Historic New England

International Illumination Congress

This subseries contains glass plate negatives of the international illumination congress, which took place in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1928. The negatives show various groups of people at the event, including a soccer team.

Date: 1928

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331222

Ref. Code: PC053.01.74

Inventions

This subseries includes glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives of various inventions, such as a rotating sail, a perspiring water pitcher, a clothes line tightener, and a remote control boat.

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331224

Ref. Code: PC053.01.75

Alan Trustman Jr. house, Brookline, Mass.

Set of twenty-four architectural drawings of house for Mr. and Mrs. Alan Trustman Jr. in Brookline, Massachusetts (commission #1670) including four elevations, three plans, one plot plan, one rendering, and fifteen details. Some drawings are signed by Royal Barry Wills, Ken Duprey, or Robert E. Mino...

Date: 1958

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

GUSN: 331223

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1670

Lamplighters

This subseries includes an acetate or nitrate negative of a man lighting a gas street light.

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331226

Ref. Code: PC053.01.76

Lindbergh

This subseries contains glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives of Charles Lindbergh on a trans-continental tour after his flight from New York to Paris, France in May of 1927. During the summer of 1927, Lindbergh visited Concord, New Hampshire, aviators in Boston, Massachusetts, and politicia...

Date: 1927, undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331228

Ref. Code: PC053.01.77

Logging and Lumbering

This subseries includes glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives that depict logging and lumbering around New England. The negatives show individuals and groups in the logging and lumbering business, but also the natural environment surrounding the business. The negatives come from a variety o...

Date: 1926-1927, undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331229

Ref. Code: PC053.01.78

Charles L. Stearns house, North Scituate Mass.

Set of ten architectural drawings of house for Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Stearns in North Scituate, Massachusetts (commission #1671) including three elevations, two plans, one plot plan, one interior elevation, and two details. Also included is one drawing, dated 1967, for a proposed second floor addi...

Date: 1957

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

GUSN: 331230

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1671

G. Carlton Snowe house, Auburn, Maine

Set of seven architectural drawings of house for Mr. and Mrs. G. Carlton Snowe in Auburn, Maine (commission #1673) including four elevations and three plans. All drawings are signed by Richard Wills; no drawings are dated. Drawings depict a two-story Colonial Revival-style house with an asphalt s...

Date: 1957, undated

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

GUSN: 331232

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1673

Large tree moving and other landscape work, Lewis & Valentine Co., Roslyn, Long Island, branch nursery, East Rockaway, Long Island

Large trees relocated abd planted on Long Island estates are shown in photographs. The inside of the back cover has lists of estates and landscape architects.

Date: 1915-09-10

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 331234

Ref. Code: EP001.12.001.004.114

Tree planting on streets and highways, by William F. Fox, State of New York, Forest, Fish and Game Commission, Albany, New York

The advantages of planting trees are described with suggestions for tree selection and maintenance. There are eight color plates of leaves from recommended specimens.

Date: 1903

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 331235

Ref. Code: EP001.12.001.004.115

Mail

\li-15This subseries includes glass plate and acetate negatives that feature mailboxes in Maine and a mailman on Bonair Street in Somerville, Massachusetts

Date: 1927-1940

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331239

Ref. Code: PC053.01.79

Marbles

This subseries includes two glass plate negatives of several men watching and playing marbles

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331240

Ref. Code: PC053.01.80

Military

This subseries include several glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives of various military machinery and personnel, including West Point cadets and the return of the 26th Division on the Mt. Vernon.

Date: 1928, undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331241

Ref. Code: PC053.01.81

General

4 glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331242

Ref. Code: PC053.01.81.001

West Point cadets

3 glass plate negatives

Date: 1928

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331243

Ref. Code: PC053.01.81.002

Milkcans

\li-15This subseries contains a glass plate negative and several acetate or nitrate negatives of milk cans in transport and on the platform of a railroad station in Winchester, Massachusetts.

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331244

Ref. Code: PC053.01.82

Minerals

5 glass plate negatives

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331245

Ref. Code: PC053.01.83

Take part, a report on new ways in which people can participate in planning their own environments, by Lawrence Halprin & Associates, San Francisco/New York

The community participation workshops are described that involve individuals in environmental and urban space planning.

Date: 1972

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 331247

Ref. Code: EP001.12.001.004.116

Nashua Country Club, Nashua, N.H.

Set of forty-four architectural drawings for alterations to existing building for Nashua Country Club in Nashua, New Hampshire (commission #1675-A) including two elevations, five plans, two plot plans, four plumbing plans, four heating plans, three electrical plans, three structural plans, seventeen...

Date: 1960-1961

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

GUSN: 331248

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1675-A

Daniel J. Bell house, Belmont, Mass.

Set of sixteen architectural drawings of house for Dr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Bell (commission #1676) including four elevations, four plans, three details, three topographical plans, one rendering by Royal Barry Wills, and one initial sketch . Some drawings are signed by Merton Stuart Barrows; some draw...

Date: 1957-1958

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

GUSN: 331250

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1676

Miscellaneous

This subseries is a collection of 128 glass plate negatives that were arranged and numbered by Yankee Publishing. Each negative has a unique identifier. The numbered negatives are unique images that had trouble fitting into any of the subjects assigned by Yankee Publishing. Each negative is indivi...

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331251

Ref. Code: PC053.01.84

Monuements

This subseries contains glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives of diverse monuments around New England. Featured monuments include the mystery stone in Hamilton-Wenham, the Forefathers monument in Plymouth, the Hannah Dustin monument in Haverhill, Massachusetts, the George Washington statue i...

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331252

Ref. Code: PC053.01.85

Novelties

\li-15This subseries displays odd events that occurred throughout New England. For example, the negatives show thousands of people marching on protest at the painting of a beer sign on the Bunker Hill monument, the George Washington Statue on the Boston Public Garden facing backwards, a pet hippo, l...

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331253

Ref. Code: PC053.01.86

Oysters and Pearls

This subseries include glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives of oysters and pearls, which were a feature story in Yankee Magazine.

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331254

Ref. Code: PC053.01.87

John V. Gilmore house, Wellesley, Mass.

Set of eighteen architectural drawings of house for Dr. and Mrs. John V. Gilmore (commission #1677) including four elevations, three plans, and one plot plan. Some drawings are signed by John F. Howard; all drawings are dated. Drawings depict a two-story Garison Colonial-style house with asphalt ...

Date: 1957-1958

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

GUSN: 331256

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1677

Louis H. Fischer house, East Orleans, Mass.

Set of thirteen architectural drawings of house for Mr. and Mrs. Louis H. Fischer, East orleans, Massachusetts (commission #1678) including four elevations and two plans, four details, one, plot plan, one cross section, and one initial elevation. Some drawings are signed by Warren J. Rhoter, Ken Dup...

Date: 1957-1958

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

GUSN: 331258

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1678

Harold M. Estabrook house, Bridgewater, Mass.

Set of twenty-three architectural drawings of house for Mr. and Mrs. Harold Estabrook in Bridgewater, Massachusetts (commission #1679) including four elevations, four plans, one plot plan, three heating plans, nine details, and two renderings. Some drawings are signed and dated by Richard Wills or W...

Date: 1957-1959

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

GUSN: 331260

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1679

Woman's Day Magazine house

Set of thirteen architectural drawings of house for Woman's Day Magazine (commission #1681) including five elevations, four plans, two renderings, one cross section, one detail. Drawings are signed by Warren J. Rhoter, Ken Duprey, John F. Howard. Drawings 1, 3-7, 9, and 10 are dated. Drawings d...

Date: 1957-1958

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

GUSN: 331262

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1681

Freeman Foote, Williamstown, Mass.

Set of fifteen architectural drawings of a one-story Cape Cod house with saltbox offset garage for Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Foote in Williamstown, Massachusetts (commission #1682). There is a bedroom wing and a garage wing. Therre are three elevations, three plans, five details, one plot plan, two cr...

Date: 1958

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

GUSN: 331263

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1682

Renderings, 1989, undated

This subseries contains renderings and perspective renderings by Royal Barry Wills and Royal Barry Wills Associates. This subseries is in its original order. The firm removed some original rendergins from the associated commissions; other are copies of originals.

Date: undated

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

GUSN: 331265

Ref. Code: AR029.04.05

Renderings - Merton S. Barrows

Six folders containing 77 renderings drawn by Merton S. Barrows. The houses were designed by Royal Barry Wills Associates. Client names and locations are noted on most drawings. Named customers are: Baldpate (Boxford, Mass.) commission 2016; Hugo H. Beit (Massawippi, Quebec), commission 2021; John ...

Date: undated

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

GUSN: 331266

Ref. Code: AR029.04.05.01

65 practical garden plans, by John Elliott, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., Toronto; New York; London

Design plans for various types of properties are offered with plans that include swimming pools, barbecue pits and children's play areas.

Date: 1950

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 331267

Ref. Code: EP001.12.001.004.117

New Haven

File

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 331268

Ref. Code: GC001.USCT.New Haven

Making of a country estate, practical suggestions and professional advice for planning and planting of the gardens and development of the landscape features for country homes and estates, by Henry Wild, Greenwich, Connectict and 413 Madison Avenue, New York, New York

Methods of landscaping are considered to create fruit and vegetable gardens, planting around lakes and streams and cultivating evergreens. This no. 184 of a one thousand copy edition. The front cover is detached.

Date: 1913

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 331273

Ref. Code: EP001.12.001.004.118

Shootin' Gallery, Savin Rock, New Haven, Connecticut

A watercolor painting of the shooting gallery at Savin Rock Amusement Park in New Haven, Connecticut. The park was built in the 1870s and was quite popular until the 1950s. The park closed in 1966.

Date: undated

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 331272

Ref. Code: GC001.USCT.New Haven.773

Canoes

This subseries contains four glass plate negatives of canoes and people canoeing, including images of canoeing on the Charles River.

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 330970

Ref. Code: PC053.01.21

Alan Howard guest house, Lake Sunapee, N.H.

Set of seven architectural drawings of guest house for Mr. Alan Howard in Lake Sunapee, New Hampshire (commission #1624) including three elevations, three plans, and one plot plan. Most drawings are signed by Richard Wills; no drawings are dated. Plot plan was made by Alan Howard. Drawings depict...

Date: 1956, undated

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

GUSN: 330972

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1624

J. Bell Baster house, Weston, Mass.

Set of fifteen architectural drawings of house for Mr. and Mrs. J. Bell Baster in Weston, Massachusetts (commission #1625) including four elevations, three plans, one rendering, and seven details. Some drawings are signed by Royal Barry Wills, Merton S. Barrows, Warren J. Rhoter, or Richard Wills; n...

Date: 1956, undated

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

GUSN: 330974

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1625

John Skillman house, Weston, Mass.

Set of eight architectural drawings for altertions to existing house for Dr. and Mrs. John Skillman in Weston, Massachusetts (commission #1625-A) including two elevations, two plans, one landscape plan, one plot plan, and two details. Drawings are signed and dated by Richard Wills. Landscape plan is...

Date: 1987-1993, undated

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

GUSN: 330975

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1625-A

Children

This subseries contains glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives of children participating in various activities throughout New England. The images include children fishing, farming, and playing with animals, among others. Also highlighted are images of the Children's Museum in Jamaica Plain, ...

Date: 1910-1935

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 330977

Ref. Code: PC053.01.22

Maxon Construction Co. house, unidentified location

Set of nine architectural drawings of house for Maxon Construction Co. at an unidentified location (commission #1641) including four elevations, two plans, and three details. Most drawings are signed by Richard Wills; some drawings are dated. Drawings depict a two-story Cape Cod-style house with...

Date: 1957

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

GUSN: 330976

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1641

General - Children

27 glass plate and film negatives

Date: 1910-1935

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 330978

Ref. Code: PC053.01.22.001

Museum, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

15 glass plate and film negatives

Date: 1927

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 330979

Ref. Code: PC053.01.22.002

Christmas

This subseries includes images of Christmas decorations and events throughout New England such as Louisburg Square and Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts and Jaffrey, New Hampshire.

Date: 1910-1935

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 330980

Ref. Code: PC053.01.23

I. Alan Balfour (developer) house, Cape Cottage, Maine

Set of six architectural drawings of house for developer I. Alan Balfour in Cape Cottage, Maine (commission #1665) including three elevations and three plans. All drawings are signed by Richard Wills; no plans are dated. Drawings depict a two-story Gambrel Cape Cod-style house with two front dorm...

Date: 1957, undated

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

GUSN: 330981

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1665

Churches

This subseries includes glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives of the interior and exterior of churches in Dorchester and Stratham, New Hampshire, and Martha's Vineyard, Milton, Mattapan, and Wellesley, Massachusetts

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 330982

Ref. Code: PC053.01.24

Mrs. P. M. Rice house, South Hampton, N.H.

Set of sixteen architectural drawings of house for Mrs. P. M. Rice in South Hampton, New Hampshire (commission #1667) including three elevations, three plans, two plot plans, one rendering, and seven details. Some drawings are signed and dated by John F. Howard, Warren J. Rhoter, or Richard Wills. ...

Date: 1957, undated

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

GUSN: 330984

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1667

Swiedler Building Co. (builder) house, Wayland, Mass.

Set of ten architectural drawings of house for builder Swiedler Building Co. in Wayland, Massachusetts (commission #1669) including five elevations and five plans. Drawings ae signed by Richard Wills but are not dated. Drawings depict a two-story Georgian Revival-style house with a one-story gara...

Date: 1957, undated

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

GUSN: 330986

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1669