Historic New England

Deer Park near corner of Boylston and Tremont Sts., Boston Common

A group of four deer rest in the shade on the grass in the Deer Park, which was located on the Boylston Street Mall of Boston Common between the Burial Ground and Tremont Street from 1863 to 1882. A young visitor looks through the tall fence at the animals.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194975

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0170.0280.002

People waiting to see the Prince of Wales during his visit to Boston, Boylston Street Mall, Boston Common, Oct. 1860

On the Boylston Street Mall of Boston Common, a crowd of onlookers wait to catch a glimpse of the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, on a state visit. He stayed at the Revere House hotel on Bowdoin Square and took part in a military review on Thursday, October 18, 1860 on Boston Common.

Date: 1860

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194976

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0170.0280.003

Goat train, Boston Common, with Soldiers and Sailors Monument

A crowd of people watch as the goat train passes along a path below the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument on Flagstaff Hill on Boston Common. Six rams pull the little wagon on which riders could travel aound the Common.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194977

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0170.0370.001

Old Elm, Boston Common, after fall during storm and being sawed into lengths

The Old Elm, also known as the Great Elm, stood at the foot of Flagstaff Hill on Boston Common, was considered a landmark of the city and was called the oldest known tree in New England. The tree succumbed to the gales of a storm and toppled onto the ground on February 15, 1876. Parts of the tree we...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194978

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0170.0330.001

Postcard of young shoe shiners, Boston Common, Boston, Mass., undated

A group of shoeshine boys await customers in front of the William Blackstone Memorial Tablet on the Park Street Mall of Boston Common. Parts of the front and side façades of the Park Street Church are visible in the background. Cars drive down Park Street toward the intersection with Tremont Street.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194979

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.049

Memorial plaque for Gilbert Stuart, Boston Common. Installed 1897 by the Paint and Clay Club

This close-up view shows the memorial plaque honoring the painter Gilbert Stuart, which sculptor Hugh Cairns created and the Paint and Clay Club of Boston installed on the fence enclosing the Central Burying Ground, or Old South Burying Ground, where Stuart is buried, on the Boylston Street side of ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194980

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.2630.001

Tablet by John F. Paramino in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, Lafayette Mall (formerly Tremont St. Mall), Boston Common

This close-up view shows the Marquis de Lafayette Memorial, created by sculptor John Francis Paramino and dedicated by the City of Boston on September 6, 1924, on the Tremont Street Mall of Boston Common. The monument commemorates the 100th anniversary of Lafayette's march to Bunker Hill on the 50th...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194981

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.2630.002

Trees on the west side of Tremont St. Mall looking northwest, Boston Common, Boston, Mass., August 3, 1914

Several men sit on benches on a pathway near the Park Street Mall of Boston Common. Four of the men wear boaters, and two read newspapers. Pedestrians walk along Tremont Street past the R.H. Stearns department store and St. Paul's Church, and riders exit from the Boylston Street subway station.

Date: 1914-08-03

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194982

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.2580.001

Living tableau of the American Flag with forty-five stars, Boston Common, Aug. 16, 1904

Over two thousand girls and boys from Boston, Massachusetts form a "living flag" on grandstands, 120 by 60 feet, at the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic on the Tremont Street Mall of Boston Common opposite Temple Place on August 16, 1904. The school children are dressed in red, ...

Date: 1904-08-16

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194983

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.2580.002

Muster on Boston Common

A military unit wearing bearskins and bandoliers and bearing rifles with fixed bayonets stand assembled at the foot of a hill (perhaps Flagstaff Hill) on Boston Common. A military band, some members of whom hold brass instruments such as trombones and trumpets, are gathered behind the soldiers. At t...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194984

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.2590.001

Ruins of ancient trees on Boston Common after the Great New England Hurricane

The Great New England Hurricane on September 21, 1938 destroyed many trees on Boston Common. Branches and trunks lie strewn across the ground. The dome of the Massachusetts State House is seen above the devastation.

Date: 1938

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194985

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.050

Monument commemorating the 1860s football games of the Oneida Football Club, Boston Common, erected in 1925

A close-up view shows the monument to the Oneida Football Club of Boston near the Spruce Street gate to Boston Common. The Oneidas were the first organized football club in the United States and played on the Common from 1862 to 1865. The surviving seven members of the team dedicated the monument on...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194987

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.2630.003

Boston Common during a snow storm

A blanket of snow covers Boston Common and weighs down the branches of the trees. A crew of workers shovel out the pathways. In the middle distance is the Brewer Fountain, which was donated by merchant Gardner Brewer to the city in 1868 and is a copy of a fountain which he saw at the 1855 Paris Worl...

Date: 1900-1920

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194988

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.2580.003

Photomechanical illustration of the interior of the Old Ship Meeting House, Hingham, facing pulpit

This interior view displays the Old Ship Meeting House in Hingham, Massachusetts, the only surviving 17th century meeting house in the United States. Elements of the hip roof structure are visible, such as the curved struts, king post, rafters, and purlins. The ground floor is comprised of box pews ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194989

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.1320.0150.001

Photograph of a woodcut depicting the exterior of the Old Ship Meeting House, Hingham, about 1850.

A woodcut exterior view of the Old Ship Meeting House in Hingham, Massachusetts, the only surviving 17th century meeting house in the United States. A cupola with a spire and weathervane crown the hip roof.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194990

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.1320.0150.002

Underside of roof of Old Ship Meeting House, Hingham.

An interior view of the underside of the roof of the Old Ship Meeting House in Hingham, Massachusetts, the only surviving 17th century meeting house in the United States. The elements of the hip roof structure are visible, such as the curved struts, king post, rafters, and purlins. A set of stairs l...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194991

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.1320.0150.003

Interior of Meeting House, Hingham ("Old Ship Meeting House").

An interior view of the Old Ship Meeting House in Hingham, Massachusetts, the only surviving 17th century meeting house in the United States. Pews fan outward from the pulpit, which has staircases on either side of it, a sounding-board above it, and two Palladian windows behind it. Pews occupy the g...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194992

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.1320.0150.004

Interior of Old Ship Church, Hingham, before restoration and with 18th century pulpit.

An interior view of the Old Ship Meeting House in Hingham, Massachusetts, the only surviving 17th century meeting house in the United States. Pews fan outward from the pulpit, which has staircases on either side of it, a sounding-board above it, and drapes and curtains covering the two windows behin...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194993

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.1320.0150.005

The "Old Church," Hingham

This stereograph shows the exterior of the Old Ship Meeting House in Hingham, Massachusetts, the only surviving 17th century meeting house in the United States. The view is along the driveway up a rise to the side of the church. A cupola with a spire and weathervane crown the hip roof. A group of pe...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194994

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0790.0010.005

Hon. Matthew Bridge's wedding gift to his son, Nathan, 1814

Matthew Bridge, a member of the Massachusetts state legislature and senate, gave this two-story Georgian-style house on Green Street in Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts to his son Nathan, a prominent businessman, on the occasion of his marriage to Elizabeth Bartlett in 1814.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194995

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0560.0010.001

Exterior view of the Tufts House, corner of Prospect and Chelsea Sts., Charlestown

This exterior view from the intersection of Prospect Street and Chelsea Streets shows the Nathan Tufts house, its terraced lawns, and stables in Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts. A widows' walk surmounts the roof of the two-story house. Just past the stable of the house on Prospect Street is the F...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194996

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0560.0020.001

Bunker Hill Monument, as seen from the Grain Elevator, Charlestown, Mass.

This aerial view shows the Bunker Hill Monument and the surrounding area in Charlestown, Massachusetts. The photograph may have been taken from the grain elevator of the Fitchburg Railroad at the Hoosac Tunnel docks in Charlestown.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194997

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0560.0020.002

Interior view of the fireplace, Edward Everett House, 16 Harvard St., Charlestown

An interior view shows a fireplace and mantel in a room in the Edward Everett House in Charlestown, Massachusetts. A fire basket with logs sits in the fireplace. The mantel is decorated with double slender columns and single ogee arches.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194998

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0560.0250.001

Window and door, Harrison Baldwin House, 16-18 School St., Charlestown

This interior view of the Harrison Baldwin House in Charlestown, Massachusetts shows a room in disrepair. A window is boarded up. Refuse is heaped on the floor and plaster has fallen off to reveal the lath. A door leads into a room that appears to be in a similar condition.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194999

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0560.0030.001

Ceiling, pipe, and molding, Harrison Baldwin House, 16-18 School St., Charlestown, Mass.

This interior view of the Harrison Baldwin House in Charlestown, Massachusetts shows various details of a room, including a molded arch and pilaster on the wall and the molding of the ceiling.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195000

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0560.0030.002

View of Inman Square, Cambridge, looking east

The intersection of Cambridge, Hampshire and Beacon Streets is seen in Inman Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Streetcars and horse-drawn vehicles share the road.

Date: 1910-1930

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195001

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0500.0080.001

View of Central Square, Cambridge, Mass.

Central Square, looking west, is seen in this image.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195002

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0500.0080.002

View of Lexington St., East Boston, looking east

Row houses crowd together on Lexington Street in East Boston, Massachusetts. Trees lining the sidewalks almost form a canopy over the cobblestone roadway. A trolley car with the sign "Tunnel" and an advertisement for the Boston Pops travels along the street. On December 30, 1904, the Boston Elevated...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195003

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0850.0030.001

Interior view of H.H. Richardson's office, Brookline, Mass.

An interior view of the private library and office of Henry Hobson Richardson in the residence, originally the Samuel Gardner Perkins House, on 25 Cottage Street in Brookline, Massachusetts where he lived and worked from 1874 to his death in 1886. Bookshelves and bookcases line the walls. Oak beams ...

Collection: Personal photographic collection

GUSN: 195004

Ref. Code: PC004.01.R.0500.01

View of Meridian St., East Boston, looking north

Two trolley cars travel through a commercial area on Meridian Street in East Boston, Massachusetts. One of them has a sign marked "Tunnel" and an advertisement for the Boston Pops. On December 30, 1904, the Boston Elevated Railway Company opened the East Boston Tunnel, the first underwater subway tu...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195005

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0850.0030.002

Steamship City of Columbus at wharf, East Boston, Mass., 1882-1884

The coastal steamer, City of Columbus, is shown at the Fort Point Channel terminal of the New York & New England Railroad. The boat entered service in 1882 and was wrecked on January 17, 1884.

Date: 1882-1884

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195006

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0850.0020.001

View of Chelsea Bridge looking south

Repairs are made to the Chelsea Street Bridge that connects East Boston with Chelsea, Massachusetts over the Chelsea Creek. Workers build scaffolding to work on the piers of the truss bridge. On the roadway, men appear to be examining the components of the truss. The tugboat, Dewitt C. Ivins, can be...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195007

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0850.0150.001

Barkentine "Herbert Fuller", wharf near 81 Summer St., East Boston, "at time of trial for the murder of the captain"

The barkentine "Herbert Fuller" of Harrington, Maine is moored at a wharf near Summer Street in East Boston, Massachusetts. During a voyage to Rosario, Argentina, Captain Charles I. Nash, his wife Laura, and second mate August W. Blomberg were murdered on July 14, 1896. First mate Thomas M. C. Bram ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195008

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0850.0150.002

Carlton's Wharf, East Boston, Mass., 1880s

Two sailing ships are moored at Carlton's Wharf in East Boston, Massachusetts. The view is of the bows of the ships at low tide.

Date: 1880s

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195009

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0850.0020.002

Maverick Square, East Boston

Passengers await trolley cars at the station in Maverick Square, East Boston, Massachusetts. A trolley car is parked at the station. The entrance to the East Boston Tunnel is behind the station. On December 30, 1904, the Boston Elevated Railway Company opened the tunnel, the first underwater subway ...

Date: ca. 1918

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195010

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0850.0020.003

View of the Cottage Club and Pier from Terrace Gables, Falmouth Heights, Mass., undated

An exterior view of the Cottage Club and Pier from the Terrace Gables hotel across Grand Avenue in Falmouth Heights, Massachusetts. William Tobey built the Dutch Colonial style, gambrel-roof structure after the original Casino was destroyed by fire in 1909. The building also included a post office a...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195011

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0980.0070.005

Exterior view of the John Robbins House, 144 Great Rd., Acton, Mass.

In this distant exterior view, the John Robbins House, the carriage house, and barn at 144 Great Road in Acton, Massachusetts are pictured. Cows stand in a pasture enclosed by a stone wall before the house.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195016

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0020.0050.001

Exterior view of the Riedesel Mansion, corner of Brattle and Sparks Sts., from 140 Brattle St., Cambridge, Mass.

An exterior view from across Brattle Street of the house known variously as the Riedesel Mansion and the Sewall-Riedesel House at the corner with Sparks Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Baron Riedesel commanded the troops from Brunswick, Germany hired by the English to fight in the Revolutionary ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195017

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0500.0160.001

Looking down Riedesel Ave., Cambridge, Mass.

A view down Riedesel Avenue to the intersection with Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Snow covers the ground and the gabled roof of a Shingle-style residence. A horse-drawn trolley car is seen on Brattle Street. Baron Riedesel commanded the troops from Brunswick, Germany hired by the Engl...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195018

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0500.0160.002

Employees at work tables

A group of nine male workers stand next to or lean on work tables in a factory. Several of the men wear aprons. There are small animal skins and patterns on the tables. This may be a factory of the shoe and boot manufacturing company, Field Bros. & Gross, of Montello, Brockton, Massachusetts.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195019

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0450.0050.001

Exterior view of the Berkeley Villa/Martha Codman Karolik House, Newport, Rhode Island, undated

A woman stands on the balcony of the Berkeley Villa/Martha Codman Karolik House in Newport, Rhode Island. The house was designed by Martha Codman's cousin, the architect Ogden Codman.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195020

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USRI.0290.0250.001

Design for a cottage for Henry C. Bowen, Esq.

Architect Joseph Collins Wells designed Roseland Cottage in Woodstock, Connecticut for Henry Chandler Bowen. These north front and east front elevations and first and second floor plans were drawn in ink and pencil with watercolor on a single sheet.

Date: ca. 1846

Collection: General architectural and cartographic collection

GUSN: 195025

Ref. Code: AR001.USCT.3350.001

Town houses of James M. Beebe & Gardner Brewer House, covering the John Hancock Estate on Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.

This presentation drawing depicts the front elevation of the French Renaissance double town houses at 29-30 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, designed by Gridley James Fox Bryant as the homes of James M. Beebe (30 Beacon Street) and Gardner Brewer (29 Beacon Street). The John Hancock House had b...

Date: 1864

Collection: General architectural and cartographic collection

GUSN: 195028

Ref. Code: AR001.USMA.0250.010

Set of architectural drawings of Holbrook Hall, Newton, Mass., 1875

1 set of 17 architectural drawings

Date: 1875

Collection: General architectural and cartographic collection

GUSN: 195029

Ref. Code: AR001.USMA.0800.001

Framing plan of the Thomas Wigglesworth House, Manchester, Mass., Feb. 9, 1889

This framing plan is for the ocean view of a summer cottage designed for Thomas Wigglesworth by Gridley James Fox Bryant at 9 Old Neck Road in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. The design combines Queen Anne and Colonial Revival elements. The drawing is dated February 9, 1889.

Date: 1889-02-09

Collection: General architectural and cartographic collection

GUSN: 195031

Ref. Code: AR001.USMA.0600.001.002

Bird's-eye perspective of the garden, The Hague, Hamilton, Mass., ca. 1915

This watercolor on paper bird's-eye perspective drawing shows the estate and garden of Alexander Cochrane, known as The Hague or The Farm, in Hamilton, Massachusetts. Arthur Shurcliff designed the garden. Cochrane was a chemical manufacturer and businessman. A wall surrounds the garden on two sides,...

Date: ca. 1915

Collection: General architectural and cartographic collection

GUSN: 195032

Ref. Code: AR001.USMA.0450.001.001

Set of architectural drawings of the John McCarthy and William Kallady Houses, Roxbury, Boston, Mass., Jan. 26, 1897

1 set of 9 architectural drawings

Date: 1897-01-26

Collection: General architectural and cartographic collection

GUSN: 195033

Ref. Code: AR001.USMA.0250.002

First floor plan of the John McCarthy and William Kallady Houses, Roxbury, Boston, Mass., Jan. 26, 1897

This first floor plan is for two triple-deckers on Calumet Street in the Parker Hill neighborhood of Roxbury in Boston, Massachusetts. The architects, Samuel Rantin & Son, designed the dwellings for John McCarthy (154 Calumet Street) and William Kallady (152 Calumet Street).

Date: 1897-01-26

Collection: General architectural and cartographic collection

GUSN: 195034

Ref. Code: AR001.USMA.0250.002.002

Presentation drawing of an unidentified brick cottage bungalow, designed by Frank Chouteau Brown, location unknown, 1912

These presentation drawings depict a brick cottage bungalow designed by Frank Chouteau Brown. The ink and pencil on trace drawings include a front and side rendering; first and second story floor plans; and a front sectional elevation. There is information about the cubic area of the house and estim...

Date: 1912

Collection: Frank Chouteau Brown professional architectural collection

GUSN: 195035

Ref. Code: AR003.003.001

Set of architectural drawings of the Mrs. Arland A. Dirlam House, Stoneham, Mass., 1935

1 set of 18 architectural drawings

Date: 1935

Collection: Arland A. Dirlam architectural collection

GUSN: 195037

Ref. Code: AR006.TMP.001

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