Historic New England

Panoramic view of the Back Bay showing the Boston Common and Public Garden in the foreground, at left the Arlington Street Church, and at right the begining of Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Mass., ca 1870.

The Boston Common and the Public Garden can be seen in the foreground. Arlington Street Church and the steeple for Central Congreational Church can be seen. Commonwealth Avenue is on the right hand side. Behind Arlington Street Church the Boston Coliseum can be seen in the distance.

Date: ca. 1870

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 269081

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.0080.001

Price list of the new Goldograph window decorations, gold sign letters, house numbers, The Goldograph Co., 58 Ann Street, New York, New York, undated

Samples, descriptions and prices are provided for customers interested in the Company product line.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269079

Ref. Code: EP001.01.105.01.01.004

Postcard for Lampo, silhouettista, location unknown, undated

A woman's silhouette is shown in the image with the word "Souvenir" above it. The postcard verso reads "Cartolina Postale, Carte Postale Postkarte."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269080

Ref. Code: EP001.01.106.01.01.001

Trade card for Thomas D. Gard, worker in gold & silver and regalia manufacturer, 393 Main Street, Worcester, Mass., undated

Gard's specialization is the creation of regalias, presentation and other jewels for customers.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269082

Ref. Code: EP001.01.107.01.01.001

Trade card for John P. Peabody, silver plated ware, 227 & 229 Essex Street, Salem, Mass., undated

Wedding presents are a specialty for Mr. Peabody who also deals in French millinery, hosiery, jewelry and toilet articles.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269083

Ref. Code: EP001.01.107.01.01.002

Label for Bigelow, Kennard & Co., Inc., jewelers, silversmiths, lighting fixtures, West & Washington Streets, Boston, Mass., undated

The business was established in 1830.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269084

Ref. Code: EP001.01.107.01.01.003

Trade card for Newell Harding, household silver-ware, No. 4 Court Square, Boston, Mass., undated

The business, established in 1820, does silver plating and gilding for customers.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269085

Ref. Code: EP001.01.107.01.01.004

Advertisement for John B. Jones, watch maker, importer and manufacturer, No. 37 Market Street, Boston, Mass., undated

Jones imports, silverware, furniture, fashions and watches.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269086

Ref. Code: EP001.01.107.01.01.005

Billhead for Shreve, Stanwood & Co., manufacturers and importers of watches, jewelry, silver and plated ware, No. 226 Washington, corner of Summer Street, Boston, Mass., dated June 5, 1867

Jewelry and silver ware are manufactured to meet customer orders.

Date: 1867-06-05

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269087

Ref. Code: EP001.01.107.01.01.006

Billhead for Rand & Crane, jewellers, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass., dated June 1, 1892

The customer purchased such items as silverware, napkin rings and a teapot.

Date: 1892-06-01

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269088

Ref. Code: EP001.01.107.01.01.007

Billhead for R. Gleason & Sons, manufacturers and wholesale dealers in every description of silver plated and Britannia goods, Washington Street, Dorchester, Mass., 1860s

The factory is on Washington Street in Dorchester, Massachusetts.

Date: 1860s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269089

Ref. Code: EP001.01.107.01.01.008

Trade card for Chas. S. Coburn, bookseller & stationer, 123 Essex Street, Lawrence, Mass., undated

Coburn specializes in engravings, fancy goods, and picture framing. The image is for the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269149

Ref. Code: EP001.01.111.01.02.010

Trade card for Chas. S. Coburn, bookseller & stationer, 123 Essex Street, Lawrence, Mass., undated

Coburn specializes in engravings, fancy goods, and picture framing. The image is for the nursery rhyme "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269151

Ref. Code: EP001.01.111.01.02.011

Trade card for I.W. Moody, fashionable stationer, 37 West Street, Boston, Mass., undated

Moody carries wedding and visiting cards. The image shows a young man examing a flower with a verse atttributed to "Patience."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269153

Ref. Code: EP001.01.111.01.02.012

Trade card for I.W. Moody, fashionable stationer, 37 West Street, Boston, Mass., undated

Moody carries wedding and visiting cards. The image shows a woman in a brown dress with a verse atttributed to "Patience."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269154

Ref. Code: EP001.01.111.01.02.013

Trade card for I.W. Moody, fashionable stationer, 37 West Street, Boston, Mass., undated

Moody carries wedding and visiting cards. The image shows a woman holding a stringed instrument with a verse atttributed to "Patience."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269155

Ref. Code: EP001.01.111.01.02.014

Trade card for I.W. Moody, fashionable stationer, 37 West Street, Boston, Mass., undated

Moody carries wedding and visiting cards. The image shows a man in a military uniform with a verse atttributed to "Patience."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269156

Ref. Code: EP001.01.111.01.02.015

Trade card for James Gaston, dealer in books, stationery, Somerville, New Jersey, 1883

Gaston also deals in wallpaper, window shades, pictures frames, albums and games.

Date: 1883

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269157

Ref. Code: EP001.01.111.01.02.016

Stock certificate for the Builders Loan & Fund Corporation, Boston, Mass., 1850s

This is a blank stock certificate for shares worth $192,000 from Builders Loan & Fund Corporation. The corporation was organized June 23rd, 1854. There is drawing of a large house on the certificate.

Date: 1850s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269158

Ref. Code: EP001.01.016.09.01.013

Architectural & ornamental leadwork, Hoyt Hardlead, Hoyt Hardlead Products Department, National Lead Company, 111 Broadway, New York, New York

The brochure has a foreword discussing Hoyt Hardlead. It "can be stamped, formed or cast in any shape desired." It can also be substituted anywhere that regular sheet metal would be used. On the inside back cover is a list of Hoyt Hardlead installations on bulidings. The list includes the John Ha...

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269161

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.001.006

E.T. Barnum Iron & Wire Works, general catalogue no. 710, Detroit, Michigan

"For more than sixty years the products of E.T. Iron & Wire Works have been the leaders in quality. This catalog, our number 710, carries such illustrations of wire, iron and brass work as will best serve to indicate the generally accepted standards."

Date: 1927

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269164

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.006.003

Friedley-Voshardt Co., manufacturers of architectural sheet metal, ornaments, statuary, spun work made from zinc, copper, bronze, lead, etc., also artistic metal ceilings, 733-737 Halsted Street, Chicago, Illinois

The item is "Catalogue no. 50" with images, descriptions and prices of metalwork and ornamental pieces available from Friedley-Voshart Co.

Date: 1926

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269166

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.001.008

Pinecrest Inc., purveyors of fine decorative panels to presidents, royalty and the world's leading citizens, 2710 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota

This is "Catalogue No. 12" for Pinecrest Inc. with images, descriptions and prices of wood and metal panels, fabrics, decorative metals, shutters and hand carved doors. The back cover has photographs and prices for jade rings. Text on the front cover reads, "A.I.A. File No. 28-D."

Date: 1965

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269170

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.001.009

Cornices, mouldings and ornaments from the workshops of G. Jackson & Sons Limited, Rathbone Works, Rainville Road, Hammersmith, London, England

Images and descriptions of products available from the Company are shown in the catalog.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269171

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.001.010

Trade card for Samuel Ward & Co., stationers, 8 State & 58 Washington Streets, Boston, Mass., undated

The text at the top of the card reads "Proprietors of Ward's Writing and Copying Ink."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269173

Ref. Code: EP001.01.111.01.02.017

Trade card for M.R. Warren, art stationer, 336 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., 1887

The inside of the card has an 1887 calendar. The verso states the card is a New Year greeting from the business to its customers.

Date: 1887

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269174

Ref. Code: EP001.01.111.01.02.018

Trade card for J.L. Fairbanks & Co., importers and dealers in fine stationery, fancy and leather goods, 228 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., 1890

The inside of the card has an 1890 calendar.

Date: 1890

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269175

Ref. Code: EP001.01.111.01.02.019

Trade card for Trifet's, stationery, 19 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The stationer sells Christmas cards at half price to customers.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269176

Ref. Code: EP001.01.111.01.02.020

Sample for M.B. Bigelow, agent, Boston Hand Stamp Company, 152 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The Boston Hand Stamp Company is located on Washington Street in Boston, Massachusetts.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269177

Ref. Code: EP001.01.111.01.02.021

Trade card for Thomas Groom & Co., stationers, 82 State Street, Boston, Mass., 1885

The Company manufactures account books and imports English and French stationery. The card has an 1885 calendar.

Date: 1885

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269178

Ref. Code: EP001.01.111.01.02.022

Trade card for Lyman B. Brooks, bank stationer and lithographer, 103 Milk Street, Boston, Mass., undated

Brooks is represented by John N. Long, 28 Exchange Street, Portland, Maine.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269179

Ref. Code: EP001.01.111.01.02.023

Label for William J. Reynolds & Co., stationery, No. 24 Cornhill, Boston, Mass., undated

The cash book is manufactured by William J. Reynolds & Company.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269180

Ref. Code: EP001.01.111.01.02.024

Trade cards for Samuel Ward Co., paper merchants and engravers, 49 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass., 1891

Ward sells Boston Linens, Boston Bonds and Bunker Hill Linens writing paper. There is an 1891 calendar on the inside of the card.

Date: 1891

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269181

Ref. Code: EP001.01.111.01.02.025

Account book for L.S. Learned, paper and account books, Cambridgeport, Mass., 1867

A label has been pasted on the front of the account book with the name E.O. Additon, Great Falls, N.H. The pages are blank.

Date: 1867

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269182

Ref. Code: EP001.01.111.01.02.026

Catalog of interior and exterior decorative ornament, catalog no. 8, The Fischer and Jirouch Co., 4821 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio

The preface states that "we present to the Architects, Decorators and Home Beautifiers our illustrated catalog of composition and plaster relief ornamentation." The title page has a handwritten note in ink that reads, "10% Increase in Prices." There are two loose pamphlets describing wood mantels.

Date: 1920s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269184

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.001.011

Advertisement for Merrill & Mackintire, dealers in fine stationery, 170 Essex Street, corner South Peter, Salem, Mass., undated

The business carries artistic paper hangings for the fall trade.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269185

Ref. Code: EP001.01.111.01.02.027

Envelope for The family assortment of stationery, location unknown, undated

The envelope is for note and letter paper with envelopes to match customer needs.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269186

Ref. Code: EP001.01.111.01.02.028

Trade card for J.L. Fairbanks & Co., manufacturing stationers, 43 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The business was established in 1798.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269188

Ref. Code: EP001.01.111.01.03.001

Trade card for the Angel Guardian Press, publishers, printers, bookbinders, 111 Day Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The Press deals in school supplies in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269190

Ref. Code: EP001.01.111.01.03.002

Trade card for Thorp & Martin Company, stationers, 66 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The store hours are listed in the upper left corner of the card.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269191

Ref. Code: EP001.01.111.01.03.003

Trade card for O.S. Currier, manufacturer and dealer in paper boxes of all kinds, Fremont, New Hampshire, undated

The text at the bottom of the card reads "All orders promptly filled at short notice."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269192

Ref. Code: EP001.01.111.01.03.004

Label for Mark Twain's Scrap Book, published by Slote, Woodman & Co., New York and London, undated

Patent registration dates for the Scrap Book are June 24, 1873, May 16 and 18, 1877 and April 23, 1878. Directions for use are given at the bottom of the label.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 269193

Ref. Code: EP001.01.111.01.03.005