Historic New England

Turkeys, Boston, 1952

Two baby carriages stand outside a Boston grocery store. A large sign stating the price of turkeys hangs immediately above the carriages.

Date: 1952

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194433

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.076

DAR, Newbury, Vermont, 1953

Three women hold cups and saucers in a residence in Newbury, Vermont.

Date: 1953

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194434

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.077

New shoes, Newbury, Vermont, 1953

Two older women stand beneath a clothesline on a sunny day in Vermont. One of the women shows off her new shoes to her friend.

Date: 1953

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194435

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.078

Puddle jumper, Boston, 1953

A man in a coat and hat stretches his legs wide to navigate over a puddle. The winter streets of Boston are covered in snow, ice, and water.

Date: 1953

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194437

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.079

The Boston Arts Festival was both a celebration of local artists and a protest. There was a growing feeling among artists living and working in the Boston area that they were being overlooked by the area museums, which were more concerned with international trends than with the diverse and vibrant c...

Date: 1954

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194439

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.080

Easter parade, Boston, 1954

Four women stand with their backs to the camera, watching the Easter parade. Dressed in their Easter finery, including hats, they stand arm to arm. A large dog stands between two of the women, looking as though he is also watching the parade.

Date: 1954

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194441

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.081

After the flood, Ansonia, Conn., 1955

While covering a flood in rural Connecticut, Reed entered this house, where he found a woman resting from the exertion of cleaning up. Her posture and facial expressions carry the weight of the story.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194442

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.082

Trade card for Centennial Safety Oil, Maverick Oil Company, 61 1/2 Broad Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The card is illustrated with two images: one is dated 1776 with a man struggling to read a paper by the light of a fire, the second is dated 1880 and features a family sitting around a table, lit by oil lamp, reading, doing handiwork, and playing with ease. The product won the Highest Premium at the...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 194446

Ref. Code: EP001.01.084.01.01.016

Taffy pull, Peabody, Mass., 1955

Children smile with delight as they pull taffy in Peabody, Massachusetts.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194444

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.083

Brunswick Hotel, Boston, 1957

Long a Boston landmark, the Brunswick Hotel was torn down to make room for a modern office building. The people gathered here had decided to enjoy one last afternoon in the hotel's tea room. Rubble can be seen outside of an open door, but it doesn't phase the guests enjoying their tea.

Date: 1957

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194447

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.084

Teenie weenie, Boston, 1957

This photograph was taken on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the "Atlantic Monthly" magazine. A woman gestures to a bartender as to how much alcohol she would like--a teenie weenie amount.

Date: 1957

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194449

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.085

Country wedding, South Woodbury, Vermont, 1957

Like many of Reed's photographs, this one derived from a commission but interested him for the revealing light it cast on the newlyweds--who probably would not have selected it for their wedding album.

Date: 1957

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194450

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.086

Procession to the altar

Verner Reed shot the images for the "Life" magazine photo-essay, "A Wedding in a Land of Dolls," which described the fanciful wedding of dolls at the home of children's book author Tasha Tudor. Tudor famously eschewed the trappings of modern living and created instead a carefully constructed world b...

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194452

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.087

In the yard, Webster, N.H., 1955

Verner Reed shot the images for the "Life" magazine photo-essay, "A Wedding in a Land of Dolls," which described the fanciful wedding of dolls at the home of children's book author Tasha Tudor. Tudor famously eschewed the trappings of modern living and created instead a carefully constructed world b...

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194487

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.088

Hurricane, Fire and Flood, New London, Conn., September, 1938

Removed to scrapbooks, 1995. "Pictorial Souvenir Edition of New London's Greatest Disaster," Wednesday September 21, 1938: hurricane, flood, fire. 63 pages of pictures from "The New London Connecticut Day" October 1938.

Date: 1938

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194465

Ref. Code: PC009.105

"Old Boston " photographs from Boston Budget and Beacon

Removed to Photo files, Boston: General- "Boston Budget," November 1988. "Old Boston" - Photographs from Supplement Boston Budget and Beacon. Photomechanical reproductions of photographs taken between 1855-1899, published in 1900-1905.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194468

Ref. Code: PC009.110

Account book of Silas Casey, merchant and farmer, East Greenwich, R.I.

This account book contains harmful language including racist terminology. Historic New England acknowledges historical records / objects may contain harmful imagery and language reflecting attitudes and biases of their creators and time in which they were made. Historic New England does not alter...

Date: 1798-1813

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 194469

Ref. Code: MS008.02.02.04.001

Boston Edison Company

Photographs removed to photo file, rest removed to scrapbook, 1995. "Boston Edison Company." A scrapbook and album compiled by Irvin Morton documenting his fifty years with the Boston Edison Company. Period covered is from 1905-1955. Includes photographs, memorabilia and clippings. See also under ge...

Date: 1905-1955

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194475

Ref. Code: PC009.123

Indian Hill, Newbury Massachusetts

A photograph album of Indian Hill in West Newbury, Massachusetts that contains 24 8x10 prints by Mary Northend, Salem photographer, circa 1910. The majority are interior views and may duplicate material in the geographic files.

Date: ca. 1910

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194477

Ref. Code: PC009.124

Scrapbook of Wood Engravings

Removed to scrapbooks, 1995. Scrapbook of wood engravings clipped from Leslie's and Harper's weeklies (1860s-70s) covering such miscellaneous subjects as sailing, genre, travel, and portraiture. Front cover is lined with (East) Indian watercolor, evidently nineteenth century.

Date: 1860-1870

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194480

Ref. Code: PC009.125

Strangers Guide

Removed to trade catalogues, 1995. "Strangers Guide." A bound volume of advertising matter, including some topographical views relating to Boston businesses and manufacturers. Intended for use in the ladies parlour of the Evans House. Includes map of Boston business district. Probably 1880s.

Date: ca. 1880

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194483

Ref. Code: PC009.126

Scrapbook of news clippings

Removed to scrapbooks, 1995. Scrapbook of news clippings relating to architectural subjects pertaining to Boston, with some coverage of Andover, Amesbury, Bedford, and Marblehead, Massachusetts and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Illustrations date to circa 1900-1910. Possibly compiled by C. Park Press...

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194485

Ref. Code: PC009.127

The procession leaves the house, Webster, N.H., 1955

Verner Reed shot the images for the "Life" magazine photo-essay, "A Wedding in a Land of Dolls," which described the fanciful wedding of dolls at the home of children's book author Tasha Tudor. Tudor famously eschewed the trappings of modern living and created instead a carefully constructed world b...

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194495

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.089

Aerial views of New England harbors and coastal communities

Includes approximately 100 8 x 10 aerial photographs taken in Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island and New York coastal communities. Also included are photographs of the S.S. Bear (Byrd Expedition, Newfoundland), as it departed from Boston. Other localities represented are Rockport, Annisquam, Glouces...

Date: 1930-1940

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194490

Ref. Code: PC009.128A

Ledger of commission sales of James Rundlet, shipping merchant, Portsmouth, N.H., 1794-1806

Retail and wholesale accounts for drygoods. Commission received and damaged merchandise listed. Goods include paper hangings, clover seed, oil cloth, and tea. Postage and freight costs listed.

Date: 1794-1806

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194493

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

Account book of James Rundlet, Portsmouth, N.H., 1794-1841

Summary of holdings and income by year. Writer's assets and debits listed by type only (goods on hand, cash on hand, bank shares in businesses and real estate ventures). One or two pages per year. Includes slip of paper indicating amount of profits made in the years 1794-1839. Clearly written accoun...

Date: 1794-1841

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194496

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-JR-I-3

Views of Boston Airport and airplanes

Photographs depict aircraft at Boston Airport during the 1930s-40s. Donor provided annotations to many of these. Also memorabilia and pamphlets on aerial photography, New England airlines and air meets. Includes airline schedules. Airlines shown here include Nantucket Vineyard Airways, Shobe Airline...

Date: 1930-1940

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194497

Ref. Code: PC009.128B

Senator and Mrs. John F. Kennedy, Hyannis Port, Mass., 1955

This informal portrait of Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy was taken in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. She looks directly at the camera, while he looks intently at his wife.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194512

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.008

Cashbook of James Rundlet, shipping merchant, 1794-1796

Lists cash amounts "on hand" by month. Source of income not listed by type, only by name of client. Banks mentioned by name.

Date: 1794-1796

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194499

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-JR-I-4

Aerial views of Boston, North and South Shore and coastal Maine and Rhode Island

Aerial views of the North and South Shores of Boston and coastal sections of Rhode Island and southern Maine. Taken by T.F. Hartley, whose firm Hartley and Arnold maintained offices at Boston Airport (later renamed Logan) in the 1930s and 1940s.

Date: 1920-1940

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194498

Ref. Code: PC009.128C

Account book of James Rundlet, shipping merchant, Portsmouth, N.H., 1805-1809

Two separate account books: 1) Lists client's accounts by name for shipments of rum, butter, china, and tea. Condition of merchandise listed. 2) Lists expenses for the building of a new house by month, building materials itemized (e.g. board lengths, amounts of bricks, etc).

Date: 1806-1809

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194502

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

Residence of John Reece, Brookline, Massachusetts

Bound albums of circa 1890s prints documenting interiors at the residence of John Reece, 26 Still Street, Brookline, Massachusetts. Reece developed the 50 lens camera. He died accidentally on March 31, 1896. Details of his death and achievements included in an obituary pasted on page 3 of album a. T...

Date: ca. 1890

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194501

Ref. Code: PC009.129

Waste book of James Rundlet, shipping merchant, Portsmouth, N.H., 1806-1809

Lists exact measurements, prices, and sources of specific parts for a new house. Includes measurements for house sections and outbuildings. Eight pages of a calendar grid tabulating work done by hired laborers and craftsmen.

Date: 1806-1809

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194503

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-JR-I-6

Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts

"Monographs of American Architecture" (AABN) no. V, Trinity Church Boston. 23 heliotypes, including one in color. Interior details, besides exteriors. Includes portrait of H.H. Richardson in monk's robes. Photographic quality is excellent.

Date: 1888

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194505

Ref. Code: PC009.130

Waste book of James Rundlet, textile merchant, Portsmouth, N.H., 1811

Contains figures in preparation for ledger entries for three month period (March-May). Lists amount and type of fabric and related sundries, prices paid, and source of purchase.

Date: 1811

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194504

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-JR-I-8

Market book and ledger of James Rundlet, merchant, Portsmouth, N.H., 1833

Labeled "David's Market Book." Entries include wholesale purchases of meat, fish, shellfish, and poultry for retail sale. Includes entries for small repairs made in a (dry goods?) store.

Date: 1833

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194507

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.Rm-JR-I-9

Massachusetts Church Steeples

"Steeple Fund" An illustrated album describing improvements and donations to the reconstruction of church steeples in Blackstone, Brimfield, Douglas, Grafton, Holland, Medway (West); Merrimac, Milford, Millbury, Orange, Paxton, Princeton, Shrewsbury, Sutton, Uxbridge, Wrentham. Includes some "befo...

Date: 1940

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194509

Ref. Code: PC009.131

Beauport

Gloucester, Massachusetts: Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House. Over 100 5x7, 8x10 photographs presumably by Samuel Chamberlain documenting interiors and exterior of Beauport. (Note: Based on interior evidence, Richard Nylander feels that these photos cannot be by Chamberlain because they show Slee...

Date: ca. 1940

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194511

Ref. Code: PC009.132

Pierce-Perry-Farmer House, High Street, Newburyport, Mass.

This is an album bound in leather which includes forty-eight very detailed black and white photographs of the Pierce-Perry-Farmer house in Newburyport, Mass. It includes both exterior and interior views. The exterior views show the Federalist mansion and gardens. The interior views highlight sitting...

Date: ca. 1939

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 193817

Ref. Code: PC009.248

New England Family Album

Photo album with red snake/alligator print front and back cover containing approximately 30 leaves with 281 snapshots. Photographs are mostly 3 x4 black and white images with some larger photographs ( 3 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches). The first few pages are loose and missing some the photographs. Album app...

Date: 1948-1949

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 193818

Ref. Code: PC009.249

Account book 127, 1840-1845

Account book listing charges made by customers between 1840 and 1845 and recorded by an unknown purveyor of goods and services. Entries are listed by customer, then chronologically by purchase. Customers include: Moses Davis; John Dinsmore, Jr.; Simeon Kimbal; William McDaniel; Jeremiah Hall & C...

Date: 1840-1845

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 193819

Ref. Code: MS002.127

Account book 128, Vermont, 1873-1873

This account book for a northern Vermont manufacturer kept track of orders between 1872 and 1873. Customers ordered a variety of building parts such as blinds, windows, moldings, rails, and doors; precise measurements for many of these construction components are given, as are requested delivery dat...

Date: 1872-1873

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 193821

Ref. Code: MS002.128

Plan book of William G. Shillaber, Mass., 1866-1924

Plan book of William G. Shillaber's properties in Boston, Newton, Cambridge, Peabody, and Brighton. Plan book with photographs and surveys of properties as well as account sheets, deeds, and newspaper articles about real estate, land values, taxes, building methods, and Boston neighborhoods. Accoun...

Date: 1866-1924

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 193822

Ref. Code: MS002.129

Account book of H.K. Keith and Co., June 30-October 25, 1856

Account book of H. K. Keith & Co., with recorded sales from June 30 to October 25, 1856. Entries list daily retail sales, primarily for food items, clothing, dyes, soap, tea, and textiles. Also included are dyes, varnishes, spirits, and oils. Majority of sales appear to take place on Saturdays. ...

Date: 1856

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 193823

Ref. Code: MS002.130

Stock book of Henry K. Keith and Co., Feb. 1, 1860

"Stock Book" of Henry K. Keith & Co., February 1, 1860 detailing inventory of clothing, dry goods, writing supplies, pens, ink, and household items (including lamps, bottles, bowls, and polish). Other entries of interest include snuff boxes, reticules, hymnals, whips, ferrules, and curry combs. Quan...

Date: 1860-02-01

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 193824

Ref. Code: MS002.131

Account book of Nahum Keene, Duxbury, Mass., Mar. 24, 1852

Account book of Nahum Keene of Duxbury, Massachusetts, March 24, 1852, detailing inventory of clothing and textile goods, including dyes and accessories, such as veils, ribbons, gloves, and shawls. Other utilitarian items include: serving pieces; bed pans; scythes; and spices and various condiments ...

Date: 1852-03-24

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 193825

Ref. Code: MS002.132

Stock book of L.F. Brett, Duxbury, Mass., Feb. 1, 1843

Stock book of L. F. Brett of Duxbury, Massachusetts, dated February 1, 1843. Listed are a variety of clothing items and accessories, such as scarves, handkerchiefs, and hosiery. Other entries refer to children's clothing, sewing supplies and notions, foundations, and textiles. Household items listed...

Date: 1843-02-01

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 193826

Ref. Code: MS002.133

Account book of James Short, Newbury, Mass., 1742-1801

This family account book was kept by James Short of Newbury, Massachusetts, between 1742 and 1801. Other family members mentioned include Nicolas Short and John Short. Monies exchanged were in pounds Sterling. Goods and services exchanged included a wide variety of agrarian activities and basic need...

Date: 1742-1801

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 193827

Ref. Code: MS002.134

Account book of Andrew Ayers, Northfield, Mass., 1818-1852

Account book of Andrew Ayers of Northfield, Massachusetts, kept 1818-1852, in which he records on an almost daily basis receipts for goods and services rendered. Goods sold include: bushels of corn, oats and potatoes; barrels of cider; pounds of beef; pecks of onions and pork; "soap greece;" and loa...

Date: 1818-1852

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 193828

Ref. Code: MS002.135

The whalemen's quick step

Cover depicts a military encampment on Boston Common with the Massachusetts State House in the background. Soldiers perform drills. Visible in the background is the Hancock Mansion.

Date: 1842

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 193834

Ref. Code: MS007.01.47.09

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