Historic New England

Exterior view of the Hazen-Spiller House, Haverhill, Mass.

A view of the front façade of the brick Colonial-style Hazen-Spiller House in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The house sits atop a low hill, at the base of which stands a stone wall. The house has paired end chimneys. The windows have lozenge-shaped panes. Telephone wires can be seen hanging above the st...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195474

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.1290.0070.001

Exterior view of the Richard Derby House, Salem, Mass.

A view of the front façade of the brick Georgian-style Richard Derby House in Salem, Massachusetts. Icicles hang from the eaves of the gambrel roof, and snow covers the ground in front of the house. The door surround is in the Doric order and crowned with a pediment. Two stringcourses demarcate the ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195475

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2570.0810.001

Cornelius Vanderbilt house, Newport, R.I.

Cornelius Vanderbilt II commissioned architect Richard Morris Hunt to create a villa for him. Hunt designed the mansion in the Renaissance Revival style.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195479

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.100

Wentworth-Gardner House, Portsmouth, N.H.

An exterior view from across Mechanic Street of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House in Posrtsmouth, New Hampshire before the restoration of Wallace Nutting. Two young children sit on the low stonewall surrounding the property. The Second Empire-style entry porch is supported by Corinthian col...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195484

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.101

Balusters, Wentworth-Gardner House, Portsmouth, N.H.

An interior view of the balusters of the railing of the main staircase between the first and second floors of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a wedding gift for her son Thomas, who died in 1768. In 17...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195485

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.102

Detail of parlor fireplace carving, Wentworth-Gardner House, Portsmouth, N.H.

An interior view of the fireplace mantel in one of the parlors of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The frieze of the mantel is adorned with a carved flower and fruit design. It appears that decorative tiles are inset into the fireplace face. The wallpaper bear...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195486

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.103

Wreckage of the schooner "Cox and Green," Hull, Mass.

"On the morning of November 25th 1888, Joshua James (Boat-Keeper of Hulls busy Humane Society lifeboat crews) spotted six schooners anchored in Nantasket Roads, a half mile southwest of Boston Light. The first to run aground in the mounting storm was the Cox and Green, which struck rocks in mid-aft...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195487

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.1430.0040.001

Castle Tucker, Wiscasset, Maine

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Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 195488

Ref. Code: PC006.CTU.01.001

Stereograph of the New Shoreham Life-Saving Station, Block Island, R.I., undated

A stereograph of eight men standing near the boathouse of the New Shoreham Life-Saving Station at Old Harbor on Block Island, Rhode Island. A flag flies from the lookout cupola. The Stick Style building was constructed in 1874 as a station of the United States Life-Saving Service, which later became...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195489

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USRI.0020.0010.001

Stereograph of the New Shoreham Life-Saving Station, Block Island, R.I., undated

A stereograph of the front of the boathouse of the New Shoreham Life-Saving Station at Old Harbor on Block Island, Rhode Island. The door stands open, affording a view of the surfboat inside. A flag flies from the lookout cupola. The Stick Style building was constructed in 1874 as a station of the U...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195490

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USRI.0020.0010.002

Frontispiece from the book, Memorial History of Boston, "View from Cotton or Pemberton Hill, 1816"

This frontispiece to "The Memorial History of Boston", edited by Justin Winsor and published by Ticknor and Company in 1880, is a print of the 1829 painting by Robert Salmon entitled, "Boston Harbor from Mr. Greene's House, Pemberton Hill". Salmon completed the massive painting (95 x 180 inches). Th...

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

GUSN: 195491

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.1000.003

Trade card for Melville Garden clambake, Crow Point, Mass., 1880

Melville Garden was a summer resort in Crow Point (also known as Downer Landing), Massachusetts on the headland at the mouth of the Hingham River. This piece of ephemera contains stereotypical imagery of an African American waiter serving a plate of clams to a white couple seated at a table, inside ...

Date: 1880

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195492

Ref. Code: EP001.01.046.05.01.001

Front cover of the 1870 Atlantic Almanac

The cover of the 1870 edition of "The Atlantic Almanac" features four interlocking rings within a larger ring surrounded by a floral border. A different kind of flower fills each ring.

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 195493

Ref. Code: SC002.TMP.017

Back cover of the 1870 Atlantic Almanac with L. Prang and Co. Fine Art Printers advertisement

The cover of the 1870 edition of "The Atlantic Almanac" features an advertisement for L. Prang & Co., fine art publishers. The ad presents an image of a bust of Alois Senefelder, the German inventor of the lithography, set in an architectural niche, flanked by a lithographic tools, inclusing a rolle...

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 195494

Ref. Code: SC002.TMP.018

Trade card for E.G. Higgins & Co., art wall papers, 284 Main Street, Worcester, Mass., undated

The trade card for the art wallpapers of E. G. Higgins & Co. at 284 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts features elaborate floral and geometric patterns. A woman in Greek-style attire reclines on an armchair near a column and a large flower pot. A bird that appears to be a heron stands among ree...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195495

Ref. Code: EP001.01.123.01.01.005

Trade card for Fiske & Spaulding, artistic paper hangings, 117 Central and 14 Jackson Streets, Lowell, Mass., undated

The business carries window shades, art materials and painters' supplies. The card has a scene of a bird and a frog on the edge of a pond with intricate floral patterns and insect motifs. The bird, which appears to be a kingfisher, holds a sketchbook under one wing and a palette with brushes under t...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195496

Ref. Code: EP001.01.123.01.02.004

Trade card for Charles A. Burnham, artistic wall papers, 174 Main Street, Norwich, Conn., undated

The image features three bands of intricate floral patterns. The card advertises that the company can furnish "brown, buff, and white blanks, satins, grounds, and gold papers, borders, and mouldings, window shades, fixtures, and trimmings. Any colorings to order." The company operated both wholesale...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195497

Ref. Code: EP001.01.123.01.02.005

Christmas card, depicting angels sounding trumpets and the lamb of Christ in the center of a star, undated

Female angels in diaphanous attire with wings of peacock feathers sound trumpets. The lamb of Christ lies in the center of a star, around which are arranged a dove, a wreath, and a crescent moon. A border of multicolored sunburst motifs adorns the right and lower edges of the card. The inscription r...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195498

Ref. Code: EP001.05.TMP.010

Trade card for United States Food Administration, depicting a basket of food and promoting food conservation, 1917-1920

This trade card for the United States Food Administration promotes food conservation and discourages waste. A shopping basket is packed with loaves of bread, sugarcubes in a box, meat, butter, and greens. The front text reads: "He who wastes - prolongs the war. Save wheat, sugar, meat, fats." The ba...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195499

Ref. Code: EP001.01.092.01.01.001

Interior view of the Belfry Bedroom, Beauport, Gloucester, Mass.

This photograph is an interior view of the Belfry Bedroom, Beauport, Gloucester, Massachusetts, facing the hallway.

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 195500

Ref. Code: PC006.BEA.01.003

Interior view of the Belfry Bedroom, Beauport, Gloucester, Mass.

This photograph is an interior view of the Belfry Bedroom, Beauport, Gloucester, Massachusetts facing the bed, which in an alcove.

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 195501

Ref. Code: PC006.BEA.01.004

Recruiting poster for the United States Army, 1939

A woman wearing a wreath, holding an upraised wreath, and wrapped in an American flag stands above a line of soldiers. Each soldier wears a different uniform from periods throughout American history, beginning with the Revolutionary War through the Civil War until 1939, the time period of the poster...

Date: 1939

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195503

Ref. Code: EP001.01.092.01.01.002

Christmas and New Year's card, depicting a roaring fire with toys in front of it, 1883

A blazing fire warms a Christmas scene of toys and a cat and kittens around a fireplace hung with stockings. A snow-covered countryside with carolers standing outside a house fills the rest of the image area. Mistletoe borders the card and encircles the central scene. The card is adorned with a whi...

Date: 1883

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195504

Ref. Code: EP001.05.TMP.011

Valentine's Day card, depicting a woman, man, and dog on a country road, undated

This Valentine Day's card presents a central image surrounded by lace. In a country scene near a body of water with spires in the distance, a woman holds the arm of a man and looks at a small dog jumping at her feet. The inscription is arranged in the border around the central image and reads: "My l...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195505

Ref. Code: EP001.05.TMP.012

Trade card for Whirlpool's Niagara Model 1900, manufactured by the Nineteen Hundred Corporation, Binghamton, N.Y. and sold by Herzog Hardware & Paint Co., Kingston, N.Y., undated

This trade card promotes the Niagara 1900 model washing machine of the Whirlpool Corporation. A wringer is positioned above the tub, and castors render the entire device mobile. The image verso describes the model's features.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195506

Ref. Code: EP001.01.006.04.01.001

Trade card for the Bench Wringer, American Wringer Company, New York, New York, undated

This trade card promotes the covenience of the American Wringer Company's bench wringer in contrast to the difficulties of operating tub wringers. In the left panel, a woman struggles to pour water from one washtub set on a chair into one on the floor, while another woman strains to hand crank washi...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195509

Ref. Code: EP001.01.069.01.01.020

Perspective of the Dr. and Mrs. Paul Harwood House, Essex, Conn., 1973

1 perspective : graphite on tracing paper

Date: 1973

Collection: Remmert W. Huygens architectural collection

GUSN: 195514

Ref. Code: AR012.TMP.002

Trade card for John A. Whipple, daguerreotypes and crystalotypes, No. 96 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated

Crystalotypes, or daguerreotypes on paper, were patented by John A. Whipple in 1850.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195517

Ref. Code: EP001.01.090.02.01.001

Trade card for S.H. Lloyd's Daguerreotype Rooms, No. 11 1/2 Tremont Row, corner of Pemberton Square, Boston, Mass., undated

Lloyd is above a boot and shoe store on Tremont Row. In the street there are men and women as well as a carriage pulled by a single horse. Lloyd's services are described on the card verso.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195518

Ref. Code: EP001.01.090.02.01.002

Handbill for A.S. Southworth and Company, daguerreotype, miniature rooms, No. 5 1/2 Tremont Row, Boston, Mass., 1844

This handbill was distributed at the 1844 Mechanics Fair. The handbill advertised not only what A.S. Southworth & Company had on exhibit at the Fair, but also their studios on Tremont Row. A caricature of a sun painting the earth illustrates the handbill.

Date: 1844

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195519

Ref. Code: EP001.01.090.02.01.003

Trade card for the Queen Sweeper, New York, N.Y., undated

Full color trade card advertising the carpet sweeper Queen Sweeper. The card features a woman dressed in a pink dress using the sweeper. Her hair is ornately done and she wears a tiara and veil.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195520

Ref. Code: EP001.01.021.01.01.001

Handbill for amateur photography in easy lessons, Scovill Manufacturing Company, 419 and 421 Broome Street, New York, June 1882

The handbill is from the "Brooklyn Advance," June 1882. It advertises the "amateur outfits and photographic supplies" available from the Company for upwards of $10. The bill is illustrated with a female photographer standing behind a tripod.

Date: 1882-06

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195522

Ref. Code: EP001.01.090.01.01.001

Price list for detective and concealed cameras, C.H. Codman and Company, 34 Bromfield Street, Boston, Mass., ca. 1880

Various concealed cameras and photographic equipment are described in the item. The back cover advertises "The Photographic Times," a weekly journal published by the Scovill Manufacturing Company, New York.

Date: ca. 1880

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195523

Ref. Code: EP001.01.090.01.01.002

Exterior view of the Hancock House with two women standing on balcony, Boston, Mass., undated

Exterior view of the brick Hancock House and yard. The yard is filled with mature trees and surrounded by a brick wall and fence. There are two women standing on the balcony above the covered porch.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195526

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.0860.001

Boston Bijou Theatre, 352 Washington Street, published by E.O. Skelton, Boston, Mass., 1883

This cover of a Boston Bijou Theatre program depicts an interior view of the stage with actors. The spectators are visible in the front and side balconies and the decorative ceiling and walls are emphasized. At the bottom of the program, it also reads: "Dedicated Dec. 11th 1882 / Edw'd. H. Hasting...

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

GUSN: 195528

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3500.001

Advertisement for the Columbia Chainless Bicycle, Pope Manufacturing Company, Hartford, Connecticut, June 24, 1898

The ad claims that the chainless bike makes hill-climbing easy and is illustrated with a drawing of a young man riding the bicycle. The ad is from "New England home magazine, 24 June 1898."

Date: 1898-06-24

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195529

Ref. Code: EP001.01.121.02.01.001

Advertisements for bicycles, multiple locations, March 1896

The advertising pages are from "Cosmopolitan, March 1896."

Date: 1896-03

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195530

Ref. Code: EP001.01.121.02.01.005

Trade cards for Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil, location uknown, undated

Small trade card features a head-and-shoulders portrait of a young lady. Above her head the copy reads "Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil." She wears a hat with pink feather plumes and a pink shirtwaist. The card verso lists conditions and the time frame it will take to cure each one.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195536

Ref. Code: EP001.01.076.01.01.003

Trade cards for Burdock Blood Bitters, made by T. Millburn Drug Company, Buffalo, New York, undated

The trade card features a wolf making off with a pig. Another pig looks out from a pigsty at the scene. It seems to be a rendition of the Three Little Pigs story. "Burdock Blood Bitters" was a tonic made from burdock root and claimed to purify the blood and cure many other ailments (digestive, etc.)...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195537

Ref. Code: EP001.01.076.01.01.004

Trade cards for medicines featuring weather and medicine signals for daily reference, J.C. Ayer and Company, Lowell, Mass., 1886

Trade card for medicinal tonics made by J.C. Ayer and Company. The card depicts bottles and compacts of medicines dancing around a globe. Weather and medicine signals surround the globe and offer tips for daily reference.

Date: 1886

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195538

Ref. Code: EP001.01.076.01.01.005

Trade cards for the Bell-Cap-Sic Plaster, J.M. Grosvenor & Company, 50 Pearl Street, Boston, Mass., 1891

The card for pain relieving plasters features a litter of puppies and copy stating "No Home Complete Without One."

Date: 1891

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195539

Ref. Code: EP001.01.076.01.01.006

Trade cards for bitters tonic, Brown's Iron Bitters Company, St. Louis, Missouri, undated

Trade card for Brown's Iron Bitters, a tonic for indigestion, dyspepsia and other ailments. The card features a woman pouring a cordial-glass full of the tonic for a man. Both are standing over a shield with the copy written on it.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195540

Ref. Code: EP001.01.076.01.01.007

Trade card for The Best Tonic, an extract of malt and hops, unknown manufacturer, undated

Trade card featuring Hygeia (daughter of the of the god of medicine, Asclepius) holding a wreath. The tonic is designed to aid digestion, and is made from an extract of malt and hops.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195541

Ref. Code: EP001.01.076.01.01.008

Trade cards for Warner's Safe Rheumatic Cure, H.H. Warner Company, Rochester, New York, undated

The trade card depicts a young woman dispensing the Safe Rheumatic Cure to an older man with his bandaged feet up on an ottoman.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195542

Ref. Code: EP001.01.076.01.01.009

Trade card for Carter's Little Nerve Pills, Carter Medicine Company, New York, New York, undated

Trade card advertising patent medicine for nervousness and dyspepsia. The card depicts an older woman hiding behind a younger woman. The copy reads "Why Aunty! what makes you so nervous? It is only a cow. If you would but take CARTER'S LITTLE NERVE PILLS, you could not be thrown into such nervous sp...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195543

Ref. Code: EP001.01.076.01.01.010

Trade card for Lactart Milk Acid, Avery Lactate Company, Boston, Mass., 1884

Trade card for the Lactart patent medicine. It was said to relieve fevers, headaches, wakefulness, nervous depression, and urinary troubles. The card depicts a milkmaid and cows in a pastoral scene.

Date: 1884

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195544

Ref. Code: EP001.01.076.01.01.011

Trade card for Ayer's Sarsaparilla, Dr. J.C. Ayer & Company, Lowell, Mass., undated

Ayer's Sarsaparilla, a patent medicine for "health and sunny hours," is described on the card verso. The card features a woman wearing a Victorian period pink dress and carrying a small boy on her shoulder.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195545

Ref. Code: EP001.01.076.02.01.001

Trade cards for Nichols' Bark and Iron, manufactured by Billings Clapp and Company, Boston, Mass., undated

Black and white trade card depicting a young boy playing a bugle to a small toy dog. The dog stands on a box of Nichols' Bark and Iron tonic. Nichols Bark and Iron was advertised as an iron tonic capable of curing numerous ailments.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195546

Ref. Code: EP001.01.076.01.01.012

Billhead for S.S. Rich and Sons, undertakers, 162 Pearl Street, Portland, Maine, dated Nov. 27, 1917

Billhead for the S.S. Rich and Son "practical embalmers." The printed bill is for the Estate of Annie H. Beckett and includes a casket, embalming services, moving services, and a funeral notice. The billhead is illustrated with a depiction of the Rich Building.

Date: 1917-11-27

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195547

Ref. Code: EP001.01.048.01.01.001

Construction of overlook wall at Franklin Park, Jamaica Plain [Roxbury], Mass.

A view of the construction of the wall of the Overlook, a building that combined a scenic viewing platform and changing facilities for people using the fields in the Playstead area of Franklin Park in Boston. Several men operate a derrick. The building was partially constructed of boulders from the ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195356

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0420.009

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