Historic New England

Old Newport Houses

"Old Newport Houses - 1875" Boxed portfolio of 29 mounted albumen photographs, presented with "Compliments of Charles McKim" to "William Dean Howells" (possibly his brother in law?), circa 1880. Identity of photographer is not yet known. This album is cited in Vincent Scully's "Shingle Style" a...

Date: ca. 1875

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194532

Ref. Code: PC009.138

John F. Kennedy at newsstand, Boston, 1957

John F. Kennedy whistles as he peruses reading material at a Boston newsstand. He holds a magazine in his right hand.

Date: 1957

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194533

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.012

Account book for labor of James Rundlet, merchant, Portsmouth, N.H., 1811-1816

Labeled "Accounts with Laborers, Truckmen, Servants, Etc." Services include schooling children, sundry garden chores, iron work, and trucking. Illustrates a barter economy. Payment made in cash, fabric and related sundries, shoes, and foodstuffs.

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194537

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-JR-I-17

Lloyd Hendricks snapshot album

Snapshot album compiled by architect Lloyd Hendricks of Pocasset, Massachusetts. Includes some postcards. Among houses represented are the Craddock House and Hall House in Medford, Stone Homestead in Belmont, various homes in Yarmouth, Dennis, Hingham, Lexington, Newburyport, Salem, Marblehead, Ca...

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194534

Ref. Code: PC009.139

Antique purchase, Albany, Vermont, 1951

A man in a trenchcoat, viewed from behind, attempts to fit a large wooden wheel in the back of his car.

Date: 1951

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194549

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.013

Moulton House scrapbook

Removed to scrapbooks. Includes photographs, clippings and related memorabilia (correspondence, invoices) relating to property, its background and ownership by Mr. Harland Little. Includes material relating to residences of similar style in other parts of New England. Date, 1920. Includes some in...

Date: 1920

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194538

Ref. Code: PC009.140A

Little scrapbook

Removed to scrapbooks. Consists of memorabilia, snapshots and clippings, covering among other subjects commencement and class reunion of Bates College (Lewiston, Maine), outings in New Hampshire gardens and garden club activities. Includes letter of acknowledgement for albums from W.S. Appleton, 19...

Date: ca. 1920

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194539

Ref. Code: PC009.140B

Account book of Edward Rundlet, physician and merchant, Portsmouth, N.H., 1851-1853

Labeled "accounts settled." Customer's name appears only when accounts are settled. Entries include payments on taxes, insurance, railroad fees, and assorted household expenses.

Date: 1851-1853

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194543

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-ER-I-2

Hampton Falls Unitarian Church scrapbook

Removed to scrapbooks. Presumed to be part of this collection, consists of clippings relating to Unitarian Church services, photographs of church, and pageant "Ancestor's Sunday" 1952.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194540

Ref. Code: PC009.140C

Moulton House scrapbook

Removed to scrapbooks. Consists of genealogical notes, architecture of the house and letters of interest received by the Littles.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194542

Ref. Code: PC009.140D

Moulton House Legendary and Historical Notes

Removed to scrapbooks. Legendary and historical notes on the Jonathan Moulton House owned by Mr. Harland Little.

Date: 1920-1950

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194544

Ref. Code: PC009.140E

Moulton House manuscript material

Removed to Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection. Separated from this collection and filed with "miscellaneous manuscripts: semibound." Volume of original and manuscript copies of documents relating to the Moulton Family of Hampton, New Hampshire. Compiled by Jennie Brooks of Salem, Massachusetts.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194546

Ref. Code: PC009.140F

Account book of Edward Rundlet, physician and merchant, Portsmouth, N.H., 1855-1863

Scattered monthly accounts noting amount paid or due. Type of services or merchandise not indicated. Entries paid out include taxes, postal due, and insurance fees.

Date: 1855-1863

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194547

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-ER-I-1

Keeping dry, Albany, Vermont, 1951

A man sits on a wooden bench with a handkerchief on his head to protect him from the rain. A woman holds an umbrella over him.

Date: 1951

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194555

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.014

Couple at auction, Albany, Vermont, 1951

Two elderly women sit together and talk at an antiques auction in Vermont.

Date: 1951

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194556

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.015

Sweet briar waltz : recreation march

The cover depicts two maidens dancing around a tree. A cherub plays a lute above them.

Date: 1873

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 194562

Ref. Code: EP001.10.TMP.069

Account book of Edward Rundlet, physician and merchant, Portsmouth, N.H., 1858-1860

Financial entries covering specific foodstuffs and household items, taxes, and large sums paid to Mechanics and Traders Bank. Prices given for all items, but there are no monthly or yearly totals evident.

Date: 1858-1860

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194563

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-ER-II-3

Account book for James Rundlet May, physician, Portsmouth, N.H.

Records expenditures for a Memorial Day celebration kept by the "Memorial Committee." Itemized costs for the brass band, musicians, printing costs, etc. Also lists city appropriations and contributions. Includes a brief letter from the Memorial Committee appointing the writer to manage the account.

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194567

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-JRM-I-2a

Sketches of European Churches

Album compiled by architect J.W. Ames. Includes detailed sketches of European churches, interiors, circa 25 photographs; 10 pen and ink sketches.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194568

Ref. Code: PC009.142

Historic houses in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine

Removed to scrapbooks, 1995. Album of clippings illustrated with line engravings of historic houses in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine. Part of series titled "Old Homes, Old Families" plus other articles, not from this series, relating to the same subject. Houses documented include...

Date: 1890s

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194575

Ref. Code: PC009.143

Account book of James Rundlet May, physician, Portsmouth, N.H., 1881-1882

Small monthly record of personal expenses. Items such as stamps, telegrams, food, and clothing are listed. Includes summary by type of expenditure: clothing, gifts, and traveling for a two year period. Cost of journeys to Boston, New York, Washington, Norwich, and Windsor are itemized. Names men...

Date: 1881-1882

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194570

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-JRM-I-2ab

Account book of Jonathan Sayward, merchant, York, Maine, 1741

Concerns small shipping transactions of foodstuffs (rum and molasses) and various drygoods. Also contains figures for lumber lengths, religious poetry, and two brief accounts of ocean trips from Maine to Boston and Rhode Island. These include weather observations. Names mentioned: Capt. Josiah Beal,...

Date: 1741

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194573

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.SY-1-3

Account book and memorandum for Samuel Lord, financial investor, Portsmouth, N.H., 1851-1878

An accounting of income and expenditures. Lists property holdings and investments with values. Profit losses are itemized and clients listed by name. Also includes a yearly financial summary (state of affairs) in a journal format, mentioning topic of interest in the cotton manufacturing trade. The 1...

Date: 1851-1878

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194578

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-SL-I-5

Bungalow designs

Removed to scrapbooks, 1995. Bungalow designs compiled from newspapers, circa 1910-1920. Floor plans, renderings and photographs of various styles by Glenn Saxton, Charles Sedgwick and others.

Date: ca. 1915

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194576

Ref. Code: PC009.144

Columbian Portfolio: World's Fair 1893

Columbian portfolio. Photographs of World's Fair 1893. 22 halftone plates, plus color supplements (10) Illustrating individual buildings and general views with explanatory text. Color supplement published July 2, 1893 by Chicago Tribune Art Supplement and photomechanicals published by The Jones Br...

Date: 1893

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194579

Ref. Code: PC009.145

Views of Massachusetts and Vermont

4x7 albumen prints, exposed in the 1880s, probably by an amateur photographer. Quality and pictorial interest are above average. Views include: Provincetown, Massachusetts; Hyde Park, Massachusetts; Boston, Massachusetts; Moon Island Pumping Station and Sewarage Plant, Bellows Falls, Vergennes, Ru...

Date: ca. 1880

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194583

Ref. Code: PC009.146

Cash book of Jonathan Sayward Barrell, merchant, York, Maine, 1818-1835

Record of accounts listing customers, personal travel expenses, laborers' wages, and banking transactions. Includes some brief memoranda about "putting out" son, Joseph, to Stephen Lowell in Boston. Also, includes contracts of employment with live-in laborers.

Date: 1818-1835

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194598

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.SY-I-12a

Ledger of William Wyman and Thomas B., Eastern Mass., Aug. 1815-Dec. 1816

Lists sales of bulk iron and steel, tools, builders' supplies including glass. Also equipment for mills and machine shops. Occasional household and clothing items interspersed.

Date: 1815-1816

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194038

Ref. Code: MS002.023.01

Account book of William Wyman and Thomas B., eastern Mass., Jan. 1817-1819

Merchandise bought and sold includes iron and steel, grindstones, supplies for construction of various sorts. Payments include costs of carting.

Date: 1817-1819

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194040

Ref. Code: MS002.023.02

Album 12: "Old Newport Houses" by Marie Josephine Gale illustrated with photographs by Elizabeth Covell

This album consists of an address given by Marie Josephine Gale to a meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution, titled "Old Newport Houses," accompanied by photographs illustrating the text. The DAR meeting may have been held in Newport, Rhode Island in 1920. The album includes approximate...

Date: ca. 1920

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194044

Ref. Code: PC009.012

Account book of John Ware, Newton Lower Falls, Mass., Mar. 1801-May 1824

Entries cover private transactions, grocery store items and products of a multi-use mill - lumber, cider, paper, and fabrics. Several works apparently operating at one site. One note refers to a water rights dispute.

Date: 1801-1824

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194041

Ref. Code: MS002.024

Ledger of John, Caleb and Nathan Mitchell, Southeast Mass., Mar. 1804-May 1827

Services charged for farm labor, rental of chaise, use of oxen, carting an others. Other items regard animal hides, materials used in tanning, charges for dressing cloth, and orders from a sawmill ("the sawmill").

Date: 1804-1827

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194042

Ref. Code: MS002.025

Daybook of Derbon Marston, North Hampton, N.H., 1820-1836

Lists charges for sawing lumber, hauling and farm chores. Includes occasional weather observations and some personal remarks.

Date: 1820-1836

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194043

Ref. Code: MS002.026

Ledger of Barnabas H. Palmer, Dover, N.H., 1825-1828

Merchandise unidentified. Most accounts are under $50 worth of accumulated purchases. Includes debtors names.

Date: 1825-1828

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194045

Ref. Code: MS002.028

Album 13: "The Uplands" - Waltham, Mass.

This album consists of thirty two 5" x 7" prints, apparently taken by an amateur photographer. The images primarily document trees and landscapes, and includes images of Newburyport and Webster, MA. One image is a distant panorama, possibly of Waltham. "Anne L. Sears and Mary P. Sears from Frank"...

Date: ca. 1890

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194047

Ref. Code: PC009.013

Account book, 1883

Large book little used with about 130 names and most transactions under $150 designated simple "Mdse". A list of household items and groceries with prices (on front 2 pages) is in the form of an inventory.

Date: 1883

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194046

Ref. Code: MS002.029

Account book of William W. Oliver, Salem, Mass., 1800s

Shipping records and economic history of international scope include information on wool, cotton, tea, dyes etc., duties, and tariffs. Transportation information consists of lists of ships (named, with tonnage ports and dates of construction and owners' names) and rail freight rates. Quantities of c...

Date: 1800s

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194048

Ref. Code: MS002.030

Ledger of Joseph Greenleaf, Stark, Maine, 1827-1838

Daily listing of charges for making shoes and boots, with creditors' charges for labor, rental of oxen, produce and other items of barter (ie. a moose hide).

Date: 1827-1838

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194049

Ref. Code: MS002.031

Account book, Danvers, Mass., 1846-1852

Lists a wholesaler's payments to workers doing piecework in boot and shoe making, with females well represented. Some accounts list purchased supplies (307ff, 349). Almost completely reused for newspaper clippings (starting with the Civil War period) of Mary Jane Mansfield. Longhand copy of lengthy ...

Date: 1846-1852

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194050

Ref. Code: MS002.032

Account book of Joseph Carrell, Walpole, Mass., 1803-1805

Lists a shoemaker's jobs with cost to customers. Also lists services slaughtering livestock. Records sales made in a general store including foodstuffs, liquor, builder's supplies and notions.

Date: 1803-1805

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194051

Ref. Code: MS002.033

Daybook, North Providence, R.I., 1820-1828

Names written (later) on 4/18/1827 page: Alfred, George and Emily Waterman. Sales recorded include foods (exclusive of fresh produce), fabrics, hardware, and lumber, and sawing of lumber. Clippings pasted on 20 of the pages include an 1847 view of Faneuil Hall and a plan of Boston.

Date: 1820-1828

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194052

Ref. Code: MS002.034

Daybook of Caleb Warner, Ipswich, Mass., 1737-1800

Lists (not consecutively) the processes involved in the production of woolen cloth - dyeing, spinning, weaving, fulling, and tailoring - carried on at a fulling mill and clothier's shop. Specifies the charges for each type of labor. Farm chores are listed among services charged for at the mill, some...

Date: 1737-1800

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194053

Ref. Code: MS002.035

Daybook of Thomas Stearns, Waltham, Mass., 1804-1807

Lists charges for muffs, genets, and tippets made from a variety of furs, some dyed. Except for two or three of the listed individual customers, most patrons are wholesale merchants, selling and distributing.

Date: 1804-1807

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194054

Ref. Code: MS002.036

Ledger of Asa Titus, Walpole, N.H., 1817

Most pages are covered with clippings in the 1860-70 period by Almira Wier, later owner of the book. Dressing cloth and tapping boots are the only items not concealed.

Date: 1817

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194055

Ref. Code: MS002.037

Ledger of John Barlow, Boston, Mass., 1766-1792

Lists orders and prices for woven cloth with some detail regarding the weaving process. The credit side is a fine example of barter. Many farming items interspersed with genealogical notes on last page and note about one tailoring job done at customer's home.

Date: 1766-1792

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194056

Ref. Code: MS002.038

Account book Charles Hewins, Boston, Mass., 1850-1854

Account book Charles Hewins, 81 Washington Street, Joy's Building, Boston, Massachusetts. Record of wages earned by a large number of female workers with listing of customers by surname. Daily output in number of shirts, collars, bosoms and waistbands is recorded below the name of each employee. Boo...

Date: 1850-1854

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194057

Ref. Code: MS002.039

Daybooks of J.D. Bulter, Rutland, Vermont, 1805-1910

2 daybooks

Date: 1805-1910

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194058

Ref. Code: MS002.040

Daybook of J.D. Butler, Rutland, Vermont, 1805-1806

Purchases are listed for each customer. Items include foods, notions, dyes, fabrics, books, and housewares. 9 pages at end deal with marketing of cattle. Scythes sold in quantity near front of book. A few personal notes include a hat ordered and made from muskrat and raccoon skins (near end).

Date: 1805-1806

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194059

Ref. Code: MS002.040.01

Daybook of J.D. Bulter, Rutland, Vermont, 1809-1910

General store accounts with prices of items given. Last few pages contain record of cattle selling and a wholesale order of merchandise sent from Boston including a quantity of building materials.

Date: 1809-1910

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194060

Ref. Code: MS002.040.02

Daybook of Oliver Hubbard, Boston, Mass., 1798-1804

Lists charges made for specified custom tailoring work, yardage of various fabrics, and buttons used. No employees.

Date: 1798-1804

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194061

Ref. Code: MS002.041

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