Historic New England

Ochtorlony House, North Street

"The exact age of this house is not known; Dr. John Perkins lived here in 1695. It was sold to Capt. Edward Martyn, in 1717, and his widow sold it to Andrew Tyler, whose wife was sister to Sir William Pepperell. In 1762 it was purchased by Capt. David Ochtorlony, a son of the Laird of Pitforthy, i...

Date: ca. 1868

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

GUSN: 198521

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.2650.003

The Paine-Tremere House

"This is probably the oldest brick house now remaining in Boston. It was probably built by John Paine, and he sold it to Wm. Downe, in 1674. It stands at the extreme end of North Street, and has long been in possession of the Tremere family. Its peculiarities may be seen at a glance: the heavy b...

Date: ca. 1868

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

GUSN: 198522

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.2650.004

Paul Revere House, North Square, Boston, Mass., undated

This block print shows a colorful view of the Paul Revere House in North Square. "Here lived Paul Revere, Patriot. He was an engraver, a gold and silversmith, a bell and cannon founder, and specimens of his handicraft are now much prized as heirlooms of Colonial days."

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

GUSN: 198523

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.2800.003

Paul Revere House, Boston, Mass., built about 1676

This engraving is a close-up, detailed, architectural view of the Paul Revere House, "compliments of the Boston Edison Company."

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

GUSN: 198526

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.2800.001

Faneuil Hall, Boston

This engraving presents a detailed view of the open area, with Faneuil Hall in the background. The foreground depicts a street scene, including a lady in a carriage. It was published in London for the proprieters by George Virtue, 26 Drury Lane, 1838.

Date: 1838

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

GUSN: 198529

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.1950.005

Faneuil Hall, Boston, 1870

This engraving gives a detailed view of the area with Faneuil Hall is in the background, canopies over the shop-stalls, and a horse and wagons wait in the foreground. There is also a small circular inset of a view of Faneuil Hall in 1789. A stamp in the lower right corner says "One of seventy-thre...

Date: 1898

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

GUSN: 198534

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.1950.012

New South Church, Church Green, Summer and Bedford Streets, Boston, Mass.

This engraving shows a full front detail of the church with the indication of two surrounding streets. A man faces the church standing on the Church Green.

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

GUSN: 198530

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3700.002

4 Bumstead Place

A small engraving of "Bumstead Place," Ezra Stiles Gannett's country nook.

Date: 1875

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

GUSN: 198531

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3650.007

Fitchburg Depot Building as decorated for the New Hampshire Festival

Print showing the Fitchburg Depot Building on Causeway Street decorated with flags and streamers for the Second Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire on November 2, 1853. There are pedestrians walking around the building and carriages driving by. "The decorations, as will be at once observed b...

Date: 1853

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

GUSN: 198532

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3750.002

Mount Vernon Church, Ashburton Place

This engraving shows a detailed front view of the church. There used to be a full inset portrait of Edward N. Kirk taken from a daguerreotype by Masury & Silsbee, but it has been mostly clipped off. Kirk was pastor of the church from 1842 to 1874.

Date: 1844-1874

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

GUSN: 198533

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3650.002

Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market

This engraving across the top of a piece of stationery shows Faneuil Hall with Quincy Market behind. In the foreground is a street scene with vendors with their horses and wagons.

Date: ca. 1875

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

GUSN: 198536

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.1950.009

Tell City primer of early American home decorating, volume 73, Tell City Chair Company, Tell City, Ind.

Background on the early American aesthetic is described for customers wishing to incorporate Tell City furniture pieces in their homes. The inside of the back cover has a sheet with instructions for making a floor plan and a second sheet with furniture cutouts.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191939

Ref. Code: EP001.12.013.003.031

Fireside and kitchen, ancient and modern, 2nd ed., Barstow Stove Company, Providence, Rhode Island

A history of heating and cooking is presented to promote Barstow appliances. Barstow has offices at 56 Union Street and 230 Water Street, New York.

Date: 1886

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 194400

Ref. Code: EP001.12.012.003.033

Canal, Market, and Haverhill Streets, Boston

Depicts Canal, Market, and Haverhill Street scenes including surrounding buildings, ships, railroad tracks, cargo canal and trains.

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

GUSN: 198582

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3700.007

Faneuil Hall, Boston

This engraving depicts a front exterior view of the Hall. There are people and carriages in the foreground. It is from a photograph by John A. Whipple.

Date: 1860

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

GUSN: 198585

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.1950.011

Boston Theatre, Federal Street

Shows a detailed full front image of the Theatre, with some surrounding buildings, and men conversing at the left

Date: 1812-1850

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

GUSN: 198587

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3750.007

Faneuil Hall, Boston, 1776

This engraving is an impressionistic view of the Hall and neighboring area. In the foreground, people can be seen strolling.

Date: 1888

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

GUSN: 198589

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.1950.019

Hotel Brunswick, Boylston Street, Boston, J.W. Wolcott, proprietor

A detail of an image depicting the front and side of the Hotel, situated on the corner of Boylston and Clarendon Streets. The building was erected in 1874 and enlarged in 1876. Peabody & Stearns are the architects.

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

GUSN: 198591

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3650.003

Faneuil Hall, 1776

The background of this engraving is a view of Faneuil Hall from a corner angle. In the foreground can be seen many people walking around, buying and selling goods.

Date: 1856

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

GUSN: 198590

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.1950.008

Faneuil Hall Market (Quincy Market)

This engraving features an architectural view of the long market hall, known as Quincy Market. In the foreground there are numerous covered wagons and horses.

Date: 1851

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

GUSN: 198596

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.1950.010

An East View of the New Meeting House in Hollis Street, Boston

A detailed view of the East side of the New Meeting House from the Massachusetts Magazine, December 1793.

Date: 1793

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

GUSN: 198612

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3800.010

View of Faneuil Hall, Boston

This print is a hand-colored, detailed architecturl view of the hall, with a street scene full of horses and wagons in the foreground.

Date: 1851

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

GUSN: 198631

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.1950.003

Catalog of vases, manufactured by the Union Glass Co., Somerville, Mass.

Images, dimensions and prices are provided for the glassware. An illustration of the factory is included. The business is located at 52 Webster Avenue in Somerville, Massachusetts.The cover illustration has an art nouveau design of waves and curls with a green glass vase in the center with the compa...

Date: 1890-1919, undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 198613

Ref. Code: EP001.12.012.002.007

Get acquainted with your new General Electric Refrigerator Food Freezer combination, General Electric, Consumers Institute, Louisville, Kentucky

The features of the refrigerator are described along with 76 recipes which utilize refrigeration and freezing. In front of an open refrigerator, a mother, playfully pointing her hands like guns, surprises her son, dressed in a cowboy outfit, as he removes a beverage from a door shelf.

Date: 1950s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 198617

Ref. Code: EP001.14.06.008

Maytag Automatic Washers and Dryers, Maytag Corporation, Newton, Iowa, undated

Washer and dryer features are described for potential customers. The appliances are available from Gray's Home Appliance Center, 192 Green Street, Melrose, Massachusetts. A loose paid invoice is inside the item. The brochure cover features a washer and dryer set in a niche, which is next to a space ...

Date: 1973

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 198622

Ref. Code: EP001.12.012.003.072

Modern home laundering: a book of practical information based on tested methods, Lever Brothers Co., New York

The item provides practical tips for washing clothes and other household fabrics. The front and back covers are advertisements for Sears appliances. The cover text reads: "It's a honey for our money. No work-no worry washday over in a hurry, Kenmore Washers and Ironers, Sears Roebuck and Co." The ba...

Date: 1939

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 198623

Ref. Code: EP001.12.012.003.032

Victor Bicycles, designed and printed by Will Bradley at the University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

The text on page one in the second image reads "one model only / the best model / one price only / the popular price." The standard bicycle in the third image is on page six in the catalog. Victor Bicycles were manufactured by the Overman Wheel Company in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts with offices i...

Date: 1899

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 198625

Ref. Code: EP001.12.004.002.004

Cover of Union Cycle Manufacturing Company catalogue, Boston, Mass., undated

The full color cover of this trade catalogue shows a man cycling near the Chestnut Hill Reservoir. The resevoir can be seen behind an archway.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 198629

Ref. Code: EP001.12.004.002.003.001

Old building in Boston, known as "Harris's Folly"

"This spacious and lofty old building, situated at the corner of High and Pearl Streets, in this city, is about to be torn down to make room for modern improvements, and a more judicious and economical occupation of the extended site it occupies. It was erected some fifty years since, by Jonathan H...

Date: 1851

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

GUSN: 198638

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3800.004

View of Faneuil and Quincy Halls, Boston, during the Great Fair, 1850

This engraving is on a sheet of advertisements for New England Tea Company, with the top half showing the two halls with signs for the fair exhibits and the bottom half showing street maps and a Chinese man sorting tea. There is also a list of teas and coffees with prices. Under the print of Faneui...

Date: 1850

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

GUSN: 198637

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.1950.006

Fourth of July festivities at Faneuil Hall, Boston

This engraving depicts a large interior view of the hall decorated with streamers, flags, and an eagle. Names of all of the U.S. Presidents line the room. This is a grand festive occasion, and the hall is packed with people. There is an upper inset depicts a man and a woman talking in a room (meeti...

Date: 1853

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

GUSN: 198641

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.1950.015

German Evangelical Church, Shawmut Street, near Pleasant Street

A small, detailed image of the German Evangelical Church, with people about to enter the building.

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

GUSN: 198642

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3800.001

A new Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers passing Faneuil Hall, Boston, on their way to the war

This engraving depicts a large, detailed view of the regiment marching in front of Faneuil Hall. It was printed in Harper's Weekly on August 17, 1861.

Date: 1861

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

GUSN: 198654

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.1950.004

Present City Library Building, Boston

"Mr. Champney, the artist, has presented us here with an accurate representation of the present City Library building in Mason Street, showing also the rear of the new Boston Theatre. This library was instituted in 1852, and the reading-room connected with it was opened to the public on the 20th of...

Date: 1855

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

GUSN: 198655

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3800.006

Liberty

This item is a sheet of newspaper with various scenes depicted, including portraits of John Adams and James Otis, the monuments at Lexington and Concord, a military combat scene, Faneuil Hall, and the Hall of Independence.

Date: 1853

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

GUSN: 198657

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.1950.013

Marshall House, Marshall Street, Boston

An illustrated view of the house with several people in front at work.

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

GUSN: 198658

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3800.008

North east view of Faneuil Hall

This woodcut depicts a small view of the hall from the front, in addition to showing part of adjacent structures on the sides.

Date: 1824

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

GUSN: 198661

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.1950.007

John Gove & Co., manufacturers of oiled and rubber clothing, importers of cloths and furnishing goods, wholesale cloth and clothing house, retail department of clothing and furnishing goods

This engraving is a detailed exterior view of John Gove & Co.'s store and surrounding area. Faneuil Hall is to the right and there is a street scene in the foregound.

Date: 1848

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

GUSN: 198687

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.1950.018

Lewis Wharf

A detailed engraving of Pier No. 2, Lewis Wharf, Peabody's Australian and South African Packets office. Ships and cargo are between this building and No. 1 next door for Peabody's Australasian Packets. Men on the pier move cargo and load it onto wagons, or sit on barrels talking.

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

GUSN: 198682

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3800.007

Exterior view of Boston Gas Works and Interior view of Boston Gas Works

"On this page we present our readers with two fine views of the works of the Boston Gaslight Company, at the North End, drawn for us by that favorite artist, Mr. Warren. One of these represents the exterior of the establishment, with its entrance, its towering chimneys, and other structures; and th...

Date: 1856

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

GUSN: 198695

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3800.009

Webster Convention at Faneuil Hall

This engraving shows an interior view of Faneuil Hall during a convention, including many spectators.

Date: 1851

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

GUSN: 198697

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.1950.016

Faneuil Hall, from the water

Thsi engraving presents a detailed view of Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market from the water. The foreground shows tall ships and other sailing vessels. The title is written in small print in both French and German below the English title.

Date: 1839

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

GUSN: 198699

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.1950.017

Faneuil Hall Market scene, the day before Thanksgiving

This engraving is on a newspaper sheet. The top half shows "A New England Thanksgiving Dinner." It is a scene of a family dinner around a table, with a man carving a bird. The bottom half shows people buying and selling the day before Thanksgiving.

Date: 1851

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

GUSN: 198702

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.1950.014

The Boston City Hospital, 1899

Engraving from the 35th Annual Report, January 31, 1899. A detailed vew from above the Hospital and many surronding buildings and streets, including Harrison Avenue, Concord, Albany, and Springfield Streets, Boston.

Date: 1899

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

GUSN: 198713

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3800.002

The Maid of the Mist, in the Public Garden, Boston, Mass.

This engraving shows a frontal view of the small fountain statue standing on a half shell. "A description of this beautiful fountain statue was included in our article on the Public Garden of Boston, Massachusetts, published in No. 715 of this paper. We give this week a picture of this work of art...

Date: 1869

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

GUSN: 198705

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.2900.002

Late Exhibition of the Horticultural Society, in the Public Garden, Boston

This engraving depicts the interior of the tent, where there are exhibit tables and people mingling.

Date: 1852

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

GUSN: 198715

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.2900.003

Club House, West Street, Boston

An exterior view of the Temple Club, a private club on West Street, designed by Messrs. Billings. "This elegant structure, erected for a club of private gentlemen, is one of those tasteful buildings with which the genius of Messrs. Billings Brothers has adorned our city. The view was drawn for us ...

Date: 1855-08-04

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

GUSN: 198719

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3850.018

Removal of incline, Cambridge St.

Workers are engaged in the process of removing the Cambridge Street incline of the East Boston tunnel extension. Originally built in 1914-1916, as part of the subway continuation to Scollay Square, the Cambridge Street incline was closed in 1954. The front wall and gate of the Harrison Gray Otis Hou...

Date: 1952-11-12

Collection: Boston Transit Archive, 1895-1960s

GUSN: 198718

Ref. Code: PC017.02.TMP.039

View of Park Street Church Steeple

Scaffolding covers the steeple of the Park Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts. The image is from "Gleason's pictorial archive," July 12, 1851.

Date: 1851

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

GUSN: 198720

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.2750.001

Sleighing scene on Boston Neck

"The picture is at once a record and a reminiscence of days gone by--eheu fugaces! We have given up all hopes of another snow storm--the sleigh is hoisted to its place in the barn chamber, the bells--those musical bells--hang idly in the harness room. In taking down a horse collar one sometimes ra...

Date: 1855

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

GUSN: 198357

Ref. Code: GC002.01.MA.3550.004

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