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

Wonderland, Revere Beach - Shooting the Chutes

Full color postcard depicting the Shoot the Chutes amusement ride in Wonderland park at Revere Beach, Mass.

Date: 1906

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 330286

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.USMA.3990.0080.007

C. F. Avila house, Milton, Mass.

Set of five architectural drawings for alterations to existing house for Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Avila in Milton, Massachusetts (commission #1775) including one elevation, one plan, one cross section, and two details. Most drawings are signed and dated by Richard Wills.

Date: 1959

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

GUSN: 330287

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1775

Daniel Gregory house, Westwood, Mass.

Set of thirty-six architectural drawings for alterations to existing house for Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Gregory in Westwood, Massachusetts (commission #1779) including nine elevations, nine plans, one interior elevation, nine sketches, and eight details. Some drawings are signed and dated by David G. Det...

Date: 1959

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

GUSN: 330288

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1779

I'm in Fine Shape at Revere Beach, Mass.

Full color postcard depicting a female bather at the shoreline of Revere Beach, Mass.

Date: undated

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 330290

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.USMA.3990.0080.008

David C. Cameron house, Lexington, Mass.

Set of three architectural drawings for alterations to existing house for David C. Cameron in Lexington, Massachusetts (commission #1788) including two elevations and one plan. Drawings are not signed; two are dated. Alterations include kitchen modifications and an addition with a new living room...

Date: 1960

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

GUSN: 330289

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1788

The Pier, Revere Beach, Mass.

A full color postcard showing the ocean pier at Revere Beach, Mass.

Date: undated

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 330291

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.USMA.3990.0080.009

G. Eliot Robinson house, Hanover, Mass.

Set of nineteen architectural drawings for alterations to existing house for Mr. and Mrs. G. Eliot Robinson in Hanover, Massachusetts (commission #1818) including two preliminary elevations and seventeen details. Some drawings are signed by John F. Howard or Warren J. Rhoter.

Date: 1962

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

GUSN: 330292

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1818

New Bath House, Revere Beach

Full color postcard showing an interior view of the New Bath House at Revere Beach with a small exterior view in an inset.

Date: undated

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 330293

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.USMA.3990.0080.010

Ray W. Greene house, Great Barrington, R.I.

Set of twenty-four architectural drawings of house for Ray W. Greene in West Barrington, Rhode Island (commission #558) including three elevations, four plans, three framing plans, two plot plans, and twelve details. Three drawings are dated. Plot plan is by Associated Civil Engineers (Melrose, Mass...

Date: 1937

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

GUSN: 330294

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.558

State Bath House, Revere Beach, Mass.

Bicolor postcard of the State Bath House on Revere Beach Boulevard.

Date: undated

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 330295

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.USMA.3990.0080.011

Nicholas Hurd house, West Barrington, R.I.

Set of seven architectural drawings for alterations to existing house for Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Hurd in West Barrington, Rhode Island (commission #558-A) including two elevations, two plans, and three rough sketches. Some drawings are signed and dated by Robert J. Pesiri. Alterations include chan...

Date: 1982

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

GUSN: 330297

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.558-A

State Bath House During Rush Hour, Revere Beach, Mass.

Black and white postcard depicting the State Bath House and people walking along Revere Beach Boulevard.

Date: undated

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 330299

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.USMA.3990.0080.012

Nicholas Hurd house, Great Barrington, R.I.

Set of four architectural drawings for alterations to existing house for Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Hurd in West Barrington, Rhode Island (commission #558-A2) including two elevations and two plans. Drawings are signed and dated by Robert J. Pesiri. Alterations include expanding the sitting room and k...

Date: 2003

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

GUSN: 330298

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.558-A2

Portrait of an Unknown Architect, c.1870

Item

Date: 1870

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 330302

Ref. Code: PC001.02.02.0400.0200

Manuscript Chapters, circa 1920s-1940s

This series contains undated, handwritten and typed chapters relating to historic homes, interiors, and decorative arts. These are typed and handwritten and include photographs.

Date: undated

Collection: Rose Standish Nichols unpublished manuscript collection, 1920s-1995

GUSN: 330306

Ref. Code: MS058.01

Subjects, 1920s-1940s, undated

These papers consist of typewritten and handwritten notes and photographs. Subjects relate in some cases to existing chapters.

Date: 1920-1949, undated

Collection: Rose Standish Nichols unpublished manuscript collection, 1920s-1995

GUSN: 330307

Ref. Code: MS058.02

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