Historic New England

Ashmont Supply Co., 339-341 Blue Hill Avenue, Roxbury, Mass.

This 1960 image taken by Anthony's Studio depicts a stretch of Blue Hill Ave with the Ashmont Supply Co. hardware store featured heavily in the foreground. Today, this building is gone and the site is now a vacant lot.

Date: 1960

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 362369

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0100.016

Promisel's Food Mart, 1216-1218 Blue Hill Avenue, Dorchester, Mass.

This 1961 image by Ames Photo Service depicts a street view of Promisel's Food Mart and a neighboring laundromat located on Blue Hill Ave in Dorchester, Mass. This building is extant but has been altered; it is now the site of Greater Victory Temple Church.

Date: 1961

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 362372

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0100.003

Ernstein's Specialty Shop, 568 Columbia Road, Dorchester, Mass.

This image by an unidentified photographer depicts a street scene on Columbia Road in Dorchester, Mass., including Ernstein's (women's clothing store) and a U.S. Marine recruiting center. Today, the building at 568 Columbia Rd. is partially extant but significantly altered. The recruiting statio...

Date: undated

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 362373

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0100.004

Ace DeLuxe Cleaners and Pessin's Food Mart, 151-151B Harold Street, Roxbury, Mass.

This 1961 image by Anthony's Studio depicts a winter street scene in front of Ace DeLuxe Cleansers and Pessin's Food Mart (Pessin's Foodland) on Harold Street in Roxbury. Two young girls in winter clothing and one older man smoking a cigarette are standing in Ace's doorway. The girls are looking at ...

Date: 1961

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 362374

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0100.017

645-663 Warren Street, Roxbury, Mass.

This 1960 image by Anthony's Studio depicts a street scene on Warren St. in Roxbury, Mass. Visible are a pharmacy, a liquor store, a driving school, a restaurant, a dry cleaners, and bowling alley. Several large billboards sit atop the stores. The building is still existing, but has significant...

Date: 1960

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 362375

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0100.018

Vacant building at 44 Gibson Street, Dorchester, Mass.

This image depicts a building that has been "vacant for years" according to notes written on the photograph's back. The street-side of the building is covered with political campaign posters ranging from fresh to faded and fraying. Based on the political posters, a rough estimate of 1958-1960 can be...

Date: undated

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 362377

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.USMA.1280.0020.001

Massachusetts - East Boston - Boston Marine Works - Photos

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Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 362389

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.USMA.1340.0050

Tremont & Calumet Streets, Roxbury, Mass.

This 1960 photograph by the Boston Photo Service depicts the corners of Tremont and Calumets Streets in Mission Hill, Boston, Mass. Visible is the back view of a row of houses on Calumet Street set behind a rocky outcropping and a parking lot. This site is now a part of the One Brigham Circle co...

Date: 1960

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 362391

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0100.019

Massachusetts - Boston - Avery St. - Unmounted

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Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 362392

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.0605

Massachusetts - Brighton - Allston - Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. - Unmounted

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Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 362393

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0430.0085

Massachusetts - Brighton - Allston - Photos

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Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 362394

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.USMA.0710.0050

Sunoco, corner of Mountfort and St. Mary's

Image depicts a Sunoco gas station located at the corner of Mountfort Street and St. Mary's Street, Brookline, Mass.

Date: undated

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 362396

Ref. Code: PC001.02.02.3150.0100.004

Massachusetts - Boston - Unidentified - Photos

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Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 362415

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.USMA.0480.0090

Trade card for Francis M. Donahue with Kennedy's, 60 Merrimack Street, Haverhill, Mass., undated

Trade card advertising fall fashions for men sold by Francis M. Donahue at Kennedy's clothing store in Haverhill, Massachusetts. A print of a man presumed to be Francis M. Donahue is on the left of the recto.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 362416

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.05.04.027

"Boots & Shoes" Weekly, vol. 38, no. 19, New York, N.Y., 1900 December 19

Periodical titled "Boots& Shoes" Weekly published on December 19, 1900. Contains advertisements for shoe manufacturers located throughout the United States and articles discussing shoes, shoe manufacturing, and related topics.

Date: 1900

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 362418

Ref. Code: EP001.12.007.004.018

Lindley I. Dean House, Pigeon Cove, Rockport, Mass.

14 slides for a house for Mrs. Lindley I. Dean in Rockport, Massachusetts (commission #1910). Images were taken by Ken Duprey

Date: 1962-1963

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

GUSN: 362419

Ref. Code: AR029.04.03.DeanL

Typical details of Natco XXX hollow tile for residence construction, National Fire Proofing Company, undated

Poster advertising the typical details of Natco XXX hollow tile for residence construction. Includes blueprints demonstrating the various uses and details of the Natco XXX hollow tile. The poster was published by the National Fire Proofing Company. The poster is undated.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 362421

Ref. Code: EP001.01.026.01.02.026

Photograph of baseball team, New Canaan, Conn., undated

Mounted albumen print of a baseball team from New Canaan, Connecticut. Thirteen unidentified men and one unidentified young boy are pictured. The photograph was taken by photographer William Francis Weed of New Canaan, Connecticut. The photograph is undated.

Date: undated

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 362422

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USCT.1160.0010.001

Packing shoes for Edward Sullivan, Kimball Building, Walnut St., Haverhill, Mass., 1914

Mounted photograph depicting individuals packing shoes in the building of W. & V. O. Kimball Company on Walnut Street in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The print is dated 1914. The photographer is unknown. On a verso, the names of identifiable individuals pictured are handwritten.

Date: 1914

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 362424

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.1290.0040.008

Massachusetts - Bradford - Modern - Mounted

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Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 362426

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0390.0030

Making of shoe boxes, Bradford, Mass., 1917

Photograph of four women making shoe boxes in front of Anson Ayer, an owner of Ayer & Webster, in Bradford, Massachusetts. Ayer & Webster were manufacturers of box board. The photograph was taken in 1917. The photographer is unknown. On a verso, the names of the individuals pictured are handwritten.

Date: 1917

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 362427

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0390.0030.001

Four watercolors of historic buildings, undated

Four watercolors of historic buildings located in Massachusetts, including The Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts, the Longfellow House (also known as the Craigie House) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a churchyard in Cambridge, and one unidentified house. The watercolors are undated are signed wit...

Date: undated

Collection: Original art collection

GUSN: 362429

Ref. Code: GC001.USMA.General.811

W. Fitzpatrick house, Egypt, Mass., undated

6 black and white, interior and exterior prints of a house for W. Fitzpatrick in Egypt, Mass. The prints are undated and there is no corresponding architectural drawings for the structure

Date: undated

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

GUSN: 362430

Ref. Code: AR029.04.03.FitzpatrickW

Larkin house, Lexington, Mass., undated

10 interior and exterior photographic prints of a house for Mr. Larkin in Lexington, Mass., Photographer is Arthur C. Haskell. Images are undated.

Date: undated

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

GUSN: 362433

Ref. Code: AR029.04.03.Larkin

Massachusetts - Boston - Beacon Street - Joy to Charles - Parker-Inches House No. 40 - Assessing Dept. City of Boston 1938

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Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 362504

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.1005

Massachusetts - Boston - Back Bay - Assessing Dept. City of Boston - Keep together

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Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 362532

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.0635

Massachusetts - Boston - South End - Assessing Dept. City of Boston - Keep together

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Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 362539

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.7355

Massachusetts - Dorchester - Assessing Dept. City of Boston

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Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 362543

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0195

Ceramic miscellany, slide 17, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 17 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361236

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00004

Dry well: miscellaneous ceramics, knick-knacks, etc., slide 18, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 18 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361237

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00005

Miscellany, slide 36, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 36 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361238

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00006

Dry well: window glass, lamp chimneys, misc., slide 33, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 33 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361239

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00007

Miscellaneous bottles, slide 35, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 35 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361240

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00008

Replacement bottles, slide 34. Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 34 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361241

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00009

Pottery misc. and ceramic cups, slide 20, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 20 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361242

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00010

Dry well: cups (soft paste), mugs, compote cover, slide 21, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 21 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361243

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00011

Pharmaceutical bottles, slide 31, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 31 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361244

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00012

"Stoneware," slide 27, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 27 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361245

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00013

Ceramic chinoiserie, slide 16, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 16 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361246

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00014

Earthenware (American?), slide 19, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 19 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361247

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00015

"Stoneware," slide 28, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 28 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361248

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00016

"Stoneware," slide 26, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students.Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 26 in the top left co...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361249

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00017

Toilet bottles, slide 29, miscellany, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 29 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361250

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00018

Log book of the Cossack, 1928-1937

A log book for a yacht called the Cossack dated 1928-1937. Contains 149 pages, of which 95 are blank. Entries document the travels of the Cossack during the summer months between different harbors and islands in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Entries written in multiple hands. ...

Date: 1928-1937

Collection: Miscellaneous manuscript collection

GUSN: 361254

Ref. Code: MS029.002.033

RH interiors, Restoration Hardware, 3053 Filmore St, Suite 235, San Francisco, Cailf., 2015

Trade catalog for furniture from Restoration Hardware. The catalog advertises furniture for spaces including dining rooms, living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, libraries, and media rooms, divided into sections representing designers or specific design philosophies. Most pages are set up as two-page sp...

Date: 2015

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 361257

Ref. Code: EP001.12.009.002.128

RH, Restoration Hardware, 3053 Filmore Street, Suite 235, San Francisco, Calif., Fall 2016

Trade catalog for furniture from Restoration Hardware. The catalog advertises furniture for spaces including dining rooms, living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, libraries, and media rooms, divided into sections representing designers or specific design philosophies. Most pages are set up as two-page sp...

Date: 2016

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 361258

Ref. Code: EP001.12.009.002.129

RH, Restoration Hardware, 3053 Fillmore Street, Suite 235, San Francisco, Calif., Spring 2019

Trade catalog for furniture from Restoration Hardware. The catalog advertises furniture for spaces including dining rooms, living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, libraries, and media rooms, divided into sections representing designers or specific design philosophies. Most pages are set up as two-page sp...

Date: 2019

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 361259

Ref. Code: EP001.12.009.002.130

Useful hints on wall paper, H. F. Newman, 60 Park Square, Boston, Mass., 1898

The sample pamphlet contains tips and instructions for new homeowners and consumers on how to decorate their new homes. Tips include what colors to use in specific rooms of the house (specifically the north and south rooms), kinds of backgrounds and the effects they have on the house's overall look,...

Date: 1898

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 361261

Ref. Code: EP001.01.123.01.01.051

Letter from George E. Waring Jr. to Dr. Francis H. Brown, 1879 October 15

Letter from George E. Waring Jr. of Newport, Rhode Island, to Dr. Francis H. Brown. Dated October 15, 1879. The following design is on the recto of the letter: "Geo. E. Waring Jr., / Consulting Engineer / for Sanitary and /Agricultural Works."

Date: 1879

Collection: Miscellaneous manuscript collection

GUSN: 361262

Ref. Code: MS029.002.034

Massachusetts - Pittsfield - Town and Country Motor Lodge - Photos

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Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 361296

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.USMA.3740.0120

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