Historic New England

Cape

Man's cape w/ deep blue wool w/ green silk lining, hook at neck and blue velvet collar. Probably military cape.

Date: 1865-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile), silk (textile), velvet (fabric weave)

GUSN: 25906

Accession Number: 1955.356

Cape

Man's cape of deep blue wool w/ hood and interior pockets and button front. Probably military cape.

Date: ca. 1865

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 25907

Accession Number: 1955.357

Sons of Thomas Lincoln Casey. On the left: Thomas Lincoln Casey, Jr. (b. 1857, d. 1925); in the middle: Harry Weir Casey (b. 1861, d. 1880); on the right: Edward Pearce Casey, (b. 1864, d. 1940) head and shoulders views in three-part embossed leather case, designed as a standing frame.

Date: ca. 1885

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25908

Accession Number: 1955.358

Photograph

Four prints of same picture: young man wearing an overcoat and cravat, seated and leaning on arm on Eastlake table. See related set 1955.369.1-.3. One marked "Taken in the Spring of 1879." Probably Harry Weir Casey (b. 1861, d. 1880), brother of Edward Pearce Casey (b. 1864, d. 1940) according to El...

Date: ca. 1879

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25909

Accession Number: 1955.359

Photograph

Half length view of Thomas Lincoln Casey in military uniform.

Date: ca. 1885

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25910

Accession Number: 1955.360

Copy book

Black leather bound copy book of Geometry and Latin exercises.

Date: 1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25911

Accession Number: 1955.361

Photograph

Penned inscription on rear "Class of '86 School of/ ---(?)/ taken in 1884." Marked "Edward Pearce Casey/ Architect/ 149 Broadway, New York." Group of young men arranged on the steps of a building in topcoats and bowler hats in hand. Edward Pearce Casey, (b. 1864, d. 1940.)

Date: 1884

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25912

Accession Number: 1955.362

Photograph

Half length row of Lt. General Winfield Scott, photograph of a painting by Robert W. Weir. Photograph by Ter(rence?) Lathrop.

Date: 1890

Maker: Weir, Robert Walter, 1803-1889 (Artist) Lathrop, Ter (Photographer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25913

Accession Number: 1955.363

Photographs

Studio card type; browntone photograph of house exterior w/ Mansard roof and port cochere, (French 2nd Empire.)

Date: ca. 1880

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25914

Accession Number: 1955.364.1-2

Photograph

Class photo of young boys lined up outside of brick building w/ teachers in background. Pasted on cardboard w/ decorative gold border. Probably class of Edward Pearce Casey (b. 1864, d. 1940.)

Date: 1881

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25915

Accession Number: 1955.365

Photograph

Bluetone photo of stone building under construction, stone tower in background. Dated Dec. 9, 1891.

Date: 1891

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25916

Accession Number: 1955.366.1

Photograph

Bluetone photo of carved stone heads lined up on workman's bench. Labeled in red chalk pencil "Japanese, Aino, Malay, Australian."

Date: 1891

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25917

Accession Number: 1955.366.2

Photograph

Bluetone photo of carved stone heads lined up on workman's bench. One labeled "COREAN" (sic) in red chalk pencil.

Date: 1891

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25918

Accession Number: 1955.366.3

Photograph

Cyanotype photograph of carved stone heads lined up on workman's bench in preparation for the ethnographic sculptural portraits ornamenting the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress.

Date: 1891

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), cyanotypes (photographic prints)

GUSN: 25919

Accession Number: 1955.366.4

Photograph

Bluetone photo of man in straw boater standing on top of first floor of stone building under construction. Ladders and building materials lying about. Labeled "South Front/ June 16, 1891."

Date: 1891

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25920

Accession Number: 1955.366.5

Photograph

Bluetone photo of entire south front under construction w/ Capitol in right background. Date June 16, 1891.

Date: 1891

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25921

Accession Number: 1955.366.6

Photograph

Bluetone photo of entire south front under construction showing additional floor and stone heads in place. Capitol in right background. Dated Dec. 30, 1891.

Date: 1891

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25922

Accession Number: 1955.366.7

Photograph

Large group of gentlemen in top hats and cutaway coats wearing ceremonial ribbons and corsages, apparently waiting to march in a parade. Street is of paving stones and full of passersby.

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25923

Accession Number: 1955.367

Photographs

Group photograph of 28 gentlemen standing in front of the porch of a large Victorian building. .1 portrays then hatless (no'd 8519). .2 portrays then w/ straw boaters (no'd 8518.)

Date: 1895-1920

Maker: Howard, Frank E. (Maker)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25924

Accession Number: 1955.368.1-2

Photograph

Three prints of same sitter and position; young man in suit and cravat seated and leaning one arm on Eastlake table. One of the sons of Thomas Lincoln Casey, Sr. (b. 1831, d. 1896). Harry Weir Casey (b. 1861, d. 1880) (See also 1955.359.1-4).

Date: 1879

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25925

Accession Number: 1955.369.1-3

Photograph

Probably E.P.Casey on right. Full length view of two men standing w/ hands clasped behind their backs holding their hats, wearing suits and ties.

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25926

Accession Number: 1955.370

Program

Souvenir program, Memorial Continental Hall. Pamphlet tied together w/ small red, white and blue ribbon. Cover marker, "Ceremonies of the laying of the Cornerstone April 19, 1904. National Society Daughters of the American Revolution 13th Congress. Memorial Continental Hall Washington DC." Interior ...

Date: 1904

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25927

Accession Number: 1955.371

Invitation

Souvenir invitation, U.S. Grant Memorial. Official gold seal at top center of invitation to the dedication of the memorial to General Ulysses S. Grant. Memorial designed by Edward Pearce Casey, Architect (1864-1940).

Date: 1922

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25928

Accession Number: 1955.372

Photograph

Probably the office of Edward Pearce Casey (1864-1940). Two men sitting at drafting tables. Photograph mounted on gray cardboard w/ black ink trim.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: Long and Heppner (Maker)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25929

Accession Number: 1955.373

Map

Map of Rhode Island on canvas backing. Folds in marble paper portfolio.

Date: 1889

Maker: unknown

Material: canvas, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25930

Accession Number: 1955.374

Photograph

Black and white photograph of hospital of Brooklyn Children's Aid Society building. Mounted on white cardboard.

Date: ca. 1911

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25931

Accession Number: 1955.375

Photograph

Black and white photographic copy of an original by Mathew Brady (1862). Depicts Major General Silas Casey (1807-1882), seated, w/ 5 standing officers, labeled, "General Silas Casey and staff. Taken by Brady, 1862" in pen and ink on back. Unframed and mounted on brown mat board.

Date: ca. 1890

Maker: After Brady, Mathew B., ca. 1823-1896 (Artist)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25932

Accession Number: 1955.376

Photograph

Black and white photograph of watercolor rendering of "Brooklyn Children's Aid Society Hospital Building... Coney Island/ Edward Pearce Casey, Archt." Depicts white concrete building w/ arched breezeways. Mounted on gray cardboard.

Date: ca. 1910

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25933

Accession Number: 1955.377

Photograph

Photograph of drawing of Memorial Bridge across the Potomac. Selected by board of Engineers and Architects, and approved by Secretary of War, William H. Burr. Civil Engineer, Edward Pearce Casey, architect.

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: George P. Hall and Sons (Maker)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25934

Accession Number: 1955.378

Photograph

Photograph matted on gray cardboard w/ incised lines. Marked, "St. John's Guild N.Y. City Hospital New Dorp. S.I. Edward Pearce Casey, Architect, Singer Tower N---(?)" Reverse marked "Edward Pearce Casey Architect/ 149 Broadway New York."

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25935

Accession Number: 1955.379

Invitation

Souvenir invitation to Lewis and Clark Exposition. Pamphlet invitation tied w/ yellow, blue, white and red ribbon. Front embossed w/ small scene and inscription, "where rolls the Oregon." Invitation for celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Oregon Country.

Date: 1905

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 25936

Accession Number: 1955.380

Combing Jacket

Black and white flecked wool trimmed with black and white knotted silk fringe; piping is black and white striped; lined with brown cambric; long darts.

Date: 1870-1875

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (hair), silk (fiber)

GUSN: 31679

Accession Number: 1927.2006

Sampler

Card embroidedered with alphabet in cross-stitch.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 31680

Accession Number: 1927.2009

Bookmark

Embroidered bookmark with the name "Charles" embroidered between a pair of birds. The mark is mounted on silk.

Date: ca. 1855-56

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 31681

Accession Number: 1927.2010

Bookmark

Embroidered bookmark with a golden lyre worked within a worsted, cross-stitch frame mounted on silk.

Date: ca. 1855-56

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 31682

Accession Number: 1927.2011

Bookmark

Embroidered bookmark decorated with a basket of flowers, a bird and an empty basket in colored yarns.

Date: ca. 1855-56

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 31683

Accession Number: 1927.2012

Medicine Box

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 31684

Accession Number: 1927.2015

Pocket

Purse / pocket comprised of cream white silk and corded fringe and tassels ornamented with round clear glass beads; drawstring closure.

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (textile), tassel, beads (pierced objects), glass (material)

GUSN: 31685

Accession Number: 1927.2017

Parasol

Bright green moire cover with scalloped edges; stick imitate bamboo; bone ferrule; marquise tilt style; bone ring closure; green silk corded tassle; two marquis folding hinges; metal slider.

Date: 1840-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: bone (material), metal, moiré, painting (coating), silk (textile), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 31686

Accession Number: 1927.2020