Historic New England

Choose the new in venetian blinds, Chicago Venetian Blind Company, 3917 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois

Suggestions for using color-metal alumilite venetian blinds in your home are included. The product is sold by the Walsh-Spencer Company, 420 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266793

Ref. Code: EP001.12.013.008.002

Kaiser Aluminum Shade Screening... a new way to keep homes, offices, plants refreshingly cool on hot summer days, general offices, Permanente Products Company, Kaiser Building, 1924 Broadway, Oakland, California

The advantages of the aluminum screening product are described in the pamphlet. A letter to the customer is included dated August 19, 1949. Text on the front cover reads, "A.I.A. File no. 35-P-1."

Date: 1949

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266809

Ref. Code: EP001.12.013.008.003

Trade card for G.S. Woolman, mathematical optical & philosophical instruments, 116 Fulton Street, New York, New York, undated

The card is illustrated with instrument images.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266837

Ref. Code: EP001.01.101.01.01.003

Advertisement for S. Thaxter & Son, importers of and dealers in nautical and surveying instruments, 125 State street, coner of Broad Street, Boston, Mass., undated

Thaxter carries charts and nautical books in addition to instruments.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266844

Ref. Code: EP001.01.101.01.01.004

Trade card for M.A. Porter, watch spring, skirt maker and dealer in thread store goods, 236 Essex Street, Salem, Mass., undated

Porter is now prepared to do initial letter stamping on handkerchiefs, clothing and table linen.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266846

Ref. Code: EP001.01.102.01.01.001

Trade card for Walcott Brothers, patent graduating button-hole cutters, location unknown, undated

The item is for sale in hardware and fancy goods stores for use by tailors, shirt and dress makers and families.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266847

Ref. Code: EP001.01.102.01.01.002

Brunschwig & Fils 2003 price list, 75 Virginia Road, North White Plains, New York

The business "is a wholesale house selling only to interior designers, architects and decorating departments of fine retail and furniture stores."

Date: 2003

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266874

Ref. Code: EP001.12.013.002.001

Cohasset Colonials present fabrics, coverlets, draperies, Hagerty, Cohasset, Mass.

Background on colonial spinning and fabric is provided in the brochure. Home interiors decorated with Cohasset products are shown with an order form. There is a separate sheet for the Hanover Chandelier available from Cohasset.

Date: 1960

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266883

Ref. Code: EP001.12.013.002.002

Fortuny Fabrics, location unknown, undated

The fabrics are described through text and images.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266889

Ref. Code: EP001.12.013.002.003

Ideas for draping the home with Orinoka-Sunfast Guaranteed Fabrics, written and illustrated by F.F. O'Hallaran, The Orinoka Mills, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Suggestions for home decoration using the fabrics are described. A separate letter to the customer refers them to the Jordan Marsh Company for fabric samples.

Date: ca. 1913

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266902

Ref. Code: EP001.12.013.002.004

Alnwick Bedspreads, The Handwork Shop, 57 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, New York

Alnwick Bedspreads are handmade reproductions of old English bedspread patterns. The item verso has a list of customers who have purchased them.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266912

Ref. Code: EP001.12.013.002.005

New Supercale Table Linens by Wamsutta, Wamsutta Mills, New Beford, Mass.

A white sale of Wamsutta products is described featuring table and bed linens. The linens are sold by Porteous, Mitchell and Braun Company, Portland, Maine. A price list and ordering form is included.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266923

Ref. Code: EP001.12.013.002.006

Heywood-Wakefield, cane and wood chairs, catalog no. 14, general office and warehouse, Winter Hill, Mass.

The catalog has chairs, rockers, baby carriages, high chairs, school furniture, breakfast room suites and other furniture. Images of the factories and offices are in the front of the catalog. The business has a salesroom at 174 Portland Street, Boston, Massachusetts. The front cover is detached.

Date: 1920s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266958

Ref. Code: EP001.12.009.002.001

How to choose the right colonial chair, Nichols & Stone Co., Gardner, Mass.

The historic background of colonial period pieces is described with suggestions for their placement in the home. The business creates reproductions of colonial chairs and rockers such as Boston, Nantucket, Governor Bradford and Windsor. The manufacturing process is outlined in photos and text. A ch...

Date: 1950s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266964

Ref. Code: EP001.12.009.002.002

Chairs, Heywood Bros. & Co., Boston, Mass.

Chairs for home and office use are described in the catalog. Newspaper comic strip panels were pasted over some of the chair images at one time and then removed or partially removed. The back cover is missing and there are missing pages in the item.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266969

Ref. Code: EP001.12.009.002.003

Conant Ball Company, chairmakers, Nos. 76 to 100 Sudbury Street, Boston, Mass.

The Company makes chairs, tables, breakfast and console suites. A sepatate price list is dated June 15, 1926.

Date: 1926

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266979

Ref. Code: EP001.12.009.002.004

Ideal folding chair, Clarin Manufacturing Company, Chicago, Illinois

The chair features are described with lists of the businesses which are using them. A color chart is on the item verso. The chairs are sold by Ernest W. Lowell in Lynn, Massachusetts.

Date: 1928

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 267005

Ref. Code: EP001.12.009.002.005

Flightline Chairs by Steelcase, Steelcase Inc., Grand Rapids, Michigan

Office and reception room chairs, manufactured by Steelcase Inc. and sold by Macey Fowler Inc. are described for customers.

Date: 1960s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 267006

Ref. Code: EP001.12.009.002.006

Announcing the smart new Ideal Streamliners, Ideal Seating Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan

Movie theater seats, "America's Preferred Public Seating," manufactured by Ideal are described. The chairs are sold by Joe Cifre Inc., 44 Winchester Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 267018

Ref. Code: EP001.12.009.002.007

Mantel in Small Chamber on 3rd Floor, Revised July 12, 1906

1 detail : ink on linen

Date: 1906-07-12

Collection: Arthur Little and Herbert W.C. Browne architectural collection

GUSN: 267007

Ref. Code: AR004.001.002.009.054

Mantel in Chamber "B" 3rd Floor, Revised July 12, 1906

1 detail : ink on linen

Date: 1906-07-12

Collection: Arthur Little and Herbert W.C. Browne architectural collection

GUSN: 267008

Ref. Code: AR004.001.002.009.055

Mantel in Chamber "A" 3rd Floor, Revised July 12, 1906

1 detail : ink on linen

Date: 1906-07-12

Collection: Arthur Little and Herbert W.C. Browne architectural collection

GUSN: 267009

Ref. Code: AR004.001.002.009.056

Mantel in Large Room 4th Floor, undated

This detail of the mantel on the fourth floor has the words "Discarded" and "Superceded 3/20/06" written across it in pencil.

Collection: Arthur Little and Herbert W.C. Browne architectural collection

GUSN: 267010

Ref. Code: AR004.001.002.009.057

Half Inch Details of Closet Finish in Basement, May 4, 1906

1 sheet of details : ink on linen

Date: 1906-05-04

Collection: Arthur Little and Herbert W.C. Browne architectural collection

GUSN: 267011

Ref. Code: AR004.001.002.009.058

Half Inch Scale Details of Serving Room First Floor, May 3, 1906

1 sheet of details : ink on linen

Date: 1906-05-03

Collection: Arthur Little and Herbert W.C. Browne architectural collection

GUSN: 267012

Ref. Code: AR004.001.002.009.059

Half Inch Scale Details of Wardrobe & Closet Finish on Second Floor, May 3, 1906

1 sheet of details : ink on linen

Date: 1906-05-03

Collection: Arthur Little and Herbert W.C. Browne architectural collection

GUSN: 267013

Ref. Code: AR004.001.002.009.060

Concerning an impregnable coating for cement and brick from the New England Oil, Paint & Varnish Co., Waters Avenue and Valley Street, Everett Station, Everett, Mass. and Tremont Street, Boston, Mass.

The product described is "New England's Best Cement and Brick Coating." It can be used on exterior work or interior plaster work. The coating is advertised to be "water proof, frost proof, sun proof, dust proof, germ proof, dirt proof, beautifying, sanitary, decorative." A color chart is included.

Date: 1920s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266458

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.006.001

Certain-teed House Paint, Certain-teed Products Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri

Color samples, prices and directions are given in the brochure. Text stamped on the front cover reads, "Asahel Wheeler Co., wholesale distributors, 53 High Street, Boston, Massachusetts."

Date: 1920s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266459

Ref. Code: EP001.12.013.005.039

Moore's Paints, beautify and protect, Benjamin Moore & Co., New York, New York

One folder has fifteen (15) individual sheets showing rooms decorated with Benjamin Moore products. Three sheets are larger than the folder and were done by Seymour Snyder. The second folder has thirteen (13) individual sheets. There is some duplication between the two folders. The inside of the bac...

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266460

Ref. Code: EP001.12.013.005.040

Decorator's palette, volume 2, Martin Senour Paints, Sampler Publications, Inc., 707 Kautz Road, St. Charles, Illinois

Martin Senour paint products are promoted with house makeovers and projects.

Date: 1995

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266461

Ref. Code: EP001.12.013.005.041

Silky Acrylic Latex Semi-Gloss and One Coat Flat Wall Finish, Touraine Paints, Inc., 1760 Parkway, Everett, Mass.

Color samples are shown for Touraine paint products.

Date: ca. 1983

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266463

Ref. Code: EP001.12.013.005.043

Tru-Flex Exteriors, Touraine Paints, Inc., 1760 Parkway, Everett, Mass.

Colors samples are shown for wood siding, shingles, masonry and other exterior surfaces.

Date: ca. 1983

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266465

Ref. Code: EP001.12.013.005.044

Cover for New holiday publications, Christmas 1898, issued by Little, Brown & Co., Boston, Mass., 1898

The item is the front and back cover for the Christmas 1898 catalog. The 32 pages of the catalog are missing. The back cover has a list of the novels and historical romances of Henryk Sienkiewicz.

Date: 1898

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266467

Ref. Code: EP001.01.096.01.02.015

Holiday books 1909, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, New York, 1909

The text below the image reads "DeWolfe & Fiske Co., The Archway Book Store, 20 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass." The verso has the frontispiece for Rex Beach's "The silver horde."

Date: 1909

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266471

Ref. Code: EP001.01.096.01.02.016

Coats of arms of Mayflower families, Brewster, published by A.S. Burbank at the Pilgrim Bookstore, Plymouth, Mass., undated

The coat of arms for the Brewster Family is shown in the image.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266472

Ref. Code: EP001.01.096.01.02.017

Coats of arms of Mayflower families, Warren, published by A.S. Burbank at the Pilgrim Bookstore, Plymouth, Mass., undated

The coat of arms for the Warren Family is shown in the image.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266473

Ref. Code: EP001.01.096.01.02.018

Coats of arms of Mayflower families, White, published by A.S. Burbank at the Pilgrim Bookstore, Plymouth, Mass., undated

The coat of arms for the White Family is shown in the image.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266474

Ref. Code: EP001.01.096.01.02.019

Coats of arms of Mayflower families, Winslow, published by A.S. Burbank at the Pilgrim Bookstore, Plymouth, Mass., undated

The coat of arms for the Winslow Family is shown in the image.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266475

Ref. Code: EP001.01.096.01.02.020

Letterhead for Hendricks' Directory of the United States, architectural, engineering & mechanical, S.E. Hendricks' Co., 61 Beekman Street, New York, New York, dated April 20, 1901

The publisher is looking for a firm that can manufacture equipment for producting soap stone or crayon pencils.

Date: 1901-04-20

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266476

Ref. Code: EP001.01.096.01.02.021

Letterhead for The youth's companion, Perry Mason & Co., Boston, Mass., dated March 30, 1897

The publisher is trying to solicit advertising business from a company which manufactures bicycle bells.

Date: 1897-03-30

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266477

Ref. Code: EP001.01.096.01.02.022

Sample page for The word at St. Kavin's, by Bliss Carman, The Monadnock Press, Nelson, New Hampshire, 1903

The frontispiece illustration and title page are shown.

Date: 1903

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266480

Ref. Code: EP001.01.096.01.02.023

Advertisement for real estate, houses, location unknown, April 1792

Two advertisements describe houses for sale in an unknown location.

Date: 1792-04

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266481

Ref. Code: EP001.01.097.01.01.001

Trade card for J.H. Jessop, real estate agent, 10 & 12 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The agent offers 40 choice lots at Ocean Spray in Winthrop, Massachusetts.The card verso has the train schedule for the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 266482

Ref. Code: EP001.01.097.01.01.002