Historic New England

Associated tours season of 1916, promoted by the Automobile Club of America in co-operation with the hotels, Automobile Club of America, 54th Street, west of Broadway, New York, New York

A list of hotels is provided that are on the tours. Tours in New England, New Jersey, New York, New York to Florida and New York to Chicago are described with maps and mileage between points of interest.

Date: 1916

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 323789

Ref. Code: EP001.12.015.002.029

Redwood fences the most natural garden surroundings, California Redwood Association, 617 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California

Styles of redwood fences are described with the advantages of using the wood.

Date: 1963

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 323790

Ref. Code: EP001.12.001.002.008

Redwood New England, list no. 8, Robert L. Puffer, Inc., Boston, Mass.

Redwood lumber for residential housing, barn siding, decks and other uses is described with grades and dimensions.

Date: 1969

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 323792

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.009.012

Parisienne, furniture, National Upholstering Company, 4000 Adeline Street, Emeryville, California

The collection is based on French smoking chairs and couches from the 1930s.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 323795

Ref. Code: EP001.12.009.002.114

Catalog no. 5, Julius Blum & Co., Inc., 532-540 West 22nd Street, New York, New York

The catalog describes railings, treillage, mouldings, saddles, tubing and shapes and ornaments. Text on the front cover reads, "A.I.A. File No. 15."

Date: 1946

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 323796

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.007.014

Deck House, series 3, Deck House, Inc., 930 Main Street, Acton, Mass.

Series 3 has floor plans and photographs for Deck Houses of less than 1800 square feet.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 323798

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.141

Grossman's quality crafted homes, Grossman's Model Village, s.e. Expressway & Union Street, South Braintree, Mass.

The catalog describes model home plans and options for building them.

Date: 1960s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 323799

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.142

Boston Post book of all electric homes, spring 1937, Boston Post, Boston, Mass.

The catalog has descriptions, floor plans and articles for prospective home builders to create modern houses that support electric appliances.

Date: 1937

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 323801

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.143

Custom built for where you want to live, Pilgrim Homes of New England, Inc., P.O. Box 3, Danvers, Mass.

The folder has six sheets describing individual house plans. There is one additional sheet with text "All new for '64."

Date: 1960s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 323834

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.144

Swift Homes certified quality for a lifetime of good living, Swift Homes Inc., Chicago Avenue, Elizabeth, Pennsylvania

1 trade catalog, 24 pages : color illustrations ; 11 x 13 3/4 inches

Date: 1960s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 323836

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.145

Gilbilt homes, designs for better living, U.S. route 3, Nashua, New Hampshire

Gilbilt houses for different budget needs are described with drawings, dimensions and floor plans.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 323838

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.146

Distinguished living by Assembled Homes, Inc., 40 Holton Street, Winchester, Mass.

Prefabricated houses, duplexes, apartments and motels are described in the catalog.

Date: 1963

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 323843

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.147

Concrete houses & cottages, volume I large houses, published by the Atlas Portland Cement Co., 30 Broad Street, New York, New York

Concrete houses, from around the country, are shown with floor plans and photographs. Text on the back cover reads "The cement bought by the United States Government for the Panama Canal."

Date: 1909

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 323846

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.148

Portfolio of interiors, Irving Bowman, Arts & Decoration Book Society, New York, New York

The house interior drawings include kitchens, bedrooms, living rooms, dens and offices. There is one drawing of a restaurant interior.

Date: 1940s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 323856

Ref. Code: EP001.15.002

Decorative floors, Armstrong Cork Company, Linoleum Department, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

The features and advantages of linoleum flooring are described for customers.

Date: 1922

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 323857

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.005.017

Fairmont Foundry Company, Inc., manufacturers ornamental castings, catalog 1286, 3125 35th Avenue North, Birmingham, Alabama

Wrought iron designs for exterior and interior uses are described in the catalog.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 323858

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.006.006

Illustrated catalogue of composition capitals and brackets, catalog no. 127, The Decorators Supply Corp., 3610-12 So. Morgan Street, Chicago, Illinois

Column capitals and brackets are described for customers including Greek and Roman classics, Italian, French and modern designs.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 323860

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.003.005

Wood fibre carvings, catalog 129, The Decorators Supply Corp., 3610-12 So. Morgan Street, Chicago, Illinois

The carvings in the catalog are reproductions of hand carved patterns and are intended for mantels, cabinets and architectural trim. There is a separate pice list dated April 1, 1992.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 323862

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.008.016

Blotter, Goes Lithographing Company, 42 West 61st Street, Chicago, Illinois

The business has created a blotter with the locations of all military bases in the United States. Leaflets attached to the blotter describe the advertising benefits of utilizing the blotter for your business. There is an envelope with the material.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 323863

Ref. Code: EP001.01.094.01.03.037

Colonial Cranberry Company capital stock certificate

Blank certificate for the Colonial Cranberry Company captial stock shares at $50 par value.

Date: undated

Collection: Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection

GUSN: 323870

Ref. Code: MS028.01.016.014

Trade card, Spicers & Peckham, stove founders, Providence, Rhode Island

A newsboy hawks handbills advertising the ranges and parlor stoves. A kitchen range is on the card verso.

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320122

Ref. Code: EP003.003.012

Trade card, Golden Star Oil Stoves, Myers, Osborn & Company, Cleveland, Ohio

The stove is a substitute for cook stoves and ranges and is adapted for summer use. It can be used all year for cooking, baking, broiling, ironing and all laundry purposes. The illustration on the verso shows the stove in an open position.

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320131

Ref. Code: EP003.003.013

Notebook

A bound notebook in which someone has recorded 308 negatives. The first few pages have listed the "Names of Wholesalers" in various cities around New England. Then the negatives are listed, organized by date and location. After that the notebook is blank.

Date: undated

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass-plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 320125

Ref. Code: PC067.03.158

Negative Sleeves

141 paper negative sleeves. The sleeves have space and lines on the front to write in information on the negative such as date, title, exposure and developer. These sleeves usually include a date, title and negative number but rarely more information than that.

Date: undated

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass-plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 320132

Ref. Code: PC067.03.159

Trade card, Early Breakfast Stoves, Redway & Burton, Cincinnati, Ohio

A mother rouses a family that would rather remain in bed in the cartoon puzzle illustration. The lower portion of the card has the caption "And the same effect is always produced by using the Early Breakfast Stove." Text on the card verso describes the stoves and states they are "fully guaranteed a...

Date: ca. 1880

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320143

Ref. Code: EP003.003.014

Trade card, buy Royal Falmouth Ranges, made by Auburn Stove Foundry Co., Auburn, Maine

Four children play with a toy in a Christmas setting in the card image. The card verso has images of the parlor stove and a kitchen stove.

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320147

Ref. Code: EP003.003.015

Negative Boxes

5 boxes of "Cramer Crown Plates". Many of the negatives were stored in these boxes. On the side of the box someone has written the location and year in which the negatives were taken. On the front of the box someone has written that same information plus a list of the titles of the plates contained...

Date: undated

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass-plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 320148

Ref. Code: PC067.03.160

Circular, National Vapor Stoves, National Vapor Stove and Mfg. Co., Cleveland, Ohio

The item verso has illustrations of the 1873 and 1890 gasoline cook stoves. The safety of the gasoline stove is described in the text.

Date: 1890

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320229

Ref. Code: EP003.003.016

Trade card, Dix & Freeman, wholesale dealers in West India goods, No. 3 Long Wharf, Boston, Mass.

The proprietors are Thomas R. Dix and Geo. A. Freeman.

Date: 1840s

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320230

Ref. Code: EP003.005.010

Trade card, Tute, Fay & Morey, dealers in teas and tobacco, No. 16 Southn Market Street, and 16 Chatham Street, Boston, Mass.

The proprietors are Rensalear Tute, Philemon Morey and Charles F. Fay.

Date: 1860s

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320231

Ref. Code: EP003.005.011

Trade card; Morse, Denny & Co., commission wool merchants, 130 Congress Street, Boston, Mass.

The partners are Sterne Morse, Clarence H. Denny and Joseph G. Shed.

Date: 1870s

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320232

Ref. Code: EP003.005.012

Trade card, Elliott & Ahlberg, stevedores, Baltimore, Maryland

The card verso has "Rates of Pilotage for Chesapeake Bay."

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320233

Ref. Code: EP003.005.013

Trade card, Haas Hog and Poultry Remedy, Dr. Joseph Haas, Indianapolis, Indiana

Text on the card verso describes the medication. Two pigs and a rooster deliver the remedy in a boat. The image caption reads "The Relief Committee, Cheer up comrades, we are coming."

Date: 1882

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320235

Ref. Code: EP003.005.014

Trade card, Boss Patent Cases, J.A. Smith, jeweler, 358 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, New York

Smith carries James Boss gold watch cases.

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320236

Ref. Code: EP003.005.015

Trade card, Mrs. Potts' Cold Handle Sad Irons, Enterprise Manufacturing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

A man paints images of the irons on a fence. The caption reads "Our special artist on the road." An observer states "Just what my mother wants."The irons are sold by B. Callender & Co., 246 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320237

Ref. Code: EP003.005.016

Portrait album

One of ten small albums, eight leather bound and two with velvet bindings, containing gems (approximately 3/4" square tintype portraits that generally only pictured the head). No photographers are indicated. A few sitters are indexed at the back of the albums or in notes beneath the photographs.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320387

Ref. Code: PC009.069B

Portrait album

One of ten small albums, which contains contains small copies of paintings published by J.E. Tilton Co. in Boston, Mass. These are mostly sentimental, but there are also portraits (taken from paintings) of George and Martha Washington, Abraham Lincoln and soldiers in uniform.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320388

Ref. Code: PC009.069C

Portrait album

One of ten small albums, eight leather bound and two with velvet bindings, containing gems (approximately 3/4" square tintype portraits that generally only pictured the head). No photographers are indicated. A few sitters are indexed at the back of the albums or in notes beneath the photographs.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320389

Ref. Code: PC009.069D

Portrait album

One of ten small albums, eight leather bound and two with velvet bindings, containing gems (approximately 3/4" square tintype portraits that generally only pictured the head). No photographers are indicated. A few sitters are indexed at the back of the albums or in notes beneath the photographs.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320390

Ref. Code: PC009.069E

Portrait album

One of ten small albums, eight leather bound and two with velvet bindings, containing gems (approximately 3/4" square tintype portraits that generally only pictured the head). No photographers are indicated. A few sitters are indexed at the back of the albums or in notes beneath the photographs.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320391

Ref. Code: PC009.069F

Portrait album

One of ten small albums, eight leather bound and two with velvet bindings, containing gems (approximately 3/4" square tintype portraits that generally only pictured the head). No photographers are indicated. A few sitters are indexed at the back of the albums or in notes beneath the photographs.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320392

Ref. Code: PC009.069G

Portrait album

One of ten small albums, eight leather bound and two with velvet bindings, containing gems (approximately 3/4" square tintype portraits that generally only pictured the head). No photographers are indicated. A few sitters are indexed at the back of the albums or in notes beneath the photographs.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320393

Ref. Code: PC009.069H

Portrait album

One of ten small albums, eight leather bound and two with velvet bindings, containing gems (approximately 3/4" square tintype portraits that generally only pictured the head). No photographers are indicated. A few sitters are indexed at the back of the albums or in notes beneath the photographs.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320394

Ref. Code: PC009.069I

Portrait album

This album was removed to the print collection.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320395

Ref. Code: PC009.069J

Portrait album

One of ten small albums, which contains portrait cartes de visite, including two half-size ones, and a tintype of carte de visite size (approximately 2 1/2" x 4 1/2"). No photographers are indicated. A few sitters are indexed at the back of the albums or in notes beneath the photographs.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320396

Ref. Code: PC009.069K

Alice Pearse wearing a blue velvet ensemble

Originally purchased in 1883 by Miss C. L. W. French of Roxbury and Boston from Mlle Camille Lipman of Rue Drouot, Paris. "A tantalizing bit of evidence suggests that Miss French may have been a suffragette, for this dress was worn in 1920 by a relative at a celebration of the Nineteenth Amendment ...

Date: undated

Collection: Personal photographic collection

GUSN: 320472

Ref. Code: PC004.01.P.0900.001

Alice Pearse wearing a red satin ensemble

1 black and white photograph

Date: undated

Collection: Personal photographic collection

GUSN: 320473

Ref. Code: PC004.01.P.0900.002

Le Garde-meuble, ancien et modern

Le Garde-meuble, ancien et moderne was a bimonthly periodical published in Paris between 1839 and 1935. The publication consisted of illustrations of furniture and interior decoration from the reign of Louis-Philippe to the Third Republic. Its title is a reference to the royal Garde-meuble establish...

Date: 1845-1868

Collection: Le Garde-meuble, ancien et modern

GUSN: 320515

Ref. Code: GC007

Album 118A: "Municipal Architecture in Boston from Designs by Edmund M. Wheelwright, City Architect, 1891-1895," Vol. 1

1 of 2 volumes

Date: 1898

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320524

Ref. Code: PC009.118A

Album 118B: "Municipal Architecture in Boston from Designs by Edmund M. Wheelwright, City Architect, 1891-1895," Vol. 2

1 of 2 volumes

Date: 1898

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320525

Ref. Code: PC009.118B

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