Historic New England

Daybook of Charles Glines and Co., Canterbury, N.H., Feb. 1883-1884

Transactions are purchases and sales of a variety of foods and household needs.

Date: 1883-1884

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194090

Ref. Code: MS002.049

Horses, Vermont-Quebec border, 1958

Two horses stand nose-to-tail, side-by-side in a field.

Date: 1958

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194098

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.037

Album 18-2: Boston Transit Authority: Boston Common and Public Garden

This album consists of approximately ninety 5 x 7 inch and 8 x 10 inch prints of Boston Common; fences and gates of the Boston Public Garden; fences of the Common along Boylston Street; the Park Square entrance to Common, as standing and in course of removal; birds-eye views of the Public Garden; wo...

Date: 1895

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194092

Ref. Code: PC009.018-2

Daybook of Lewis and Richardson, Boston and Roxbury, Mass., 1811-1815

Listed with cost are foods, hardware, building materials, paper, shoes, leather etc. Several schooners listed on "Adventures to Pleasant River" page.

Date: 1811-1815

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194091

Ref. Code: MS002.050

Daybook of Josiah Sartell, Sartell and Childs, and Sartell and Kendall, Townsend, Mass., 1808-1829

Charges are listed for lumber and sawing, and for labor, in-house construction, and farming chores. Also for hooping barells. Services and purchases from creditors, displaying a barter economy, document details of lifestyle. Arithmetic instruction fills pages 1-97.

Date: 1808-1829

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194093

Ref. Code: MS002.051

Album 18-3: Boston Transit Authority: Tunnel Construction

This album dates from Mar. 22, 1900, to June 28, 1902, and it includes approximately one hundred twenty-five 5 x 7 inch and 8 x 10 inch photographs of tunnel construction; Shawmut Avenue near Pleasant Street, with machinery; construction workers; shafts; Commercial Street; Atlantic Avenue, including...

Date: 1900-1902

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194096

Ref. Code: PC009.018-3

Account book of Nathaniel Brackett, 1817-1822

Livestock dealer Skins, hides, and cattle bought and sold are listed by number or weight with monetary value and customer's name. There is no other type of entry and no suggestion of the tanning process.

Date: 1817-1822

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194094

Ref. Code: MS002.052

Ledgers of Jeremiah and John Pearson, 1673-1741

2 ledgers

Date: 1673-1741

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194095

Ref. Code: MS002.053

Ledger of Jeremiah Pearson, 1673-1689

Listed transactions including those primarily regarding making of meal and fulling of cloth, with weaving and spinning also noted. Some odd jobs and personal business indexed to some extent, including farm chores and construction of a workhouse and prison in 1743 at Salisbury.

Date: 1673-1689

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194097

Ref. Code: MS002.053.01

Album 18-4: Boston Transit Authority: Traffic Congestion

This album is inscribed "Photographs made in connection with investigation of congestion of traffic, etc." It includes approximately forty-five 3 x 5 inch views of Central Wharf; South Market Street; Blackstone Street; North Market Street; Dock Square; Exchange Street; Faneuil Hall Square; Union Str...

Date: 1907

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194099

Ref. Code: PC009.018-4

Ledger of Jeremiah Pearson, 1685-1741

Besides the grinding of corn, rye and wheat into meal and flour, there is a quantity of business in fulling and weaving. Also see 9 pages from end for note regarding hauling masts for six weeks with many other entries specifying logging, drawing, and hauling of masts.

Date: 1685-1741

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194100

Ref. Code: MS002.053.02

Winter, Stowe, Vermont, 1963

Ice and snow accumulate on a window and shutter in Stowe, Vermont.

Date: 1963

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194111

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.038

Album 18-5: Boston Transit Authority: Washington Street

This album includes approximately twenty-seven 5 x 7 inch views of Washington Street, surveyed block by block in 1904. It documents the street from buildings numbered 572 to 754, plus other unnumbered buildings. Some of the photographs in this album have been removed and placed in the appropriate Wa...

Date: 1904

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194101

Ref. Code: PC009.018-5

Album 18-6: Boston Transit Authority: Subway Entrances

This album includes approximately fourteen 5 x 7 inch photographs of subway entrances, including Boylston Street seen from the burial ground on Boston Common; Tremont Street; Central Square in Cambridge; the Revere House, Bowdoin Square (hotel); Dover Street; and two unidentified subway entrances, ...

Date: ca. 1914

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194103

Ref. Code: PC009.018-6

Account book of City Mills, 1830-1832

Records amounts of meal ground for customers, most of whom have accumulated debts under $200 over a period of three to six months.

Date: 1830-1832

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194102

Ref. Code: MS002.054

Account book of Josiah Allen, Boston, Mass., 1780-1828

First quarter of book itemizes sale of leather, hair, and bark. More than half is devoted to payment for labor - mainly in painting and carpentry including work on long wharf. Allen family genealogy notes appear in last portion.

Date: 1780-1828

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194104

Ref. Code: MS002.056

Album 18-7: Boston Transit Authority: Construction

137 5x7 views, including construction of subway near School Street; tunnel at Scollay Square; Boylston Street Station exit; tunnel near Hollis Street; construction work on Section 11, with many buildings indicated, some in snow; Court Street, including both construction and street views, with detail...

Date: 1897-1898

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194105

Ref. Code: PC009.018-7

Album 19: Views of Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire

This album includes seventeen 4 x 5 inch photographs of buildings and scenery in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, taken in 1903. The album includes images of an inn, a tavern, a church, and the green. This album is a travel memento. It is inscribed, but the inscriptions are difficult to read.

Date: 1903

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194106

Ref. Code: PC009.019

Account book of Nathaniel Hesseltine, Weston, Vermont, 1829-1838

Itemizes a variety of small articles sold. Lists towns in Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire. Gives some schedule of travels with uneven faithfulness. Many personal comments suggesting village life. ("A fuss took place" etc.). 1829 road petition regarding towns of Weston, Andover, and Walpole,...

Date: 1829-1838

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194107

Ref. Code: MS002.057

Invoice book of William Jackson and Co., Boston, Mass., 1856-1861

Accounts of shipments of candles and soap, naming customer and container ship; wharfage and insurance charges and destination (mostly US ports) are given. Last third of book is confined to soap factory expenses and itemizing of orders for soap, some exported and some apparently distributed locally.

Date: 1856-1861

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194108

Ref. Code: MS002.058

Ledger, Boston, Mass., 1816-1840

Lists essential materials, with cost, in candle-making, some imported. Includes orders shipped to customers running into 4 figures.

Date: 1816-1840

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194109

Ref. Code: MS002.059

Album 21: Historic Doorways and Buildings

The images of Boston and the surrounding area are bound with material relating to Charleston, South Carolina, and other southern areas. The album includes several hundred 3 x 4 inch photographs varying from detailed views of doorways to general elevations. The Boston images include several details o...

Date: ca. 1928

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194112

Ref. Code: PC009.021

Ledger of Mather Withington, 1792-1831

A partially indexed itemization of professional services (appraising, measuring, protracting, writing warrants, and making appearances in court) with reimbursement by selectmen. An equal amount of space is taken up with household and personal expenditures and labor including farm chores, masonry, a...

Date: 1792-1831

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194113

Ref. Code: MS002.060

Evening Snowfall, Stowe, Vermont, 1971

Snow and ice cover trees in Stowe, Vermont.

Date: 1971

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194115

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.039

Album 22: Boston Buildings and Streets, Part 1

The photographs in Album 22 appear to have been produced in the 1890s or early 1900s as copies of earlier prints originally produced from the 1850s to the 1880s. The originals have not been located, making these albums a significant resource for views by Boston photographers of churches, streets, a...

Date: 1850-1880

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194116

Ref. Code: PC009.022

Account book of Nathan Weston Jr., Maine, 1853-1856

Records fees for legal services under clients' names, occasionally with hometown. Attorney Weston appears to have been in the employ of Penobscot County while carrying on his private practice in east and central Maine, with at least one client in Boston and one railroad company.

Date: 1853-1856

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194114

Ref. Code: MS002.061

Account book, May 1831-July 1832

Records shipments of indigo, most totaling in four figures. Notes quantities, consignments, and names of vessels.

Date: 1831-1832

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194117

Ref. Code: MS002.062

Dump fire, Stowe, Vermont, 1971

The burning at the local dump was a volatile public issue in Stowe. Reed spent many hours documenting the deleterious effects of the smoke on the small town. In this view, he included a series of fence posts evocative of grave markers in a not-so-subtle allusion to the potential impact of pollution....

Date: 1971

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194123

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.040

Album 23: Boston Buildings and Streets, Part 2

The photographs in Album 23 are duplicates of the photographs in Album 22. They appear to have been produced in the 1890s or early 1900s as copies of earlier prints originally produced from the 1850s to the 1880s. The originals have not been located, making these albums a significant resource for ...

Date: 1850-1880

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194118

Ref. Code: PC009.023

Account book of M.L. Williams, Boston, Mass., 1889-1890

Records terms of leases and payments for office quarters, giving names of tenant firms and some addresses.

Date: 1889-1890

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194119

Ref. Code: MS002.063

Account book, New York, 1861-1879

A young man's records of various employment: farm chores, carriage-building, etc. Purchases of food, books, and clothing are interspersed among farm business, shoe repair, etc. Weather reports and declaration of worth at interest (at age 21) and several New York addresses appear.

Date: 1861-1879

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194120

Ref. Code: MS002.064

Account book, Boston, Mass., New Jersey, Delaware, ca. 1881

Minimal alphabetical index to accounts suggests investments in utilities, railroads, and real estate (Boston vicinity and Delaware), with 4 banks named and items entitled "Estate of Joseph Noble", the latter a possible clue to writer (i.e. executor). See book #94 for other material (will) of J. Nob...

Date: ca. 1881

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194121

Ref. Code: MS002.065

Wastebook of Samuel Winn Jr., Medford, Mass., 1771-1800

Scratchings include some weather observations, some payments for deeded land, expenditures for clothing. There are lists giving value of beef quarters and of hides. Notes suggest tanyard and slaughter house. One page of musical notation and several more of ballad limericks.

Date: 1771-1800

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194122

Ref. Code: MS002.066

Album 24: The Vale, Waltham, Mass.

This photograph album is embossed with "Waltham, The Vale" on the cover. Inside the front cover is inscribed, "Annie L. Sears & Mary P. Sears from Frank." The album includes twenty-eight 7 x 4.25 inch photographs taken circa the 1890s which emphasize the landscape of the Vale, especially trees. It a...

Date: ca. 1890

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194124

Ref. Code: PC009.024

Account book of Rebecca E. Shattuck, Boston, Mass., 1845-1857

The expenses of a woman including clothing, furniture and notions. Book sellers' plate. 3 loose slips.

Date: 1845-1857

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194125

Ref. Code: MS002.067

Album 25: Historic buildings in New England

Approximately fifty 4x6 photographs by Wilfred French, all annotated. An index accompanies the album. Photographs date from the 1880s to the early 1890s and include buildings in Concord, Boston, Lexington, Dedham, Dorchester, Duxbury, Salem, Cambridge, Medford, Saugus, Danvers, Winchester, Andover, ...

Date: 1880-1890

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194127

Ref. Code: PC009.025

Account book of Martha Ingalls, Swampscott, Mass., 1864

Records purchases of household furniture. The loose papers concern settlement of estate of Martha Ingalls.

Date: 1864

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194126

Ref. Code: MS002.068

Crushed cars, Morrisville, Vermont, 1971

Like many of Reed's photographs, this one finds abstract beauty without sacrificing an interest in environmental issues. The image can be read as an intriguing pattern of lights and darks, or, equally, as a warning about the onslaught of trash blotting out the landscape. These concerns, one aestheti...

Date: 1971

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194130

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.041

Daybook of Otis E. Weld, Boston, Mass., 1895-1897

Financial entries covering a range of items from flowers and small purchases at department stores to stocks and bonds, loans, and house repairs.

Date: 1895-1897

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194128

Ref. Code: MS002.069

Album 26: Historic houses and churches of New England

This album consists of photographs by Holden and Marion Green, probably in the 1940s, of houses which were moved, including photographs of the houses in their original locations as well as their new locations. Documented in this album is a house moved from Assonet, Mass. to Egypt, Mass.; homes moved...

Date: 1940s

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194131

Ref. Code: PC009.026

Account book of William Allen, East Bridgewater, Mass., 1833-1837

Personal expenses include everything from books to tooth brushes, vividly suggesting daily life at school in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Date: 1833-1837

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194129

Ref. Code: MS002.070

Daybook of School District #5, Wheelock, Vermont, 1867-1893

Records transactions involved with the operation of a school both in cash received and expenses ranging from teachers' pay and board to wood and insurance. Dates may suggest school-year schedule of a New England farm town.

Date: 1867-1893

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194132

Ref. Code: MS002.071

Album 27: Views of the New England Coast by Henry Peabody

This album includes ninety-eight photographs by Henry Peabody documenting harbors, shorelines, and prominent buildings from Hull, Mass., to Grand Manan, New Brunswick. The album includes images of lighthouses, hotels, bathing scenes, and wharves. The album appears to have been produced for the Detro...

Date: ca. 1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194135

Ref. Code: PC009.027

Account book of West Parish Meetinghouse, Salisbury, Mass., 1794-1941 continuously

Tax collections and parish expenditures including maintenance of buildings and fences, and payments to several other sects within the town. Also gives ministers' salaries, price of wood and pasturage, and cost of repairs to organ. Twentieth century management of funds occupies central section.

Date: 1794-1941

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194133

Ref. Code: MS002.072

Accounts daybook of William Endicott and Oliver Hubbard, Boston, Mass., 1797-1807

Records the cost to customers of pieces of tailored wearing apparel with fabric and labor listed separately. There are between 10 and 20 payments recorded per page, and 3 or 4 pages per week. See books 30 and 42 for other Oliver owners of account books.

Date: 1797-1807

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194134

Ref. Code: MS002.073

Daybook of Hadley Richards, Newport, New York, Feb. 6-Oct. 29, 1847

Records amounts of beef, pork, lamb, etc. with price per pound. The number of customers is great and the size of purchase small. A very few creditors' names appear. 15 pages reused for newspaper clippings and published poetry (mid nineteenth century). The two newer sheets are someone's attempt to st...

Date: 1847

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194136

Ref. Code: MS002.074

Album 28: Boston and vicinity

This album of snapshots created by amateur photographer Dorothy Wirth includes images of Lexington, Hingham, Framingham, Concord, Sudbury, Beacon Hill (Boston), and Wayland, Mass.; and Poland Springs and Kittery, Maine. The pages of the album are annotated.

Date: ca. 1950

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194137

Ref. Code: PC009.028

Account book, Amherst, Mass., 1846-1849

Daily business in small quantities of meat recorded with about 45 customers per page, and about 3 pages per week. Occasional extraneous items like shingles, tallow etc. Last 6 pages record payments for labor, some groceries, etc.

Date: 1846-1849

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194138

Ref. Code: MS002.075

Album 29: Brimfield, Massachusetts

This album consists of approximately twenty photographs of buildings in Brimfield, Massachusetts, taken from 1900 to 1910. The album emphasises civic structures, and it includes one panorama.

Date: 1900-1910

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194139

Ref. Code: PC009.029

Aerial views of New England harbors and coastal communities

Includes approximately 100 8 x 10 aerial photographs taken in Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island and New York coastal communities. Also included are photographs of the S.S. Bear (Byrd Expedition, Newfoundland), as it departed from Boston. Other localities represented are Rockport, Annisquam, Glouces...

Date: 1930-1940

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194490

Ref. Code: PC009.128A

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