This lithograph presents a good view of the Main Building of the Centennial International Exhibition. The print also shows street railways and carriages.
Date: 1874
Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
GUSN: 198987
Ref. Code: GC002.02.054
Portrait of Charles Sumner, "The Champion of Civil and Political Equality for the Colored Race."
Date: 1854
GUSN: 198989
Ref. Code: GC002.02.157
This print is a poster for a ball game between the Tavern Club and the St. Botolph Club. It is printed in sepia color and shows views of the two club buildings, as well as caricatures of team members.
Date: ca. 1904
GUSN: 198990
Ref. Code: GC002.02.055
One of Stuart's famous portraits of Washington done between 1803-1805.
Date: ca. 1805
GUSN: 198991
Ref. Code: GC002.02.158
This German-language certificate of marriage is for Carl Leyer and Anna Willershausen (?), both of East Cambridge, Massachusetts. It shows various biblical and family scenes around the border, which are gilded with red and black printing.
Date: 1886-02-18
GUSN: 198992
Ref. Code: GC002.02.056
Portrait of Daniel Webster looking out over land at his Marshfield estate. Webster called this estate in Marshfield, Mass. "Green Harbor."
Date: 1853
GUSN: 198995
Ref. Code: GC002.02.159
This proclamation was issued by Gov. Andrew and Abraham Lincoln for Thanksgiving day on August 6, 1863.
Date: 1863
GUSN: 198993
Ref. Code: GC002.02.057
This is black and white double page spread from Harper's Weekly, December 26, 1863. It shows several small Christmas scenes for "Eve," "Morning" and "Furlough" where a man and woman kiss under a "Welcome Home" banner.
GUSN: 198994
Ref. Code: GC002.02.058
This black and white print shows several scenes advertising both Travelers' Insurance and Louis Prang's chromoslithographs: " Prang's American chromos are exact fac-similes of oil paintings. For sale at all art stores." Included in the examples of "chromos" is John Greenleaf Whittier's "Barefoot...
Date: 1870
GUSN: 198996
Ref. Code: GC002.02.059
Portrait of George Washington Blagden, Pastor of the Evangelical Congregational Society, Brighton, Mass.
Date: ca. 1860
GUSN: 198999
Ref. Code: GC002.02.160
This is a group of eight posters for the Community Chest Campaign. Two are color lithographs showing children with disabilities. Three others are monochromatic posters, and one is wording to be attached to a poster. Two are a combination of printed and lithographic material.
Date: 1923
GUSN: 198998
Ref. Code: GC002.02.060
This engraving shows a formal portrait of the artist.
Date: ca. 1875
GUSN: 199019
Ref. Code: GC002.02.161
Poster featuring a colored image advertising the Edison Mazda light bulb. The print shows "Enchantment" as a figure of a woman. This is a photomechanical reproduction of the original. It would have been part of a series of images done for an Edison Lamp Works of General Electric Co. calendar illus...
Date: 1926
GUSN: 199026
Ref. Code: GC002.02.061
This engraving shows a portrait of the author at work in his study.
Date: 1882
GUSN: 199021
Ref. Code: GC002.02.162
Portrait of William Cullen Bryant.
Date: ca. 1885
GUSN: 199022
Ref. Code: GC002.02.163
Henry Pelham (1749-1806), youngest son of Peter Pelham and half brother of John Singleton Copley, was a miniarturist, map-maker, and engraver.
Date: 1767
GUSN: 199023
Ref. Code: GC002.02.164
Color lithograph calling on residents of Boston, Massachusetts to save the old John Hancock Mansion from demolition. Lithograph was engraved by John Sartain and published by T. O. H. P. (Thomas Oliver Hazard Perry) "Alphabet" Burnham. The lithograph is dated June 6, 1863. This lithograph represents ...
Date: 1863-06-06
GUSN: 199024
Ref. Code: GC002.02.165
This lithograph is a poster announcing Soldiers' Home Carnival for Civil War veterans. "For what he was and all he dared, remember him today." The Carnival commenced April 7, 1885.
Date: 1885
GUSN: 199025
Ref. Code: GC002.02.166
Poster featuring a colored image advertising the Edison Mazda light bulb. The print shows "The Venetian Lamplighter" as three figures on a boat, lighting lamps in the lagoon at dusk. This is a photomechanical reproduction of the original. It would have been part of a series of images done for an E...
Date: 1924
GUSN: 199027
Ref. Code: GC002.02.062
Poster featuring a colored image advertising the Edison Mazda light bulb. The print shows "Dream Light" as a figure of a woman on a vine swing. This is a photomechanical reproduction of the original. It would have been part of a series of images done for an Edison Lamp Works of General Electric Co...
Date: 1925
GUSN: 199028
Ref. Code: GC002.02.063
This color poster has a man with a pipe sitting next to a woman sitting on a pumpkin. The scene includes the lines from the nursery rhyme "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater."
Date: 1918
GUSN: 199029
Ref. Code: GC002.02.064
This color poster has a young girl with a watering can. The scene includes the lines from the nursery rhyme "Mary Mary Quite Contrary."
Date: 1921
GUSN: 199031
Ref. Code: GC002.02.065
This color poster has Jack next to a beanstalk and holding a shovel. The scene uses imagery from the fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk."
GUSN: 199032
Ref. Code: GC002.02.066
This is a wonderful black and white woodcut showing various caricatures of "time" and timepieces. The artist is probably Bellew, although it is possible that it is Frank Henry Temple instead.
Date: 1865
GUSN: 199033
Ref. Code: GC002.02.067
This black and white print was probably done from an oil painting. It shows a young girl and boy helping an older man with his slippers. It also shows an old fireplace (18th century) and a view into the next room. The original is dated 1883, but the print is copyrighted in 1889.
Date: 1889
GUSN: 199035
Ref. Code: GC002.02.068
This print is a black and white romantic scene of a boy with dogs drinking from the "Old Oaken Bucket." There is a poem printed below.
Date: 1872
GUSN: 199038
Ref. Code: GC002.02.069
This black and white print shows several vignettes with adages surrounding a portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
Date: 1860s
GUSN: 199040
Ref. Code: GC002.02.070
This is a black and white photomechanical reproduction of an old woodcut, and shows views of soldiers and positions at arms. It is a fairly good representation of a military uniform, but there is not enough detail shown to give an accurate representation of the arms.
GUSN: 199046
Ref. Code: GC002.02.071
This lithograph for Jacob Wirth & Co., wine merchants in Boston and Providence, shows a handsome poster with vineyards, mountains, wine cellars, etc.
Date: 1880s
GUSN: 199041
Ref. Code: GC002.02.167
The back of the mounting board has old-fashioned sheet music (My Old Kentucky Home, Old Memories, Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair).
Date: 1852
GUSN: 199042
Ref. Code: GC002.02.168
This advertisement for C.A. Browning & Co. shows many different hat styles. The company were "Importers & Jobbers" selling velvets, silks, ribbons, flowers, feathers, hat frames, ornaments and millinery novelities.
Date: 1895
GUSN: 199043
Ref. Code: GC002.02.169
This poster was done for the Quincy Department of Planning and Community Development.
Date: 1976
GUSN: 199044
Ref. Code: GC002.02.170
These 21 miscellaneous photographs of people, scenes, paintings, etc. were used for wall calendars.
Date: 1920-1977
GUSN: 199045
Ref. Code: GC002.02.171
A black and white representation of the Pilgrims taken from the "Original Picture." The image depicts the Pilgrims standing and climbing up to an outcropping of land with the ship in the background.
Date: 1850-1888
GUSN: 199048
Ref. Code: GC002.02.072
A commemorative print presented to visitors at the Foreign Exhibition in Boston in 1883. It tells the history of the flag and of George Washington. It is a lithograph done in a few tones and with gold leaf.
Date: ca. 1883
GUSN: 199051
Ref. Code: GC002.02.073
This certificate was presented to Alfred J. Thacher by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society upon his becoming a Life Member in April 1860. The certificate depicts allegorical figures and a monument.
Date: 1860-04
GUSN: 199052
Ref. Code: GC002.02.074
This beautiful color lithograph is a full size portrait of a young man, with an unrealistic background landscape. The image was probably published because of the costume.
Date: 1898
GUSN: 199054
Ref. Code: GC002.02.075
Black and white copy of a painting by John Everett Millais. It depicts a romantic view of a young man and woman talking over a stone wall. The scene is from "The Heart of Midlothian," the seventh of Sir Walter Scott's Waverly novels.
Date: 1877
GUSN: 199055
Ref. Code: GC002.02.076
This is a wonderful color lithograph published by W.E. Baker of Ridge Hill Farm, Wellesley, for southern regiments and guests who participated in the Fete Champetre at his farm on June 19, 1875. Mr. Baker was in the habit of having large festivals at his farm and had a hotel to accomodate guests. ...
Date: 1876
GUSN: 199064
Ref. Code: GC002.02.077
The number 7 appears on the doorway. The Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary historical marker reads: "The Scotch House. Erected in 1615 or 1651 by the Undertakers of the Iron Works in Lyn (Saugus) to house the Scotch prisoners captured at the Battle of Dunbar and sold into seven years' service in...
Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection
GUSN: 199057
Ref. Code: PC006.BOA.01.006
1 photographic print : black-and-white
GUSN: 199058
Ref. Code: PC006.BOA.01.007
1 photograph
GUSN: 199059
Ref. Code: PC006.BOA.01.008
An advertisement showing the summer train schedule with an explanation of steamer and stage connections.
GUSN: 199060
Ref. Code: GC002.02.172
This is a marvelous poster with all major GM styles from the beginning to the 1930s.
Date: 1930s
GUSN: 199061
Ref. Code: GC002.02.173
This shows a fun Fourth of July celebration in Marlboro, Mass. with a Horrible Parade.
GUSN: 199062
Ref. Code: GC002.02.174
Poster showing the annual wage of a recruit in the 86th Regiment.
GUSN: 199063
Ref. Code: GC002.02.175
This is a political broadside urging voters not to vote for Boutwell, "The Office Seeker." Part of the Reed collection.
GUSN: 199065
Ref. Code: GC002.02.176
This engraving is black and white on off-white paper. It is an advertisement listing all the art materials and supplies sold in the shop, but no prices. There is a drawing in the top center depicting and artist and muses. M.J. Whipple and Co. was located at 35 Cornhill, Boston.
GUSN: 199066
Ref. Code: GC002.02.078
This poster is of Millerite excitement, showing a view of Ascension at the top and script below. There is a mocking tone in the script.
Date: ca. 1844
GUSN: 199068
Ref. Code: GC002.02.079
Broadside for a fund-raising concert at Mechanics Hall in Worcester for the Ladies' Soliders Relief Society. The concert featured Handel's "Messiah" on February 5, 1865.
Date: 1865-01-27
GUSN: 198914
Ref. Code: GC002.02.137