Historic New England

Hen Island + Bit of Lake Champlain- Copy 1

Photograph of Hen Island and Lake Champlain. The photograph was taken from the shore and the edge of the lake is visible plus islands in the background.

Date: 1899-09-02

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319553

Ref. Code: PC067.02.070

Hen Island + Bit of Lake Champlain- Copy 2

Photograph of Hen Island and Lake Champlain. The photograph was taken from the shore and the edge of the lake is visible plus islands in the background.

Date: 09-1899

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319554

Ref. Code: PC067.02.071

"The Center" Schoolmarm

Portrait of the Schoolmarm of "The Center". She is standing in a field and a road is visible in the background.

Date: 1899-09-02

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319555

Ref. Code: PC067.02.072

Grandpa Kingsley + EKS

Portrait of a man and woman identified as Grandpa Kingsley and EKS. They are standing in a field and cows are visible in the background.

Date: 1899-09-02

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319556

Ref. Code: PC067.02.073

Christie House

Image of a house identified as "Christie House". Four people stand in front of the house. There are no longer any farm animals or bicycles in front of the house as in Plate #4.

Date: 1899

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319558

Ref. Code: PC067.02.074

Rabbits

Photograph of a small herd of rabbits. Some are gathered on a chair in the forground of the image and others are huddled in the doorway of a barn that makes up the background of the image.

Date: 1899

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319559

Ref. Code: PC067.02.075

A small herd of rabbits sits on a boy's lap. A man crouches near the boy and a third figure is casting their shadow into the image. More rabbits hop around the boys feet and in the doorway of the barn.

Date: 1899

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319560

Ref. Code: PC067.076

Chestnut Party - S.S. Class

Three people pose for a photograph at the bottom of a set of stairs. The people are identified as Miss Todd, Mary Smith, and OWS.

Date: 10-1899

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319561

Ref. Code: PC067.02.077

Chestnut Party

Three people pose for a photograph at the bottom of a set of stairs.

Date: 10-1899

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319563

Ref. Code: PC067.02.078

Trade card, Rookwood Pottery of Cincinnati, salesroom, 1 West Street, Boston, Mass.

The shop carries fine decorated ware for holiday and wedding gifts. A fox walks on a tightrope in one of the drawings. In the other drawing a bird hovers above the smoke coming from a kiln. An 1885 calendar is on the item verso. The business was founded by Ohio philanthropist Maria Longworth Storer.

Date: 1885

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 319786

Ref. Code: EP003.002.005

Trade card, save the table cloth by using the patent table tray for children, for sale by Warren & Wood, importers of crockery, 287 & 289 Westminster Street, Hoppin Homestead Building, Providence, Rhode Island

A little girl has knocked over her cup in the illustration. When you fold down the flap she is using the table tray.

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 319793

Ref. Code: EP003.002.006

Trade card, Constans Gersbach, dealer in stoves, tin, hollow and wooden ware, etc., 17 Central Avenue, Albany, New York

In the card image two soldiers and a sailor fire on a ship. The image caption reads "Armored main top of a modern man of war."

Date: 1889

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 319808

Ref. Code: EP003.002.007

Trade card, Lord & Field, wholesale and retail dealers in German and French fancy goods, No. 3 Union House, Main Street, Springfield, Mass.

Text on the card verso reads "Zephyr worsteds and all materials for embroidery, hosiery, gloves, threads, needles, pins, tapes, purse twist, steel beads and trimmings together with a large assortment of fancy goods." Union House was a hotel built in 1846 according to the Springfield Daily Republica...

Date: ca. 1851

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 319809

Ref. Code: EP003.002.008

Help for the man who wants to build, a group of selected plans for smaller homes, vol. 3, Minneapolis, Minnesota

The catalog has floor plans, descriptions, advice and detailed costs for building seventy-five small homes. Text in the publication reads "Edited by Maurice I. Flagg and Robert Taylor Jones for The Architects' Small House Service Bureau of The United States, Inc."

Date: 1921-1928

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 319888

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.125

Label, from Fifield & Baldwin, wholesale dealers in wooden ware, agricultural tools, No. 37 Canal Street, Providence, Rhode Island

The business also carries brooms, brushes, baskets, mats, stone ware, matches, chairs and furniture. Fifield is the successor to Greenwood & Company.

Date: ca. 1859

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 319891

Ref. Code: EP003.002.009

Trade card, Rogers & Co., importers and manufacturers' agents, No. 62 Canal & 155 Friend Streets, Boston, Mass.

The store interior can be seen in an illustration on the card verso. The captions reads "The largest establishment of the kind in the east." Items carried are crockery, china, glass, silver ware, cutlery, lamps, yellow and rock ware, chandeliers and chimneys.

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 319892

Ref. Code: EP003.002.010

Trade card, Red Pig Household Knives, The Robeson Cutlery Co., Rochester, New York

The caption text reads "Red Pig Household Knives are ground by the cold process not effecting the temper." The knife in the illustration is the "No. 2. Rip Snorter." Robeson manufactures "Shuredge" quality cutlery. The card verso has a piece so the card can stand on a flat surface. A.L. Sherk, Chamb...

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 319895

Ref. Code: EP003.002.011

Trade card, Louis E. Hommel, manufacturer of silver leaf, corner of Bay & Pennsylvania Avenues, P.O. Box 265, East New York, Long Island

Workers make silver leaf in the card image.

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 319902

Ref. Code: EP003.002.012

EKS + Pearl Dixon

Two women, identified as EKS and Pearl Dixon, stand and pose for a photograph. Pearl Dixon holds a book labled "The Church Choir".

Date: 11-1899

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319896

Ref. Code: PC067.02.079

ESK + Warren Brayton

A man and a woman, identified as EKS and Warren Brayton stand shoulder to shoulder and clasp hands.

Date: 11-1899

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319897

Ref. Code: PC067.02.080

EKS + M.Mott

A man and a woman, identified as EKS and M. Mott sit in a buggy. M. Mott holds the reins on a horse that is not visible in the photograph. Both people are smiling at someone or something just behind the camera.

Date: 11-1899

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319898

Ref. Code: PC067.02.081

ESK and M.Mott

The same scene as plate #49 but a darker negative. A man and a woman, identified as EKS and M. Mott sit in a buggy. M. Mott holds the reins on a horse that is not visible in the photograph. EKS and M. Mott look at each other.

Date: 11-1899

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319899

Ref. Code: PC067.02.082

Pearl and Cat

A woman identified as Pearl Dixon sits on the steps of a building with a cat in her lap. She is looking at the camera while the cat is looking over its right shoulder.

Date: 11-1899

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319900

Ref. Code: PC067.02.083

Slone Ruin

Photograph of a ruined house in which the end and side walls are visible and still standing but the roof and the other walls are no longer standing. The house stands in dirt lot.

Date: 11-1899

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319901

Ref. Code: PC067.02.084

Dr. Stevens + Newport

Photograph of Dr. Stevens standing with a horse named Newport. The pair is standing in front of a fence. Two copies of the same negative.

Date: 1900

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319903

Ref. Code: PC067.02.085

Trade card, J.S. Buckingham, wood and ivory turner, Plymouth, Mass.

The artist is the manufacturer of models of Governor Carver's and Elder Brewster's chairs. He also makes mallets, police clubs, baseball bats, trapeze bars, drum sticks, rulers, dice boxes and wooden eggs. Plymouth Rock and the National Monument to the Forefathers are featured in the illustration.

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 319904

Ref. Code: EP003.002.013

Dr. Stevens + Newport; FES + Dandy

Two men, identified as Dr. Stevens and FES, hold the reins of two horses, identified as Newport and Dandy.

Date: 1900

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319906

Ref. Code: PC067.02.086

Dr. Stevens + Newport; FES + Dandy

Same as plate #86, with figures is slightly different poses.

Date: 1900

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319907

Ref. Code: PC067.02.087

Francestown Stage

Photograph of the Francestown Stagecoach. The coach is pulled by two horses and full of people.

Date: 07-1900

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319908

Ref. Code: PC067.02.088

"At Lunch" MES + OWS

Photograph of MES and OWS eating lunch while sitting on a rock. They are surrounded by a lunch basket, OWS's suit jacket and a jug labled Granite State Coffee.

Date: 1900

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319909

Ref. Code: PC067.02.089

MES + EKS

Photograph of MES and EKS. MES is seated on a large rock formation and EKS stands below her. Both women are smiling at the camera. The remains of the lunch seen in plate #89 can be seen at the top of the boulder.

Date: 1900

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319910

Ref. Code: PC067.02.090

EKS Fishing

Photograph of EKS standing in a ravine holding a long stick.

Date: 1900

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319911

Ref. Code: PC067.02.091

Reflections

Photograph of a woman seated on a rock formation at the edge of a body of water. Her reflection is visible in the water below her.

Date: 1900

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319912

Ref. Code: PC067.02.092

"Below the Falls" Reflection

Photograph of a woman seated on a rock formation at the edge of a body of water. Her reflection is visible in the water below her. Same as Plate #92

Date: 1900

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319913

Ref. Code: PC067.02.093

"Boy- You'll Fall"

Photograph of a man pearched on a rock formation half-way up a rock face above a body of water.

Date: 1900

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319914

Ref. Code: PC067.02.094

Stevens Homestead

Photograph of the Stevens' homestead. A man stands in front of the building and a horse-drawn buggy sits on the left side of the house.

Date: 1900

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319915

Ref. Code: PC067.02.095

Stevens Homestead

Photograph of the Stevens' homestead. Dr. Sam Stevens and OWS stand in front of the building and a horse-drawn buggy sits on the left side of the house. Same scene as plate # 95.

Date: 1900

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319916

Ref. Code: PC067.02.096

Roy Messer's Collie

Photograph of a dog identified as Roy Messer's Collie sitting on top of a metal jug. Behind the dog, an ivy plant climbs up a wall.

Date: 1900

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319917

Ref. Code: PC067.02.097

Roy Messer's Dog and Tedder

Photograph of a dog identified as Roy Messer's Collie sitting in the seat of a tedder. The dog holds the horse's reins in its mouth. The two sit in front of a barn.

Date: 1900

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319918

Ref. Code: PC067.02.098

Francestown Stage- at Ed Bryant's House

Photograph of the Francestown Stagecoach at Ed Bryant's house. Two men sit in the driver's box and a woman sits on the roof of the coach.

Date: 1900-09-01

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319919

Ref. Code: PC067.02.099

"Christie House"

Photograph of a group of people outside of a house.

Date: 02-1902

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319920

Ref. Code: PC067.02.100

"Christie House"

Photograph of a group of people outside of a house. Same scene as plate #100

Date: 02-1902

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319921

Ref. Code: PC067.02.101

Group

Group portrait of people standing in a field.

Date: 02-1902

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319922

Ref. Code: PC067.02.102

Group

Group portrait in front of the Christie House.

Date: 02-1902

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319923

Ref. Code: PC067.02.103

Group

Group portrait in a field. Same scene as plate #102

Date: 02-1902

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319924

Ref. Code: PC067.02.104

Mr. + Mrs. OWS, Dorothy in Go-Cart

A photograph of OWS and EKS with Dorothy in a go-cart. The three people stand near a dirt path, a short retaining wall runs behind them.

Date: 02-1902

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319925

Ref. Code: PC067.02.106

Mr. + Mrs. OWS, Dorothy in Go-Cart

A photograph of OWS and EKS with Dorothy in a go-cart. The three people stand near a dirt path, a short retaining wall runs behind them. Same scene as plate #106

Date: 02-1902

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319926

Ref. Code: PC067.02.107