Historic New England

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

Colonial Williamsburg Inc. approved reproductions and adaptations, The Craft house, Williamsburg, Virginia

The catalog has furniture, needlepoint, textile, glassware, silverware and other reproductions for potential customers.

Date: 1937

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318632

Ref. Code: EP001.12.009.002.101

Historic Pilgrim furniture, illustrated by reproductions in Plimoth Plantation, Heywood-Wakefield Company, Gardner, Mass.

A brief history and examples of Pilgrim furniture are provided in the item.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 318634

Ref. Code: EP001.12.009.002.102

Family Standen, Winterbottom, Huntingdon

Family Standen, Winterbottom, and Huntingdon

Date: 1900-1910

Collection: Weld-Appleton family papers

GUSN: 318635

Ref. Code: MS005.02.002a

Guest book

Includes notes and photographs from October 7, 1894, through November 2, 1901. Also includes a poem by Marjorie C. Appleton written in 1892. Some photographs are identified; see printed finding aid Appendix I: Guest Book Index.

Date: 1894-1901

Collection: Weld-Appleton family papers

GUSN: 318636

Ref. Code: MS005.02.007a

Parade

Photograph of a parade through Danielson, CT. Native Americans ride horses down the street while people look on from the sidewalk.

Date: 1900s

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

GUSN: 319519

Ref. Code: PC067.01.038

House and Chickens

Photograph of a house with chickens in the front yard. A man stands on the porch watching the chickens.

Date: 1898

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

GUSN: 319520

Ref. Code: PC067.02.039

Della Dearborn

Portrait of Della Dearborn standing outside holding a bicycle.

Date: 1898

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

GUSN: 319521

Ref. Code: PC067.02.040

Christie House

Image of a house identified as "Christie House". Seven people stand and sit in front of the house. There is also a bicycle and a horse visible.

Date: 1898

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

GUSN: 319522

Ref. Code: PC067.02.041

Group

Group portrait of seven people. They are gathered outside a house.

Date: 1898

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

GUSN: 319523

Ref. Code: PC067.02.042

Miriam + Robert

Portrait of two people, identified as Miriam and Robert, standing on a road with a house in the background.

Date: 1898

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

GUSN: 319524

Ref. Code: PC067.02.043

One Mile to Francestown

Photograph of a man in a horse drawn buggie coming down a road. The road is lined with trees and a field is visible in the background.

Date: 1898

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

GUSN: 319525

Ref. Code: PC067.02.044

Mother + Alice

Portrait of two women identified as Mother and Alice. Alice has her hands clasped in front of her body and the two women stand in front of a barn.

Date: 1898

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

GUSN: 319526

Ref. Code: PC067.02.045

Mr. Epp's Lumber Team + FEW

Photograph of two people seated on a horse drawn lumber cart.

Date: 1898

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

GUSN: 319527

Ref. Code: PC067.02.046

Mr. Epp's Team

Photograph of one person seated on a horse drawn lumber cart.

Date: 1898

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

GUSN: 319528

Ref. Code: PC067.02.047

Uncle Andrew (Sober)

Portrait of a man identified as Uncle Andrew standing in front of a house looking somber.

Date: 1898

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

GUSN: 319529

Ref. Code: PC067.02.048

Uncle Andrew (Smiling)

Portrait of a man identified as Uncle Andrew standing in front of a house smiling.

Date: 1898

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

GUSN: 319531

Ref. Code: PC067.02.049

Stevens Homestead

Photograph of the Stevens' Homestead in Hartland VT. The plate was exposed twice which can be seen in the ghost-like figures on the poarch and the blurry look to the image.

Date: 1898

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

GUSN: 319533

Ref. Code: PC067.02.050

"Messer" House

Photograph of the Messer's house in Claremont, NH. The house is visible behind a large bush; grass occupies the foreground of the image.

Date: 1898

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

GUSN: 319534

Ref. Code: PC067.02.051

Mr. Messer- The Man With the Scythe

Photograph of a man identified as Mr. Messer. He is holding a scyth and standing in a field. The front half of the visible field has been harvested and the back half is still tall plants.

Date: 1898

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

GUSN: 319535

Ref. Code: PC067.02.052

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