Historic New England

Scan from a photocopy of a design drawing depicting the Spencer-Peirce-Little House north wall fireplace, Newbury, Mass.

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Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194910

Ref. Code: PC006.SPL.01.012

Interior view of north wall fireplace with surround removed, Spencer-Peirce-Little House, Newbury, Mass.

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Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194911

Ref. Code: PC006.SPL.01.013

Interior view of north wall fireplace renovation, Spencer-Peirce-Little House, Newbury, Mass.

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Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194912

Ref. Code: PC006.SPL.01.014

Interior view of north wall fireplace renovation, Spencer-Peirce-Little House, Newbury, Mass.

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Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194913

Ref. Code: PC006.SPL.01.015

Advertisement for Standard Plumbing Fixtures, manufactured by the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, ca. 1922

A magazine advertisement for the Standard brand plumbing fixtures shows a mother washing dishes at her "yard-stick high" kitchen sink and watching her daughter as she washes toy plates at her play sink.

Date: ca. 1922

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 194915

Ref. Code: EP001.02.TMP.001

Advertisement for Hoosier Kitchen Cabinets, Hoosier Manufacturing Company, 424 Warren Street, Newcastle, Indiana, April 1924

A drawing of a kitchen displays the Hoosier double and single cabinet units, whose open doors reveal shelves stacked with kitchen items tastefully arranged. The whole scene represents a conception of the modern kitchen.

Date: 1924-04

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 194916

Ref. Code: EP001.02.TMP.002

Trade card for Pure Refined Paraffine, as manufactured by the Standard Oil Company, New York, New York and Cleveland, Ohio, undated

This trade card promotes the household uses of Pure Paraffine, a product of the Standard Oil Company. Three women are engaged in different activities. In the left background, a woman uses the product in the course of washing, drying, and ironing clothes. In the left foreground, a woman cuts a bar of...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 194917

Ref. Code: EP001.01.084.01.01.015

Exterior view of the Patrick Andrew Collins House, Dorchester, Mass., undated

This view from the driveway shows the Patrick Andrew Collins House in the Ronan Park area of Dorchester, Boston. Patrick Collins was mayor of Boston (1902-1905) and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1883-1889). From the Dorchester Athenaeum website: "He moved into his Ronan Park estate ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194919

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0050.001

Exterior view of the home of Rev. Nathaniel Hall, Pastor of First Parish Church during the Civil War. Columbia and Sayward Sts., Dorchester, Mass.

This exterior view shows the house of Rev. Nathaniel Hall in Dorchester, Boston from Columbia Street just past the intersection with Sayward Street. A picket fence encompasses the house and grounds, which include evergreen and birch trees. The house is topped with a widows' walk.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194920

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0050.002

Exterior view of the Edward Everett School, Dorchester, Mass.

A view from across the street shows the front façade of the Edward Everett School in Dorchester, Boston. The walls are partially covered with ivy. A flagpole is adjacent to the entranceway. This was the second school named for Edward Everett, governor of Massachusetts from 1836 to 1840. Located on ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194921

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0090.001

View of Geneva Ave. looking towards Park St., Dorchester, Mass.

Several trolley cars sit on tracks and are attached to overhead lines. A sign indicates that this is the Fields Corner Station and shows an arrow directing passengers to the tunnel trains. Row houses can be seen across the street from the station.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194922

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0080.001

Exterior view of the Fields Corner Delicatessen, 1514A Dorchester Ave., Dorchester, Mass.

Pedestrians walk past the Fields Corner Delicatessen at 1514A Dorchester Avenue in Dorchester. In the storefront windows, canned goods and fruits are displayed, with signs indicating the prices of these items. Two doors down the street is a spa, selling homemade candy and ice cream.

Date: 1930-1950

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194923

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0080.002

Exterior view of the Meeting House Hill Firehouse (Engine No. 17). Parish St., Dorchester, Mass.

This exterior view shows the front façade of the firehouse of Engine No. 17 and Hook and Ladder No. 7 on Parish Street on Meeting House Hill in Dorchester. The fire station is designed in the Second Empire style and the hook and ladder barn has a gambrel roof.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194924

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0090.002

Exterior view of the Lucky Strike Bowling Alley, 289 Adams St., corner of Park St. Dorchester, Mass.

Pedestrians cross the street in front of the entrance to the Lucky Strike Bowling Alley on 289 Adams Street in Dorchester. There is a stylish sign above the doorway.

Date: 1987-03-29

Collection: Robert Bayard Severy photographic collection

GUSN: 194925

Ref. Code: PC045.TMP.001

Exterior view of the house built for Gen. Hazard Stevens, 8 Bowdoin Ave., Dorchester, Mass., 1880

An exterior view shows a side façade of the General Hazard Stevens House, also known as Crest Lawn, at 8 Bowdoin Avenue on Mount Bowdoin in Dorchester, Massachusetts. The mansion, made of brick and a wood frame, was designed by architect Edgar Allen Poe Newcomb in the Queen Anne style in 1879-1880. ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194926

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0060.001

Exterior view of house at 5 Melville Ave., Dorchester, Mass.

This exterior view shows the front façade of a large house at 5 Melville Avenue in Dorchester. A cupola with a spire on top sits on the roof and projects over the eaves with a railing.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194927

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0060.002

Exterior view of an unidentified house, Bullard St. and Bowdoin Ave., Dorchester, Mass., undated

This exterior view shows a side façade of the house at the corner of Bullard Street and Bowdoin Avenue in the Mount Bowdoin neighborhood of Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts. Architect Arthur H. Vinal designed this residence, which may have been built in the 1880s.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194928

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0060.003

Exterior view of Baker Memorial Church, Dorchester, Mass.

An exterior view shows the Baker Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church in the Uphams Corner neighborhood of Dorchester, Massachusetts from across the intersection of Columbia Road and Cushing Avenue. The church was dedicated on June 14, 1891. The congregation left the premises around the 1940s. Sarah ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194929

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0100.001

Group portrait of children standing in Gibson Playground, Dorchester, Mass.

A group of children stand in front of the Christopher Gibson Playground in Fields Corner, Dorchester. A baby carriage stands near the group. Children play on the swing sets in the background. This park is now known as the Doherty/Gibson Playground. Christopher Gibson was one of the original settlers...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194930

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0010.001

Full-length group portrait of children standing in Gibson Playground, Dorchester, Mass., undated

Children of various ages pose next to a tree in the Gibson Playground in Dorchester, Massachusetts. A baby carriage stands in the foreground and in the background children can be seen playing.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194931

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0100.002

View of commercial buildings at the corner of Adams St. and Dorchester Ave., Dorchester, Mass.

Road work is underway at the intersection of Adams Street and Dorchester Avenue in front of various commercial buildings in Fields Corner, Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts. According to the 1908 "Boston City Directory", Fred William Connolly owned a drugstore at 1436 Dorchester Avenue, and Robert H...

Date: 1880-1920

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194932

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0090.003

Transfer Station, Fields Corner, Dorchester, Mass.

A trolley car, with an "Elevated" sign in front and sign on the side that partially reads "Hill," departs from the Fields Corner Transfer Station in Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts. Another trolley car approaches the station from Park Street. The businesses on Park Street include the real estate a...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194933

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0090.004

Exterior view of Bombardieri's Bakery, 1580 Dorchester Ave., corner Gibson St., Dorchester, Mass.

This exterior view shows Bombardieri's Superette-Bakery in Fields Corner, Boston, Massachusetts from across Dorchester Avenue. The storefront is covered with many large signs announcing the store's baked and deli foods and catering services. A number of cars are in the parking lot.

Collection: Robert Bayard Severy photographic collection

GUSN: 194934

Ref. Code: PC045.TMP.002

View of Park St., Dorchester, Mass.

Trolleybuses and cars drive along Dorchester Avenue toward the intersection with Park Street in Fields Corner in Dorcheser, Boston, Massachusetts. A bus station is located to the left side of the street. In the distance, the Dorchester Theater can be seen at the section of the two streets.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194935

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0090.005

Exterior view of Pilgrim Congregational Church, Dorchester, Mass.

The front façade of the Pilgrim Congregational Church at 540 Columbia Road in Uphams Corner, Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts is seen from across the street. Ivy-like vines cover most of the façade.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194936

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0040.001

Horses and carriages in front of Columbia Road Stables, 525-527 Columbia Rd. at Hancock St., Dorchester, Mass.

Three broughams and one landau stand in front of the Columbia Road Stables at 525-527 Columbia Road in Uphams Corner, Dorchester. Coach drivers wearing livery and top hats sit atop their carriages. Large signs advertise the stables and its "horse clipping by electric power" services.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194937

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0790.0040.002

Set of architectural drawings of the Thomas Wigglesworth House, Manchester, Mass., Feb. 1889

1 set of 14 architectural drawings

Date: 1889

Collection: General architectural and cartographic collection

GUSN: 194938

Ref. Code: AR001.USMA.0600.001

East view of Faneuil Hall Market, Boston

An engraving depicts the east view of Faneuil Hall Market, also known as Quincy's Market, in Boston. Designed by Alexander Parris, the granite central market is flanked by warehouses built with the same material.

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 194939

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.1950.001

New Jail and Keeper's House, at South Boston, Mass.

Gridley James Fox Bryant designed a new Suffolk County jail and jail keeper's house to be built in South Boston, Massachusetts. The three-story Federal-style building in front of the jail was to be the warden's house. The Boston Common Council rejected the design for the house and accepted the desig...

Date: 1845

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 194940

Ref. Code: GC002.02.036

D.R.T. Section 3, pipe trench at Waldeck St. and Park St.

A group of workers dig a trench for pipes at the intersection of Waldeck Street and Park Street in a residential area of Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts in connection with the Dorchest Rapid Transit line. Sawhorses are set around the site, and a truck is parked in the middle of the street. A perso...

Date: 1926-09-27

Collection: Boston Transit Archive, 1895-1960s

GUSN: 194943

Ref. Code: PC017.02.TMP.003

D.R.T. Section 2. Track work on Dorchester Ave. from Charles (southerly)

Workers prepare to lay down railroad tracks on Dorchester Avenue in downtown Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts. A worker stands on the sidewalk in front of Hood's.

Date: 1927-06-13

Collection: Boston Transit Archive, 1895-1960s

GUSN: 194944

Ref. Code: PC017.02.TMP.004

D.R.T. Section 2. Southerly view of Foster Terrace from new D.R.T. line

Photo shows a southerly view of Foster Terrace from the new Dorchester Rapid Transit line.

Date: 1927-04-21

Collection: Boston Transit Archive, 1895-1960s

GUSN: 194945

Ref. Code: PC017.02.TMP.005

D.R.T. Section 2. Northerly view from 1509 Dorchester Ave.

Photo shows a northerly view from 1509 Dorchester Ave. Railroad tracks run down the center of the road as pedestrians walk on the sidewalk.

Date: 1926-03-12

Collection: Boston Transit Archive, 1895-1960s

GUSN: 194946

Ref. Code: PC017.02.TMP.006

MBTA construction, Fields Corner, Dorchester, Mass.

A bird's eye view of a busy construction crew in Fields Corner, Dorchester, Massachusetts.

Date: 1947-1949

Collection: Boston Transit Archive, 1895-1960s

GUSN: 194947

Ref. Code: PC017.02.002b.001

Fields Corner Station, Dorchester, Mass.

An exterior view of the Fields Corner Station, Dorchester, Massachusetts.

Date: 1947-01-23

Collection: Boston Transit Archive, 1895-1960s

GUSN: 194948

Ref. Code: PC017.02.002a.001

Dining room, Josiah Quincy House, Quincy, Mass.

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Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194965

Ref. Code: PC006.QUI.01.001

Parlor at left of entrance, Josiah Quincy House, Quincy, Mass.

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Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194966

Ref. Code: PC006.QUI.01.002

Dining room, Josiah Quincy House, Quincy, Mass.

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Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194967

Ref. Code: PC006.QUI.01.003

Drawing room, Josiah Quincy House, Quincy, Mass.

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Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194968

Ref. Code: PC006.QUI.01.004

Parlor at left of entrance, Josiah Quincy House, Quincy, Mass.

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Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194969

Ref. Code: PC006.QUI.01.005

Hall, Josiah Quincy House, Quincy, Mass.

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Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 194970

Ref. Code: PC006.QUI.01.006

View of Boston Public Garden and lagoon on a foggy morning

Fog rises over the lagoon and footbridge in the Boston Public Garden. The plan for the Public Garden by George F. Meacham included a pond. The four-acre lagoon was completed in 1861. Architect William Gibbons Preston designed the suspension footbridge, which was finished in 1867. The steeple of the ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194972

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.6690.001

Scene from the centennial celebration of the Battle of Bunker Hill

This stereograph of members in uniform of the Fifth Maryland Regiment Drum Corps at the Centennial of the Battle of Bunker Hill is part of Thomas Lewis's Centennial Views series. According to "The Boston Globe", after taking part in ceremonies at the Bunker Hill Monument, the Grand Army presented a ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194974

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0170.0280.001

Deer Park near corner of Boylston and Tremont Sts., Boston Common

A group of four deer rest in the shade on the grass in the Deer Park, which was located on the Boylston Street Mall of Boston Common between the Burial Ground and Tremont Street from 1863 to 1882. A young visitor looks through the tall fence at the animals.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194975

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0170.0280.002

People waiting to see the Prince of Wales during his visit to Boston, Boylston Street Mall, Boston Common, Oct. 1860

On the Boylston Street Mall of Boston Common, a crowd of onlookers wait to catch a glimpse of the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, on a state visit. He stayed at the Revere House hotel on Bowdoin Square and took part in a military review on Thursday, October 18, 1860 on Boston Common.

Date: 1860

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194976

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0170.0280.003

Goat train, Boston Common, with Soldiers and Sailors Monument

A crowd of people watch as the goat train passes along a path below the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument on Flagstaff Hill on Boston Common. Six rams pull the little wagon on which riders could travel aound the Common.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194977

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0170.0370.001

Old Elm, Boston Common, after fall during storm and being sawed into lengths

The Old Elm, also known as the Great Elm, stood at the foot of Flagstaff Hill on Boston Common, was considered a landmark of the city and was called the oldest known tree in New England. The tree succumbed to the gales of a storm and toppled onto the ground on February 15, 1876. Parts of the tree we...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194978

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0170.0330.001

Postcard of young shoe shiners, Boston Common, Boston, Mass., undated

A group of shoeshine boys await customers in front of the William Blackstone Memorial Tablet on the Park Street Mall of Boston Common. Parts of the front and side façades of the Park Street Church are visible in the background. Cars drive down Park Street toward the intersection with Tremont Street.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194979

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.049

Memorial plaque for Gilbert Stuart, Boston Common. Installed 1897 by the Paint and Clay Club

This close-up view shows the memorial plaque honoring the painter Gilbert Stuart, which sculptor Hugh Cairns created and the Paint and Clay Club of Boston installed on the fence enclosing the Central Burying Ground, or Old South Burying Ground, where Stuart is buried, on the Boylston Street side of ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194980

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.2630.001

Tablet by John F. Paramino in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, Lafayette Mall (formerly Tremont St. Mall), Boston Common

This close-up view shows the Marquis de Lafayette Memorial, created by sculptor John Francis Paramino and dedicated by the City of Boston on September 6, 1924, on the Tremont Street Mall of Boston Common. The monument commemorates the 100th anniversary of Lafayette's march to Bunker Hill on the 50th...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 194981

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.2630.002

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