Historic New England

Cottage City from Highland Wharf, 74-A

The image shows a view from Highland Wharf looking towards Cottage City on Martha's Vineyard. Visible are several buildings, some with distinctive architectural features, such as towers and domes, along the shoreline. A pier extends out into the water, and the sea and sky occupy the foreground and b...

Collection: Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection, circa 1878-1917

GUSN: 390935

Ref. Code: PC022.001.002.001.024.74-A

Cottage City, from back of Wright's Cottage, 75-A

The image shows a view of the settlement known as Cottage City on Martha's Vineyard, taken from the back of Wright's Cottage. In the foreground, there is sandy and grassy terrain with some shrubbery. Across a body of water, there are numerous houses and larger buildings, some with distinct architect...

Collection: Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection, circa 1878-1917

GUSN: 390936

Ref. Code: PC022.001.002.001.024.75-A

Trees at West Chop, 76-A

The image depicts a group of wind-sculpted trees situated on a grassy hillside at West Chop, Martha's Vineyard. The trees are set against a backdrop that includes the horizon, suggesting a coastal view.

Collection: Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection, circa 1878-1917

GUSN: 390937

Ref. Code: PC022.001.002.001.024.76-A

C. C. Smith's House, 79-A

The image depicts C. C. Smith's house in Edgartown, Massachusetts. The house is a two-story structure with wooden siding and several windows featuring shutters. It is surrounded by a picket fence, and a few individuals are visible standing on the sidewalk in front of it. Trees partially overhang the...

Collection: Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection, circa 1878-1917

GUSN: 390938

Ref. Code: PC022.001.002.001.024.79-A

Wharf at Edgartwon, 81-A

The image depicts a wharf in Edgartown, Massachusetts. A wooden dock is seen in the foreground with a man leaning against a small boat. Several buildings line the waterfront, and additional boats are moored nearby. The scene captures a tranquil harbor setting characteristic of a coastal town.

Collection: Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection, circa 1878-1917

GUSN: 390939

Ref. Code: PC022.001.002.001.024.81-A

Holmes Wharf, West Side, 82-A

The image shows Holmes Wharf on the west side of Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard. It features several wooden buildings near the shoreline, with a pathway leading down a gentle slope to the water's edge. In the background, several sailboats are visible on the water.

Date: 1893-03-17

Collection: Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection, circa 1878-1917

GUSN: 390940

Ref. Code: PC022.001.002.001.024.82-A

Katama Lodge and Train, 83-A

The image shows Katama Lodge on Martha's Vineyard with a train in front of it. A group of people is gathered near the train, with the lodge's architecture prominently visible in the background. The scene captures a combination of transportation and hospitality from the era.

Collection: Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection, circa 1878-1917

GUSN: 390941

Ref. Code: PC022.001.002.001.024.83-A

Gay Head Lighthouse, 84-A

The image features the Gay Head Lighthouse located on Martha's Vineyard. The structure is a substantial brick lighthouse with a cylindrical tower topped by a lantern room. Adjacent to the lighthouse is a large building with several windows and chimneys. In the foreground, a few people are seen stand...

Collection: Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection, circa 1878-1917

GUSN: 390942

Ref. Code: PC022.001.002.001.024.84-A

Cottage City from Bathing Tower, 85-A

The image shows a view of Cottage City (now known as Oak Bluffs) from a bathing tower on Martha's Vineyard. Visible are several ornate Victorian-style houses arranged along a curved road. A grassy area and more buildings are seen in the background, illustrating the community layout of the time.

Collection: Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection, circa 1878-1917

GUSN: 390943

Ref. Code: PC022.001.002.001.024.85-A

Collens Wharf, Mayhew House in Background, 86-A

The image depicts Collens Wharf in the foreground with wooden planks and a docked boat. The wharf features ropes, a mast, and equipment on the deck. In the background is a view of Edgartown, with the Mayhew House and several other structures visible across the water.

Collection: Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection, circa 1878-1917

GUSN: 390944

Ref. Code: PC022.001.002.001.024.86-A

Grove, 87-A

The image depicts a grove in West Chop, Martha's Vineyard. It features windswept trees with twisted branches and a backdrop of dense foliage. The grass in the foreground appears long, and the overall landscape gives a sense of natural, weather-shaped beauty.

Collection: Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection, circa 1878-1917

GUSN: 390945

Ref. Code: PC022.001.002.001.024.87-A

Wharf and Men, 88-A

The image depicts a wharf at Vineyard Haven, where several men are visible. One man sits on the sand near a piece of lumber, while another stands closer to the wharf structure. A boat is docked at the pier, and several other vessels are visible on the water in the background. Additionally, a lobster...

Date: 1893-03-17

Collection: Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection, circa 1878-1917

GUSN: 390946

Ref. Code: PC022.001.002.001.024.88-A

Men on Cliff, Gay Head, Looking North, 89-A

Three men are seen climbing a rocky cliff at Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard, facing north. The coastline with a sandy beach is visible below, extending into the distance along the ocean.

Collection: Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection, circa 1878-1917

GUSN: 390947

Ref. Code: PC022.001.002.001.024.89-A

Edgartown Wharf, 90-A

The image shows the Edgartown Wharf, featuring a waterfront area lined with several small boats and a larger vessel with masts. Buildings, including a visible fish market, are situated along the waterfront. Logs and various materials are piled on the wharf, and a church steeple is visible in the bac...

Date: ca. 1880

Collection: Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection, circa 1878-1917

GUSN: 390948

Ref. Code: PC022.001.002.001.024.90-A

Agassiz Hall, Cottage City, 91-A

The image shows Agassiz Hall, a multi-story building located in Cottage City, Marthaâs Vineyard. The structure features a wraparound porch, several windows, and decorative architectural details at the roofline. A few people are visible standing on the porch. The building is set on a gently sloping...

Collection: Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection, circa 1878-1917

GUSN: 390949

Ref. Code: PC022.001.002.001.024.91-A

Great Nose, Looking North West, 92-A

The image shows the landscape of Great Nose at Gay Head, looking northwest on Martha's Vineyard. It features a steep, rocky cliff leading down to a narrow beach and the ocean. The shoreline is visible in the background, with scattered rocks along the water's edge. Noted as the last trip.

Collection: Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection, circa 1878-1917

GUSN: 390950

Ref. Code: PC022.001.002.001.024.92-A

Photograph of Judge Jackson's Garden, Boston, 93-A

The image depicts Judge Jackson's Garden in Boston. In the foreground, there is a residential building, and behind it, a church with Gothic architectural elements, including arched windows and a tower. The garden area appears to be surrounded by a fence, and the scene includes several bare trees, su...

Date: 1902-12-06

Collection: Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection, circa 1878-1917

GUSN: 390951

Ref. Code: PC022.001.002.001.002.93-A

Bewer Fountain, 94-A

The image shows Brewer Fountain located in Boston Common. The fountain is surrounded by an ornate metal fence and features sculptural elements, including figures at its base. In the background, there is a tall church steeple and several buildings visible behind the trees. The foreground contains a g...

Collection: Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection, circa 1878-1917

GUSN: 390952

Ref. Code: PC022.001.001.003.94-A

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 96-A

The image shows the historic building of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. It features a large, ornate structure with elements of Gothic architecture, such as arched windows and decorative detailing. A horse-drawn carriage is visible in the foreground, and ivy partially covers the lower part of the...

Date: 1907-08-07

Collection: Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection, circa 1878-1917

GUSN: 390953

Ref. Code: PC022.001.002.001.002.96-A

View from Wharf, 97-A

The image shows a harbor view with multiple sailing ships visible in the water. The most prominent ship in the foreground has two masts with furled sails. Other ships can be seen in the background, along with a distant shoreline.

Collection: Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection, circa 1878-1917

GUSN: 390954

Ref. Code: PC022.001.002.006.97-A

Corner of Temple Place and Tremont Street, 98-A

The image captures the corner of Temple Place and Tremont Street in Boston. Trees with bare branches stand in the foreground, with several benches visible beneath them. A building under construction or partially completed is in the background, and a person can be seen on the sidewalk. The building t...

Collection: Baldwin Coolidge Photographic Collection, circa 1878-1917

GUSN: 390955

Ref. Code: PC022.001.002.001.002.98-A

Architecture, et parties qui en dâependent.

19 p., [68] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.

Date: 1779?]

Creators: Direx, Benard, ill.

GUSN: 151773

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA2760.A73

Bicknell's village builder : elevations and plans for cottages, villas, suburban residences, farm houses, stables and carriage houses, store fronts, school-houses, churches, court-houses, and a model jail; also exterior and interior details for public and private buildings, with approved forms of contracts and specifications, [etc.], Containing fifty-five plates drawn to scale...

[17] p., 54 plates ; 34 cm.

Date: 1870.

Creators: Bicknell, A. J. (Amos Jackson)

GUSN: 151774

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA2610.B58

How to build, furnish and decorate : consisting of elevations and plans for houses, barns, and every description of outbuilding, accompanied with clear and concise instructions; also, a complete treatise on house furnishing and decoration. Six hundred and fifty illustrations.

[106], 38, [60] p. : ill., plans ; 35 cm.

Date: c1883.

Creators: Co-operative Architects, New York.

GUSN: 151775

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA7130.C8 c.1 (and 1 more)

Modern American architecture : designs and plans for villas, farm-houses, cottages, city residences, churches, school-houses, etc., etc. Containing fifty-five original plates giving in detail plans and illustrations suited to all parts of the country / by M. F. Cummings ... and C. C. Miller ...

[38] p. : front., 54 plates ; 36 x 28 cm.

Date: 1868, c1867.

Creators: Cummings, M. F. (Marcus Fayette), 1836-1905. Miller, Charles Crosby, 1831-1903.

GUSN: 151776

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA2610.C8

The builder's guide, or, A practical treatise on the several orders of Grecian and Roman architecture : together with the Gothic style of building ... / by Chester Hills.

2 v. in 1 : ill., plates ; 41 cm.

Date: 1836, c1834.

Creators: Hills, Chester.

GUSN: 151777

Call Number: Rare Ovr. TH145.H5

Menuisier en batimens.

16 p., [38] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 38 cm.

Date: [19--?]

GUSN: 151778

Call Number: Rare Ovr. TH5605.M46

Palliser's American architecture, or Every man a complete builder / by Palliser, Palliser & Co., Architects ...

95 p., [8] p. : ill., plates, plans ; 35 cm.

Date: 1903, [c1898]

Creators: Palliser, Palliser & Co.

GUSN: 151779

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. NA7207.P35 1903

A series of instructive examples in architectural, engineering and mechanical drawing, illustrated by thirty large folio engravings of recently constructed works in England.

[29] leaves of plates ; 20 x 47 cm.

Date: 1841.

Creators: Weale, John, 1791-1862

GUSN: 151780

Call Number: Stacks NA2700.W33 1841

Original sketches for art furniture : in the Jacobean, Queen Anne, Adams, and other styles / by A. Jonquet.

2 p. ¾., 65 plates ; 38 cm.

Date: 1880.

Creators: Jonquet, A.

GUSN: 151781

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NK2542.J6

The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director : being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of houshold furniture in the Gothic, Chinese and modern taste ... to which is prefixed a short explanation of the five orders of architecture and rules of perspective ... / by Thomas Chippendale.

x, 27 p., [153] leaves of plates : ill. ; 48 x 31 cm.

Date: 1754.

Creators: Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779.

GUSN: 151782

Call Number: Stacks NK2260.F87 1988

Household furniture and interior decoration / Thomas Hope.

53 [1] p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Date: 1807.

Creators: Hope, Thomas, 1770?-1831. Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887.

GUSN: 151783

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NK2135.H7 M8 1807

Elizabethan interiors / by C. J. Charles.

40 leaves, [39] plates : ill. ; 43 cm.

Date: [191-?]

Creators: Charles, C. J. (Charles Joel), 1871-

GUSN: 151784

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA625.C5

The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide; or, Repository of designs for every article of household furniture ... displaying a great variety of patterns ... with a scale to each, and an explanation in letter press. Also, the plan of a room, shewing the proper distribution of the furniture ... from drawings by A. Hepplewhite and co. ...

3 p. l., 24 p., 124 pl. (1 double) 38 x 25 cm.

Date: 1794. 1897.

Creators: A. Hepplewhite and Co.

GUSN: 151785

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NK2542.H5

In English homes : the internal character, furniture & adornments of some of the most notable houses of England historically depicted / from photographs specially taken by Charles Latham.

xxxii, 421 p. : ill. ; 41cm.

Date: 1904.

Creators: Latham, Charles Tipping, Henry Avray, 1855-1933.

GUSN: 151786

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA7328.L4 1904

In English homes : the internal character, furniture and adornments of some of the most notable houses of England historically depicted from photographs specially taken by Charles Latham.

421 p. : ill. ; 40 cm.

Date: 1907.

Creators: Latham, Charles.

GUSN: 151787

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA7328.L4 1907

Recueil d'estampes relatives áa l'ornementation des appartements : aux XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siáecles; pub. sous la direction & avec un texte explicatif par M. H. Destailleur ... gravâees en fac similâe par MM. R. Pfnor, Carresse et Riester d'apráes les compositions de Du Cerceau, Lepautre, Berain, Daniel Marot, Meissonnier, La Londe, etc. ...

2 v. : plates ; 46 cm.

Date: 1863-71.

Creators: Destailleur, Hippolyte Alexandre Gabriel Walter, 1822-1893.

GUSN: 151788

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. NK2049.D4 vol.1

Recueil de dâecorations intâerieures comprenant tout ce qui a rapport áa l'ameublement comme vases trâepieds, candâelabres ... etc.

1 p. l., 43 p., 72 pl. ; 24 cm.

Date: 1812.

Creators: Percier, Charles, 1764-1838. Fontaine, Pierre Franðcois Lâeonard, 1762-1853.

GUSN: 151789

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. NK2135.P4 1812

The book of American interiors : prepared by Charles Wyllys Elliott from existing houses; with preliminary essays and letterpress descriptions; illustraed in heliotype.

x, 135 p. : front., ill., 21 pl. ; 35 cm.

Date: 1876.

Creators: Elliott, Charles Wyllys, 1817-1883.

GUSN: 151790

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NA2851.E6 (and 1 more)

Colonial furniture : measured drawings / by Donald Millar.

31 folded sheets : ill. ; 23 x 31 cm.

Date: 1925.

Creators: Millar, Donald.

GUSN: 151791

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NK2406 M54 1925

The study book of furniture and furnishing : being a series of fifty-six plates of designs showing interiors, cabinet work, upholstery and sundries.

1 l. : 56 plates ; 43 cm.

Date: [n.d.]

GUSN: 151792

Call Number: Rare Browne Ovr. NK2230.S78

The old silver of American churches, by E. Alfred Jones ...

p. ¾., ix-lxxxvii, 566 p., 1 ¾. illus., CXLV pl. 40 cm.

Date: 1913.

Creators: Jones, E. Alfred (Edward Alfred), 1872-1943. National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.

GUSN: 151793

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NK7215.J73

Illustrated catalogue of art tiles made by J. G. and J. F. Low.

1 v. : 30 plates.

Date: c1884.

Creators: Low, J. G. Low, J. F.

GUSN: 151794

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NK4675.L8 1884

Ancient oriental carpet patterns after pictures and originals of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / with descriptive text by Julius Lessing ...

25 p. : ill., 30 col. pl. ; 50 cm.

Date: 1879.

Creators: Lessing, Julius, 1843-1908.

GUSN: 151795

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NK2808.L6

Modern ornamentation : being a series of original designs for the patterns of textile fabrics, for the ornamentation of manufactures in wood, metal, pottery, &c.; also for the decoration of walls & ceilings and other flat surfaces / by Chr. Dresser.

[4] p., 50 plates (part col.) ; 39 cm.

Date: 1886.

Creators: Dresser, Christopher.

GUSN: 151796

Call Number: Rare Ovr. TT857 D74 c.1 (and 1 more)

Suggestions in floral design. By F. Edward Hulme ...

2 p. ¾., [3]-52 p. col. front., L col. pl. 37 cm.

Date: [1878-79]

Creators: Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909.

GUSN: 151797

Call Number: Rare Ovr. NK1565.H9

Rudiments of curvilinear design / by George Phillips.

v, [2], 8-96 p., [48] leaves of plates : ill. ; 58 cm.

Date: [1839?]

Creators: Phillips, George.

GUSN: 151798

Call Number: Rare NK1530.P55

The knave of hearts / by Louise Saunders; with pictures by Maxfield Parrish.

7 p. ¾., 9-46 p. 1 ¾. : col. front., col. ill., col. plates ; 36 cm.

Date: 1925.

Creators: Saunders, Louise. Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966.

GUSN: 151799

Call Number: Stacks PS3537.A885 K5 1925

Architectural water-colours & etchings of W. Walcot / with an introduction by Sir Reginald Blomfield ...

x, 139 p. : front., ill., plates, port. ; 36 cm.

Date: 1919.

Creators: Walcot, William, 1874-1943.

GUSN: 151800

Call Number: Rare Ovr. ND1942.W3 A4

Photogravures of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Beverly Farms, Pride's Crossing / original negatives by Jeannette M. Appleton ; reproduced by the New York Photogravure Co., New York.

[2] leaves, [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 x 36 cm.

Date: c1891.

Creators: Appleton, Jeannette M. New York Photogravure Co.

GUSN: 151801

Call Number: Rare Ovr. TR652.A66

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