Historic New England

Inside of bird cage, Franklin Park, Boston, Mass.

A picture postcard shows a variety of birds in the bird cage in the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195349

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.076

Quarry at Franklin Park, Roxbury, Mass., ca. 1887

A view of the quarry in Franklin Park in Boston. This may be the quarry on Schoolmaster Hill. The view is from the bottom of the quarry upwards to the top. Workers seem to be examining the stone on the face of the quarry. At the bottom, there are two horse-drawn carts. At the top of the quarry, a c...

Date: ca. 1887

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195350

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0420.003

Quarry and derrick at Franklin Park, Roxbury, Mass., ca. 1887

A view of the top of the quarry in Franklin Park in Boston. This may be the quarry on Schoolmaster Hill. A work building on pilings overhangs the quarry. A road leads down to the bottom of the quarry. A streetlight stands next to the road. The derrick is positioned over the quarry beyond the buildin...

Date: ca. 1887

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195351

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0420.004

New Circuit, Franklin Park, Roxbury, Mass.

A view of the construction of Circuit Drive in Franklin Park in Boston. Workers build the roadway using horse-drawn carts. A man wearing a bowler hat and overalls stands in the middle of the road. "Circuit Drive was designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted as a road for carriages throug...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195352

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0420.005

Charles W. Howard and wife on a derrick trestle, Franklin Park Quarry, Roxbury, Mass., ca. 1887

Charles W. Howard and his wife stand on the face of the rock near the top of the quarry in Franklin Park in Boston. This may be the quarry on Schoolmaster Hill.

Date: ca. 1887

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195353

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0420.006

Scarboro Pond, Franklin Park, Roxbury, Mass.

A large group of people ice skate on frozen Scarboro Pond (also known as Scarborough Pond) in Frank Park in Boston.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195354

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0420.007

Williams Home looking towards Forest Hills, Franklin Park, Roxbury, Mass.

A distant view along a road of the Williams Home in Franklin Park in Boston. The two-story Italianate building has a bell and flagpole on its roof. A group of men work near the road in the left foreground.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195355

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0420.008

Construction of overlook wall at Franklin Park, Jamaica Plain [Roxbury], Mass.

A view of the construction of the wall of the Overlook, a building that combined a scenic viewing platform and changing facilities for people using the fields in the Playstead area of Franklin Park in Boston. Several men operate a derrick. The building was partially constructed of boulders from the ...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195356

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0420.009

Franklin Park from west end of overlook looking north, Roxbury, Mass.

A view of the construction of the Overlook, a building that combined a scenic viewing platform and changing facilities for people using the fields in the Playstead area of Franklin Park in Boston. A large group of men work on the wall and the road in front of the structure. There are many horse-draw...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195357

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2540.0420.010

Detail working drawing of the Head House, Marine Park, South Boston, Mass., 1898

Boston city architect Edmund March Wheelwright designed these working drawings for the Head House at Marine Park in South Boston, Massachusetts. This is plate 89 from the publication, "Municipal Architecture in Boston by Edmund M. Wheelwright, City Architect, 1891-1895", volume II, edited by Francis...

Date: 1898

Collection: General architectural and cartographic collection

GUSN: 195359

Ref. Code: AR001.USMA.0250.003

Margaret Burne-Jones, Sally Norton, and Lily Norton

Photographer William John Naudin took this cabinet card of Margaret Burne-Jones, Sara "Sally" Norton, and Elizabeth "Lily" Gaskell Norton. Margaret Burne-Jones (center), holding a kitten in her lap, was the daughter of English artist Edward Burne-Jones, and the Nortons were the daughters of Charles ...

Collection: Norton family photographic collection

GUSN: 195360

Ref. Code: PC035.TMP.001

John Ruskin and Constance Hilliard

A carte-de-visite portrays critic and author, John Ruskin, and Constance Hilliard Churchill, who was a close associate of his. Both were friends of Charles Eliot Norton, who was the first professor of fine arts at Harvard University and a man of letters.

Collection: Norton family photographic collection

GUSN: 195361

Ref. Code: PC035.TMP.002

Photographic copy of a portrait of Susan R.S. Norton

A photograph of a drawn portrait of Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton, wife of Charles Eliot Norton.

Collection: Norton family photographic collection

GUSN: 195362

Ref. Code: PC035.TMP.003

Portrait of Charles Eliot Norton from Harpers Magazine

A portrait of Harvard art professor and author, Charles Eliot Norton, from the article, "Literary and Social Boston" by George Parsons Lathrop that appeared on page 385 in the February 1881 issue of "Harper's Magazine".

Collection: Norton family photographic collection

GUSN: 195363

Ref. Code: PC035.TMP.004

Calendar for New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., Post Office Square, Boston, Mass., 1885

This 1885 calendar was published by the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston and engraved by John A. Lowell and Co. of Boston. The calendar is comprised of two images. The scene in the top half of the calendar is entitled "The New England of Years Ago" and depicts a young woman, who i...

Date: 1885

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195364

Ref. Code: EP001.13.02.003

Old State House and Ames Building, Boston, Mass.

At the center of the view from 53 State Street is the Old State House and its balcony from which the Declaration of Independence was first read in Boston. The taller Ames Building, in view up Court Street, was the second tallest mason bearing-wall structure in the world (after the Monadnock Building...

Date: undated

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195365

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.7430.001

Announcement for Halloween at the Tavern Club

A program for a Halloween banquet and lecture on November 11, 1910 at the Tavern Club at 4 Boylston Place in Boston. Lorin Fuller Deland, Harvard University football coach and author, gave the illustrated lecture. Totem of Bear, which the Club adopted as its mascot in February, 1885, plays a violin ...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195366

Ref. Code: EP001.09.TMP.002

Business card for Frank Chouteau Brown illustrating his design for a home at Newton, Mass.

A business card for architect Frank Chouteau Brown, 9 Mount Vernon Square in Boston. The card displays a presentation drawing of a southeast view of a Tudor Revival house in Newton, Massachusetts.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195367

Ref. Code: EP001.01.007.01.03.001

Portrait of William Sumner Appleton

A three-quarter portrait of William Sumner Appleton taken at the studio of Colonel Theodore C. Marceau at 160 Tremont Street in Boston. Marceau owned a string of photographic studios in New York, Boston, San Francisco, and several other cities.

Collection: Personal photographic collection

GUSN: 195368

Ref. Code: PC004.01.A.1775.01.001

Exterior rear view of Bellmont, the Cushing-Col. Benton Estate, Belmont, Mass.

An exterior view of the rear elevation of the John Perkins Cushing-Colonel Everett Chamberlin Benton House at 75 Oakley Road in Belmont, Massachusetts. J. P. Cushing named his estate "Bellmont" after a "gentle eminence at its center that provided views toward Fresh Pond and the Mystic River valley."...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195369

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0250.0050.001

Chinatown, Harrison Ave., Boston, Mass.

A picture postcard view of Chinatown in Boston from Harrison Avenue. Horse-drawn carts line each side of the street. The sign for Jacob Wirth's Restaurant on Eliot Street, renamed Stuart Street, Cosmopolitan Drug Co. 42 Kneeland St.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195371

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.077

New Year's card, depicting a young girl holding an umbrella in a snowstorm, 1888

This New Year greeting card depicts a young girl trudging through a snowstorm underneath a large umbrella on its cover. The inscription reads: "Happy New Year! It's I, of course! I knew you'd guess. You couldn't help but know. Who else would come to wish you joy in such a driving snow?"

Date: 1888

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195373

Ref. Code: EP001.05.TMP.006

New Year's card, depicting white Christmas roses and holly, 1876

This New Year greeting card features a spray of white Christmas roses and holly on its cover. The inscription reads: "Happy New Year!"

Date: 1876

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195374

Ref. Code: EP001.05.TMP.007

New Year's card, depicting pink roses and a white daisy, 1876

This New Year greeting card features a spray of pink roses and a white daisy on its cover. The inscription reads: "Happy New Year!"

Date: 1876

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195375

Ref. Code: EP001.05.TMP.008

New Year's card, depicting a calla lily, 1876

This New Year greeting card features a calla lily on the cover. The inscription reads: "Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, allelulia." The verse matches the text of Zechariah 9:9 and Matthew 21:4.

Date: 1876

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 195376

Ref. Code: EP001.05.TMP.009

Wentworth-Gardner House exterior

A black-and-white print of this Wallace Nutting photograph of a front exterior view of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire after the restoration by Nutting. The front door is surmounted by a broken scroll pediment with a pineapple finial, a symb...

Collection: Norman Morrison Isham photographic collection

GUSN: 195377

Ref. Code: PC032.TMP.001

A Colonial three decker

This view shows the front façade of the Federal-style triple-decker John Peirce House on Court Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Built in 1799, the house is painted yellow and has a rectangular door surround and entry porch. Pilasters extend from the first to the upper floors. Swags in panels are...

Date: 1910-1919

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195378

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.04.008

Dresser, Gardner House, Portsmouth

This interior view shows the kitchen of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire before the Wallace Nutting restoration. A dresser displays dishes and platters. A candlestick telephone sits on the cupboard top. Two birdcages hang from the ceiling. Mr...

Date: 1914

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195379

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.047

Upper hall, Gardner House, Portsmouth

This interior view shows the second floor landing and hall of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A Palladian window, flanked by Ionic pilasters, fills the front wall. Wallpaper covers the panels between Ionic pilasters along the stairwell. Woo...

Date: 1914

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195380

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.010

Detail of stair in paneled hall, Gardner House, Portsmouth

This interior view shows the upper hall from the landing of the main staircase between the first and second floors of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Wainscoting and wallpaper with scenes of a forest, river, and waterfall adorn the wall. Th...

Date: 1914

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195381

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.011

Detail of front door, Gardner House, Portsmouth

This exterior view shows the front door and entry porch of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire before the Wallace Nutting restoration. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a wedding gift for her son Thomas, who died in 1768...

Date: 1914

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195382

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.008

A 48-inch panel, Gardner House

This interior view shows the north parlor in the Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire before the Wallace Nutting restoration. A marine painting of a ship hangs above the mantelpiece of the fireplace, which has been filled in. Corinthian pilasters flank the fireplac...

Date: 1914

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195383

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.009

Exterior view of the Wentworth-Gardner House, Portsmouth, N.H.

An exterior view from across Mechanic Street of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The Second Empire-style entry porch is supported by Corinthian columns and is surmounted by a balustrade. The front louver doors are closed. A two-seat swing set stands next to th...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 195384

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USNH.1380.0520.001

Hall, Wentworth-Gardner-Nutting, House, Mechanic & Gardner Sts., Portsmouth

This interior view shows the main staircase and entrance hall of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire before the Wallace Nutting restoration. A light fixture hangs from below the keystone of the arched wall. Wainscotting and wallpaper adorn the w...

Date: 1914

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195385

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.016

South parlor chamber

Wallace Nutting took this photograph of the south parlor chamber of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Chairs and rugs are arranged around the room. Several hats and a hatbox lay on the furniture. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the hous...

Date: 1916

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195386

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.012

Wentworth-Gardner, restored door head

This exterior view shows the front door of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire after the Wallace Nutting restoration. The paneled door is surmounted by a broken scrolled pediment. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a wed...

Date: 1915

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195387

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.046

In the brave days of old

Wallace Nutting staged this photograph in the entrance hall of the Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A model in period costume walks down the main staircase beneath a molded elliptical arch into the entrance hall, resting her right hand on the railing and holdi...

Date: 1915

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195388

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.027

Descending the Gardner stair

Wallace Nutting staged this photograph in the entrance hall of the Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A model in period costume and hat walks down the main staircase beneath a molded elliptical arch into the entrance hall, holding a garment that may be a scarf o...

Date: 1915

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195389

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.030

Detail of upper landing, Wentworth-Gardner House, Portsmouth

This interior view shows the upper landing of the staircase of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a wedding gift for her son Thomas, who died in 1768. In 1793, Major William Gardner bo...

Date: 1915

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195391

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.024

A surprise visitation

Wallace Nutting staged this photograph in a parlor of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A model in period costume stands in the doorway, apparently surprising another model in period costume sitting in a chair near a window. Mrs. Elizabeth Ri...

Date: ca. 1916

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195392

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.028

Hanging summer herbs

Wallace Nutting staged this photograph of a model in period costume hanging herbs in the attic of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a wedding gift for her son Thomas, who died in 1768...

Date: 1915

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195393

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.037

Chamber, Wentworth-Gardner House, Portsmouth

This interior view shows the south parlor chamber in the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a wedding gift for her son Thomas, who died in 1768. In 1793, Major William Gardner bought the h...

Date: 1912-1914

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195394

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.015

Photograph titled, "Feminine finery"

Wallace Nutting staged this photograph of a model in period costume holding and looking at a hat in the south parlor in the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a wedding gift for her son Th...

Date: 1916

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195395

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.001

A Portsmouth parlor corner

Wallace Nutting staged this photograph of a model in period costume of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She sits by a fireplace holding a cup. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a wedding gift for her son Thomas, who ...

Date: 1915

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195396

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.035

A Portsmouth front door

Wallace Nutting staged his photograph in the front hall of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A model in period costume stands at the door. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a wedding gift for her son Thomas, who died ...

Date: 1915

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195397

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.029

A Gardner parlor

Wallace Nutting staged this photograph in a parlor of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Two models in period costume sit next to the fireplace and hold cups of tea or coffee. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a weddin...

Date: 1915

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195398

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.036

Wentworth-Gardner, lower hall

This interior view shows the main staircase and entrance hall of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a wedding gift for her son Thomas, who died in 1768. In 1793, Major William Gardner ...

Date: 1915

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195399

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.005

Polishing the pewter

Wallace Nutting staged this photograph in the kitchen of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A model in period costume clean a pewter plate. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a wedding gift for her son Thomas, who died ...

Date: 1915

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195400

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.031

Investigating an heirloom

Wallace Nutting staged this photograph in the kitchen of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A model in period costume examines a basket, seated at the hearth. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a wedding gift for her so...

Date: 1915

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195401

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.032

The empty mug

Wallace Nutting staged this photograph in the attic of the Georgian-style Wentworth-Gardner House on Mechanic Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A model in period costume sits at a table, on which is set a pitcher, mug, and a book. Mrs. Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth built the house in 1760 as a weddi...

Date: 1915

Collection: Wallace Nutting photographic collection, 1910s-1930s

GUSN: 195402

Ref. Code: PC039.USNH.03.041

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