Historic New England

Cape Ann Fisherman and dory

Full color postcard depicting a fisherman in rough weather gear rowing a small boat. The bay is calm, with other boats anchored nearby and houses lining the shore.

Date: 1905

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191270

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.042

Salt haying, Polpis, Nantucket

In Polpis on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, a farmer collects cut hay in an ox cart in a salt marsh.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191271

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.043

Schooner Augustus Hunt covered in ice, unloading at the Boston Gas Company's North End Works, 1880s.

The docked schooner Augustus Hunt is covered in thick ice and hoarfrost.

Collection: General marine photographic collection

GUSN: 191274

Ref. Code: PC055.TMP.009

Amusement park and bandstand, Salisbury Beach, Mass., 1910

View of the Salisbury Beach amusement park from the parking lot. A ferris wheel and roller coaster can be seen among other rides. The arcade has many customers and an old Coca-Cola advertisement is on one wall.

Date: 1910

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191275

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2580.0010.001

Merrill's Wharf, New Bedford, Mass., undated

The image of Merrill's Wharf in New Bedford, Massachusetts features a large sailing ship and nearby buildings. A large bulding bearing the sign "Sail Loft" is on the right. The wharf has an air of decline with logs strewn about and grass growing between pieces of pavement.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191278

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2010.0090.001

Casks of whale oil, awaiting a market, New Bedford, Mass.

Featured in the postcard are rows of casks filled with whale oil. Many are leaking and/or marked with the letters NS. The dock on which they are laid is also home to a very large sailing ship.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191279

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.044

New Bedford, Mass., speeders, Holmes Mill

Interior view of a factory with speeder machines. The machines line the floor, with mechanisms from floor to ceiling. No factory workers are shown. Spools of yarn or thread are piled on top of some of the machines.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191282

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.045

Label for Cocheco, Cocheco Mills, Dover, New Hampshire, undated

Below the image the text reads "Lawrence & Co., Boston."The label features a pair of women dressed in Greco-Roman style seated in front of smokestacks and a large cog. One woman has painted a design and the other is holding a bolt of fabric with the same design patterned on it.

Date: ca. 1866

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191285

Ref. Code: EP001.01.114.01.02.025

Temporary

Sub-sub-series

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191287

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.TMP

Sperm whaling, "the capture," New Bedford, Mass.

Full-color postcard depicting the hunting of a sperm whale. Six men man a whale boat that has launched from a nearby ship. The small boat is in danger of capsizing in the rough water created by the struggling whale.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191290

Ref. Code: PC001.03.02.TMP.005

Temporary

Sub-series

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191291

Ref. Code: EP001.04.TMP

Temporary

Sub-series

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191292

Ref. Code: EP001.05.TMP

Temporary

Sub-series

Collection: Boston Transit Archive, 1895-1960s

GUSN: 191300

Ref. Code: PC017.02.TMP

Temporary

Series

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 191303

Ref. Code: SC002.TMP

Album 17: Views of Boston and Vicinity by Henry Peabody

This album consists of approximately one hundred 8 x 10 inch prints (including some platinum-toned) taken by Henry Peabody circa 1903 to 1904, apparently for the Detroit Publishing Company. An index accompanies this volume which includes several outstanding panoramas of Boston Harbor from various di...

Date: ca. 1903

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191305

Ref. Code: PC009.017

Temporary

Sub-series

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191306

Ref. Code: PC001.01.TMP

Temporary

Sub-sub-series

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191307

Ref. Code: PC001.04.02.TMP

Temporary

Subgroup

Collection: Bowen family papers

GUSN: 191308

Ref. Code: MS006.TMP

Amy Robsart to the Earl of Leicester

Cover depicts Amy Robsart and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191315

Ref. Code: MS007.01.14.02

Oh swift we go, a sleighing song

Cover depicts two men watching a large sleigh with many passengers pass them. Snow covers the landscape and four horses pull the carriage.

Date: 1840

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191327

Ref. Code: MS007.01.15.01

Temporary

Series

Collection: Robert Bayard Severy photographic collection

GUSN: 191316

Ref. Code: PC045.TMP

Massachusetts Towns and Landscapes

46 black and white photographs probably from the end of the 19th century. Locations include Gloucester, Sudbury, Andover (Abbot House), Saugus, Newburyport, Franklin Park, Northboro (including the Eames' house and Eames' house boarders), the Neponset River in Mattapan, the Charles River, Norumbega ...

Date: ca. 1890

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191323

Ref. Code: PC009.199

Woodman! Spare that tree!

Cover depicts a gentleman talking to a farmer holding an axe underneath a large tree. The farmer's house and water well are visible.

Date: 1837

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191335

Ref. Code: MS007.01.15.02

Kind, kind and gentle is she

Cover depicts a woman standing in front of a garden gate.

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191353

Ref. Code: MS007.01.15.03

Old Tippecanoe : a patriotic Whig song

Cover depicts William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) at various stages in his military and political career.

Date: 1840

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191359

Ref. Code: MS007.01.15.04

The lament of the Irish emigrant

Cover depicts a man, presumably an Irish immigrant, leaning against a fence.

Date: 1840

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191364

Ref. Code: MS007.01.15.05

The golden dream

Cover depicts a man and a woman talking beneath an arbor.

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191372

Ref. Code: MS007.01.15.06

Song of the Greek Amazon

Cover depicts a Greek man standing on a rampart next to a cannon. He is holding a knife and sword. Two men restraining a horse are behind him.

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191381

Ref. Code: MS007.01.15.07

Temporary

Series

Collection: Norton family photographic collection

GUSN: 191385

Ref. Code: PC035.TMP

Trade advertisement for the Colonial Furniture Co. featuring a rocking chair, Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 1899

This advertisement was printed in the April, 1899 issue of The Ladies' Home Journal. The ad features a colonial style rocking chair as an example of the Colonial Furniture Company's wide ranging catalog. The chair cost $5.75 and was made from golden oak.

Date: 1899

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 191392

Ref. Code: SC002.TMP.001

Temporary

Series

Collection: Norman Morrison Isham photographic collection

GUSN: 191397

Ref. Code: PC032.TMP

Photographs by Elise Tyson Vaughan

Photographs by Elise Tyson Vaughan, compiled by her into four albums, documenting, among many other subjects, the grounds at Hamilton House, South Berwick, Maine which she purchased on the advice of Sarah Orne Jewett. Some photographs can be reproduced from her original negatives which were found ...

Date: 1904-1905

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191401

Ref. Code: PC009.135D

Hamilton and Jewett Houses, photographs by Elise Tyson Vaughan

Photographs by Elise Tyson Vaughan, compiled by her into four albums, documenting, among many other subjects, the grounds at Hamilton House, South Berwick, Maine which she purchased on the advice of Sarah Orne Jewett. Some photographs can be reproduced from her original negatives which were found ...

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191404

Ref. Code: PC009.135C

Photographs by Elise Tyson Vaughan

Photographs by Elise Tyson Vaughan, compiled by her into four albums, documenting, among many other subjects, the grounds at Hamilton House, South Berwick, Maine which she purchased on the advice of Sarah Orne Jewett. Some photographs can be reproduced from her original negatives which were found ...

Date: 1902-1905

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191405

Ref. Code: PC009.135B

Hamilton and Jewett Houses, photographs by Elise Tyson Vaughan

Photographs by Elise Tyson Vaughan, compiled by her into four albums, documenting, among many other subjects, the grounds at Hamilton House, South Berwick, Maine which she purchased on the advice of Sarah Orne Jewett. Some photographs can be reproduced from her original negatives which were found ...

Date: 1890-1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191406

Ref. Code: PC009.135A

Trade advertisement for the John Alden silver pattern, sold at Stowell's, Boston, Mass., 1923

Advertisement for the "John Alden" silver pattern sold exclusively at Stowell's in Boston. The ad features an example of the pattern on a fork and spoon over a depiction of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins sitting near a fireplace. Behind their rocking chairs is a spinning wheel. The advertisement ...

Date: 1923

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 191415

Ref. Code: SC002.TMP.002

Grand Harmonicon, musical glasses

Cover depicts a Grand Harmonicon, with lid open to reveal "musical glasses."

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191411

Ref. Code: MS007.01.16.01

Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! : the prisoner's hope

Cover depicts scenes from the American Civil War (1861-1865).

Date: 1864

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191418

Ref. Code: MS007.01.17.01

Just before the battle, Mother

Cover depicts scenes from the American Civil War (1861-1865).

Date: 1864

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191423

Ref. Code: MS007.01.17.03

Listen to the mocking bird

Cover depicts a mocking bird on a tree branch.

Date: 1856

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191430

Ref. Code: MS007.01.17.04

Three fishers went sailing

Cover depicts a sailboat.

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191433

Ref. Code: MS007.01.17.05

Scenes of happiness

Cover depicts men and women cutting and pitching hay in a field. A windmill is in the background. A gentleman (presumably the landowner) assists a woman riding sidesaddle on a horse in the foreground.

Date: 1859

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191436

Ref. Code: MS007.01.17.06

Home, sweet home

Cover depicts a woman seated under a tree. A thatched cottage is in the background.

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191440

Ref. Code: MS007.01.17.07

Would I were with thee

Cover depicts a man seated near a river, a mandolin at his side.

Date: 1850

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191445

Ref. Code: MS007.01.17.08

Little Nell

Cover depicts Nell on on her deathbed on one side, and her grandfather kneeling over a grave on the other.

Date: 1863

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191450

Ref. Code: MS007.01.17.09

Trade card for The American Shoe Tip Company (A.S.T. Co.), shoe tips, Boston, Mass., undated

The card reads: "Moral - Children should never venture into a shoe unless protected by a Tip. Safe with the A.S.T. Co. beautiful black Tip."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191459

Ref. Code: EP001.01.023.07.04.042

He left my snow clad hills

Cover depicts the head and shoulders of opera singer Johanna Maria "Jenny" Lind (1820-1887) in three-quarter profile.

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191465

Ref. Code: MS007.01.18.01

Trade advertisement for Simmons Beds, Mattresses and Springs, 1923

This trade advertisement features a view of a bedroom adorned with Winsor style furniture and beds. The copy alerts the reader to the simple and comfortable furniture produced by Simmons. The "period designs and modern interpretations of historic styles" are ready to fit your style, whatever it migh...

Date: 1923

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 191467

Ref. Code: SC002.TMP.003

The blind boy

Cover depicts a seated boy surrounded by other boys and a woman. One boy is playing a mandolin.

Date: 1842

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191470

Ref. Code: MS007.01.18.02

Trade card for Sapolio's kitchen soap for steel and metals, 1877-1885

This trade card contains harmful imagery and employs racist stereotypes. Historic New England acknowledges historical records / objects may contain harmful imagery and language reflecting attitudes and biases of their creators and time in which they were made. Historic New England does not alter...

Date: 1877-1885

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 190958

Ref. Code: EP001.01.021.02.04.031

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