Historic New England

Account book of William Ballard, 1851-1868

"William Ballard's diary, account book, memorandum, copies of letters. First entry March 29, 1851. Last June 1, 1868. (amended to July 16th, 1868). This entry is dated March 29, 1851." [see note below regarding time span.] Accounts of a Boston merchant, itemizing furnishings and other household g...

Date: 1851-1868

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194333

Ref. Code: MS002.124

New England Views

Views of Mooselookmeguntic, Rumford, Paris Hill and Cape Neddick, Maine; Jackson, New Hampshire; and Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Largely scenic in scope. Content includes fishing, clamming, sailboats, summer camps in the 1890s. Also landscapes, churches and homes. Index in album.

Date: 1890-1895

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194329

Ref. Code: PC009.112

Moving Day, Pease Air Force Base, Portsmouth, N.H., 1956

Reed shot this image for "Life" magazine to illustrate a story on how the Air Force aids the families of its personnel. While documenting the relocation of a family, his eye was caught by this young boy on a tricycle making lazy circles around the gas station next door. The image captures perfectly ...

Date: 1956

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194334

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.050

Views of the White Mountains

Views of the White Mountains, with descriptions by M. F. Sweetser, Portland, Maine: Chisholm Brothers, 1879. Includes Bethlehem and North Conway.

Date: 1879

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194332

Ref. Code: PC009.113

Account books, 1807-08, 1817-1833

Bound together: two account books. The first, dating from 1807-1808, evidently was kept by a clerk (as evidenced by the entry for October 1808: "To Theodore Lyman for my services as a clerk [...]," as well as someone making purchases of liquors and cloth for ship's stores or for individuals. This is...

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194341

Ref. Code: MS002.125

In search of snow, Stowe, Vermont, 1964

A young child, dressed warmly, pulls a sled down a dirt road in search of a perfect hill. Snow is piled on either side of the country road.

Date: 1964

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194338

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.051

Picturesque Litchfield County

Picturesque Litchfield County, by Rev. Newell Calhoun. Chicago: The Gravure Illustration Company, 1900.9 part work, including Winsted, Norfolk, New Milford, New Hartford, Torrington, Sharon, Lakeville, Salisbury, Litchfield, Thomaston, Canaan, and Washington. Excellent photographic quality. 9 parts...

Date: 1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194339

Ref. Code: PC009.115

Worcester Illustrated

"Worcester Illustrated." Portfolio of 53 (gravure) plates, excellent quality, wide coverage of local buildings and scenic sites, 1884. Plate #2 titled "Asylum for the Chronic Insane" is missing.

Date: 1884

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194343

Ref. Code: PC009.116

Account book of Samuel Harris, Boston, Mass., Jan. 24, 1800 - Jan. 12, 1809

Records payments to himself for hours worked and to "boy." Also records purchases of lumber and hardware, in addition to rental of shays and other expenses.

Date: 1800-1809

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194344

Ref. Code: MS002.126

Art Work of Plymouth County, Massaschusetts

"Art Work of Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Published in Nine Parts, Chicago: the W. H. Parish Publishing Company, 1896." Cross-referenced in geographic files. Buildings and scenic views. [Gravure] prints are of high quality.

Date: 1896

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194349

Ref. Code: PC009.119

North and South Shore Views

"North and South Shore Views." Photomechanical prints by the Forbes Company, illustrating scenic views and hotels in Nantasket, Marblehead, and Manchester. This volume lacks at least 5 plates, probably of Manchester. The Manchester Historical Society holds the complete volume.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194351

Ref. Code: PC009.121

Little & Browne Architectural Projects

Albums compiled by the architects Arthur Little and Herbert Browne documenting completed work for several clients.The majority of photographs in these albums were probably commissioned by the firm of Little and Browne to the photographic studios of William Clark (formerly of Soule Photograph Company...

Date: ca.1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194354

Ref. Code: PC009.122A

Scrapbook of Herbert Browne

Albums compiled by the architects Arthur Little and Herbert Browne documenting completed work for several clients.The majority of photographs in these albums were probably commissioned by the firm of Little and Browne to the photographic studios of William Clark (formerly of Soule Photograph Company...

Date: ca. 1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194358

Ref. Code: PC009.122B

Temporary

Series

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 194359

Ref. Code: MS008.TMP

Little & Browne Architectural Projects

Albums compiled by the architects Arthur Little and Herbert Browne documenting completed work for several clients.The majority of photographs in these albums were probably commissioned by the firm of Little and Browne to the photographic studios of William Clark (formerly of Soule Photograph Company...

Date: ca. 1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194364

Ref. Code: PC009.122C

Temporary

Series

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194362

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP

Account Books

Sub-series

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194363

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB

Adventure and account book of James Rundlet, Portsmouth, N.H., 1791 - 1793

Brief accounts of shipments of butter, limes, meats, and fish between New Hampshire, West Indies, and Jamaica, naming customer, insurance, and duty charges and profits incurred. Ships mentioned by name.

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194367

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.JR001

Little & Browne Architectural Projects

Albums compiled by the architects Arthur Little and Herbert Browne documenting completed work for several clients.The majority of photographs in these albums were probably commissioned by the firm of Little and Browne to the photographic studios of William Clark (formerly of Soule Photograph Company...

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194368

Ref. Code: PC009.122D

Little & Browne Architectural Projects - Gardens

Albums compiled by the architects Arthur Little and Herbert Browne documenting completed work for several clients.The majority of photographs in these albums were probably commissioned by the firm of Little and Browne to the photographic studios of William Clark (formerly of Soule Photograph Company...

Date: 1908-1909

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194372

Ref. Code: PC009.122E

Account book of Roger Orvis, Goshen, Conn., 1771-1807, 1809-1814

Manuscript account books kept from 1771 to 1807 by builder, furniture-maker, and agricultural worker Roger Orvis of Goshen and Norfolk, Litchfield County, CT, to record his work framing buildings, performing specified agricultural work, and making bedsteads and sleighs, for named Litchfield County ...

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194374

Ref. Code: MS002.136

Account book of Talcott Curtiss, Granville, Hampden County, Mass., 1813-1817

Manuscript business account book, 1813 to 1817, kept by young furniture maker Talcott Curtiss of Granville, Hampden County, MA, to record the wide range of items he built for named customers on specified dates for reported prices, as well as his purchases of cherry, chestnut, hemlock, and pine board...

Date: 1813-1817

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194375

Ref. Code: MS002.137

"Scrap Book": photographs of Pauline Lindsay and her friends and family

Album presumably put together by Pauline Lindsay, with a handwritten title in the front that reads, "The Best Moving Pictures And Entertainments I Have Seen During 1938 And 1939." The first page of the album has a magazine clipping of a photograph of Mickey Rooney glued onto it. The rest of the al...

Date: 1934-1938

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194380

Ref. Code: PC009.093

Picturesque Franklin

Removed to books, 1995.

Date: 1891

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194383

Ref. Code: PC009.096

Roland Newhall interior decoration scrapbook

Removed to scrapbooks, 1995. Interior decoration. A notebook belonging to Roland Newhall, Public School Division (Boston?) 1916. Includes notes on wallpaper, furniture styles, "Colonial doorways," magazine clippings of interiors.

Date: 1916

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194384

Ref. Code: PC009.099

Old North Church, Boston, Mass., 1954

In the image the steeple is lifted by crane to the top of the scaffold enclosed church. The steeple of Boston's Old North Church was seriously damaged by Hurricane Carol on August 31, 1954. The rebuilding of the steeple was a matter of great civic pride in the city. This was the church from which pa...

Date: 1954

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194385

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.052

Mount Vernon Street reflections, Boston, 1955

An open door reflects the image of construction workers across the street. Through the opened door, more construction and rubble can be seen.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194386

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.053

Daybook of Josiah Sartell, Sartell and Childs, and Sartell and Kendall, Townsend, Mass., 1808-1829

Charges are listed for lumber and sawing, and for labor, in-house construction, and farming chores. Also for hooping barells. Services and purchases from creditors, displaying a barter economy, document details of lifestyle. Arithmetic instruction fills pages 1-97.

Date: 1808-1829

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194093

Ref. Code: MS002.051

Album 18-3: Boston Transit Authority: Tunnel Construction

This album dates from Mar. 22, 1900, to June 28, 1902, and it includes approximately one hundred twenty-five 5 x 7 inch and 8 x 10 inch photographs of tunnel construction; Shawmut Avenue near Pleasant Street, with machinery; construction workers; shafts; Commercial Street; Atlantic Avenue, including...

Date: 1900-1902

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194096

Ref. Code: PC009.018-3

Account book of Nathaniel Brackett, 1817-1822

Livestock dealer Skins, hides, and cattle bought and sold are listed by number or weight with monetary value and customer's name. There is no other type of entry and no suggestion of the tanning process.

Date: 1817-1822

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194094

Ref. Code: MS002.052

Ledgers of Jeremiah and John Pearson, 1673-1741

2 ledgers

Date: 1673-1741

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194095

Ref. Code: MS002.053

Ledger of Jeremiah Pearson, 1673-1689

Listed transactions including those primarily regarding making of meal and fulling of cloth, with weaving and spinning also noted. Some odd jobs and personal business indexed to some extent, including farm chores and construction of a workhouse and prison in 1743 at Salisbury.

Date: 1673-1689

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194097

Ref. Code: MS002.053.01

Album 18-4: Boston Transit Authority: Traffic Congestion

This album is inscribed "Photographs made in connection with investigation of congestion of traffic, etc." It includes approximately forty-five 3 x 5 inch views of Central Wharf; South Market Street; Blackstone Street; North Market Street; Dock Square; Exchange Street; Faneuil Hall Square; Union Str...

Date: 1907

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194099

Ref. Code: PC009.018-4

Ledger of Jeremiah Pearson, 1685-1741

Besides the grinding of corn, rye and wheat into meal and flour, there is a quantity of business in fulling and weaving. Also see 9 pages from end for note regarding hauling masts for six weeks with many other entries specifying logging, drawing, and hauling of masts.

Date: 1685-1741

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194100

Ref. Code: MS002.053.02

Winter, Stowe, Vermont, 1963

Ice and snow accumulate on a window and shutter in Stowe, Vermont.

Date: 1963

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194111

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.038

Album 18-5: Boston Transit Authority: Washington Street

This album includes approximately twenty-seven 5 x 7 inch views of Washington Street, surveyed block by block in 1904. It documents the street from buildings numbered 572 to 754, plus other unnumbered buildings. Some of the photographs in this album have been removed and placed in the appropriate Wa...

Date: 1904

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194101

Ref. Code: PC009.018-5

Album 18-6: Boston Transit Authority: Subway Entrances

This album includes approximately fourteen 5 x 7 inch photographs of subway entrances, including Boylston Street seen from the burial ground on Boston Common; Tremont Street; Central Square in Cambridge; the Revere House, Bowdoin Square (hotel); Dover Street; and two unidentified subway entrances, ...

Date: ca. 1914

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194103

Ref. Code: PC009.018-6

Account book of City Mills, 1830-1832

Records amounts of meal ground for customers, most of whom have accumulated debts under $200 over a period of three to six months.

Date: 1830-1832

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194102

Ref. Code: MS002.054

Account book of Josiah Allen, Boston, Mass., 1780-1828

First quarter of book itemizes sale of leather, hair, and bark. More than half is devoted to payment for labor - mainly in painting and carpentry including work on long wharf. Allen family genealogy notes appear in last portion.

Date: 1780-1828

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194104

Ref. Code: MS002.056

Album 18-7: Boston Transit Authority: Construction

137 5x7 views, including construction of subway near School Street; tunnel at Scollay Square; Boylston Street Station exit; tunnel near Hollis Street; construction work on Section 11, with many buildings indicated, some in snow; Court Street, including both construction and street views, with detail...

Date: 1897-1898

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194105

Ref. Code: PC009.018-7

Album 19: Views of Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire

This album includes seventeen 4 x 5 inch photographs of buildings and scenery in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, taken in 1903. The album includes images of an inn, a tavern, a church, and the green. This album is a travel memento. It is inscribed, but the inscriptions are difficult to read.

Date: 1903

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194106

Ref. Code: PC009.019

Account book of Nathaniel Hesseltine, Weston, Vermont, 1829-1838

Itemizes a variety of small articles sold. Lists towns in Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire. Gives some schedule of travels with uneven faithfulness. Many personal comments suggesting village life. ("A fuss took place" etc.). 1829 road petition regarding towns of Weston, Andover, and Walpole,...

Date: 1829-1838

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194107

Ref. Code: MS002.057

Invoice book of William Jackson and Co., Boston, Mass., 1856-1861

Accounts of shipments of candles and soap, naming customer and container ship; wharfage and insurance charges and destination (mostly US ports) are given. Last third of book is confined to soap factory expenses and itemizing of orders for soap, some exported and some apparently distributed locally.

Date: 1856-1861

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194108

Ref. Code: MS002.058

Ledger, Boston, Mass., 1816-1840

Lists essential materials, with cost, in candle-making, some imported. Includes orders shipped to customers running into 4 figures.

Date: 1816-1840

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194109

Ref. Code: MS002.059

Album 21: Historic Doorways and Buildings

The images of Boston and the surrounding area are bound with material relating to Charleston, South Carolina, and other southern areas. The album includes several hundred 3 x 4 inch photographs varying from detailed views of doorways to general elevations. The Boston images include several details o...

Date: ca. 1928

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194112

Ref. Code: PC009.021

Ledger of Mather Withington, 1792-1831

A partially indexed itemization of professional services (appraising, measuring, protracting, writing warrants, and making appearances in court) with reimbursement by selectmen. An equal amount of space is taken up with household and personal expenditures and labor including farm chores, masonry, a...

Date: 1792-1831

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194113

Ref. Code: MS002.060

Evening Snowfall, Stowe, Vermont, 1971

Snow and ice cover trees in Stowe, Vermont.

Date: 1971

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194115

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.039

Album 22: Boston Buildings and Streets, Part 1

The photographs in Album 22 appear to have been produced in the 1890s or early 1900s as copies of earlier prints originally produced from the 1850s to the 1880s. The originals have not been located, making these albums a significant resource for views by Boston photographers of churches, streets, a...

Date: 1850-1880

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194116

Ref. Code: PC009.022

Account book of Nathan Weston Jr., Maine, 1853-1856

Records fees for legal services under clients' names, occasionally with hometown. Attorney Weston appears to have been in the employ of Penobscot County while carrying on his private practice in east and central Maine, with at least one client in Boston and one railroad company.

Date: 1853-1856

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194114

Ref. Code: MS002.061

Account book, May 1831-July 1832

Records shipments of indigo, most totaling in four figures. Notes quantities, consignments, and names of vessels.

Date: 1831-1832

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194117

Ref. Code: MS002.062

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