Historic New England

Cavrok Fiber Glass Masonry Panels, Cavrok Sales Company, 69 Gillett Street, Hartford, Connecticut

The panels, made from polyester resin and fiberglass, can be used on interior and exterior walls in residential and commercial structures. Two separate sheets provide installation instructions.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 293655

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.013.018

Now! Ready-mixed drylok double duty sealer for waterproofing porous masonry walls, United Gilsonite Laboratories, Scranton, Pennsylvania

The product will work on interior, exterior and above or below grade masonry walls. Text on the margins reads "A.I.A. File Nos. 25-B-39 7-A-3."

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 293656

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.013.019

Announcing standard thermopane sizes for picture windows, Libbey-Owens Ford Glass Company, Toledo, Ohio

Two letters describe the Company's work in developing windows with built-in insulation and support of solar houses. A reprint titled "The Solar House: a Full-Scale Experimental Study," by F.W. Hutchinson (September, 1945) is included. Text on the front cover margin reads, "A.I.A. File Number 26-A-19...

Date: 1946

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 293660

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.003.016

Window potentials for architects and designers, vol. 2, no. 3, Andersen Windowalls, Andersen Corporation, Bayport, Minnesota

The folder has four sheets describing and showing Andersen Windowalls in buildings. There is a postcard which can be returned for additional information. The product is available from Brockway-Smith-Haigh-Lovell Company, 465 Medford Street, Charlestown, Massachusetts. Text on the front cover margin ...

Date: 1950s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 293662

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.003.017

Window potentials for architects and designers, vol. 2, no. 5, Andersen Windowalls, Andersen Corporation, Bayport, Minnesota

The folder has six sheets describing and showing Andersen Windowalls in houses. There is a postcard which can be returned for additional information. The product is available from Brockway-Smith-Haigh-Lovell Company, 465 Medford Street, Charlestown, Massachusetts. Text on the front cover margin read...

Date: 1950s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 293663

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.003.018

Andersen Windowalls, detail catalog no. 542, Andersen Corporation, Bayport, Minnesota

The casement windows can be installed in homes, schools and housing projects. Text on the front cover margin reads, "A.I.A. File No. 16L."

Date: 1954

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 293664

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.003.019

Windowalls, ways to use Andersen complete wood window units in your new home, Andersen Corporation, Bayport, Minnesota

Photographs of installations and descriptive text provide help for planning a new home using Windowalls. An image of the factory is shown on the back cover.

Date: 1950s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 293672

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.003.020

Exciting world of glass, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The incorporation of plate glass into a home provides interior design opportunities.

Date: 1960s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 293674

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.003.021

All-important question of the window, by Frederick L. Ackerman, Country Life in America, Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, New York

The intent and use of windows in various structures is examined. The article is from "Country Life in America," July 1922.

Date: 1922

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 293679

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.003.022

U.S. glass metal & glazing, volume 1, number 2, official publication of the Flat Glass Jobbers Association, U.S. Glass Publications, Inc., P.O. Box 1850, 512 Falls Building, Memphis, Tennessee

1 magazine, 34 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 11 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches

Date: 1966

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 293684

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.003.023

Building products technical information, bulletin number 52, The Producers' Council, Inc., 815 Fifteenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.

Technical information concerning new products and new product applications is provided for architects, engineers, designers and specifiers. A separate letter describes the features of the new bulletin.

Date: 1948

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 293692

Ref. Code: EP001.12.006.006.002

Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport -- Collection I

This collection documents the work of A. H. Davenport Co. (1880-1914), Irving and Casson (1884-1914), and their successor, Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport Co. (1914-1973); the bulk of the material dates from 1900 to 1945. The collection includes design drawings, detail drawings, sketches, photog...

Date: 1880-1973, undated, predominant 1900-1940

Collection: Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport -- Collection I

GUSN: 293714

Ref. Code: CC010

Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport -- Collection II

This collection documents the work of A. H. Davenport Co. (1880-1914), Irving and Casson (1884-1914), and their successor, Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport Co. (1914-1973); the bulk of the material dates from 1900 to 1945. The collection includes design drawings, sketches, photographs, clippings,...

Date: 1880-1973, undated, predominant 1900-1959

Collection: Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport -- Collection II

GUSN: 293719

Ref. Code: CC011

Albums -- Design Drawings

This series consists of seventeen albums of design drawings of a wide variety of furniture and interior furnishings manufactured by A. H. Davenport Co. between 1880 and 1914. Albums have titles and volume numbers assigned by their creators; most include a table of contents. The volumes include: cabi...

Date: 1880-1914, undated

Collection: Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport -- Collection I

GUSN: 293720

Ref. Code: CC010.001

Albums -- Photographs

This series consists of 170 albums of photographs of a wide variety of furniture and interior furnishings manufactured by A. H. Davenport Co., Irving and Casson, and their successor Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport between 1880 and 1973. Albums have titles and volume numbers assigned by their cre...

Date: 1880-1973, undated

Collection: Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport -- Collection I

GUSN: 293721

Ref. Code: CC010.002

Scrapbooks

This series is comprised of forty-four scrapbooks of varying sizes compiled by either A. H. Davenport Co., Irving and Casson, or Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport Co. Eleven of the scrapbooks were named by their compiler; the others have no identifying information. The albums are arranged by subje...

Date: 1880-1973, undated

Collection: Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport -- Collection I

GUSN: 293723

Ref. Code: CC010.004

Sample Book

Photograph album. Album has brown textured cover; "Irving & Casson - A. H. Davenport Co." is stamped in gold on the front. Album contains 504 starch-coated linen pages and 252 mounted black-and-white photographs. The pages are now quite brittle. Photographs depict a wide variety of furniture forms m...

Date: 1913-1914, undated

Collection: Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport -- Collection I

GUSN: 293724

Ref. Code: CC010.005

Other Photographs

This series consists of two portfolios and six albums containing 235 loose and 518 mounted photographs. Images in all but three of the albums depict furnishings made by A. H. Davenport Co., Irving and Casson, and their successor Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport Co. The order number and year are o...

Date: 1880-1973

Collection: Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport -- Collection I

GUSN: 293725

Ref. Code: CC010.006

Books

This series contains a collection of twenty books that comprise a portion of the design reference library amassed by A. H. Davenport Co., Irving and Casson, and Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport Co. between 1880 and 1973. One book on business plans is dated 1973 and presumably was added by the las...

Date: undated

Collection: Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport -- Collection I

GUSN: 293726

Ref. Code: CC010.007

"Imported Chairs: Side Chairs, Italian, Elizabethan., Jacobean, William and Mary, Queen Anne"

Photo album titled: "Imported Chairs: Side Chairs, Ital., Eliz., Jacob., W.&.M., Queen Anne." Title is printed in black on front cover; title and subtitle are hand printed in black on spine. Album has a beige fabric covering and 76 dark gray pages, most of which are now loose. Ten of the pages are b...

Date: 1880-1973, undated

Collection: Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport -- Collection I

GUSN: 293731

Ref. Code: CC010.002.001

Papers of Timothy Bigelow (1739-1790)

The strength of Bigelows papers is their reflection of his involvement with the Revolution. There are nine letters from Bigelow to his wife. These date from soon after his arrival in Cambridge in April, 1775, until shortly before his capture in Quebec the following winter. His concerns were most...

Date: 1775-1800, undated