Historic New England

Vermont - Outside Vermont and Unidentified

File

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 187731

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USVT.1640

Vermont - Outside Vermont and Unidentified - Covered Bridges

File part

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 187732

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USVT.1640.0010

Vermont - Windham County

File

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 187733

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USVT.1650

Vermont - Windham County - Covered Bridges

File part

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 187734

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USVT.1650.0010

Vermont - MS Material

File

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 187735

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USVT.1660

Vermont - MS Material to be kept w/Covered Bridge Collection

File part

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 187736

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USVT.1660.0010

A crew of three men work on a dirt road in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. They appear to be removing a boulder from the middle of the road with a pulley rig. A man holds the reins of a horse-drawn wagon. A buggy is parked on the side on the road.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 187751

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2690.0380.001

Joseph Picard auction

An auction is conducted at the house of Joseph Picard in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. A crowd of people examine the items for sale that are arranged in the front yard of the home. Wagons, buggies, and other horse-drawn vehicles are parked next to the stone wall bordering the property and on the dirt r...

Date: 1914-04-19

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 187753

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2690.0380.002

Oversize photographs, 1860s-2023

The majority of the prints in the Oversize photograph series of the General Photographic Collection are nineteenth-century views of Boston buildings and streets, including works by Southworth and Hawes, James Wallace Black, John Adams Whipple, and A. H. Folsom, dating from the the 1860s to the mid-1...

Date: 1860-2023

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 187775

Ref. Code: PC001.01

Geographic locations

Sub-series

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 187776

Ref. Code: PC001.01.01

Subjects

Sub-series

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 187777

Ref. Code: PC001.01.02

Stereo views

Stereo views, or stereographs, are the double-views that were used as parlor entertainment starting in the mid-1850s. The Stereo views series of the General Photographic Collection contains more than 10,000 items, dating from the late 1850s to the mid-1880s.The emphasis of most stereographic photogr...

Date: 1850-1889

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 187779

Ref. Code: PC001.04

Geographic locations

Sub-series

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 187782

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01

Subjects

Sub-series

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 187783

Ref. Code: PC001.04.02

Photographers

Sub-series

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 187784

Ref. Code: PC001.04.03

Tucker family papers

The Tucker family papers (MS033) reflect the life and work of the Tucker family of Wiscasset, Maine, and life at their home, Castle Tucker. The majority of the collection comprises the papers of Richard and Mollie Tucker and their five children, which includes a substantial collection of correspond...

Date: 1758-1997, undated, predominant 1848-1997

Collection: Tucker family papers

GUSN: 187787

Ref. Code: MS033

Copybooks collection

27 copybooks (1 record carton, 1 oversized box)

Date: 1796-1885, undated

Collection: Copybooks collection

GUSN: 187795

Ref. Code: MS003

Scrapbooks collection

This collection consists of fifty-four scrapbooks on a variety of topics and including many different types of materials. Some scrapbooks include newspaper clippings while others include ephemera. Still others include personal materials such as sketches or poems. Please see individual scrapbooks' de...

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 187796

Ref. Code: MS004

Weld-Appleton family papers

Materials in this collection illustrate and document the life the Appleton family and Weld family, pivoting around Dorothy Everard (Appleton) Weld and her husband George Francis Weld, Sr. The collection documents these two individuals as well as their ancestors, siblings, and children. This colle...

Date: 1782-1976, undated

Collection: Weld-Appleton family papers

GUSN: 187797

Ref. Code: MS005

Casey family papers

The Casey family papers (MS008) reflect the life and work of the Casey family of Saunderstown, Rhode Island, and life at the Casey farm. The papers cover topics such as family history, trade, and agricultural activities. Additional material includes Thomas Lincoln Casey's (1831-1896) professional ...

Date: 1705-2009, undated

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 187798

Ref. Code: MS008

Joseph Everett Chandler diaries collection

This collection of twenty-six diaries covers Chandler's youth in Plymouth, Mass., his architectural studies and internships, and the last two decades of his career (1919-1941). Each diary gives a first-hand account of his daily activities, from the weather to garden work and visitors, luncheons, eve...

Date: 1881-1941, predominant 1919-1941

Collection: Joseph Everett Chandler diaries collection

GUSN: 187799

Ref. Code: MS009

Coffin family papers

The Coffin family papers (MS010) focus on domestic, commercial, and civic life during the mid-seventeenth century through the early twentieth century, reflecting the life and work of the Coffin and Coleman families of Newbury, Massachusetts. Materials within the collection relate to the towns of Ne...

Date: 1657-1987, undated, predominant 1657-1929

Collection: Coffin family papers

GUSN: 187800

Ref. Code: MS010

Fayerweather family papers

(3 legal size document boxes and 2 oversized boxes)

Collection: Fayerweather family papers

GUSN: 187802

Ref. Code: MS011

Gropius family papers

The Gropius family papers (MS012) contain the papers of architect, Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (1883-1969) and his wife, Ise (Frank) Gropius (1897-1983), and reflect their personal lives and professional work in both Germany and the United States. The papers are largely comprised of Ise's correspon...

Date: 1851-1985, undated

Collection: Gropius family papers

GUSN: 187803

Ref. Code: MS012

Elizabeth (Tyson) Vaughan (1871-1949) papers

The Elizabeth (Tyson) Vaughan (1871-1949) papers (MS013) contain material belonging to Vaughan, who lived in the Hamilton House in South Berwick, Maine, and members of her family (several of whom did not live in the house at any time). The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, printed mat...

Date: 1799-1974, undated, predominant 1862-1948

Collection: Elizabeth (Tyson) Vaughan (1871-1949) papers

GUSN: 187804

Ref. Code: MS013

Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

The Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers consist of approximately 71 linear feet of correspondence, research notes, publications, clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, ephemera, awards, catalogues and inventories, and other papers and artifacts. The collection documents the professional activiti...

Date: 1903-1993

Collection: Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little papers

GUSN: 187805

Ref. Code: MS015

Lyman family papers

The Lyman family papers (MS017) reflect the personal, social, and professional life and work, of the Lyman family of Boston and Waltham, Massachusetts. Most of the collection is comprised of personal and business correspondence; bills and receipts; genealogical material; estate inventories; and tru...

Date: 1818-2000, undated, predominant 1818-1939

Collection: Lyman family papers

GUSN: 187806

Ref. Code: MS017

Oliver Lane papers

1. Memorandum Book entitled "Sketch of My Life OGL" (Oliver Griffin Lane) This diary consisting of 112 pages written in ink in which Captain Oliver Lane describes his life (1798-1867), his career as a sea captain, entrepreneur and family man during the first half of the 19th century. The diary h...

Date: circa 1820-1921, undated, predominant 1828-1860

Collection: Oliver Lane papers

GUSN: 187807

Ref. Code: MS019

Payson family papers

Collection

Collection: Payson family papers

GUSN: 187809

Ref. Code: MS022

Pierce family papers

The Pierce family papers (MS023), reflect the personal, social, and professional lives of the Pierce family of Dorchester, Massachusetts. The collection is arranged in thirty-five series. Background: In 1968, Historic New England acquired the Pierce House in Dorchester, Massachusetts, from the ...

Date: 1652-1986, undated

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 187811

Ref. Code: MS023

Riegel-Emory family papers

The Riegel-Emory Family papers contain architectural drawings, manuscript materials, and ephemera related to the history of Riegel Point, the family estate in Fairfield, Connecticut, and the two families who made it their home. Source: Hopkins, Geri and Lauren Miller. Riegel Family Photograph Col...

Collection: Riegel-Emory family papers

GUSN: 187812

Ref. Code: MS024

Sears and Cutting families papers

Sears Papers The Sears and Cutting papers came into the possession of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, now Historic New England, Library and Archives in 1987, following the death of Edwin B. Sears of Weston, who bequeathed this property jointly to Historic New England ...

Date: 1863-1955

Collection: Sears and Cutting families papers

GUSN: 187813

Ref. Code: MS026

Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection

This collection documents the history of the Cape Cod Canal from its construction in the early 1910s to the early 2010s. The materials in the collection date from 1827 to 2015, with the bulk of the material dating from the 1910s to the 1960s. The collection consists of photographic prints, photograp...

Date: 1827-2015, undated, predominant 1910-1969

Collection: Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection

GUSN: 187815

Ref. Code: MS028

Miscellaneous manuscript collection

This collection includes a variety of materials. While most archival collections are grouped by subject, origin, or another unifying characteristic, this collection is unusual because it does not conform to that standard. These materials are gathered together somewhat arbitrarily. They do, however, ...

Collection: Miscellaneous manuscript collection

GUSN: 187816

Ref. Code: MS029

Parson Smith family papers

The Parson Smith family papers (MS032) reflect the personal, social, and professional life and work of Peter Thatcher Smith (1731-1826) and his descendants who resided at the Parson Smith Homestead in South Windham, Maine. The majority of the collection focuses on the Anderson, Goodell, and Parker ...

Date: 1738-1957, undated, predominant 1800-1920

Collection: Parson Smith family papers

GUSN: 187817

Ref. Code: MS032

Non-Historic New England periodicals

Collection

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 187819

Ref. Code: SC002

The American agriculturalist

Series

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 187820

Ref. Code: SC002.01

Willow Cafe, Union St, Rockland, Mass.

Interior view of the dining room at the Willow Cafe in Rockland, Massachusetts. Image features diners and restaurant workers. The building has a fancy pressed-tin ceiling.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 187863

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2500.0020.001

Temporary

Series

Collection: Harriot Appleton Curtis photographic collection

GUSN: 187872

Ref. Code: PC023.TMP

Double portrait of Misses Frances Greely Stevenson and Martha Curtis Stevenson, seated on chairs on a porch, facing front, Manchester, Mass., 1890

Frances Greely Stevenson and Martha Curtis Stevenson sit on the porch of an unidentified house in Manchester, Massachusetts. The women were the daughters of Jonathan Greely Stevenson and sisters to Annie Brace Stevenson. The sisters were involved in philanthropic activities and lived together in Bro...

Date: 1890

Collection: Harriot Appleton Curtis photographic collection

GUSN: 187873

Ref. Code: PC023.TMP.001

Fishermen and boats surrounding three small whale corpses at the shoreline, location unknown, undated

Image of whalers pulling in a haul of three small whales. The photograph features two small boats with harpoons across the bows. Four of the whalers wear waist-high gaiters and other waterproof gear.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 187876

Ref. Code: PC001.02.02.2750.0100.002

Group of men fishing for herring, Taunton, Massachusetts, undated

Photograph of eight men fishing for herring in Taunton, Massachusetts. The fishermen are using a net to draw the fish toward the shore.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 187881

Ref. Code: PC001.02.02.2750.0100.003

Portrait of two unidentified men with a cart and a dog, Sharksmouth, Manchester, Mass., undated

Two young men are outside the front gate of Sharksmouth, the Greely Stevenson Curtis estate, in Manchester, Massachusetts.

Collection: Harriot Appleton Curtis photographic collection

GUSN: 187884

Ref. Code: PC023.TMP.002

Early start to school, Sharksmouth, Manchester, Mass., 1888

Children from the Curtis family are being transported to school in the image. The carriage is on a wooded road near a bridge. The Greely Stevenson Curtis estate, Sharksmouth, was located at Manchester, Massachusetts.

Date: 1888

Collection: Harriot Appleton Curtis photographic collection

GUSN: 187887

Ref. Code: PC023.TMP.003

Elinor Curtis and unknown man dressed in 18th century costume, location unknown, undated

The photograph features Elinor Curtis with an unidentified man dressed in 18th century costume. She wears a large bonnet, a shawl, fingerless gloves, and carries both a purse and fan. The man wears a powdered wig, knee breeches and large buckled shoes and is holding Curtis' hand while she looks aw...

Collection: Harriot Appleton Curtis photographic collection

GUSN: 187889

Ref. Code: PC023.TMP.004

Group portrait of Elinor Curtis and two unidentified people, seated on chairs, facing front, dressed in costumes, location unknown, undated

The image is a group portrait of two women (Elinor Curtis and an unidentified woman) and a man dressed in costume. They are all seated, facing front, in chairs on an intricate carpet. The man wears breeches, a powdered wig and fancy shoes. He is speaking to a women wearing a bonnet, fingerless glov...

Collection: Harriot Appleton Curtis photographic collection

GUSN: 187894

Ref. Code: PC023.TMP.005

Man in a row boat, location unknow, undated

Image of a man in a rowboat on a cove surrounded by cliffs. The photograph is taken from a rock on the shoreline.

Collection: Harriot Appleton Curtis photographic collection

GUSN: 187896

Ref. Code: PC023.TMP.006

Greely Curtis at Sharksmouth, Manchester, Mass., 1884-1887

The text on the verso reads "Greely Curtis at Sharksmouth," from the family album, 1884-87. Greely Curtis drives a two-wheeled cart with five children outside the front gate of Sharksmouth. Sharksmouth was the Greely Stevenson Curtis estate at Manchester, Massachusetts.

Date: 1884-1887

Collection: Harriot Appleton Curtis photographic collection

GUSN: 187898

Ref. Code: PC023.TMP.007