Historic New England

Bungalow designs

Removed to scrapbooks, 1995. Bungalow designs compiled from newspapers, circa 1910-1920. Floor plans, renderings and photographs of various styles by Glenn Saxton, Charles Sedgwick and others.

Date: ca. 1915

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194576

Ref. Code: PC009.144

Columbian Portfolio: World's Fair 1893

Columbian portfolio. Photographs of World's Fair 1893. 22 halftone plates, plus color supplements (10) Illustrating individual buildings and general views with explanatory text. Color supplement published July 2, 1893 by Chicago Tribune Art Supplement and photomechanicals published by The Jones Br...

Date: 1893

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194579

Ref. Code: PC009.145

Views of Massachusetts and Vermont

4x7 albumen prints, exposed in the 1880s, probably by an amateur photographer. Quality and pictorial interest are above average. Views include: Provincetown, Massachusetts; Hyde Park, Massachusetts; Boston, Massachusetts; Moon Island Pumping Station and Sewarage Plant, Bellows Falls, Vergennes, Ru...

Date: ca. 1880

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194583

Ref. Code: PC009.146

Cash book of Jonathan Sayward Barrell, merchant, York, Maine, 1818-1835

Record of accounts listing customers, personal travel expenses, laborers' wages, and banking transactions. Includes some brief memoranda about "putting out" son, Joseph, to Stephen Lowell in Boston. Also, includes contracts of employment with live-in laborers.

Date: 1818-1835

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194598

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.SY-I-12a

House and Family Album

34 pages of gaslight prints, 3-4 prints per page, documenting interiors, pasttimes, pets, and family members. Locality not identified. Views include parade, attic storage, decorations. Pictorial quality is very good; print quality is variable. Dates to circa 1900. A avaluable study album for int...

Date: ca. 1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194596

Ref. Code: PC009.147

Views of New York State

Largely views of New York State, including Vassar College, circa 1890s. 61 photographs

Date: ca. 1895

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194597

Ref. Code: PC009.148

Views of Families in Massachusetts

28 albumen prints, 4x7, circa 1886. Includes views of families posed in front of their homes in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. Pictorial quality above average.

Date: ca. 1886

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194600

Ref. Code: PC009.149

Travel Album of W. B. Storer

Travel album (10 1/2 x 12) evidently compiled or owned by W.B. Storer whose name appears on the cover. Of particular interest is a large group of cartes de visites documenting various regional styles of Russian military dress, issued by a St. Petersburg photographer. Thre are also photographs of exc...

Date: 1860-1870

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194606

Ref. Code: PC009.151

Art Masterpieces of Europe

30 leaves of "art masterpieces" from collections in Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome, Paris, London. Carte de visite size, but not mounted in the usual fashion on cards. Two pages include larger size views, dating probably from the 1870s. Overall this album constitutes an interesting record of taste...

Date: ca. 1870

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194609

Ref. Code: PC009.152

Receipt of Jonathan Sayward Barrell, merchant, York, Maine, 1765-1814

Receipts for purchase of drygoods, livestock, servicing livestock, and state and parish taxes. All receipts include a signature or personal marking. As executor for Jonathan Sayward (father), the writer kept receipts of bequests to family members. Includes mention of bequest money to be used as part...

Date: 1765-1814

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194610

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.SY-I-12b

Carte-de-Visite album

Carte-de-visite (1860s) album in good condition (5x6 inches). Original ownership unknown. The sequence appears to be in original order with an unusual portrait of a disabled man at the end. Locality appears to be Manchester, New Hampshire.

Date: 1860

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194611

Ref. Code: PC009.153

Edith Erley, Christmas 1905

Postcard album, inscribed "Edith Erley, Christmas, 1905" with decorative cover, dimensions 8x14 1/2. Included are views of the following: Maine: Waterville, Old Orchard, Poland Springs, Portland, Rockland, Lewiston, York, Kennebunk, Wells Beach New Hampshire: Manchester, Somersworth, Portsmouth ...

Date: 1905

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194618

Ref. Code: PC009.154

Cashbook for Jonathan Sayward Barrell, merchant, York, Maine, 1820-1823

A combination of accounts: expenses incurred on trips from Maine to Boston, and business transactions and accounts relating to shipping. Includes extensive figures for cords of wood.

Date: 1820-1823

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194614

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.SY-I-12c

Cashbook of Jonathan Sayward Barrell, merchant, York, Maine, 1818-1820

A brief monthly listing of cash received, merchandise and names of customers are not mentioned. Possibly a partial account as monthly amounts received are very small.

Date: 1818-1820

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194615

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.SY-I-14a

New England Postcard Album

Postcard album compiled by unknown, possibly Bannister, Readsboro, Vermont circa 1906. Useful for coverage of western Massachusetts (Northampton and vicinity), and Readsboro, Vermont.

Date: ca. 1906

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194619

Ref. Code: PC009.155

Cashbook

Cashbook for the "Upper Store," including brief monthly listings of cash received. Merchandise and names of customers are not listed. Includes occasional mention of names and foodstuffs.

Date: 1817-1818

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 194620

Ref. Code: MS031.01.06.02.01

Postcard Album

Postcard album, compiler unknown. Includes series of views of Eagle Lake and Eagle Lake Camps, Maine. Good coverage of Rochester, Vermont and Fort Kent, Maine. Also Sherbourne, VT, Peterborough, NH and Orange, MA

Date: ca.1937

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194622

Ref. Code: PC009.156

Cashbook

Brief monthly accounts noting cash sales from general merchandise. Few specifics are given. Includes mention of expenses on a trip to Boston and a list of articles on board the ship "Fair Play."

Date: 1818

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 194623

Ref. Code: MS031.01.06.02.02

Notes payable

Monthly accounting for notes, with individuals named. Many transactions with the New Hampshire Union Bank.

Date: 1809-1811

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 194634

Ref. Code: MS031.01.06.04.01

Account book

Includes itemized expenses incurred while boarding away from home. Contains an inventory of clothing and bedding taken on board the U.S. Frigate Congress and expenses incurred in the West Indies. Extensive listing of board lengths and prices.

Date: 1799-1805

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 194636

Ref. Code: MS031.01.12.01.01

Account book

Scattered accounts of ships' cargo. Includes bricks, foodstuffs, fish, and lumber. Small accounts. Costs not always given. Ships mentioned: "Success."

Date: 1822

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 194639

Ref. Code: MS031.01.12.01.02

Residence on Mystic Lake, Arlington, Mass.

This album, presumably by an amateur photographer, documents the interior (hall, parlor, dining room, library, sitting room) of a middle class residence. See pages 6, 13, 15, 16, 20, 34, and 37 for wallpaper. The residence is probably located on Mystic Lake in Arlington, Mass., according to Richard ...

Date: 1880-1890

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194652

Ref. Code: PC009.159

Account book

Detailed household account. Merchandise is itemized and is very specific. For example: errand boy, charity donations, cost for a piece of fruit. Also includes a separate spinning and yarn account.

Date: 1835-1851

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 194651

Ref. Code: MS031.01.16.02.01

Massachusetts Residences and Clubs

Bound album 10x14 consisting of 5x6 photographs (some smaller) by an amateur photographer documenting a variety of interiors and exteriors of residences as well as clubs in the following localities: Newburyport, Sherborn, East Wakefield, Portsmouth and Newbury. There are several scenes of family ac...

Date: 1900-1915

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194660

Ref. Code: PC009.161

Pinesbank, Jamaica Plain, 1891

"Pinesbank," "Jamaica Plain, 1891" A titled album of 14 plates, consisting of 3 photos per plate in circular Kodak format. Images document family life of Mr. and Mrs. Peder Olson and their children who leased "Pinbank" in 1891. Of special interest because the daguerreotype collection of SPNEA's...

Date: 1891

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194661

Ref. Code: PC009.163

Kingston, Massachusetts Residence

This consists of 26 leaves, on which are mounted 4x7 photographs, average to good quality, documenting the residence, guests, residents, interiors and surroundings of a (summer?) house in Kingston, Massachusetts, 1898-1899, apparently belonging the to the Barker family. Other residences in the town...

Date: 1898-1899

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194663

Ref. Code: PC009.164

Chelsea, Massachusetts

Series of 21 mounted photographs of Chelsea, MA [O.F. Baxter?. 1868?]. Attribution and date are based on the similarity between photograph 9 of the series and a stereoscopic view of the 4th of July celebration, Chelsea, 1868 published by O.F. Baxter, Chelsea, MA (first series) in our collection....

Date: 1868

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194671

Ref. Code: PC009.180

Beauport

This consist of approximately 50 leaves, mounted on each side (rather casually) with a variety of black and white (few early color prints, 1950s) photographs depicting social occasions at Beauport, in Eastern Point, Gloucester, Massachusetts. Dates span the 1940s and early 1950s. People are lavish...

Date: 1940-1950

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194667

Ref. Code: PC009.165A

Beauport

Beauport, "Gloucester, August 1940" 19 photographs mounted on black paper by an unidentified photographer, 1940. Spiral binding. The album contains chiefly interior views of rooms corwded with furnishings and various collections (16), but also depicts men looking out toward a ship as they lunch...

Date: 1940

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194668

Ref. Code: PC009.165B

Beauport

Red leather photograph album (21 1/4x14") with gold embossed lettering and case of Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Found on site and removed in 1991. Compiled circa 1936 by Mrs. Charles E. F. McCann. Captions to the photographs and articles were provided by the compi...

Date: 1936

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194669

Ref. Code: PC009.165C

Landscape paintings by Philip Little

"Book of photos of paintings by Mr. Philip Little, artist." 13 landscapes (depicted in black and white) dating principally from 1908-09. Titles are supplied. Evidently the personal copy of Philip Little, since his initials are on the cover of this otherwise unpossessing paper album.

Date: 1908-1909

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194670

Ref. Code: PC009.167

Lyman Family snapshots

A photograph album which is inscribed inside the front cover, "Margaret Lyman from Mamma, December 30, 1909." Some of the photographs at the beginning of the album are dated 1909, but many are dated 1910 or are undated. The handwriting of the captions remains the same throughout, so presumably the c...

Date: 1910

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194678

Ref. Code: PC009.181

Royall House, Medford, MA

An album depicting the rooms of the Royall House, Medford, Massachusetts as restored by Joseph Chandler. There are 14 leaves, some of which have photographs on both sides. Photographs by Howard Shurtleff, brother of Arthur Shurcliff (the landscape architect), who, in turn, was the father of the dono...

Date: ca. 1920

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194672

Ref. Code: PC009.166

Postcards of Bangor, Maine

A postcard album of particular interest because it is devoted entirely to Bangor, Maine with the exception of a few views relating to Moosehead Lake. May have been compiled by Edwin B. Sears, from whose estate it was obtained in 1987-88.

Date: 1900-1945

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194675

Ref. Code: PC009.170A

Postcard Album of Edwin Sears

Postcards compiled by Edwin B. Sears of Weston and Camden, Maine. The first dozen or so pages have some excellent views of Boston sites, streets, etc. by the Detroit Publishing Company. These are possibly based on the work of photographer Henry Peabody (whose original photographs of Boston sites, ...

Date: 1900-1946

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194677

Ref. Code: PC009.170B

Photographs of New England by Edwin B. Sears

A bound but untitled photograph album compiled and evidently photographed by Edwin B. Sears of Weston, Massachusetts from whose estate this was acquired. It is decoratively annotated in his hand, and includes snapshots of buildings in Salem, Lancaster, Nantucket, Provincetown and Weston/Wayland. T...

Date: ca. 1920

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194680

Ref. Code: PC009.171

Old Houses and Towns

Removed to scrapbooks. Scrapbook titled "Old Houses and Towns" by author Annie Haven Thwing. The scrapbook contains photomechanicals chiefly of colonial residences and meetinghouses throughout New England, but also of English vernacular houses, New England landscapes, birds eye views of major Americ...

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194681

Ref. Code: PC009.182

The C. S. Fiske Family and Petersham, Mass

An album of family photographs dating from 1883 to 1925 with annotations of Petersham, Mass and the C. S. Fiske Famly. Great album for family life and costume in the late 1880s. Many architectural and scenic views, children, pastimes, interiors, sports, horse drawn carriages, family groups, childr...

Date: 1883-1925

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194682

Ref. Code: PC009.172

Carte de Visite Album of Hattie [L] Hutchinson Paine

"Hattie (L?)eema Hutchinson Paine, Boston" - inscribed on flyleaf. Undated. Carte de visite album, badly frayed (boards) of particular interest because of its apparent relationship to Spritualist practice (2 images depict what may be spirit boards of some type). Also includes tintypes and the i...

Date: 1881-1888

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194683

Ref. Code: PC009.173

Snapshots of Beacon Hill and Back Bay

This album consists primarily of 4.5 x 2.5 inch amateur snapshots of buildings on Beacon Hill and in the Back Bay. The photographs date from the late 1920s to the 1930s. The album is from the manuscript collection of John Codman (1898-1989) and may have been compiled by him or by his father, William...

Date: 1920-1930

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194687

Ref. Code: PC009.174

Snapshots of Chatham, Mass., Nantucket, Mass., and Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire

Album primarily consists of snapshots of an unidentified family and their friends in Chatham, Nantucket, and Lake Winnepesauke, in the summers of 1920-1923. Beach scenes; a masquerade party; and a few architectural views are included as well as views of Hyde Park, Marblehead, South Boston, and Waver...

Date: 1920-1923

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194688

Ref. Code: PC009.184

Album 175: Beacon Hill newspaper clippings (now Scrapbook 12)

Now scrapbook 12. See GUSN 318621 or reference code MS004.012.

Date: 1920-1930

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194689

Ref. Code: PC009.175

Martha Thacher, Kodaks. Yarmouth Port, Cape Cod

An album of early Kodak snapshots (including bulls-eye type) dating probably to the 1890s to very early 1900s. Inscribed "Martha Thacher. Kodaks. Yarmouth Port, Cape Cod" no date. A note which accompanied the album states that there is a photograph of Mr. Perera as a baby, posed in the Thacher f...

Date: 1890-1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194693

Ref. Code: PC009.176

Family Photographs, 1919-1927

Photograph album of an unidentified family, circa 1919-1927. Includes group shots at home, on the beach and farm, in costume, and in an airplane, identified only by date.

Date: 1919-1927

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194694

Ref. Code: PC009.185

Cape Cod Houses

The album consists of 24 leaves, of which four are empty. The majority of the photographs depict domestic architecture in the following communities: Sandwich, West Barnstable, Marston Mills, Yarmouth, Dennis (including East and South Dennis), Chatham, Eastham and Wellfleet. There are also 2 pages ...

Date: 1910-1920

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194696

Ref. Code: PC009.177

Mullikin Family snapshots

Album of snapshots (three hand-tinted) of Mullikin family members, 1898-1904. Found in the Otis House, 1995. Approximately 30 snapshots. Two images document several generations of the male line: Samuel Mullikin, M.G. Mullikin, T.E.M. White (who may be the principle photographer for the album) an...

Date: 1898-1904

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194698

Ref. Code: PC009.186

Boston Terminal Company construction views: South Station, Boston, Mass.

Bound in hard cover, stamped on the front "John C. Sanborn" though inscribed inside "R.G. Baker". Consists entirely of cyanotype (blue print) views of the building of South Station. A title page is inscribed: "The Boston Terminal Company Construction Views, Southern Station, Boston," suggesting it...

Date: 1896-1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194700

Ref. Code: PC009.178A

Boston School Buildings

Album of loose photomechanicals of Boston "School Buildings," circa 1903. Album is subdivided by tabbed cardboard sheets labeled "1-9," and "S." Loose photomechanical views of schools, with printed titles, have typewritten identification as to Division (1-9), District, and Report (1900-1903); and ha...

Date: ca. 1903

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194701

Ref. Code: PC009.187

Boston Terminal Company, South Station

Covers are detached. Stamped "Boston Terminal Co., Boston. John C. Sanborn, and Westinghouse, Church, Kerr and Co. Engineers," suggesting it to have been compiled by or presented by this company, if they were the engineering firm involved in the station's construction. Prints are mounted to canva...

Date: 1896-1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194706

Ref. Code: PC009.178B

Views of Woodstock, Vermont

Album compiled by K.A.P. containing 75 views of Woodstock, VT and surroundings, including Tyson, VT, circa 1901-1915. K.A.P., who studied architecture with George Edward Barton, photographed the interior of Barton's office in the Billings Block, Woodstock. Interiors of another architects' office ove...

Date: 1902-1915

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194705

Ref. Code: PC009.188

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