Historic New England

Pleasant Recollections

Snapshots album embossed "Pleasant Recollections" inscribed "To Jenna and James from Anna and Bill...in appreciation of their part in making this collection possible." circa 1935. Contents include Marblehead, Stoneham (Spot Pond), Lake Winnipesaukee, Kennebunkport, Grange Fair, tug of war, Gooch's...

Date: ca. 1935

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194528

Ref. Code: PC009.137

Account book for labor of James Rundlet, merchant, manufacturer, and investor

First thirty pages torn out. Remaining pages for labor accounts. Laborers mentioned by name, but type of work not specified. Payment made in cash, fabric, and shoes. Back page lists "those who preached in 1826" by name, date, and occasionally by town of origin.

Date: 1826-1830

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194531

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-JR-I-16

Old Newport Houses

"Old Newport Houses - 1875" Boxed portfolio of 29 mounted albumen photographs, presented with "Compliments of Charles McKim" to "William Dean Howells" (possibly his brother in law?), circa 1880. Identity of photographer is not yet known. This album is cited in Vincent Scully's "Shingle Style" a...

Date: ca. 1875

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194532

Ref. Code: PC009.138

John F. Kennedy at newsstand, Boston, 1957

John F. Kennedy whistles as he peruses reading material at a Boston newsstand. He holds a magazine in his right hand.

Date: 1957

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194533

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.012

Account book for labor of James Rundlet, merchant, Portsmouth, N.H., 1811-1816

Labeled "Accounts with Laborers, Truckmen, Servants, Etc." Services include schooling children, sundry garden chores, iron work, and trucking. Illustrates a barter economy. Payment made in cash, fabric and related sundries, shoes, and foodstuffs.

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194537

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-JR-I-17

Lloyd Hendricks snapshot album

Snapshot album compiled by architect Lloyd Hendricks of Pocasset, Massachusetts. Includes some postcards. Among houses represented are the Craddock House and Hall House in Medford, Stone Homestead in Belmont, various homes in Yarmouth, Dennis, Hingham, Lexington, Newburyport, Salem, Marblehead, Ca...

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194534

Ref. Code: PC009.139

Antique purchase, Albany, Vermont, 1951

A man in a trenchcoat, viewed from behind, attempts to fit a large wooden wheel in the back of his car.

Date: 1951

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194549

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.013

Moulton House scrapbook

Removed to scrapbooks. Includes photographs, clippings and related memorabilia (correspondence, invoices) relating to property, its background and ownership by Mr. Harland Little. Includes material relating to residences of similar style in other parts of New England. Date, 1920. Includes some in...

Date: 1920

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194538

Ref. Code: PC009.140A

Little scrapbook

Removed to scrapbooks. Consists of memorabilia, snapshots and clippings, covering among other subjects commencement and class reunion of Bates College (Lewiston, Maine), outings in New Hampshire gardens and garden club activities. Includes letter of acknowledgement for albums from W.S. Appleton, 19...

Date: ca. 1920

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194539

Ref. Code: PC009.140B

Account book of Edward Rundlet, physician and merchant, Portsmouth, N.H., 1851-1853

Labeled "accounts settled." Customer's name appears only when accounts are settled. Entries include payments on taxes, insurance, railroad fees, and assorted household expenses.

Date: 1851-1853

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194543

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-ER-I-2

Hampton Falls Unitarian Church scrapbook

Removed to scrapbooks. Presumed to be part of this collection, consists of clippings relating to Unitarian Church services, photographs of church, and pageant "Ancestor's Sunday" 1952.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194540

Ref. Code: PC009.140C

Moulton House scrapbook

Removed to scrapbooks. Consists of genealogical notes, architecture of the house and letters of interest received by the Littles.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194542

Ref. Code: PC009.140D

Moulton House Legendary and Historical Notes

Removed to scrapbooks. Legendary and historical notes on the Jonathan Moulton House owned by Mr. Harland Little.

Date: 1920-1950

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194544

Ref. Code: PC009.140E

Moulton House manuscript material

Removed to Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection. Separated from this collection and filed with "miscellaneous manuscripts: semibound." Volume of original and manuscript copies of documents relating to the Moulton Family of Hampton, New Hampshire. Compiled by Jennie Brooks of Salem, Massachusetts.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194546

Ref. Code: PC009.140F

Account book of Edward Rundlet, physician and merchant, Portsmouth, N.H., 1855-1863

Scattered monthly accounts noting amount paid or due. Type of services or merchandise not indicated. Entries paid out include taxes, postal due, and insurance fees.

Date: 1855-1863

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194547

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-ER-I-1

Keeping dry, Albany, Vermont, 1951

A man sits on a wooden bench with a handkerchief on his head to protect him from the rain. A woman holds an umbrella over him.

Date: 1951

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194555

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.014

Couple at auction, Albany, Vermont, 1951

Two elderly women sit together and talk at an antiques auction in Vermont.

Date: 1951

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194556

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.015

Sweet briar waltz : recreation march

The cover depicts two maidens dancing around a tree. A cherub plays a lute above them.

Date: 1873

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 194562

Ref. Code: EP001.10.TMP.069

Account book of Edward Rundlet, physician and merchant, Portsmouth, N.H., 1858-1860

Financial entries covering specific foodstuffs and household items, taxes, and large sums paid to Mechanics and Traders Bank. Prices given for all items, but there are no monthly or yearly totals evident.

Date: 1858-1860

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194563

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-ER-II-3

Account book for James Rundlet May, physician, Portsmouth, N.H.

Records expenditures for a Memorial Day celebration kept by the "Memorial Committee." Itemized costs for the brass band, musicians, printing costs, etc. Also lists city appropriations and contributions. Includes a brief letter from the Memorial Committee appointing the writer to manage the account.

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194567

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-JRM-I-2a

Sketches of European Churches

Album compiled by architect J.W. Ames. Includes detailed sketches of European churches, interiors, circa 25 photographs; 10 pen and ink sketches.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194568

Ref. Code: PC009.142

Historic houses in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine

Removed to scrapbooks, 1995. Album of clippings illustrated with line engravings of historic houses in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine. Part of series titled "Old Homes, Old Families" plus other articles, not from this series, relating to the same subject. Houses documented include...

Date: 1890s

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194575

Ref. Code: PC009.143

Account book of James Rundlet May, physician, Portsmouth, N.H., 1881-1882

Small monthly record of personal expenses. Items such as stamps, telegrams, food, and clothing are listed. Includes summary by type of expenditure: clothing, gifts, and traveling for a two year period. Cost of journeys to Boston, New York, Washington, Norwich, and Windsor are itemized. Names men...

Date: 1881-1882

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194570

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-JRM-I-2ab

Account book of Jonathan Sayward, merchant, York, Maine, 1741

Concerns small shipping transactions of foodstuffs (rum and molasses) and various drygoods. Also contains figures for lumber lengths, religious poetry, and two brief accounts of ocean trips from Maine to Boston and Rhode Island. These include weather observations. Names mentioned: Capt. Josiah Beal,...

Date: 1741

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194573

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.SY-1-3

Account book and memorandum for Samuel Lord, financial investor, Portsmouth, N.H., 1851-1878

An accounting of income and expenditures. Lists property holdings and investments with values. Profit losses are itemized and clients listed by name. Also includes a yearly financial summary (state of affairs) in a journal format, mentioning topic of interest in the cotton manufacturing trade. The 1...

Date: 1851-1878

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194578

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-SL-I-5

Bungalow designs

Removed to scrapbooks, 1995. Bungalow designs compiled from newspapers, circa 1910-1920. Floor plans, renderings and photographs of various styles by Glenn Saxton, Charles Sedgwick and others.

Date: ca. 1915

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194576

Ref. Code: PC009.144

Columbian Portfolio: World's Fair 1893

Columbian portfolio. Photographs of World's Fair 1893. 22 halftone plates, plus color supplements (10) Illustrating individual buildings and general views with explanatory text. Color supplement published July 2, 1893 by Chicago Tribune Art Supplement and photomechanicals published by The Jones Br...

Date: 1893

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194579

Ref. Code: PC009.145

Views of Massachusetts and Vermont

4x7 albumen prints, exposed in the 1880s, probably by an amateur photographer. Quality and pictorial interest are above average. Views include: Provincetown, Massachusetts; Hyde Park, Massachusetts; Boston, Massachusetts; Moon Island Pumping Station and Sewarage Plant, Bellows Falls, Vergennes, Ru...

Date: ca. 1880

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194583

Ref. Code: PC009.146

Cash book of Jonathan Sayward Barrell, merchant, York, Maine, 1818-1835

Record of accounts listing customers, personal travel expenses, laborers' wages, and banking transactions. Includes some brief memoranda about "putting out" son, Joseph, to Stephen Lowell in Boston. Also, includes contracts of employment with live-in laborers.

Date: 1818-1835

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194598

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.SY-I-12a

House and Family Album

34 pages of gaslight prints, 3-4 prints per page, documenting interiors, pasttimes, pets, and family members. Locality not identified. Views include parade, attic storage, decorations. Pictorial quality is very good; print quality is variable. Dates to circa 1900. A avaluable study album for int...

Date: ca. 1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194596

Ref. Code: PC009.147

Views of New York State

Largely views of New York State, including Vassar College, circa 1890s. 61 photographs

Date: ca. 1895

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194597

Ref. Code: PC009.148

Views of Families in Massachusetts

28 albumen prints, 4x7, circa 1886. Includes views of families posed in front of their homes in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. Pictorial quality above average.

Date: ca. 1886

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194600

Ref. Code: PC009.149

Travel Album of W. B. Storer

Travel album (10 1/2 x 12) evidently compiled or owned by W.B. Storer whose name appears on the cover. Of particular interest is a large group of cartes de visites documenting various regional styles of Russian military dress, issued by a St. Petersburg photographer. Thre are also photographs of exc...

Date: 1860-1870

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194606

Ref. Code: PC009.151

Art Masterpieces of Europe

30 leaves of "art masterpieces" from collections in Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome, Paris, London. Carte de visite size, but not mounted in the usual fashion on cards. Two pages include larger size views, dating probably from the 1870s. Overall this album constitutes an interesting record of taste...

Date: ca. 1870

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194609

Ref. Code: PC009.152

Receipt of Jonathan Sayward Barrell, merchant, York, Maine, 1765-1814

Receipts for purchase of drygoods, livestock, servicing livestock, and state and parish taxes. All receipts include a signature or personal marking. As executor for Jonathan Sayward (father), the writer kept receipts of bequests to family members. Includes mention of bequest money to be used as part...

Date: 1765-1814

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194610

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.SY-I-12b

Carte-de-Visite album

Carte-de-visite (1860s) album in good condition (5x6 inches). Original ownership unknown. The sequence appears to be in original order with an unusual portrait of a disabled man at the end. Locality appears to be Manchester, New Hampshire.

Date: 1860

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194611

Ref. Code: PC009.153

Edith Erley, Christmas 1905

Postcard album, inscribed "Edith Erley, Christmas, 1905" with decorative cover, dimensions 8x14 1/2. Included are views of the following: Maine: Waterville, Old Orchard, Poland Springs, Portland, Rockland, Lewiston, York, Kennebunk, Wells Beach New Hampshire: Manchester, Somersworth, Portsmouth ...

Date: 1905

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194618

Ref. Code: PC009.154

Ames Memorial Building, North Easton, Mass.

Monographs of American Architecture; 111; The Ames Memorial Buildings, North Easton, Massachusetts. H. H. Richardson, Architect. 23 plates.Gravure process, excellent quality.

Date: 1934

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194304

Ref. Code: PC009.098

Account books 122.1-122.6

Series

Date: 1825-1850

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194308

Ref. Code: MS002.122

Historic Houses of Massachusetts by Wilfred French

Historic houses of Massachusetts. 21 photographs likely to have been taken by Wilfred French and probably dated to the 1880s. Individual plates are identified on back and relate to historic structures in the vicinity of Boston, and in many cases are duplicated by photographs in the geographic files...

Date: ca. 1880

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194307

Ref. Code: PC009.100

"Representative American Yachts" by Henry G. Peabody

"Representative American Yachts" is a collection of images of yachts by Henry G. Peabody with descriptive sketches by George Stewart. It contains one hundred twelve plates (possibly gravure reproduction) with twenty-four pages of text. The images are arranged by the length of the pictured vessels wi...

Date: 1893

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194314

Ref. Code: PC009.103

New Ipswich Mill Company, ledger B, New Ipswich, N.H., 1834

"New Ipswich [NH] Mill Company, Ledger B," 1834

Date: 1834

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194310

Ref. Code: MS002.122.01

Christmas reflections, Boston, 1955

A group of children stand pressed to the glass of a toy store window, looking wistfully at the treasures within.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194322

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.048

Unattributed account book, 1828-1834

Unattributed volume, dating generally from 1828 until 1836, itemizing personal and business expenses. Blank pages in the back of the volume have been used for drafts of essays, addresses, etc. although the author of these is unknown.

Date: 1828-1834

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194312

Ref. Code: MS002.122.02

Factory account book, New Ipswich, N.H. and Skowhegan , Maine, 1825-1837

New Ipswich, NH and Skouhegan [sic], ME factory operating expenses (manufacturing textiles), dating generally from 1825-1837. There are also entries referring to real estate, manufacturing, etc.

Date: 1825-1837

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194313

Ref. Code: MS002.122.03

Ledger of George Barrett, 1835-1850s

"George Barrett" -- "Ledger" (marked on spine), general and business expenses, 1835-1850s.

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194315

Ref. Code: MS002.122.04

Account book of Bullard and Barrett, Boston, Mass., 1829-1834

"Bullard and Barrett" (stamped on front board). Expenses relating to manufacturing in Boston, 1829-1834.

Date: 1829-1834

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194317

Ref. Code: MS002.122.05

Moosehead Lake, Maine

Moosehead Lake, Maine, 1887. 40 scenic views. Variable photographic quality.

Date: 1887

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194320

Ref. Code: PC009.107

Manufacturing account book, New Ipswich, N.H., 1830-1837

New Ipswich, 1830-1837. Primarily manufacturing expenses.

Date: 1830-1837

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194318

Ref. Code: MS002.122.06

The Vale, Waltham

Waltham, The Vale, 1884.13 photographs by Augustine H. Folsom of the exterior and landscaping of the Vale. The taking of these photographs may have coincided with a visit to the Vale by painter Frank Duveneck, whose subsequent landscapes reflect - though only generically - the configuration of some ...

Date: 1884

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194321

Ref. Code: PC009.108B

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