Historic New England

The Howe scale

This vintage advertisement depicts a pretty maiden standing on a commercial factory scale. The floral painting on back is incomplete.

Date: ca. 1887

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199137

Ref. Code: GC002.02.194

Everett Grammar School diploma

One diploma awarded to Caroline M. Smith from the city of Boston, Everett Grammar School.

Date: 1880s

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199138

Ref. Code: GC002.02.195

Jersey

This image depicts a milkmaid with two cows in a woodland scene.

Date: 1881

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199144

Ref. Code: GC002.02.108

East view of the village of North Bridgewater, Mass., 1844

"From a lithograph in possession of Mr. R.C. Kimball." Shows a view and public buildings of the town.

Date: 1882

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199143

Ref. Code: GC002.02.196

The Little Father

This image depict a little boy with his five rabbits framed in a lattice decorated with wildflowers.

Date: 1881

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199148

Ref. Code: GC002.02.109

Artist's proof from a sketch by Sam S. Frizzell

This image shows a view of suburban house, carriages, horse back rider, pedestrians, and newly planted trees in an unknown suburb.

Date: 1881

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199146

Ref. Code: GC002.02.197

Blue Birds

This image depicts two bluebirds in a garden setting with a house and a pond in the background. Spray apple blossoms frame the left-side and left-forefront diagonal of work.

Date: 1880

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199154

Ref. Code: GC002.02.110

Harvard College tercentenary

"A prospect of Harvard University and of Radcliffe College" celebrating the tercentenary of the school.

Date: ca. 1935

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199150

Ref. Code: GC002.02.198

The Fenway

This image shows a bird's-eye view of the Fenway. "Compliments of John C. Kiley" is in the lower left corner of the print.

Date: 1911

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199152

Ref. Code: GC002.02.199

The Pet Lamb

This image depicts a European-style farm-maid feeding her pet lamb while another sheep looks on. There is a rustic twig fence in the foreground, and a church spire in the left background.

Date: 1881

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199156

Ref. Code: GC002.02.111

Little Alden and Co., Boston and New York

This shows a view of the factory alongside the river with boaters and a man leading cows in the foreground. It has been cut down and the legend is hardly visible.

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199155

Ref. Code: GC002.02.200

[Little girls dancing hand in hand]

This image depicts two poorly dressed little girls dancing happily hand in hand. One girl has a pink dress; the other girl is wearing a tan dress and she is also missing a shoe.

Date: [1880s]

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199162

Ref. Code: GC002.02.112

Goffstown, N.H., 1887

This image shows a bird's-eye view of Goffstown with buildings and residents named.

Date: 1887

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199158

Ref. Code: GC002.02.201

Bird's-eye view of Portsmouth, N.H.

This image shows a bird's-eye view of Portsmouth. A key at the bottom names the principle buildings and churches.

Date: 1877

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199161

Ref. Code: GC002.02.202

Arnold House, Lincoln, R.I.

Series

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 199163

Ref. Code: PC006.ARN

[Full-rigged ship sailing under a full moon]

This image depicts a full-rigged sailing ship, surging through a calm sea under a full moon.

Date: 1910

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199165

Ref. Code: GC002.02.113

Old Boston

These are five images showing the development of Beacon Hill from drawings by J. H. Smith made on the spot in 1811 and 1812.

Date: 1858

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199166

Ref. Code: GC002.02.203

Coleman's Line

This image depicts a clipper ship in full sail, wih flags streaming. There is a red, gold, and white lacey border.

Date: [1880s]

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199172

Ref. Code: GC002.02.114

Prints

Sub-series

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 199168

Ref. Code: PC006.ARN.01

Transparencies

Sub-series

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 199169

Ref. Code: PC006.ARN.02

Advertisement for Howorth's Double Show, "Grand Hibernica, Irish and American Tourists, Constellation of Luminaries"

This advertisement contains harmful imagery including stereotypical and racist caricatures. 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 Eng...

Date: [1880s], undated

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199181

Ref. Code: GC002.02.115

View in Manchester, Vermont from the hill northeast of the depot

Color print showing the depot, farms, and other distant buildings of Manchester, Vermont, at the base of some mountains.

Date: ca. 1872

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199173

Ref. Code: GC002.02.204

Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House, Gloucester, Mass.

Series

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 199174

Ref. Code: PC006.BEA

Prints

Sub-series

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 199176

Ref. Code: PC006.BEA.01

Transparencies

Sub-series

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 199177

Ref. Code: PC006.BEA.02

Map of the world

A manuscript map of the world with ornamental border and calligraphic writing.

Date: 1820s

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199180

Ref. Code: GC002.02.205

Abraham Lincoln

Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, copied by permission from original picture by Matthew Wilson.

Date: 1861

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199183

Ref. Code: GC002.02.206

Boardman House, Saugus, Mass.

Series

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 199184

Ref. Code: PC006.BOA

Prints

Sub-series

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 199185

Ref. Code: PC006.BOA.01

Horace Mann

This is a lithograph of Horace Mann with his signature (facsimile?)

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199188

Ref. Code: GC002.02.207

Transparencies

Sub-series

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 199186

Ref. Code: PC006.BOA.02

The Wheelbarrow Polka

This is a lithograph illustrating a bet made by Ben Perley-Poore regarding the outcome of the presidential vote in Massachusetts. The text under the image explains this.

Date: 1856

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199187

Ref. Code: GC002.02.211

Gen. Zachary Taylor, the Hero of the Rio Grande

This color lithograph depicts Gen. Zachary Taylor on a horse, the hero of the Rio Grande.

Date: ca. 1845

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199189

Ref. Code: GC002.02.208

Major Samuel Ringgold of the Flying Artillery

This lithograph depicts Major Samuel Ringgold of the "Flying Artillery, on a horse."

Date: ca. 1846

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199191

Ref. Code: GC002.02.209

Melrose Public Library

Color sketch of the Melrose Public Library, signed "J. Dalis" in the lower right corner.

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199190

Ref. Code: GC002.02.212

George Washington

This lithograph is of George Washington, from the original scenes painted by Gilbert Stuart.

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199193

Ref. Code: GC002.02.210

The Grand Resort Hotels of New Hampshire's White Mountains

From Mt. Washington Observatory symposium, "The Grand Hotels and Tourism in the White Mountains" held June 24-25, 1994. Reproduces 24 postcards of hotels.

Date: 1994

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199192

Ref. Code: GC002.02.213

Browne House, Watertown, Mass.

Series

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 199194

Ref. Code: PC006.BRO

Prints

Sub-series

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 199195

Ref. Code: PC006.BRO.01

Transparencies

Sub-series

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 199196

Ref. Code: PC006.BRO.02

Partial calendar for Samuel Cabot Inc.

March and April 1986 with romanticised view of "Roseland Cottage On the Common--circa 1846, Woodstock, Connecticut." The house was "treated with Cabot Stains."

Date: 1986

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199197

Ref. Code: GC002.02.214

Roseland Cottage, Woodstock, Conn.

Series

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 199198

Ref. Code: PC006.ROS

Prints

Sub-series

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 199199

Ref. Code: PC006.ROS.01

Transparencies

Sub-series

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 199200

Ref. Code: PC006.ROS.02

Portfolio of "12 Sketches of Old Boston Buildings"

8 loose plates between boards. Handwritten in pen on cover: "Charles E. Wiggin. Presented by George R. Tolman in November 22 at 1883." In pencil: "147 and 149 Hanover St. & 9 ___ Sq. Boston." Back cover: "Charles E. Wiggin, 147 & 149 Hanover St., Boston, Mass. & 9 ___ Square Roxbury, Mass." P...

Date: 1882

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199201

Ref. Code: GC002.02.215