Historic New England

Humor

This subseries includes glass plate negatives of humorous scenes performed by the Hawthrone Street Associates at the beach in Ipswich, Massachusetts and others

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331212

Ref. Code: PC053.01.66

Hawthrone St. Associate

5 glass plate negatives

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331213

Ref. Code: PC053.01.66.001

Gliding Girls

1 glass plate negative

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331214

Ref. Code: PC053.01.66.002

This subseries includes glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives of hunger marches in Boston. Hunger marches were a form of social protest that arose in the United Kingdom in the early 20th century. The protests spread during the Great Depression, where the unemployed and underemployed gathere...

Date: 1930-1933

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331215

Ref. Code: PC053.01.67

Hunting

This subseries contains glass plate negatives featuring hunting deer in Nova Scotia, deer hunting in front of an American Express office, and an old lithograph of Quincy sportsman.

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331216

Ref. Code: PC053.01.68

Hurricane of 1938

\li-15This subseries contains glass plate and film negatives that depict the damage of the Hurricane of 1938. The negatives show a variety of New England regions, including New London, Connecticut, Newport, Rhode Island, and Falmouth, Massachusetts, among others. The images are mainly of destructi...

Date: 1938-1939

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331217

Ref. Code: PC053.01.69

Indians

This subseries contains glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives that depict American Indians groups, individuals, and material culture. When this collection was originally organized by Yankee Publishing, they used the term Indians, which may now be considered outdated. However, the term has ...

Date: 1928, undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331218

Ref. Code: PC053.01.70

Industry

This subseries includes glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives of workers in industrial settings, such as a lime quarry in Rockland, Maine, a chalk mine in Waitsfield, Vermont, and a sawmill in Norway, Maine, among others.

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331219

Ref. Code: PC053.01.71

Crane Estate, Ipswich, Mass.

5 glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331052

Ref. Code: PC053.01.40.001

Larz Anderson, Brookline, Mass.

4 glass plate negatives

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331053

Ref. Code: PC053.01.40.002

Oaks Mansion, Brookline, Mass.

1 acetate or nitrate negative

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331054

Ref. Code: PC053.01.40.003

Scituate Estate, Scituate, Mass.

3 negatives glass and believed to be acetate

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331055

Ref. Code: PC053.01.40.004

Summer Haven, Augusta, Maine

4 acetate or nitrate negatives

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331056

Ref. Code: PC053.01.40.005

Thomas Lawson, Egypt, Mass.

3 acetate or nitrate negatives

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331057

Ref. Code: PC053.01.40.006

Explosions

This subseries contains acetate or nitrate and glass plate negatives of explosions, including gas explosions and fireworks, that occurred throughout New England including Hanover, Lynn, and Weymouth, Massachusetts.

Date: 1929-1935, undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331058

Ref. Code: PC053.01.41

Hanover Fireworks

5 glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives

Date: 1059-1063

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331059

Ref. Code: PC053.01.41.001

Prebble Blast, Lynn, Mass.

3 acetate or nitrate negatives

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331060

Ref. Code: PC053.01.41.002

TNT Camp

1 glass plate negative

Date: 1928

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331061

Ref. Code: PC053.01.41.003

Weymouth, Mass.

4 glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331062

Ref. Code: PC053.01.41.004

Ferry

This subseries includes glass negatives the Van Buren Ferry and a ferry in an unknown body of water

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331063

Ref. Code: PC053.01.42

Fires

This subseries includes glass plate and nitrate or acetate negatives of various fires and fire related events throughout New England. The negatives feature fire equipment, such as fire towers, trucks, and pumps. Also included are images of forest fires throughout New England and fires in various N...

Date: 1927-1941, undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331064

Ref. Code: PC053.01.43

Forest Fires

11 glass plate, nitrate, and acetate or nitrate negatives

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331065

Ref. Code: PC053.01.43.001

Fire Tower

10 glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives

Date: 1935, undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331066

Ref. Code: PC053.01.43.002

Indian Pump

3 glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331067

Ref. Code: PC053.01.43.003

Fire Chief, Waite, Maine

4 glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331068

Ref. Code: PC053.01.43.004

Peat Bag, Canton, Mass.

1 glass plate negative

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331069

Ref. Code: PC053.01.43.005

Easter Fire

6 glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives

Date: 1938

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331070

Ref. Code: PC053.01.43.006

Burlington, Mass.

1 glass plate negative

Date: 1934

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331071

Ref. Code: PC053.01.43.007

Cape Cod., Mass.

4 glass plate negatives

Date: 1949

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331072

Ref. Code: PC053.01.43.008

Groton Fire

1 acetate or nitrate negative

Date: 1936

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331073

Ref. Code: PC053.01.43.009

Middlesex Fells

1 nitrate negative

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331074

Ref. Code: PC053.01.43.010

Plymouth, Mass.

2 glass plate negatives

Date: 1927, predominant 116-117

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331075

Ref. Code: PC053.01.43.011

Patrols

10 glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives

Date: 1938

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331076

Ref. Code: PC053.01.43.012

Reading, Mass.

2 nitrate or acetate negatives

Date: 1935

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331077

Ref. Code: PC053.01.43.013

Squantum, Rhode Island

1 glass plate negative

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331078

Ref. Code: PC053.01.43.014

Stoddard-Marlow, New Hampshire

10 glass plate, nitrate, and acetaet or nitrate negatives

Date: 1941

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331079

Ref. Code: PC053.01.43.015

Waverly, Mass

2 glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331080

Ref. Code: PC053.01.43.016

West Yarmouth, Mass

2 acetate or nitrate negatives

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331081

Ref. Code: PC053.01.43.017

YMCA

2 acetate or nitrate negatives

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331082

Ref. Code: PC053.01.43.018

Fireworks

This subseries contains glass plate, nitrate, and acetate and nitrate negatives of fireworks in various New England locations, such as East Lynn and Boston, Massachusetts. Negative 1151 is nitrate and has been removed to box XX

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331083

Ref. Code: PC053.01.44

Boston Common

3 glass plate negatives

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331084

Ref. Code: PC053.01.44.001

General

4 glass plate, nitrate, and acetate or nitrate negatives

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331085

Ref. Code: PC053.01.44.002

East Lynn, Massachusetts

1 glass plate negative

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331086

Ref. Code: PC053.01.44.003

Fish

This subseries contains glass plate and film negatives of diverse fish species. Included are fish at the South Boston Aquarium, cod, octopus, hag fish, and other interesting creatures.

Date: 1931, undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331087

Ref. Code: PC053.01.45