Historic New England

Dress Fragment

An ovoid shaped dress element with ceruse ruching at the bottom edge.

Date: 1750-1790

Maker: unknown

Material: brocade (textile), silk (textile), weaving

GUSN: 11718

Accession Number: 1986.1110D

Dress Sleeves

A pair of sleeves that are cut-off above the elbow.

Date: 1750-1790

Maker: unknown

Material: brocade (textile), silk (textile), weaving

GUSN: 11719

Accession Number: 1986.1110EF

Dress Fragment

A rectangular section of fabric.

Date: 1750-1790

Maker: unknown

Material: brocade (textile), silk (textile), weaving

GUSN: 11720

Accession Number: 1986.1110G

Dress Fragment

Two horseshoe shaped dress elements, perhaps collars?

Date: 1750-1790

Maker: unknown

Material: brocade (textile), silk (textile), weaving

GUSN: 11721

Accession Number: 1986.1110HI

Dress Cord

Two lengths of ceruse colored silk braided cord.

Date: 1750-1790

Maker: unknown

Material: brocade (textile), silk (textile), weaving

GUSN: 11722

Accession Number: 1986.1110JK

Woman's sack. White cotton dimity; small pointed collar with attached self-ruffle; four celluloid buttons from collar halfway down body; long sleeves gathered to wristband with attached ruffle; silk covered button at wrist.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), dimity, silk (textile)

GUSN: 11723

Accession Number: 1993.224

Blouse

Woman's blouse. White linen; finely pleated; narrow collar band with 2 button holes (to attach collar); 4 concealed pearl buttons at center front; button hole at waist (to attach skirt); plain, attached poplum; pleated center back; long sleeves, gathered at shoulders; band of tatted lace between sl...

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: unknown

Material: linen (material), stitching, machine-made

GUSN: 11728

Accession Number: 1993.229

Shoe

Of blue-green kid with a round toe, square-cut vamp and two straps that began at the heel and wraps around the ankle to the front. The instep and straps bound in blue-green silk, with an off-white cardboard sole. It is lined in natural linen.

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

Material: cardboard, leather, linen (material), silk (textile)

GUSN: 11729

Accession Number: 1986.1123

Blouse

White cotton; windowpane weave; V-neck edged with band of white eyelet; pleated at shoulder; assymetrical closure with 5 round mother of pearl buttons above waist; white linen waistband with 6 large pearl buttons (to attache skirt); long, leg-o-mutton sleeves edged with eyelet.

Date: 1892-1894

Maker: unknown

Material: cotton (textile), eyelets (components), textiles, linen (material), stitching, machine-made, weaving

GUSN: 11730

Accession Number: 1993.230

Graduation Dress

White cotton ground printed with broad stripes in pink and blue; overprinted with brown circles and rectangles; band collar; 12 round metal buttons from collar to waist; peplume is hip length in front, extending to mid-calf in back and gathered at sides; long, narrow sleeves; matching skirt has whit...

Date: 1884

Maker: Bemis, Minnie J. (Maker)

Material: cotton (textile), stitching, printing (process)

GUSN: 11739

Accession Number: 1993.237

Candlestick

No description

Maker: unknown

Material: tin (metal)

GUSN: 11740

Accession Number: 1917.1001

Shoe

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11742

Accession Number: 1917.1014AB

Shoe

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11743

Accession Number: 1917.1015AB

Cape Collar

White lace cape collar with a vine and floral pattern and triangular edge.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11744

Accession Number: 1917.1016

Glove

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11745

Accession Number: 1917.1017

Glove

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11746

Accession Number: 1917.1018

Glove

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11747

Accession Number: 1917.1019

Netting Sample

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11749

Accession Number: 1917.1021

Daguerrotype

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11750

Accession Number: 1917.1025

Calling Card

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11751

Accession Number: 1917.1026

Calling Card

No description

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 11752

Accession Number: 1917.1027

View looking North on Meridian St. in Central Sq.

Depiction of Marion Street in East Boston, Massachusetts with men walking in the street and a large sign reading "Walcott E. Co" above a building.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196031

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.111

Methodist Episcopal Church, East Boston, Mass.

Exterior view of the Methodist Episcopal Church in East Boston, Massachusetts as seen at an angle from the street and looking through the branches of a tree.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196032

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.112

Entrance to East Boston tunnel, East Boston, Mass.

Pedestrians watch a Chelsea bound streetcar emerge from the East Boston Tunnel.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196033

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.USMA.1340.0040.001

Entrance to tunnel, East Boston, Mass.

Streetcars converge at the East Boston tunnel entrance.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196034

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.USMA.1340.0040.002

Main Street, Greenfield, Mass.

Street view of Main Street, Greenfield, Massachusetts with people walking around and carts and cars.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196035

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.113

Trade card for Sapolio, soap, location unknown, undated

The image caption reads "Clean bathtubs, wash basins, and sinks with Sapolio."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 196040

Ref. Code: EP001.01.028.03.02.040

Trade card for Kennedy's Champion Biscuit, F.A. Kennedy Company, Cambridgeport, Mass., undated

Children carry banners for Kennedy's Champion Biscuit while they sled down a hill.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 196041

Ref. Code: EP001.01.045.01.03.035

Stereograph of a woman seated on a rock, Crystal Pool, Bar Harbor, Maine, undated

A woman sits on a rock at Crystal Pool in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196042

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USME.0050.0010.001

Stereograph of the Post Office ruins after the Boston fire, Boston, Mass., 1872

The ruins of the Boston Post Office are seen after the Great Boston Fire of 1872.

Date: 1872

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196043

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0170.0420.001

Panorama from Sailors' Home

A panoramic view of the ruins after the Boston fire taken from the Sailors' Home.

Date: 1872-11

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196044

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0170.0420.002

Stereograph of the Shreve, Crump & Low building ruins, Boston, Mass., November 9 and 10, 1872

The ruins of the Shreve, Crump, and Low store on Washington Street are seen following the 1872 Great Boston Fire.

Date: 1872-11

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196045

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0170.0630.001

Stereograph of the Banner of Light office ruins, Boston, Mass., November 9 and 10, 1872

This stereo view shows the ruins of William White & Company, "Banner of Light" office, and the J. W. Plimpton Co. on Washington Street, after the Great Boston Fire of November 9 and 10, 1872. The booksellers and publisher, Wm. White & Co., and the silk and straw goods and artificial flowers store, J...

Date: 1872

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196046

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0170.0630.003

Stereograph of Washington Street ruins, Boston, Mass., November 9 and 10, 1872

Horse-drawn vehicles stand in the ruins of Washington Street after the Boston Fire of 1872.

Date: 1872-11

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196047

Ref. Code: PC001.04.01.USMA.0170.0630.002

Trade card for the New American Cook Stove, Perry & Co., 115 Hudson Avenue, Albany and 86 Beekman Street, New York, New York, 1874

The stove features, including the clinkerless grate, illuminated front and portable magazine, are described on the card verso. The product is sold by Blish & Ostrom in Hobart, New York. In the card image a woman uses the stove while another woman uses a wash board in the background.

Date: 1874

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 196054

Ref. Code: EP001.01.006.03.04.026

Trade card for the Enterprise Raisin Seeder, The Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Pa., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, undated

The card image is decorated with grapes hanging from vines. The card verso text states the machine will also seed grapes. The item is sold by Baldwin, Robbins & Company, 113 and 115 Milk Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 196055

Ref. Code: EP001.01.006.02.01.013

Trade card for The New Hub Range, Smith and Anthony Stove Co., 52 & 54 Union Street, Boston, Mass., ca. 1885

A woman in colonial dress peels apples next to a fireplace in the card image.

Date: ca. 1885

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 196056

Ref. Code: EP001.01.006.03.03.027

Detached oven, as published in The American agriculturalist, New York, New York, June 1873

The engraving is from "How we bake our bread," in the June 1873 issue of The American agriculturalist. One of the magazine's artists documented the use of outmoded baking practices while on a sketching tour in the United States.

Date: 1873-06

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

GUSN: 196057

Ref. Code: GC002.03.1400.001

Baking in a bake kettle, as published in The American agriculturalist, New York, New York, June 1873

The engraving is from "How we bake our bread," in the June 1873 issue of The American agriculturalist. One of the magazine's artists documented the use of outmoded baking practices while on a sketching tour in the United States.

Date: 1873-06

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

GUSN: 196058

Ref. Code: GC002.03.1400.002

Advertisement from the Ladies Home Journal, "Your Kitchen! Furnished Tastefully..."

Item

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

GUSN: 196060

Ref. Code: GC002.03.1500.001

Kitchen no. 7, Kitchen Hints catalog, The Kitchen Maid Corporation, Andrews, Indiana

A plan using one wall in the kitchen is described to optimize the space.

Date: 1947

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 196061

Ref. Code: EP001.12.012.003.075

Primus Avenue from Phillips Street, Boston, Mass., May 8, 1905

A woman leans out of her window and two men converse on a stoop at the entrance to Primus Avenue.

Date: 1905-05-08

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196065

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.6500.001

View of firemen putting out fire at the Lady Pepperell House, Kittery Point, Maine, December 27, 1945

Firemen and bystanders are shown at the Lady Pepperell House fire in Kittery Point, Maine.

Date: 1945-12-27

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196066

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USME.0930.0110.001

View of two firemen putting out fire at the Lady Pepperell House, Kittery Point, Maine, December 27, 1945

Firemen, using a hose, stand on a staircase in the Pepperell House.

Date: 1945-12-27

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196067

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USME.0930.0110.002

Exterior view of the Lady Pepperell House, Kittery Point, Maine, undated

The Lady Pepperell House in Kittery Point, Maine is seen from across the lawn. The text below the image describes changes made to the house.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196068

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USME.0930.0100.002

Exterior view of the Lady Pepperell House, Kittery Point, Maine, undated

The Pepperell House is seen from the road.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196069

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USME.0930.0100.003

Exterior view of the Lady Pepperell House, Kittery Point, Maine, 1903

A fence is in front of the Pepperell House in Kittery Point, Maine in this image.

Date: 1903

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196070

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USME.0930.0100.004

Exterior view of the Lady Pepperell House, Kittery Point, Me., undated

The gate and front door are open in this image of the Lady Pepperell House facade.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196071

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USME.0930.0100.005

Exterior view of Lady Pepperell House, Kittery Point, Maine, ca. 1895

The Lady Pepperell House, Kittery Point, Maine, is seen from across the lawn.

Date: ca. 1895

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 196072

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USME.0930.0100.001

Group portrait of Isabella Pelham Curtis (standing), Frances Greely Stevenson (seated on the left) and "Aunt Margarite" (seated on the right), location unknown

Isabella Pelham Curtis was the daughter of James Freeman Curtis and Isabella Pelham Stevenson Curtis. Frances Greely Stevenson was the daughter of Jonathan Greely Stevenson and Martha Curtis Stevenson. Margaret ("Aunt Margarite") (Stevenson) McKean Curtis was the second wife of Charles Pelham Curtis...

Date: ca. 1863

Collection: Cartes-de-visite photographic collection, c. 1858-1899

GUSN: 196111

Ref. Code: PC008.TMP.016

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