Historic New England

Photographic Images

This series includes photographic images of historic homes, interiors, wallpaper, furniture and decorative arts, including many museum collection photographs.

Date: undated

Collection: Rose Standish Nichols unpublished manuscript collection

GUSN: 330309

Ref. Code: MS058.04

Non-manuscript Related, 1940s-1951, undated

This series includes pamphlets, receipts, a photocopied letter detailing the collection's acquisition, and the suitcase in which the manuscript was stored. The original acquisition letter is stored with donor files.

Date: 1940-1951, undated

Collection: Rose Standish Nichols unpublished manuscript collection

GUSN: 330310

Ref. Code: MS058.05

Table of Contents and Prelude

1 folder

Date: undated

Collection: Rose Standish Nichols unpublished manuscript collection

GUSN: 330311

Ref. Code: MS058.01.01

Preface, Chapter I: Looking Backward; Chapter II: The Rise of Colonial Architecture, Furniture

1 folder

Collection: Rose Standish Nichols unpublished manuscript collection

GUSN: 330313

Ref. Code: MS058.01.02

Chapter I: Pilgrims Progress

1 folder

Date: undated

Collection: Rose Standish Nichols unpublished manuscript collection

GUSN: 330314

Ref. Code: MS058.01.03

Chapter III: The Rise of Domestic Architecture

1 folder

Date: undated

Collection: Rose Standish Nichols unpublished manuscript collection

GUSN: 330315

Ref. Code: MS058.01.04

Chapter IV: 18th Century Town and Country Houses

1 folder

Date: undated

Collection: Rose Standish Nichols unpublished manuscript collection

GUSN: 330316

Ref. Code: MS058.01.05

Chapter V: Interior Decoration

1 folder

Date: undated

Collection: Rose Standish Nichols unpublished manuscript collection

GUSN: 330317

Ref. Code: MS058.01.06

Chapter VI: Cabriole Furniture

1 folder

Date: undated

Collection: Rose Standish Nichols unpublished manuscript collection

GUSN: 330318

Ref. Code: MS058.01.07

Chapter VI: Textiles and Embroidery and Chapter VII: Textiles and Embroidery-Images

1 folder

Date: undated

Collection: Rose Standish Nichols unpublished manuscript collection

GUSN: 330319

Ref. Code: MS058.01.08

Chapter VII: Mural Decoration

1 folder

Date: undated

Collection: Rose Standish Nichols unpublished manuscript collection

GUSN: 330320

Ref. Code: MS058.01.09

Chapter VIII: Silverware and Pewter

1 folder

Date: undated

Collection: Rose Standish Nichols unpublished manuscript collection

GUSN: 330321

Ref. Code: MS058.01.10

Chapter VIII and IX: China and Glass

1 folder

Date: undated

Collection: Rose Standish Nichols unpublished manuscript collection

GUSN: 330322

Ref. Code: MS058.01.11

Chapter IX: Silversmiths and Silverware

1 folder

Date: undated

Collection: Rose Standish Nichols unpublished manuscript collection

GUSN: 330323

Ref. Code: MS058.01.12

Chapter X: Minor Arts and Crafts

1 folder

Date: undated

Collection: Rose Standish Nichols unpublished manuscript collection

GUSN: 330324

Ref. Code: MS058.01.13

[Architectural Elements]

1 folder

Date: undated

Collection: Rose Standish Nichols unpublished manuscript collection

GUSN: 330325

Ref. Code: MS058.02.14

Cabriole

1 folder

Date: undated

Collection: Rose Standish Nichols unpublished manuscript collection

GUSN: 330326

Ref. Code: MS058.02.15

China, 1920s-1930s

1 folder

Date: 1920-1939

Collection: Rose Standish Nichols unpublished manuscript collection

GUSN: 330327

Ref. Code: MS058.02.16

Chinese Painting, circa 1940

1 folder

Date: circa 1940, undated

Collection: Rose Standish Nichols unpublished manuscript collection

GUSN: 330328

Ref. Code: MS058.02.17

W. T. Fulton house, Hanover, Mass.

Set of nine architectural drawings for alterations to existing house for Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Fulton in Hanover, Massachusetts (commission #1832) including seven elevations and two plans. Some drawings are signed by Harmon J. Kiley Jr. or Warren J. Rhoter. Alterations include addition of a family r...

Date: 1961

Collection: Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

GUSN: 330329

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1832

Frederica Frankel house, Ridgefield, Conn.

Set of sixteen architectural drawings for alterations to existing house for Dr. Frederica Frankel in Ridgefield, Connecticut (commission #1827) including four elevations, three plans, and nine details. Some drawings are signed and dated by Ken Duprey.

Date: 1961-1963

Collection: Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

GUSN: 330330

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1827

Furniture, 1920s-1930s

1 folder

Date: 1920-1939

Collection: Rose Standish Nichols unpublished manuscript collection

GUSN: 330331

Ref. Code: MS058.02.18

Williamsburg Restoration and Notes on Furniture, circa 1945

1 folder

Date: circa 1945, undated

Collection: Rose Standish Nichols unpublished manuscript collection

GUSN: 330332

Ref. Code: MS058.02.19

Gardens

1 folder

Date: undated

Collection: Rose Standish Nichols unpublished manuscript collection

GUSN: 330333

Ref. Code: MS058.02.20

Wagons

2 glass plate negatives

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331205

Ref. Code: PC053.01.64.004

Carts

1 glass plate negative

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331206

Ref. Code: PC053.01.64.005

Horses and man

1 glass plate negative

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331207

Ref. Code: PC053.01.64.006

Houses

This subseries includes glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives of houses, mostly older homes, throughout New England. The negatives feature houses in Stafford Springs, Connecticut, and Ipswich and Boston, Massachusetts.

Date: 1934-1937, undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331211

Ref. Code: PC053.01.65

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

Hunger Marches

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

Insects

\li-15This subseries contains glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives of a variety of insects including ants, beetles, butterflies, crickets, caterpillar, grasshopper, mosquitos, and moths. Also included are images of inspects that were used in a special feature in Yankee Magazine.

Date: 1929-1936, undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331220

Ref. Code: PC053.01.72

Interiors

This subseries contains glass plate negatives of an old time barroom saloon, a living room, and a bed room.

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331221

Ref. Code: PC053.01.73

International Illumination Congress

This subseries contains glass plate negatives of the international illumination congress, which took place in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1928. The negatives show various groups of people at the event, including a soccer team.

Date: 1928

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331222

Ref. Code: PC053.01.74

Inventions

This subseries includes glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives of various inventions, such as a rotating sail, a perspiring water pitcher, a clothes line tightener, and a remote control boat.

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331224

Ref. Code: PC053.01.75

Alan Trustman Jr. house, Brookline, Mass.

Set of twenty-four architectural drawings of house for Mr. and Mrs. Alan Trustman Jr. in Brookline, Massachusetts (commission #1670) including four elevations, three plans, one plot plan, one rendering, and fifteen details. Some drawings are signed by Royal Barry Wills, Ken Duprey, or Robert E. Mino...

Date: 1958

Collection: Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

GUSN: 331223

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1670

Lamplighters

This subseries includes an acetate or nitrate negative of a man lighting a gas street light.

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331226

Ref. Code: PC053.01.76

Lindbergh

This subseries contains glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives of Charles Lindbergh on a trans-continental tour after his flight from New York to Paris, France in May of 1927. During the summer of 1927, Lindbergh visited Concord, New Hampshire, aviators in Boston, Massachusetts, and politicia...

Date: 1927, undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331228

Ref. Code: PC053.01.77

Logging and Lumbering

This subseries includes glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives that depict logging and lumbering around New England. The negatives show individuals and groups in the logging and lumbering business, but also the natural environment surrounding the business. The negatives come from a variety o...

Date: 1926-1927, undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331229

Ref. Code: PC053.01.78

Charles L. Stearns house, North Scituate Mass.

Set of ten architectural drawings of house for Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Stearns in North Scituate, Massachusetts (commission #1671) including three elevations, two plans, one plot plan, one interior elevation, and two details. Also included is one drawing, dated 1967, for a proposed second floor addi...

Date: 1957

Collection: Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

GUSN: 331230

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1671

G. Carlton Snowe house, Auburn, Maine

Set of seven architectural drawings of house for Mr. and Mrs. G. Carlton Snowe in Auburn, Maine (commission #1673) including four elevations and three plans. All drawings are signed by Richard Wills; no drawings are dated. Drawings depict a two-story Colonial Revival-style house with an asphalt s...

Date: 1957, undated

Collection: Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

GUSN: 331232

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1673

Large tree moving and other landscape work, Lewis & Valentine Co., Roslyn, Long Island, branch nursery, East Rockaway, Long Island

Large trees relocated abd planted on Long Island estates are shown in photographs. The inside of the back cover has lists of estates and landscape architects.

Date: 1915-09-10

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 331234

Ref. Code: EP001.12.001.004.114

Tree planting on streets and highways, by William F. Fox, State of New York, Forest, Fish and Game Commission, Albany, New York

The advantages of planting trees are described with suggestions for tree selection and maintenance. There are eight color plates of leaves from recommended specimens.

Date: 1903

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 331235

Ref. Code: EP001.12.001.004.115

Mail

\li-15This subseries includes glass plate and acetate negatives that feature mailboxes in Maine and a mailman on Bonair Street in Somerville, Massachusetts

Date: 1927-1940

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331239

Ref. Code: PC053.01.79

Marbles

This subseries includes two glass plate negatives of several men watching and playing marbles

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331240

Ref. Code: PC053.01.80

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