Historic New England

Dave Wong's China Sails, menu, Loring Avenue, Salem; Chestnut Hill, Brookline; Northshore Shopping Center, Peabody, Mass.

Chinese and American dishes are listed as well as family dinners. There is a wine list and Polynesian drinks for customers. The menu cover illustrations and lettering are done in gold and blue.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318492

Ref. Code: EP001.15.007

Dave Wong's China Sails, menu, Chestnut Hill, Brookline; Loring Avenue, Salem; Northshore Shopping Center, Peabody, Mass.

The menu has appetizers, Polynesian drinks and Chinese and American dishes. Family dinners for two to eight diners are provided.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318493

Ref. Code: EP001.15.008

Commodore, menu, Route 1A off 128, Beverly, Mass.

Lobster, beef and seafood specialties are described for diners. There is a wine and cocktail list. The restaurant has banquet facilities. A note clipped to the menu states that lobster dishes will be $1.50 extra. The menu cover has an illustration of the schooner "Hannah" which according to a note o...

Date: 1970

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318495

Ref. Code: EP001.15.009

Tavern on the Green, menu, 297 Salem Street, Bradford, Mass.

Appetizers, beef and seafood dishes are listed. The facility can accomodate over 250 people for special functions. There is a photograph of the property on the menu verso.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318496

Ref. Code: EP001.15.010

Jack Hackett's Lakeside, menu, Ipswich, Mass.

Meat is broiled on a coal stove dating from 1847. Hackett was the chef and restaurant owner from 1957-1974. Text on the menu cover reads "Good food in the New England tradition." The cover illustration is signed "H. McCabe." Two fishermen approach a covered bridge in the cover illustration.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318498

Ref. Code: EP001.15.011

Essex Towne House, menu, Eastern Avenue, Essex, Mass.

The menu lists steaks, chops, seafood and a variety of appetizers. There is a separate small menu (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches) that duplicates the large menu. A man with a team of oxen, two women cleaning fish and a woman with a basket of fowl illustrate the front cover.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318499

Ref. Code: EP001.15.012

Chez Dreyfus, menu 124 Newbury Street, Route 1, Peabody, Mass.

The menu is in French and English. The dishes are illustrated around the menu borders. The illustrations were designed and drawn by Jean-Louis Lelaurain and printed by Albanesi in Nice, France.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318502

Ref. Code: EP001.15.013

Proctor House, menu, Lowell and Prospect Streets at Proctor Crossing, Peabody, Mass.

The menu has steaks, seafood and Italian specialties for diners. The menu verso has a history of the Procter family and the inn.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318505

Ref. Code: EP001.15.014

Trade card albums collection

Collection

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 318524

Ref. Code: EP003

Album B: Household furnishings, wringers, washers, freezers, hardware

The features of carpet sweepers, washing machines, wringers, ice cream freezers, refrigerators and cookware are described for customers. Short scenes and limericks advertise the various products. Card illustrations may have well-known persons of the day or racist content. A number of cards were prod...

Date: 1840-1895

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 318527

Ref. Code: EP003.001

Pure oil tinted gloss paints, manufactured by John Lucas & Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and New York, New York

The item verso has directions for applying the paint to house exteriors. The color chart has the dates 1873-1885. The paint is for sale by Matthews Brothers, druggists and dealers in burning and lubricating oils, Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Date: 1885

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318529

Ref. Code: EP001.12.013.005.069

I wish you a happy New Year, dinner menu, Hotel Vendome, Boston, Mass., January 1, 1900

The New Year's Eve menu included such dishes as bluepoints, salmon, turkey, prime rib, quail, pumpkin pie and Boston cream puffs. A bird sits on a holly branch in the cover illustration with the Vendome seal. The item verso has a 1900 calendar.

Date: 1900-01-01

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318531

Ref. Code: EP001.06.04.030

Bill Stear's room at Quincy, Mass. about 1900. Bill in chair.

Photograh showing an interior of a room in Quincy, Mass. A man identified as Bill Stear sits in a chair reading a book. The walls are adorned with books, photographs, and household objects such as plates and cups. In the corner there is a hat stand with several hats and umbrellas. There are seve...

Date: ca. 1900

Collection: Domestic interiors photographic collection

GUSN: 318565

Ref. Code: PC002.USMA.Quincy.151.21

Royalston Grange

The photograph shows a table toped with various fruits, vegitables and canned goods. Above it is a canopy of foliage, an American flag and a sign saying "Royalston Grange".

Date: undated

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 318568

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0140.0010.001

Unidentified: Social and recreational area.

Interior view of a sitting area with a fireplace, two wicker chairs, a table, and a dividing screen in one corner. Books, photographs and miscellaneous objects adorn the walls.

Date: undated

Collection: Domestic interiors photographic collection

GUSN: 318569

Ref. Code: PC002.USUnknown.237

Unidentified: Dining rooms.

View of the interior of a dining room. Table set with plates, drinking glasses, tea cups, flowers, table cloth, and cutlery. Room decorated with East Asian inspired paper lamps. Walls adorned with plates, bowls, urns, and a mirror.

Date: undated

Collection: Domestic interiors photographic collection

GUSN: 318570

Ref. Code: PC002.USUnknown.238

Unidentified: Study.

Interior view of a study with large desk, bookshelves with books, couch, and hanging photographs.

Date: undated

Collection: Domestic interiors photographic collection

GUSN: 318571

Ref. Code: PC002.USUnknown.239

Unidentified: Social and dining area.

Interior view of a dining or social room. A large, oval table with two chairs occuipies the center of the room. A side bar with assorted dishes stands to one side of the room and a fireplace with mantle and objects occupies the adjacent wall. Above the sidebar is a painting of three children and ab...

Date: undated

Collection: Domestic interiors photographic collection

GUSN: 318572

Ref. Code: PC002.USUnknown.240

Unidentified: Social and recreational areas.

Photograph depicts interior of room looking at an external door with several windows on each side. A staircase stands in the left corner. In the room are several pieces of furnture including a desk, chairs, a piano, a spindle, and a stand holding a sculpture. The room contains many lamps and deco...

Date: undated

Collection: Domestic interiors photographic collection

GUSN: 318581

Ref. Code: PC002.USUnknown.241

Unidentified: Social and recreational areas.

Interior showing a table and two chairs, a fireplace with mantel, bookshelf. Several musical instruments are present including a guitar and a banjo. Photographs adorn the walls and a chandelier hangs in the center of the room. Photograph is in a decorative wooden frame, frame has leaf motif.

Date: undated

Collection: Domestic interiors photographic collection

GUSN: 318582

Ref. Code: PC002.USUnknown.242

Corner of East Broadway and North Street, South Boston

Now known as Medal of Honor Park.

Date: undated

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 318586

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.1700.0010.001

Album B: Household furnishings

The cards describe domestic and imported lamps, oil burners, glassware, china, crockery, cutlery, silverware, carpets and rugs. The businesses are New England based and from across the United States.

Date: 1840-1895

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 318587

Ref. Code: EP003.002

Nine women drinking tea, possibly Fairhaven, Mass.

Nine women seated and standing around a square table hold cups and saucers. A tea service is on the table. One woman holds a fan. The women are elegantly dressed, and the room is decorated with a patterned carpet and patterned wallpaper. The walls are adorned with framed photographs.

Date: undated

Collection: Domestic interiors photographic collection

GUSN: 318591

Ref. Code: PC002.USMA.Falmouth.110.07

Youth wearing baseball uniform

The back is addressed to Miss Vera Allen and postmarked 1914. The message reads: "This is how I looked at Boy Scout Camp. We had a bully time. I just got home this morn." The signature is illegible.

Date: ca. 1914

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 318593

Ref. Code: PC001.03.02.TMP.016

Two boys in studio portrait with chickens

Two boys pose seated for a studio portrait with a hen and a rooster, each held by one of the boys.

Date: 1870s

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 318595

Ref. Code: PC001.02.02.1900.0500.001

Jamaica Pond Ice Co. wagon with two workmen

Two workmen pose with the Jamaica Pond Ice Co. delivery wagon in front of a residential structure.

Date: undated

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 318597

Ref. Code: PC001.04.02.5750.001

Laurel Glen Mausoleum, Cuttingsville, Vermont

A pamphlet by Hon. John P. Bowman about the family tomb of Laurel Glen Mausoleum in Cuttingsville, Vermont. The mausoleum was designed by G. B. Croff.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318599

Ref. Code: EP001.07.01.TMP.006

Vermont - Cuttingsville

File

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 318600

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USVT.0246

Laurel Glen Mausoleum, Cuttingsville, Vermont

1 stereo view

Date: undated

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 318601

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USVT.0246.001

Illusion Gallery of Statuary. Interior of Laurel Glen Mausoleum. A magnificent private family Tomb, built at Cuttingsville, Vermont, by John P. Bowman, ESQ. "Memoria in Aeterna" Of a sainted wife and daughters. G. B. Croff, Architect

1 stereo view

Date: undated

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 318602

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USVT.0246.002

Southern Perspective of Laurel Hall, Picturesque Summer Villa of Hon. John P. Bowman, at Cuttingsville, VT. G. B. Croft, Architect

1 stereo view

Date: undated

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 318603

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USVT.0246.003

Laurel Glen Mausoleum, Cuttingsville, Vermont

1 stereo view

Date: undated

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 318604

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USVT.0246.004

New Year's greeting, dinner menu, Hotel Vendome, Boston, Mass., January 1, 1899

Guests dined on canapes a la Russe, lamb chops, lobster, prime rib, venison, frozen Tom and Jerry and White Mountain Cream Cake.

Date: 1899-01-01

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318607

Ref. Code: EP001.06.04.031

1894, dinner menu, Hotel Vendome, Boston, Mass., January 1, 1894

Guests dined on such dishes as brochettes of sweetbreads, turtles' fins, mashed turnips, prime rib, English pheasant and Neaplitan ice cream. The menu has gold bows and a plastic overlay.

Date: 1894-01-01

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318611

Ref. Code: EP001.06.04.032

Menu, New Year's dinner, The Brunswick, Boston, Mass., January 1, 1879

Guests dined on such dishes as oysters on shell, red snapper, roast turkey, saddle of mutton, potted quails and English plum pudding. A wine list is opposite the menu. The front cover has a photograph of the Hotel Brunswick. J.W. Wolcott is the proprietor.

Date: 1879-01-01

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318613

Ref. Code: EP001.06.02.024

Annual state dinner to the Independent Company of Cadets, Parker House, Boston, Mass., January 7, 1853

The militia dined on soup, fish, entrees, cold ornamented dishes, game, pastry and desserts. The Massachusetts state seal decorates the menu cover with the militia seal opposite the menu listing.

Date: 1853-01-07

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318614

Ref. Code: EP001.06.07.027

Menu, Hotel Vendome, Boston, Mass., December 25, 1891

The guests dined on such dishes as blue points, Southdown mutton, sirloin of beef, Hungarian punch and a variety of desserts. A female figure dressed in costume decorates the menu cover. The menu has turquoise and yellow ribbons and a tissue overlay.

Date: 1891-12-25

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318615

Ref. Code: EP001.06.04.033

Merry Christmas, Christmas dinner menu, Hotel Vendome, Boston, Mass., December 25, 1896

The guests dined on such dishes as timbales of lobster a la Neptune, turkey breast, sweetbreads pique, mousse de foie gras, Medicis, Mongrel Goose, Lalla Rookh Punch and marshmallow ice cream. The Vendome Column is embossed in silver inside the menu. The hotel owner is C.H. Greenleaf & Co. The cover...

Date: 1896-12-25

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318616

Ref. Code: EP001.06.04.034

1897 New Year's greet, dinner menu, Hotel Vendome, Boston, Mass., January 1, 1897

The menu featured such dishes as fresh mushroom patties, lake trout, frogs' legs, venison, frozen Tom and Jerry and baked Indian Pudding. A wreath with holly and berries decorates the menu cover.

Date: 1897-01-01

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318617

Ref. Code: EP001.06.04.035

Bright and happy Christmas to you 1898, Hotel Vendome, Boston, Mass., December 25, 1898

The menu has such dishes as turtle soup, halibut, turkey, boudin of quail, Lalla Rookh Punch and Christmas Pudding. The menu is inside a frame decorated with pink fowers and the Vendome Column embossed in silver. The hotel owner is C.H. Greenleaf & Co. The frame has a piece so it can stand on a flat...

Date: 1898-12-25

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318618

Ref. Code: EP001.06.04.036

Scrapbook 12: Beacon Hill newspaper clippings

This scrapbook consists of newspaper and magazine clippings about Beacon Hill dating from the late 1920s to the 1930s. There are numerous clippings about Beacon Hill gardens and several magazine articles about Beacon Hill interiors. It also contains a few postcards of Beacon Hill. The scrapbook belo...

Date: 1920-1930

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 318621

Ref. Code: MS004.012

Christmas, Crosby's Restaurant, 19 School Street, Boston, Mass.

There is an extensive dinner menu and a "cooked to order" menu which includes temperance drinks. An essay in the opening pages gives a history of the site by Alexander Corbett, Jr., a Boston journalist and Bostonian Society member. The Cromwell's Head Tavern was located on School Street and there i...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318623

Ref. Code: EP001.06.17.011

Christmas 1884 menu, Revere House, Boston, Mass.

Guests dined on such dishes as Providence River Oysters, trout, beef, turkey, quail, venison and Christmas pudding. The menu has been mounted on a brown velvet frame with a painted illustration of flowers on the cover.

Date: 1884

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318624

Ref. Code: EP001.06.02.025

Christmas 1884 menu, Revere House, Boston, Mass.

Guests dined on such dishes as Providence River Oysters, trout, beef, turkey, quail, venison and Christmas pudding. The menu has been mounted on a velvet frame with a portrait of a young girl painted on the cover. A tassel is affixed to the cover to open the menu.

Date: 1884

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318626

Ref. Code: EP001.06.02.026

Album: Stoves, ranges

The brands represented include Adams & Westlake, Gold Coin, Florence, Magee, Westminster, Acorn and Hub. The businesses are in New England, New York state and from across the United States.

Date: 1840-1895

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 318627

Ref. Code: EP003.003

Class of the craft, cast bronze signs and tablets, from the studios of Metalcrafts, 715-720 Reading Road, Cincinnati, Ohio

Work samples are shown and can be cast in bronze, aluminum or nickel silver. A stamp with the text "NRA member, we do our part" is on the front of the itme. Text on the front edge of the item reads "Metalcrafts, Cincinnati, Ohio, Folder D."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318629

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.007.013

Chandler & Barber, door hardware, 122-126 Summer Street, Boston, Mass.

Door hardware samples are shown with an invitation to visit the showroom.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318630

Ref. Code: EP001.12.014.002.009

Furniture kits for home assembly, exact copies of museum pieces, fun to make, distinctive to own, by Hagerty of Cohasset, Mass.

Furniture pieces are described with directions for assembling them. A table from the Gore Mansion in Waltham, Massachusetts is on page 10. There is a loose sheet titled "Recent Cohasset Colonial Additions." The fall 1958 issue of the "Cohasset Colonial Courier" is inside the catalog.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318631

Ref. Code: EP001.12.009.002.100