Historic New England

Account book of a rug merchant, Boston, Mass., 1822-1828

A rare and extensive account book kept by a leading Boston rug merchant, recording six years of sales from January 2, 1822 through April 30 1828 throughout New England and beyond, many to prominent people, including John Quincy Adams. This volume provides outstanding evidence of precisely which styl...

Date: 1822-1828

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 357765

Ref. Code: MS002.144

Business card for Baldwin Coolidge, photographic specialist, 146 Tremont Street, Room 3, Boston, Mass., 1880s

Business card advertising the services of Baldwin Coolidge, photographic specialist. Coolidge's business was located at 146 Tremont Street, Room 3, Boston, Massachusetts. The card measures 2 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches. It is from the 1880s.

Date: predominant 1880s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 357807

Ref. Code: EP001.01.089.01.04.017

Francis H. Bacon Company collection

Collection contains design drawings, technical drawings, and ephemera related to the design of Mrs. Jessie Bancroft Cox's Cohasset, Massachusetts, home. The house was also known as "The Oaks". The design drawings were completed by the Francis H. Bacon Company, the company of furniture designer and i...

Collection: Francis H. Bacon Company collection

GUSN: 357808

Ref. Code: CC024

Design drawings, circa 1931

Series contains sixteen design drawings in color pencil depicting room elevations, furniture, and furnishings Mrs. William C. Cox's home. The drawings were completed by the Francis H. Bacon Company. Some of the design drawings have pencil notations. All sixteen of the design drawings have a stamp la...

Collection: Francis H. Bacon Company collection

GUSN: 357810

Ref. Code: CC024.001

Technical drawings, circa 1931

Series contains ten technical drawings, including floor plans designed by architectural firm Parker, Thomas & Rice and the Francis H. Bacon Company, and a landscape plan designed by landscape architect Laurence Caldwell.

Collection: Francis H. Bacon Company collection

GUSN: 357812

Ref. Code: CC024.002

Ephemera, undated

Series contains the original portfolio the collection was housed in and stationary for the address 403 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. During the time "The Oaks" was being built, Jessie Cox's grandmother, Mary (Shaw) Bancroft (1857-1935), lived at 403 Commonwealth Avenue with her son and...

Date: undated

Collection: Francis H. Bacon Company collection

GUSN: 357837

Ref. Code: CC024.003

Watercolor wharf scene by Royal Barry Wills and graphite sketch by an unknown artist, circa 1950

Watercolor wharf scene painted by Royal Barry Wills and graphite sketch by an unknown artist. Materials were originally stored together in a portfolio. Dated circa 1950.

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 357840

Ref. Code: GC001.US.783

Helen Louise Dooley Mackin collection

This collection contains personal and professional correspondence, oversized, small, and standard-sized photographs, newspaper clipping, business records, and ephemera related to Helen Louis Dooley Mackin's time working in Boston hotels. The bulk of the photographs depict various events hosted at ho...

Collection: Helen Louise Dooley Mackin collection

GUSN: 357866

Ref. Code: MS065

Photographic materials, 1950-1962, circa 1965, undated

Series contains forty-nine black-and-white and color photographs of varying sizes related to Mackin's personal and professional life.

Collection: Helen Louise Dooley Mackin collection

GUSN: 357870

Ref. Code: MS065.004

Correspondence, 1954-1964

Twenty-one letters, one handwritten and twenty written using typewriters. A combination of personal and professional correspondence, the majority are from around April 1957, when Helen Louise Dooley Mackin started working at The Sheraton Plaza. One letter was written by Governor Peabody and two were...

Date: 1954-1964

Collection: Helen Louise Dooley Mackin collection

GUSN: 357871

Ref. Code: MS065.002

Ephemera, 1954-1966, undated

Series contains three greeting cards, two from Governor Peabody and his wife and the other from Ted Kennedy and his wife; various news clippings from publications such as The Boston Sunday Globe, The Boston Herald, and Hotel and Restaurant News; issues of the Hotel Sales Management Association (HSMA...

Date: 1954-1966, undated

Collection: Helen Louise Dooley Mackin collection

GUSN: 357872

Ref. Code: MS065.003

Small photographs, 1962, circa 1965

Seven photographs depicting a birthday celebration for Governor Endicott Peabody and one depicting three unknown individuals standing in the snow. In the first seven photographs, various unidentified individuals can be seen, as well as Helen Louise Dooley Mackin, Sarah Toland, Governor Peabody, his ...

Collection: Helen Louise Dooley Mackin collection

GUSN: 357875

Ref. Code: MS065.001.02

Oversized photographs, undated

Eleven oversized black-and-white photographic prints showing interior shots of hotels where Helen Louise Dooley Mackin worked; candid images of events filled with unidentified guests such as weddings and other parties; and photos showing Mackin standing with other staff at events, among others. The ...

Collection: Helen Louise Dooley Mackin collection

GUSN: 357876

Ref. Code: MS065.004.01

Standard-sized photographs, 1950s, 1960-1961

Thirty photographs of various sizes depicting interior shots of hotels where Mackin worked; candid images of events filled with unidentified guests such as weddings and other parties hosted at hotels where Mackin worked; a photo of Mackin shaking hands with Governor Endicott Peabody; and an image of...

Collection: Helen Louise Dooley Mackin collection

GUSN: 357877

Ref. Code: MS065.004.03

Business records, 1954-1958

Series contains various memorandums relating to topics such as accounts and bookings at The Sheraton Plaza; staff lists; letters to the Sales and Promotions team sales; promotional programs; updates to procedures; allotment of convention rooms; booking notices from the Boston Convention Trust Bureau...

Date: 1954-1958

Collection: Helen Louise Dooley Mackin collection

GUSN: 357878

Ref. Code: MS065.001

Kenneth Gray Sears collection

This collection contains primarily photographic materials; architectural materials; and ephemera related to Kenneth Gray Searss summer home, Grey Pines, in West Dennis, Massachusetts, and his employment with Shreve, Crump & Low. This includes two photographs albums; photographs, architectural mater...

Date: 1926-1957

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 357891

Ref. Code: PC009.303

Spring & Summer 1895, G.B. Cragin

Photograph album (10.5" x 11.5") of brown leather embossed with gold lettering "Spring & Summer 1895, G.B. Cragin." The owner G.B. Cragin, a young woman photographer, documents her friends and their activities in the Skowhegan, Maine area. . Activities include: reading, picnics, candy pulls, hiki...

Date: 1895

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 357901

Ref. Code: PC009.227

Spring & Summer 1895, G.B. Cragin

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Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 357902

Ref. Code: PC009.227

Spring & Summer 1895, G.B. Cragin

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Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 357903

Ref. Code: PC009.227

Photograph of a grocery store, New Bedford, Mass., circa 1880

One mounted and matted albumen print of a grocery store in New Bedord, Massachusetts. The store contains a wide variety of food and beverage items such as bread, various canned goods, and various types of Heinz pickles in barrels. Four men are pictured in the store. On the verso of the mount, a capt...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 357321

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2010.0040.001

Interior view of a high school chemistry classroom, 1892

One albumen print on mount of a high school chemistry class in 1892. The photograph was taken by renowned American photographer Nathaniel L. Stebbins. "N.L. Stebbins / Photo. Boston" is debossed in the bottom left corner of the recto. The photo shows fifteen girls and boys in a chemistry classroom a...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 357322

Ref. Code: PC001.02.02.7550.0100.004

Diary of an unidentified architect, Watertown, Mass., 1866

Diary of an unidentified architect living in Watertown, Massachusetts. He worked for Sturgis and Brigham, the architectural firm of renowned New England architects Charles Brigham and John Hubbard Sturgis. The diary covers the entire year of 1866. Throughout the year, the architect completed drawing...

Collection: Miscellaneous manuscript collection

GUSN: 357323

Ref. Code: MS029.002.016

Fall River

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Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 357325

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.4695

R. Garrity House, Boxford, Mass.

One folder of thirteen black and white interior and exterior photographs of the R. Garrity house, Boxford, Mass. Photographs were taken by Ken Duprey

Date: undated

Collection: Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

GUSN: 357326

Ref. Code: AR029.04.03.GarrityR

John Hancock Life Insurance Company, Boston, Mass., 1974, undated

Two original drawings of art for the John Hancock Life Insurance Company's. One is a colored pencil drawing of the front of the Hancock House with people walking in front of it. This was designed for the company's 96th annual report. It is undated and the artist is unknown. Detached from original pa...

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 357328

Ref. Code: GC001.USMA.Boston.782

Broadside for Enoch French & Co., Fall River, Mass., 1845 September 27

Broadside advertising a large stock of boots and shoes. The boots and shoes were being sold by Enoch French & Co. Printed in Fall River, Massachusetts, on September 27, 1845 by Monitor Press.

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 357336

Ref. Code: GC002.02.333

North End, Foster Street looking toward Commercial, Boston, Mass., circa 1900

Photograph of a street view of Foster Street in Boston's North End. A group of unidentified women and children are outside. The majority are standing and two women are sitting. There is a dog near the sitting women. A mounted Boston police officer is in the middle of the street. The photographer is ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 357337

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.3990.001

Katherine Taylor photographic collection

This collection contains eleven photographic prints. Five of the prints measure 8 x 12 inches. Six of the prints measure 16 x 24 inches. The collection is dated 2020. The photos in this collection are from two series by Katherine Taylor. The first series documents Boston's Black Lives Matters protes...