Historic New England

Trade card, Dix & Freeman, wholesale dealers in West India goods, No. 3 Long Wharf, Boston, Mass.

The proprietors are Thomas R. Dix and Geo. A. Freeman.

Date: 1840s

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320230

Ref. Code: EP003.005.010

Trade card, Tute, Fay & Morey, dealers in teas and tobacco, No. 16 Southn Market Street, and 16 Chatham Street, Boston, Mass.

The proprietors are Rensalear Tute, Philemon Morey and Charles F. Fay.

Date: 1860s

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320231

Ref. Code: EP003.005.011

Trade card; Morse, Denny & Co., commission wool merchants, 130 Congress Street, Boston, Mass.

The partners are Sterne Morse, Clarence H. Denny and Joseph G. Shed.

Date: 1870s

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320232

Ref. Code: EP003.005.012

Trade card, Elliott & Ahlberg, stevedores, Baltimore, Maryland

The card verso has "Rates of Pilotage for Chesapeake Bay."

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320233

Ref. Code: EP003.005.013

Trade card, Haas Hog and Poultry Remedy, Dr. Joseph Haas, Indianapolis, Indiana

Text on the card verso describes the medication. Two pigs and a rooster deliver the remedy in a boat. The image caption reads "The Relief Committee, Cheer up comrades, we are coming."

Date: 1882

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320235

Ref. Code: EP003.005.014

Trade card, Boss Patent Cases, J.A. Smith, jeweler, 358 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, New York

Smith carries James Boss gold watch cases.

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320236

Ref. Code: EP003.005.015

Trade card, Mrs. Potts' Cold Handle Sad Irons, Enterprise Manufacturing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

A man paints images of the irons on a fence. The caption reads "Our special artist on the road." An observer states "Just what my mother wants."The irons are sold by B. Callender & Co., 246 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320237

Ref. Code: EP003.005.016

Portrait album

One of ten small albums, eight leather bound and two with velvet bindings, containing gems (approximately 3/4" square tintype portraits that generally only pictured the head). No photographers are indicated. A few sitters are indexed at the back of the albums or in notes beneath the photographs.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320387

Ref. Code: PC009.069B

Portrait album

One of ten small albums, which contains contains small copies of paintings published by J.E. Tilton Co. in Boston, Mass. These are mostly sentimental, but there are also portraits (taken from paintings) of George and Martha Washington, Abraham Lincoln and soldiers in uniform.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320388

Ref. Code: PC009.069C

Portrait album

One of ten small albums, eight leather bound and two with velvet bindings, containing gems (approximately 3/4" square tintype portraits that generally only pictured the head). No photographers are indicated. A few sitters are indexed at the back of the albums or in notes beneath the photographs.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320389

Ref. Code: PC009.069D

Portrait album

One of ten small albums, eight leather bound and two with velvet bindings, containing gems (approximately 3/4" square tintype portraits that generally only pictured the head). No photographers are indicated. A few sitters are indexed at the back of the albums or in notes beneath the photographs.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320390

Ref. Code: PC009.069E

Portrait album

One of ten small albums, eight leather bound and two with velvet bindings, containing gems (approximately 3/4" square tintype portraits that generally only pictured the head). No photographers are indicated. A few sitters are indexed at the back of the albums or in notes beneath the photographs.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320391

Ref. Code: PC009.069F

Portrait album

One of ten small albums, eight leather bound and two with velvet bindings, containing gems (approximately 3/4" square tintype portraits that generally only pictured the head). No photographers are indicated. A few sitters are indexed at the back of the albums or in notes beneath the photographs.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320392

Ref. Code: PC009.069G

Portrait album

One of ten small albums, eight leather bound and two with velvet bindings, containing gems (approximately 3/4" square tintype portraits that generally only pictured the head). No photographers are indicated. A few sitters are indexed at the back of the albums or in notes beneath the photographs.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320393

Ref. Code: PC009.069H

Portrait album

One of ten small albums, eight leather bound and two with velvet bindings, containing gems (approximately 3/4" square tintype portraits that generally only pictured the head). No photographers are indicated. A few sitters are indexed at the back of the albums or in notes beneath the photographs.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320394

Ref. Code: PC009.069I

Portrait album

This album was removed to the print collection.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320395

Ref. Code: PC009.069J

Portrait album

One of ten small albums, which contains portrait cartes de visite, including two half-size ones, and a tintype of carte de visite size (approximately 2 1/2" x 4 1/2"). No photographers are indicated. A few sitters are indexed at the back of the albums or in notes beneath the photographs.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320396

Ref. Code: PC009.069K

Alice Pearse wearing a blue velvet ensemble

Originally purchased in 1883 by Miss C. L. W. French of Roxbury and Boston from Mlle Camille Lipman of Rue Drouot, Paris. "A tantalizing bit of evidence suggests that Miss French may have been a suffragette, for this dress was worn in 1920 by a relative at a celebration of the Nineteenth Amendment ...

Date: undated

Collection: Personal photographic collection

GUSN: 320472

Ref. Code: PC004.01.P.0900.001

Alice Pearse wearing a red satin ensemble

1 black and white photograph

Date: undated

Collection: Personal photographic collection

GUSN: 320473

Ref. Code: PC004.01.P.0900.002

Le Garde-meuble, ancien et modern

Le Garde-meuble, ancien et moderne was a bimonthly periodical published in Paris between 1839 and 1935. The publication consisted of illustrations of furniture and interior decoration from the reign of Louis-Philippe to the Third Republic. Its title is a reference to the royal Garde-meuble establish...

Date: 1845-1868

Collection: Le Garde-meuble, ancien et modern

GUSN: 320515

Ref. Code: GC007

Album 118A: "Municipal Architecture in Boston from Designs by Edmund M. Wheelwright, City Architect, 1891-1895," Vol. 1

1 of 2 volumes

Date: 1898

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320524

Ref. Code: PC009.118A

Album 118B: "Municipal Architecture in Boston from Designs by Edmund M. Wheelwright, City Architect, 1891-1895," Vol. 2

1 of 2 volumes

Date: 1898

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320525

Ref. Code: PC009.118B

Business card for Harry's Cheese & Cold Cuts, 98 Blackstone Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The business carries imported and domestic cheeses. A handwritten note on the verso reads "Haymarket, voted best cheese shop in Boston in 2015."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 320720

Ref. Code: EP001.01.046.04.01.051

Congregational House, 14 Beacon St., Boston, Mass., May 2, 1904.

View of the front facade of Congredational House, 14 Beacon St., Boston, Mass., designed by the architectural firm of Shepley, Ruttan, and Coolidge. The building is on the National Register of Historical Places, The follwoing description of the bas reliefs is from the Congregational House webis...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 320728

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.0770.001