Historic New England

Landscape gardening, compiled by F.J. Taylor, Boy Scouts of America, Two Park Avenue, New York, New York

Background on landscape gardening is provided with considerations given to planning, plants, buildings and landscape features for Boy Scouts trying to earn merit badges in this area. Vocational opportunities are described and there is a short bibliography.

Date: 1930

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 331645

Ref. Code: EP001.12.001.004.139

How to beautify the home grounds, H.D. Hemenway, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, Boston, Mass.

Steps for planning landscape design to improve home properties are described.

Date: 1910-04-10

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 331650

Ref. Code: EP001.12.001.004.140

True Temper garden book, 9th ed., The American Fork & Hoe Company, Cleveland, Ohio

The catalog covers planning, and soil preparation in the creation of vegetable and flower gardens using True Temper tools. Text on the title page reads "March 1, 1932."

Date: 1927

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 331654

Ref. Code: EP001.12.001.004.141

Charles H. Brierly house, Wilbraham, Mass.

Set of sixteen architectural drawings of house for Charles H. Brierly in Wilbraham, Mass (commission #1089) including three plans, two elevations, nine details, and one cross sections. Drawings are signed by Walter Pratt, Merton Barrows, and Warren Rhoter. All plans are dated Drawings depict a t...

Date: 1947-1949

Collection: Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

GUSN: 331661

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1089

Herbert T. Lorentzen house, Englewood, N.J.

Set of fourteen architectural drawings of house for Mr. and Mrs. Herbert T. Lorentzen in Englewood, N.J. (commission #1156) including two elevations, three plans, one rendering, and eight details. Most drawings are signed by Walter Pratt and Merton Barrows; drawings are dated. Drawings depict a o...

Date: 1948

Collection: Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

GUSN: 331664

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1156

Paul S. Emerson house, Wakefield, Mass.

Eight architectural drawings for alterations and additions to an existing house for Mr. Paul S. Emerson in Wakefield, Massachusetts (commission #1136). Some drawings are signed and dated by Robert Minot and initialed by other architects. Alterations and Additions to existing house - new kitchen, ...

Date: 1947-1949

Collection: Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

GUSN: 331670

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1136

Westinghouse Electric "Ideal" model house, Hartford, Conn.

One architectural drawing of "Ideal" model house for Westinghouse Electric in Hartford, Connecticut (commission #1149) including one elevation. Drawing is signed by Ken Duprey. Drawing depict a front elevation of house with a shingle and flushboard exterior.

Date: 1948

Collection: Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

GUSN: 331672

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1149

Herbert T. Lorentzen, Englewood, N.J.

One architectural drawing for alterations and additions for Mr. Herbert T. Lorentzen in Englewood, NJ (commission #1156-A). Drawing is signed and dated by Warren Rhoter. A&A drawing depicts a new covered porch

Date: 1951

Collection: Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

GUSN: 331675

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1156-A

Sylvan A Goodman house, Martha's Vineyard, Mass.

Set of five architectural drawings for a house for Mr. and Mrs. Sylvan Goodman in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts (commission #1187). All drawings are dated and signed by Leon Keach. Drawings deptict a one-story Ranch hose with an asphalt shingle roof. The house has a living room with a firepl...

Date: 1948

Collection: Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

GUSN: 331677

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1187

Sylvan A. Goodman house, Martha's Vineyard, Mass.

Eleven architectural drawings for alterations and additions for an existing house for Mr. and Mrs. Sylvan A. Goodman in Martha's Vineyard (commission #1695). All drawings are signed and dated by R. Boynton. Drawings depict addition to #1187 addition with laundry, bathroom and a bedroom. Secon...

Date: 1958-1967

Collection: Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

GUSN: 331678

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1695

John Sugden house, Weston, Mass.

Set of sixteen architectural drawings for a house for Mr. and Mrs. John Sugden in Weston, Massachusetts (commission #1202). Some drawings are signed and dated by Warren Rhoter and Robert Minot. Drawings depict a one-story Ranch/Cape Cod house with a two car garage, an asphalt shingle roof; clapb...

Date: 1949

Collection: Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

GUSN: 331680

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1202

Nathan Edson house, Swampscott, Mass.

Set of eighteen architectural drawings for a house for Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Edson in Swampscott, Masschusetts (commission #1204). Most drawings are signed and dated by Ken Duprey, Robert Minot, Merton Barrows, and Warren Rhoter. Drawings depict a two-story Gambrel Cape Cod house with a garage, an...

Date: 1948

Collection: Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

GUSN: 331684

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1204

Carleton Ginsburg house, Swampscott

Set of twelve architectural drawings for alterations and additions to an existing house for Mr. and Mrs. Carleton Ginsburg in Swampscott, Massachusetts (commission #1204-A). Some drawings are signed and dated by Richard Wills and other architects. Alterations and additions to commission #`1204...

Date: 1968-1969

Collection: Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

GUSN: 331686

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1204-A

Sidney Kane house, Providence, R.I.

Set of seventeen architectural drawings for a house for Mr. Sidney Kane in Providence, R.I. (Commission # 1208). Some drawings are dated and signed by Merton Barrows and Warren Rhoter. Drawings depict a one-story Cape Cod house; second story above the two car garage. House has an asphalt roof w...

Date: 1949

Collection: Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

GUSN: 331687

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1208

Jack Boysen house, Genoa, Ohio

Set of thirteen drawings for a house for Mr. and Mrs .Jack Boysen in Genoa, Ohio (commission #1211). Some drawings are signed by Warren Rhoter, Robert Minot, and Ken Duprey. Drawings depict a two-story Cape Cod house with a two car garage; wood shingle roof, clapboard and a flush board exterior...

Date: 1949

Collection: Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

GUSN: 331690

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1211

Dean Noyes house, Brockton, Mass.

twenty-two architectural drawings for a house for Mr. and Mrs. Noyes in Brockton, Massachusetts (commission #1933). Most drawings are signed and dated by Richard Wills and initialed by RSJ, and SC. Drawings depict a two-story Colonial Revival with a two car garage, an asphalt, hip roof; clapboar...

Date: 1963

Collection: Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

GUSN: 331694

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1933

Pageants

This subseries contains glass plate negatives of Francesca Braggiotti, Ted Shawn, and other performing a pageant at Larz Anderson's mansion in Brookline, Massachusetts. Braggiotti was an Italian dancer and actress, who later became the First Lady of Connecticut.

Date: 1926, undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331696

Ref. Code: PC053.01.88

Parades

\li-15This subseries include glass plate and film negatives of parade bands, floats, marches, and crowds throughout the New England area. Featured parades into the Tercentenary Parade in Boston in1930, various American Legion parades, and the Patriot's Day parade in Boston in 1929. Negatives 2368 ...

Date: 1917-1940, undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331697

Ref. Code: PC053.01.89

American Legion Parades

50 glass plate, acetate, and nitrate negatives

Date: 1930-1940

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331698

Ref. Code: PC053.01.89.001

Boston Fire Department

These negatives have been determined to be nitrate and have been removed to a separate box.

Date: 1940

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331699

Ref. Code: PC053.01.89.002

General - Parades

19 glass plate and nitrate or acetate negatives

Date: 1919-1930

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331700

Ref. Code: PC053.01.89.003

NRA Parade

4 acetate or nitrate negatives

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331701

Ref. Code: PC053.01.89.004

Patriot's Day Parade

8 glass plate and nitrate or film negatives

Date: 1929

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331702

Ref. Code: PC053.01.89.005

Santas on Parade

11 glass plate and nitrate or acetate negatives

Date: 1933

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331703

Ref. Code: PC053.01.89.006

Tercentenary Parade

29 glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives

Date: 1930

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331704

Ref. Code: PC053.01.89.007

26th Division Parade

3 glass plate negatives

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331705

Ref. Code: PC053.01.89.008

Patriotic

This subseries include glass plate negatives of the painting, Spirit of '76, which shows three Revolutionary War patriots playing the drums. Also featured is a painting of Memorial Day.

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331706

Ref. Code: PC053.01.90

People

This subseries contains glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives of various individuals and groups of people throughout New England. The negatives features students in a school room, Al Miller with a racing car, New Bedford club members, and other unlabeled people, ranging from young ladies to ...

Date: 1917-1928, undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331707

Ref. Code: PC053.01.91

Picnic

This subseries contains glass plate negatives depicting picnickers throughout New England, such as on Lynn Beach. Also featured are picnickers at the Ford Farmers' Picnic.

Date: 1931, undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331708

Ref. Code: PC053.01.92

Police

This subseries includes glass plate negatives that depict policemen throughout New England. Featured scenes include police mounted on horses in 1933 and state police at the time of the Sacco-Vanzetti trial.

Date: 1933, undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331709

Ref. Code: PC053.01.93

Poultry

\li-15This subseries includes glass plate negatives of chickens and roosters at an unidentified Shaker Colony.

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331710

Ref. Code: PC053.01.94

H. P. Smith Co. Inc. house, Stoneham, Mass.

Set of eighteen architectural drawings for and office and shop for H. P. Smith Co. Inc. in Stoneham, Massachusetts (commission #1931). All drawings signed and dated by Warren Rhoter, O.MD., J.E., and G.H.K. Drawings depict a two-story extended/angled Cape Cod house. House has a asphalt shingle ...

Date: 1963

Collection: Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

GUSN: 331712

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1931

Press

This subseries includes glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives of various members of the press including notable reporters such as Frank P. Sibley and Walter Winchell. Also included are negatives of pressrooms and newspaper headquarters in Boston and throughout New England. Lastly, the subse...

Date: 1904-1934, undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331713

Ref. Code: PC053.01.95

Frank P. Sibley

6 glass plate negatives

Date: 1919-1924

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331714

Ref. Code: PC053.01.95.001

Howell Cullinan

1 glass plate negative

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331715

Ref. Code: PC053.01.95.002

Walter Winchell

3 glass plate negatives

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331716

Ref. Code: PC053.01.95.003

Richard Sears

1 acetate or nitrate negative

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331717

Ref. Code: PC053.01.95.004

Sadlemire

1 glass plate negative

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331718

Ref. Code: PC053.01.95.005

Russell Gerould

1 glass plate negative

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331719

Ref. Code: PC053.01.95.006

E.A. Grozier

1 glass plate negative

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331720

Ref. Code: PC053.01.95.007

William D. Sullivan

1 glass plate negative

Date: undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331721

Ref. Code: PC053.01.95.008

Arthur Hansen

1 glass plate negative

Date: 1934

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331722

Ref. Code: PC053.01.95.009

General - Press

7 glass plate and nitrate or acetate negatives

Date: 1904-1929, undated

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331723

Ref. Code: PC053.01.95.010

Police Cards

2 identification cards

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331724

Ref. Code: PC053.01.95.011

Privy

This subseries includes an acetate or nitrate negative depicting a privy on Cape Cod.

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331725

Ref. Code: PC053.01.96

Prohibition

This subseries contains a glass plate negative of Jamaican rum leaving Boston during the onset of Prohibition.

Date: 1920-1929

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331726

Ref. Code: PC053.01.97

Quakers

This subseries contains two glass plate negatives, one of the Friends Meeting house in Yarmouth, Maine and the other of Mr. Seth Kelly seated in the church. Kelly was one of two remaining Quakers of a once powerful congregation of Cape Friends.

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331727

Ref. Code: PC053.01.98

Winsor Harlow house, Portsmouth, N.H.

thirty-one architectural drawins for Mr. and Mrs. Winsor Harlow in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (Commission #1920). Some drawings dated and signed by R.S.J. and S.C. *There are preliminary plans for a screened porch and deck addition in 1968, but plans do not contain a new commission#. Two identic...

Date: 1963

Collection: Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

GUSN: 331732

Ref. Code: AR029.04.04.1920

Racing

This subseries contains glass plate and acetate or nitrate negatives of different boat and horse races throughout New England. Featured images include the Off Soundings Race and Rendezvous in New London, Connecticut, a Harvard-Yale boat race, and a fisherman's race off Gloucester, Massachusetts. A...

Date: 1934-1937

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331728

Ref. Code: PC053.01.99

Boating Races

8 glass plate and film or nitrate negatives

Date: 1934-1937

Collection: Yankee Publishing Photograph Collection, 1890-1950

GUSN: 331729

Ref. Code: PC053.01.99.001

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