Historic New England

Account book of Endicott Oliver, Boston, Mass., 1813-1829

Charges for tailoring are listed with minimal information. Occasional specificity and listings of "Stock in hand" (at mid-point in the book). Medicinal remedies for humans and cattle on last 4 pages.

Date: 1813-1829

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194062

Ref. Code: MS002.042

Daybook, Middlebury, Vermont, 1803-1805

Items listed include yardgoods, notions, household wares, food and fresh produce, books, tools, iron stock, and building materials including squares of glass. Considerable business with a paper mill and a sawmill. No index. Figures are recorded in both forms of currency (pounds and dollars).

Date: 1803-1805

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194063

Ref. Code: MS002.045

Country fair, Tunbridge, Vermont, 1955

Reed visited Vermont's Tunbridge Fair, camera in hand, on several occasions. In 1964, Vermont Life published a major photo-essay on the fair, which the editors referred to as "Vermont's own" World's Fair. The fair had a well-earned reputation for being the place where Vermonters let their hair down....

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194064

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.024

Farmer and boys, Tunbridge, Vermont, 1955

Reed visited Vermont's Tunbridge Fair, camera in hand, on several occasions. In 1964, Vermont Life published a major photo-essay on the fair, which the editors referred to as "Vermont's own" World's Fair. The fair had a well-earned reputation for being the place where Vermonters let their hair down....

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194065

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.025

Dreamland, Tunbridge, Vermont, 1963

Reed visited Vermont's Tunbridge Fair, camera in hand, on several occasions. In 1964, Vermont Life published a major photo-essay on the fair, which the editors referred to as "Vermont's own" World's Fair. The fair had a well-earned reputation for being the place where Vermonters let their hair down....

Date: 1963

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194067

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.026

Tunbridge Fair burlesque, Tunbridge, Vermont, 1963

Reed visited Vermont's Tunbridge Fair, camera in hand, on several occasions. In 1964, Vermont Life published a major photo-essay on the fair, which the editors referred to as "Vermont's own" World's Fair. The fair had a well-earned reputation for being the place where Vermonters let their hair down....

Date: 1963

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194068

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.027

Stowe VFD, Stowe, Vermont, 1951

The Volunteer Fire Department in Stowe used an old house to practice their fire-fighting skills. Reed shot with his large format camera, which allowed him to capture the great range of subtleties in the clouds of steam and smoke. The 4" by 5" negative used in this camera permits great richness of to...

Date: 1951

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194070

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.028

Tree branches, Newport, R.I. 1951

Tree branches are outlined against the sky in this abstract photograph.

Date: 1951

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194071

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.029

Adams Wood Mill, Stowe, Vermont, 1952

Reed created this photograph on commission for the mill, probably for an advertisement. Reed was drawn to the way the operator was almost obliterated from view by the shower of wood chips.

Date: 1952

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194073

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.030

Soaped window, Boston, 1953

Reed has described his interest in the calligraphic quality of these random scratches on a soaped window. Images such as this were at the center of much of the creative photography in Boston in the 1950s. Most often referred to as "subjective" in style, it was an approach to photography that paralle...

Date: 1953

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194074

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.031

Charles River, Mass., 1953

Reed photographed industrial sites on several different occasions during his career. In each instance, he worked to make the building appear natural to its surroundings. In this approach, Reed carried on a tradition established by painters and writers living in America a century earlier. The ideal w...

Date: 1953

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194075

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.032

Charlestown, Mass., 1954

Confronted with the problem of how to cover riots in the Charlestown Prison, which were taking place out of sight behind the walls, Reed spent time shooting the environs. Unable to tell the prisoners' story, he created a composition that celebrates the urban landscape while depicting the distance be...

Date: 1954

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194077

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.033

Woman in water, Newport, R.I.

With three simple elements, the body, the water, and the sky, this image exemplifies a tendency towards simplicity characteristic of Reeds creative photography of the mid-1950s.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194078

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.034

Bonfire barrels, Deerfield, Mass., 1955

In New England, many small towns celebrated the Fourth of July with bonfires. Here Reed captures the monumentality of the tower of barrels before they were burned.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194079

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.035

Texas tower, off Cape Cod, Mass., 1955

This rig was an artificial island that served as offshore housing for an early warning radar station for the Continental Air Defense Command. Built in Quincy, it was stationed about 100 miles east of Cape Cod. The five man-made islands in this system, covering 1,000 miles of the eastern seaboard, we...

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194081

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.036

Ledger of Ordway and Williams, Deerfield, N.H., 1807-1808

Merchandise is predominantly fabric and liquors. Other articles range from thimbles to a saddle, with occasional dyes, pieces of clothing, tableware, and food supplies. The credit side of the ledger is an example of barter with goods interspersed with services. Not indexed.

Date: 1807-1808

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194082

Ref. Code: MS002.046

Account books of James Whittemore and Tufts and Whittemore, Weymouth, Mass., 1818-1833

4 account books

Date: 1818-1833

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194083

Ref. Code: MS002.047

Account daybook of James Whittemore, Weymouth, Mass., 1818-1826

Food, fabrics, lumber, and clothing are listed with prices. Individuals' names appear when accounts are settled.

Date: 1818-1826

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194084

Ref. Code: MS002.047.01

Account daybook of James Whittemore and Tufts and Whittemore, Weymouth, Mass., 1826-1833

Food, fabrics, lumber and clothing are listed with prices. Individuals' names appear when accounts are settled.

Date: 1826-1833

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194085

Ref. Code: MS002.047.02

Account book of James Whittemore and Tufts and Whittemore, Weymouth, Mass., 1819

Rentals are itemized for use of horse or of horse and chaise or sleigh. Destinations are in eastern Massachusetts. Clients named only occasionally. Rental of a barn and sale of manure are recorded on last few pages. Back cover appears to be made of printing shop waste - an uncentered page of etc...

Date: 1819

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194086

Ref. Code: MS002.047.03

Album 18-1: Boston Transit Authority : "Photographs of section 2. Beacon Hill Tunnel"

This album includes approximately ninety 5 x 7 inch prints of Tremont Street, especially between Winter and Temple Streets; Boston Common; the construction offices; tunneling operations; and Park Street station underground, including a view of the Cambridge interchange. The images of architectural s...

Date: 1910-1911

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194088

Ref. Code: PC009.018-1

Stock book of James Whittemore and Tufts and Whittemore, Weymouth, Mass., 1823

Inventory of yardgoods, notions, clothing items, hardware (including brass knobs), fish hooks, tools, and books. Outstanding in its variety and listing of small, personal items (shaving brushes, dressing combs, fans etc.). Listing of names having "account in ledge" and of holders of outstanding note...

Date: 1823

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194087

Ref. Code: MS002.047.04

Daybook of James Tirrell, 1825-1833

Items charged include pieces of clothing, foods (with herbs noted), notions, some carpenter's supplies, yardgoods, hides, etc. Also many carting jobs. Charges often offset by labor in making shoes or boots. Newspaper clippings superimposed on pages are mid-nineteenth century. Poetry and editorial...

Date: 1825-1833

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194089

Ref. Code: MS002.048

Daybook of Charles Glines and Co., Canterbury, N.H., Feb. 1883-1884

Transactions are purchases and sales of a variety of foods and household needs.

Date: 1883-1884

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194090

Ref. Code: MS002.049

Horses, Vermont-Quebec border, 1958

Two horses stand nose-to-tail, side-by-side in a field.

Date: 1958

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194098

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.037

Album 18-2: Boston Transit Authority: Boston Common and Public Garden

This album consists of approximately ninety 5 x 7 inch and 8 x 10 inch prints of Boston Common; fences and gates of the Boston Public Garden; fences of the Common along Boylston Street; the Park Square entrance to Common, as standing and in course of removal; birds-eye views of the Public Garden; wo...

Date: 1895

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194092

Ref. Code: PC009.018-2

Daybook of Lewis and Richardson, Boston and Roxbury, Mass., 1811-1815

Listed with cost are foods, hardware, building materials, paper, shoes, leather etc. Several schooners listed on "Adventures to Pleasant River" page.

Date: 1811-1815

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194091

Ref. Code: MS002.050

Mount Vernon Street repairs, Boston, 1955

This image depicts a ditch-digger in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood being persistently ignored by three fur-clad women. Reed's instincts drew him to the contrast between the worker and the residents.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194387

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.054

Boston vendor, 1955

A boy investigates goods on a street vendor's table. Other shoppers browse food items.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194388

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.055

North End, Boston, 1955

A female vendor stands outside her shop in the North End of Boston.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194389

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.056

Organ grinder, Boston, 1955

Reed remembers well the afternoon he made this photograph. Every time he had the shot just right, the boy on the left would jump into the picture. Reed's frustration over this intrusion kept him from printing the image for many years. Yet, now we find that the boy adds a spark of interest. Reed is n...

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194391

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.058

Boston Globe, Boston, 1956

For eighty-seven years, the Boston Globe headquarters was located on "Newspaper Row," a section of Washington Street in downtown Boston, before moving to Dorchester in 1958. Until then, for many Bostonians, part of any day included catching the latest news before it was printed. Here we can see the ...

Date: 1956

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194393

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.059

Poker player, Morrisville, Vermont, 1950

Townsmen sit around a card table playing poker. An onlooker smokes a cigarette.

Date: 1950

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194394

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.060

Twenty below zero, Waterbury, Vermont, 1951

A car, house, and buggy sit in the icy snow in Waterbury, Vermont.

Date: 1951

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194405

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.061

Men at cattle auction, Morrisville, Vermont, 1953

In this study of a group of farmers watching a cattle auction, Reed was clearly interested in the character revealed by their weathered faces. The image was published in the National Humane Review as part of a story documenting inhumane treatment of animals during auctions.

Date: 1953

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194408

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.062

Dowser, Plainfield, Vermont, 1953

A weathered man in overalls, possibly a farmer, holds a v-shaped stick in search of natural elements.

Date: 1953

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194410

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.063

Advertisement for tinned beef, canned by Colonial Provision Company, Boston, Mass., 1948

The advertisement for canned beef with gravy was originally printed in The Epicure's October 1948 issue. The Colonial Provision Company used an image of a chef wearing a large toque on both the cans and in their advertisements. The recipe is branded as "Traditionally New England!"

Date: 1948

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 194412

Ref. Code: SC002.TMP.015

Aroostook County potato picking, Maine, 1954

A young girl wearing a kerchief kneels in a field as she picks potatoes and places them in a large basket. Other pickers and barrels can be seen across the field.

Date: 1954

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194413

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.064

Tug of war, Caledonia County, Vermont, 1958

A crowd cheers on an enormous outdoor game of tug-of-war.

Date: 1958

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194414

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.065

Waiting, Enosburg Falls, Vermont, 1958

Two elderly women wearing dresses sit on the steps outside of a large building, possibly a church.

Date: 1958

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194415

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.066

Northern Vermont family, 1960

When Reed stopped to take a picture of this family in their yard, they asked for a minute to tidy up. The mother did not feel that she had enough presentable clothes for all of her children, and made some of them stay indoors--they can just be seen looking out the window.

Date: 1960

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194416

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.067

Springtime, Stowe, Vermont, 1971

A tractor plows a large field on a beautiful spring day in Vermont. A farmhouse can be seen in the distance.

Date: 1971

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194417

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.068

Audrey, Stowe, Vermont, 1949

This portrait is the earliest photograph in the exhibition. Although the sitter was never pleased with it, thinking it made her look too stern, for Reed it held all the promise of the medium he was just starting to understand. He knew the sitter, but still found that the photograph offered discoveri...

Date: 1949

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194418

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.069

Self-portrait, Boston, 1953

Verner Reed held his camera up to a mirror to take this self-portrait.

Date: 1953

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194419

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.070

Robert Frost, Boston, 1954

The poet Robert Frost (1874-1963) was long associated with the New England states of Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire. He became one of the best-known poets in the country. Reed took this picture of Frost autographing a book for Life while covering the Boston Arts Festival.

Date: 1954

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194423

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.071

Al Duca, Boston, 1954

Artist Al Duca is exhaling cigarette smoke in this informal portrait. The knick-knacks on the window ledge behind him are illuminated by exterior light, which is the only light source in the picture.

Date: 1954

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194424

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.072

T.S. Eliot, Cambridge, Mass., 1955

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948, earned both of his degrees from Harvard University, where he also went on to become the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry. Here he is shown surrounded by his students at Harvard in a photograph that Reed made while on as...

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194427

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.073

Senator George Aiken, Putney, Vermont, 1956

George Aiken (1892-1984) was a U.S. senator for 34 years (1941-1975). Even so, he was fondly called Governor Aiken throughout his years in Washington, a carryover from his term as the Governor of Vermont (1937-1941). Aiken was a dedicated environmentalist. In 1984, Vermont designated a 5,000-acre pa...

Date: 1956

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194429

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.074

President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Newport, R.I., 1958

The Eisenhower years coincided with Reed's career with Life. Reed was often called upon to cover presidential visits in case something newsworthy occurred. He recalls the particular agony of this assignment in Newport: "The only reason I was there was because it was Life's policy to have a photograp...

Date: 1958

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194432

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.075

Turkeys, Boston, 1952

Two baby carriages stand outside a Boston grocery store. A large sign stating the price of turkeys hangs immediately above the carriages.

Date: 1952

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194433

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.076

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