Historic New England

Jewett House, South Berwick, Maine, undated

A street level sketch used as a Christmas card by Miss Jewett shows the partial façade of the house hidden by trees.

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 196249

Ref. Code: GC001.USME.South Berwick.001

Full-length portrait of Jane Stuart, standing, facing front, location unknown

Jane Stuart stands with her hands clasped in front of her for this portrait. She was a domestic worker for the Bowen family from 1850-1900.

Date: undated

Collection: Bowen family papers

GUSN: 196250

Ref. Code: MS006.03.01.38.001

Head-and-shoulders studio portrait of Constance Holt, facing front, Fredricks, 770 Broadway, New York, New York

Constance Holt was the daughter of George C. Holt and Mary Louisa Bowen Holt. She was the last Bowen to live in Roseland Cottage.

Date: undated

Collection: Bowen family papers

GUSN: 196251

Ref. Code: MS006.03.01.21.002

Head-and-shoulders studio portrait of Ellen Holt Bowen on her 50th birthday, facing left, Fredricks, 770 Broadway, New York, New York

Ellen Holt Bowen was the second wife of Charles Chandler Bowen, who commissioned Roseland Cottage in Woodstock, Connecticut.

Date: 1884-05-12

Collection: Bowen family papers

GUSN: 196252

Ref. Code: MS006.03.01.05.001

Reproduction of head-and-shoulders studio portrait of Mary Bowen Holt, right profile, Bachrach, New York, New York

Mary Louisa Bowen Holt was the daughter of Henry Chandler Bowen and his first wife Lucy Maria Tappan Bowen.

Date: undated

Collection: Bowen family papers

GUSN: 196253

Ref. Code: MS006.03.01.26.002

Head-and-shoulders studio portrait of Paul Holt Bowen, facing left, Fredricks, 770 Broadway, New York, New York

Paul Holt Bowen was the only child of Henry Chandler Bowen and his second wife Ellen Holt Bowen.

Date: undated

Collection: Bowen family papers

GUSN: 196254

Ref. Code: MS006.03.01.16.001

Head-and-shoulders studio portrait of John Eliot Bowen, L. Alman, 172 5th Avenue, New York and Newport, Rhode Island

John Eliot Bowen was the son of Henry Chandler Bowen and Lucy Maria Tappan Bowen. In 1886 Bowen received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He was employed as managing editor of "The Independent," the religion and anti-slavery journal founded by his father. He died of typhoid fever in 1890, two da...

Date: undated

Collection: Bowen family papers

GUSN: 196255

Ref. Code: MS006.03.01.13.001

Group portrait of the Bowen family, Woodstock, Connecticut

The family members are outdoors next to a rock wall at Roseland Park.

Date: undated

Collection: Bowen family papers

GUSN: 196256

Ref. Code: MS006.03.02.26.002

Head-and-shoulders studio portrait of Mary Bowen Holt, right profile, holding infant Sylvia Holt, Parkinson's, 29 West 26th Street, New York, New York

Sylvia Holt was the daughter of Mary Louisa Bowen Holt and George C. Holt.

Date: 1890-06-29

Collection: Bowen family papers

GUSN: 196257

Ref. Code: MS006.03.01.26.003

Group portrait of the Bowen family on the porch at Roseland Cottage, Woodstock, Connecticut, July 4, 1891

Bowen family members sit and stand on the porch of Roseland Cottage, on July 4, 1891. Henry Chandler Bowen and his second wife Ellen Holt Bowen are standing in the middle in the top row.

Date: 1891-07-04

Collection: Bowen family papers

GUSN: 196258

Ref. Code: MS006.03.02.22.001

Group portrait of the Bowen family on the porch of Roseland Cottage, Woodstock, Conn., on July 4th, 1887

Bowen family members stand in front of Roseland Cottage in Woodstock, Connecticut to celebrate July 4, 1887. Henry Chandler Bowen and Henry Elliot Bowen are identified in the image.

Date: 1887-07-04

Collection: Bowen family papers

GUSN: 196259

Ref. Code: MS006.03.02.20.001

Exterior view of the Rialto Theatre, Scollay Square, Boston, Mass., ca. 1946

Two men stand on the sidewalk outside the Rialto Theatre in Scollay Square, Boston, Massachusetts, with signs stating that it is open all night.

Date: ca. 1946

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196261

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.7220.001

Oxen team pulling hay wagon in snow, York, Maine, 1880s

A team of oxen stand with a wagon of hay, a driver and two men in the snow in York, Maine.

Date: 1880s

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196263

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USME.1920.0100.015

Aerial view of Boston, Mass., undated

This aerial view of Boston shows the business district and piers with Back Bay, the Charles River and Cambridge in the distance.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196264

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.0060.001

Dory on York River, York, Maine, 1892

Uncle Ed Lowe sits in a dory on the York River, near some rocks and seaweed.

Date: 1892

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196265

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USME.1920.0090.003

Newsboys at Parker's News Stand, Medford, Mass., 1903

Group portrait of newsboys standing outside Parker's News Stand with delivery carts.

Date: 1903

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196268

Ref. Code: PC001.02.02.5400.0100.002

Girl shaking hands with a pony, undated

A pony stands with his forelegs on a stool and shakes hands with a little girl.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196269

Ref. Code: PC001.02.02.0250.0600.001

Aerial view of T-Wharf, Boston, Mass., 1914

The T Wharf area is seen with commercial buildings, the Boston Elevated Railway and various ships in the harbor and moored at the pier.

Date: 1914

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196270

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.7790.006

Operation re-enactment, Bigelow Theater, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass., February 25, 1893

An operation is re-enacted by Harvard Medical School students in the Bigelow Theater, Massachusetts General Hospital.

Date: 1893-02-25

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196273

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.5570.003

View of Tremont Street facing Park Street Church, Boston, Mass., undated

Horse-drawn vehicles travel up and down Tremont Street in the rain with Park Street Church in the distance.

Date: 1897-1920

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196276

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.7910.002

Willow Brook in the snow, Biddeford Pool, Me.

Snow covers farms along Willow Brook in Biddeford, Maine. A road runs over a bridge that fords the brook. A boy squats next to the brook.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196277

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USME.0210.0020.008

Bridge and lagoon, Public Garden, Boston, Mass.

Several men stand on the footbridge that spans the pond in the Boston Public Garden.The plan for the Public Garden by George F. Meacham included a pond. The four-acre lagoon was completed in 1861. Architect William Gibbons Preston designed the suspension footbridge, which was finished in 1867. The s...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196278

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.6690.002

The launching of the "Edith Symington," Newburyport, Mass., undated

Passengers stand on the deck and a crowd on shore watches the launching of the "Edith Symington" in Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196279

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2030.0180.001

Boston and Albany Railroad, location unknown, undated

Train workers and other individuals pose in front of engine number 142.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196280

Ref. Code: PC001.02.02.TMP.002

U.S. Life-Saving Station crew on the beach with lifeboats and equipment, Hull, Mass.

Crew members of the U.S. Life-Saving Service Station at Hull, Massachusetts are shown in this informal portrait. The coast of the south shore from Point Allerton to Scituate was a very dangerous area for ships trying to enter Boston Harbor and there were many shipwrecks. This station was established...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196281

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.1430.0050.001

View of Armistice Day parade passing the Massachusetts State House, Boston, Mass., Nov. 11, 1929

Men in uniform march past the State House on Beacon Street for the 1929 Armistice Day parade.

Date: 1929-11-11

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196282

Ref. Code: PC001.02.02.1450.0100.001

Exterior view of the John Robbins House, Acton, Mass., undated

Cows graze in a field in front of the John Robbins House, 144 Great Road, in Acton, Massachusetts.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196285

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0020.0050.002

New England in Soconyland, 1929, road map of New England, Standard Oil Company of New York, 26 Broadway, New York, New York, 1929

The item has an index of cities and towns, a Boston map and highway connections between Maine and eastern Canada.

Date: 1929

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 196286

Ref. Code: EP001.07.01.TMP.003

Stereograph of the C.T. Sampson Shoe Manufactory, North Adams, Mass., undated

Workers pose outside the C.T. Sampson Shoe factory in North Adams, Massachusetts.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196287

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.1310.0010.001

View of Cohasset Common, Cohasset, Mass., 1927

Buildings and trees frame the Cohasset Common.

Date: 1927

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196288

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.USMA.1040.0020.001

Railroad Station, Cohasset, Mass.

The lower left of the card has printed "Published by R.H. Nichols." The handwritten inscription reads "P.S. Perhaps this card gives a better idea of the liveliness in store for us. J.F."

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196289

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.USMA.1040.0040.002

American Baptist Publication Society certificate

Membership certificate to Rev. S. B. Swaim, given on September 3, 1845.

Date: 1841-1891

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

GUSN: 199128

Ref. Code: GC002.02.191

Longfellow Calendar

This image is a calendar advertisement for the literary works of Longfellow, with a medallion portrait of the author. There are also figures of Priscilla and Evangeline. It is a handsome decorative work, with a fine design on the back.

Date: 1883

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

GUSN: 199132

Ref. Code: GC002.02.104

Merchant's Gargling Oil Liniment

Advertisement for Merchant's Gargling Oil, a health remedy and cure-all. The original liniment, first sold in 1833, was meant to cure anything that could ail a domestic animal. The human version of the liniment was introduced in 1875. The yellow wrappers were for animal, the white wrappers for hu...

Date: [1880s]

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

GUSN: 199133

Ref. Code: GC002.02.105

Sanford's Ginger

"Sanford's Ginger arrests all summer complaints." The humourous image is of Sanford's Ginger policing a watermelon and a pickle.

Date: 1886

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

GUSN: 199136

Ref. Code: GC002.02.106

Bury Fair (a comedy in 5 acts by Thomas Shadwell)

This production of "Bury Fair" was the project of Harvard's chapter of Delta Upsilon.

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

GUSN: 199134

Ref. Code: GC002.02.193B

Piso's Cure for Consumption, Piso's Remedy for Catarrh

This chromolithograph depicts an attractive summer scene of six children fishing from a dock at the seaside. Below the scene: "On receipt of 20c a copy of this picture without the advertisement will be sent by mail. Address E.T. Hazeltine, Warren, PA."

Date: [1880s]

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

GUSN: 199140

Ref. Code: GC002.02.107

The Howe scale

This vintage advertisement depicts a pretty maiden standing on a commercial factory scale. The floral painting on back is incomplete.

Date: ca. 1887

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

GUSN: 199137

Ref. Code: GC002.02.194

Everett Grammar School diploma

One diploma awarded to Caroline M. Smith from the city of Boston, Everett Grammar School.

Date: 1880s

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

GUSN: 199138

Ref. Code: GC002.02.195

Jersey

This image depicts a milkmaid with two cows in a woodland scene.

Date: 1881

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

GUSN: 199144

Ref. Code: GC002.02.108

East view of the village of North Bridgewater, Mass., 1844

"From a lithograph in possession of Mr. R.C. Kimball." Shows a view and public buildings of the town.

Date: 1882

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

GUSN: 199143

Ref. Code: GC002.02.196

The Little Father

This image depict a little boy with his five rabbits framed in a lattice decorated with wildflowers.

Date: 1881

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

GUSN: 199148

Ref. Code: GC002.02.109

Artist's proof from a sketch by Sam S. Frizzell

This image shows a view of suburban house, carriages, horse back rider, pedestrians, and newly planted trees in an unknown suburb.

Date: 1881

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

GUSN: 199146

Ref. Code: GC002.02.197

Blue Birds

This image depicts two bluebirds in a garden setting with a house and a pond in the background. Spray apple blossoms frame the left-side and left-forefront diagonal of work.

Date: 1880

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

GUSN: 199154

Ref. Code: GC002.02.110

Harvard College tercentenary

"A prospect of Harvard University and of Radcliffe College" celebrating the tercentenary of the school.

Date: ca. 1935

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

GUSN: 199150

Ref. Code: GC002.02.198

The Fenway

This image shows a bird's-eye view of the Fenway. "Compliments of John C. Kiley" is in the lower left corner of the print.

Date: 1911

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

GUSN: 199152

Ref. Code: GC002.02.199

The Pet Lamb

This image depicts a European-style farm-maid feeding her pet lamb while another sheep looks on. There is a rustic twig fence in the foreground, and a church spire in the left background.

Date: 1881

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

GUSN: 199156

Ref. Code: GC002.02.111

Little Alden and Co., Boston and New York

This shows a view of the factory alongside the river with boaters and a man leading cows in the foreground. It has been cut down and the legend is hardly visible.

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

GUSN: 199155

Ref. Code: GC002.02.200

[Little girls dancing hand in hand]

This image depicts two poorly dressed little girls dancing happily hand in hand. One girl has a pink dress; the other girl is wearing a tan dress and she is also missing a shoe.

Date: [1880s]

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

GUSN: 199162

Ref. Code: GC002.02.112

Goffstown, N.H., 1887

This image shows a bird's-eye view of Goffstown with buildings and residents named.

Date: 1887

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

GUSN: 199158

Ref. Code: GC002.02.201

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