of Dudley Street and Woodward Avenue. The building is four stories high, is designed in the Second Empire style, and is constructed of brick with gran...

Date: 1880-1909

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195173

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0100.005

High School for the Practical Arts, Winthrop St., corner of Greenville St., Roxbury, Mass.

A view of the side and front façades of the High School of Practical Arts at 35 Greenville Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. The school opened on December 1, 1913. It was designed by Julius Adolph Schweinfurth in the form of a central division with two side wings. The pediment of the entrance way is...

Date: 1914-1929

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195174

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0100.006

Ralph Waldo Emerson School, Shirley St., Roxbury, Mass.

A view of the front façade of the two-story, brick Ralph Waldo Emerson Elementary School at 6 Shirley Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Completed in July 1924, the school was scheduled to open that fall. The doors are surmounted with pediments broken on the bottom that present figures reading books....

Date: 1928-1930

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195175

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0100.007

Exterior view of the Boston Young Men's Hebrew Association Gymnasium, Humboldt Ave., Roxbury, Mass.

A view of the front façade of the Boston Young Men's Hebrew Association (YMHA) gymnasium on Humboldt Avenue in Roxbury, Massachusetts. The two-story Colonial Revival structure is constructed of tapestry brick with limestone trimmings. A double staircase sweeps up to the first floor pedimented main e...

Date: ca. 1925

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195176

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0100.008

House of the Angel Guardian, Vernon St., Roxbury, Mass.

An exterior view of the House of the Angel Guardian at 85 Vernon Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Rev. George F. Haskins established this orphanage and reformatory wayward boys in 1851 and, when the institution outgrew its original locations, purchased land at Vernon Street and built this structure...

Date: 1870-1890

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195177

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.1540.0010.004

Baptist Church, Roxbury, Mass.

An exterior view from across Dudley Street of the side of the Dudley Street Baptist Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts. The congregation was formed as the First Baptist Church in Roxbury in 1821 and built this church near Warren Street in 1852. The church is built in the Gothic Revival style of brick....

Date: 1880-1900

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195178

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.1540.0010.005

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