Historic New England

DAR, Newbury, Vermont, 1953

Three women hold cups and saucers in a residence in Newbury, Vermont.

Date: 1953

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194434

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.077

New shoes, Newbury, Vermont, 1953

Two older women stand beneath a clothesline on a sunny day in Vermont. One of the women shows off her new shoes to her friend.

Date: 1953

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194435

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.078

Puddle jumper, Boston, 1953

A man in a coat and hat stretches his legs wide to navigate over a puddle. The winter streets of Boston are covered in snow, ice, and water.

Date: 1953

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194437

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.079

The Boston Arts Festival was both a celebration of local artists and a protest. There was a growing feeling among artists living and working in the Boston area that they were being overlooked by the area museums, which were more concerned with international trends than with the diverse and vibrant c...

Date: 1954

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194439

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.080

Easter parade, Boston, 1954

Four women stand with their backs to the camera, watching the Easter parade. Dressed in their Easter finery, including hats, they stand arm to arm. A large dog stands between two of the women, looking as though he is also watching the parade.

Date: 1954

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194441

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.081

After the flood, Ansonia, Conn., 1955

While covering a flood in rural Connecticut, Reed entered this house, where he found a woman resting from the exertion of cleaning up. Her posture and facial expressions carry the weight of the story.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194442

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.082

Trade card for Centennial Safety Oil, Maverick Oil Company, 61 1/2 Broad Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The card is illustrated with two images: one is dated 1776 with a man struggling to read a paper by the light of a fire, the second is dated 1880 and features a family sitting around a table, lit by oil lamp, reading, doing handiwork, and playing with ease. The product won the Highest Premium at the...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 194446

Ref. Code: EP001.01.084.01.01.016

Taffy pull, Peabody, Mass., 1955

Children smile with delight as they pull taffy in Peabody, Massachusetts.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194444

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.083

Brunswick Hotel, Boston, 1957

Long a Boston landmark, the Brunswick Hotel was torn down to make room for a modern office building. The people gathered here had decided to enjoy one last afternoon in the hotel's tea room. Rubble can be seen outside of an open door, but it doesn't phase the guests enjoying their tea.

Date: 1957

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194447

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.084

Teenie weenie, Boston, 1957

This photograph was taken on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the "Atlantic Monthly" magazine. A woman gestures to a bartender as to how much alcohol she would like--a teenie weenie amount.

Date: 1957

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194449

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.085

Country wedding, South Woodbury, Vermont, 1957

Like many of Reed's photographs, this one derived from a commission but interested him for the revealing light it cast on the newlyweds--who probably would not have selected it for their wedding album.

Date: 1957

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194450

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.086

Procession to the altar

Verner Reed shot the images for the "Life" magazine photo-essay, "A Wedding in a Land of Dolls," which described the fanciful wedding of dolls at the home of children's book author Tasha Tudor. Tudor famously eschewed the trappings of modern living and created instead a carefully constructed world b...

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194452

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.087

In the yard, Webster, N.H., 1955

Verner Reed shot the images for the "Life" magazine photo-essay, "A Wedding in a Land of Dolls," which described the fanciful wedding of dolls at the home of children's book author Tasha Tudor. Tudor famously eschewed the trappings of modern living and created instead a carefully constructed world b...

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194487

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.088

Hurricane, Fire and Flood, New London, Conn., September, 1938

Removed to scrapbooks, 1995. "Pictorial Souvenir Edition of New London's Greatest Disaster," Wednesday September 21, 1938: hurricane, flood, fire. 63 pages of pictures from "The New London Connecticut Day" October 1938.

Date: 1938

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194465

Ref. Code: PC009.105

"Old Boston " photographs from Boston Budget and Beacon

Removed to Photo files, Boston: General- "Boston Budget," November 1988. "Old Boston" - Photographs from Supplement Boston Budget and Beacon. Photomechanical reproductions of photographs taken between 1855-1899, published in 1900-1905.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194468

Ref. Code: PC009.110

Account book of Silas Casey, merchant and farmer, East Greenwich, R.I.

This account book contains harmful language including racist terminology. 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 England does not alter...

Date: 1798-1813

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 194469

Ref. Code: MS008.02.02.04.001

Boston Edison Company

Photographs removed to photo file, rest removed to scrapbook, 1995. "Boston Edison Company." A scrapbook and album compiled by Irvin Morton documenting his fifty years with the Boston Edison Company. Period covered is from 1905-1955. Includes photographs, memorabilia and clippings. See also under ge...

Date: 1905-1955

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194475

Ref. Code: PC009.123

Indian Hill, Newbury Massachusetts

A photograph album of Indian Hill in West Newbury, Massachusetts that contains 24 8x10 prints by Mary Northend, Salem photographer, circa 1910. The majority are interior views and may duplicate material in the geographic files.

Date: ca. 1910

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194477

Ref. Code: PC009.124

Scrapbook of Wood Engravings

Removed to scrapbooks, 1995. Scrapbook of wood engravings clipped from Leslie's and Harper's weeklies (1860s-70s) covering such miscellaneous subjects as sailing, genre, travel, and portraiture. Front cover is lined with (East) Indian watercolor, evidently nineteenth century.

Date: 1860-1870

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194480

Ref. Code: PC009.125

Strangers Guide

Removed to trade catalogues, 1995. "Strangers Guide." A bound volume of advertising matter, including some topographical views relating to Boston businesses and manufacturers. Intended for use in the ladies parlour of the Evans House. Includes map of Boston business district. Probably 1880s.

Date: ca. 1880

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194483

Ref. Code: PC009.126

Scrapbook of news clippings

Removed to scrapbooks, 1995. Scrapbook of news clippings relating to architectural subjects pertaining to Boston, with some coverage of Andover, Amesbury, Bedford, and Marblehead, Massachusetts and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Illustrations date to circa 1900-1910. Possibly compiled by C. Park Press...

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194485

Ref. Code: PC009.127

The procession leaves the house, Webster, N.H., 1955

Verner Reed shot the images for the "Life" magazine photo-essay, "A Wedding in a Land of Dolls," which described the fanciful wedding of dolls at the home of children's book author Tasha Tudor. Tudor famously eschewed the trappings of modern living and created instead a carefully constructed world b...

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194495

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.089

Aerial views of New England harbors and coastal communities

Includes approximately 100 8 x 10 aerial photographs taken in Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island and New York coastal communities. Also included are photographs of the S.S. Bear (Byrd Expedition, Newfoundland), as it departed from Boston. Other localities represented are Rockport, Annisquam, Glouces...

Date: 1930-1940

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194490

Ref. Code: PC009.128A

Ledger of commission sales of James Rundlet, shipping merchant, Portsmouth, N.H., 1794-1806

Retail and wholesale accounts for drygoods. Commission received and damaged merchandise listed. Goods include paper hangings, clover seed, oil cloth, and tea. Postage and freight costs listed.

Date: 1794-1806

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194493

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

Account book of James Rundlet, Portsmouth, N.H., 1794-1841

Summary of holdings and income by year. Writer's assets and debits listed by type only (goods on hand, cash on hand, bank shares in businesses and real estate ventures). One or two pages per year. Includes slip of paper indicating amount of profits made in the years 1794-1839. Clearly written accoun...

Date: 1794-1841

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194496

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-JR-I-3

Views of Boston Airport and airplanes

Photographs depict aircraft at Boston Airport during the 1930s-40s. Donor provided annotations to many of these. Also memorabilia and pamphlets on aerial photography, New England airlines and air meets. Includes airline schedules. Airlines shown here include Nantucket Vineyard Airways, Shobe Airline...

Date: 1930-1940

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194497

Ref. Code: PC009.128B

Senator and Mrs. John F. Kennedy, Hyannis Port, Mass., 1955

This informal portrait of Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy was taken in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. She looks directly at the camera, while he looks intently at his wife.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194512

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.008

House and Family Album

34 pages of gaslight prints, 3-4 prints per page, documenting interiors, pasttimes, pets, and family members. Locality not identified. Views include parade, attic storage, decorations. Pictorial quality is very good; print quality is variable. Dates to circa 1900. A avaluable study album for int...

Date: ca. 1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194596

Ref. Code: PC009.147

Views of New York State

Largely views of New York State, including Vassar College, circa 1890s. 61 photographs

Date: ca. 1895

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194597

Ref. Code: PC009.148

Views of Families in Massachusetts

28 albumen prints, 4x7, circa 1886. Includes views of families posed in front of their homes in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. Pictorial quality above average.

Date: ca. 1886

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194600

Ref. Code: PC009.149

Travel Album of W. B. Storer

Travel album (10 1/2 x 12) evidently compiled or owned by W.B. Storer whose name appears on the cover. Of particular interest is a large group of cartes de visites documenting various regional styles of Russian military dress, issued by a St. Petersburg photographer. Thre are also photographs of exc...

Date: 1860-1870

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194606

Ref. Code: PC009.151

Art Masterpieces of Europe

30 leaves of "art masterpieces" from collections in Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome, Paris, London. Carte de visite size, but not mounted in the usual fashion on cards. Two pages include larger size views, dating probably from the 1870s. Overall this album constitutes an interesting record of taste...

Date: ca. 1870

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194609

Ref. Code: PC009.152

Receipt of Jonathan Sayward Barrell, merchant, York, Maine, 1765-1814

Receipts for purchase of drygoods, livestock, servicing livestock, and state and parish taxes. All receipts include a signature or personal marking. As executor for Jonathan Sayward (father), the writer kept receipts of bequests to family members. Includes mention of bequest money to be used as part...

Date: 1765-1814

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194610

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

Carte-de-Visite album

Carte-de-visite (1860s) album in good condition (5x6 inches). Original ownership unknown. The sequence appears to be in original order with an unusual portrait of a disabled man at the end. Locality appears to be Manchester, New Hampshire.

Date: 1860

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194611

Ref. Code: PC009.153

Edith Erley, Christmas 1905

Postcard album, inscribed "Edith Erley, Christmas, 1905" with decorative cover, dimensions 8x14 1/2. Included are views of the following: Maine: Waterville, Old Orchard, Poland Springs, Portland, Rockland, Lewiston, York, Kennebunk, Wells Beach New Hampshire: Manchester, Somersworth, Portsmouth ...

Date: 1905

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194618

Ref. Code: PC009.154

Cashbook for Jonathan Sayward Barrell, merchant, York, Maine, 1820-1823

A combination of accounts: expenses incurred on trips from Maine to Boston, and business transactions and accounts relating to shipping. Includes extensive figures for cords of wood.

Date: 1820-1823

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194614

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

Cashbook of Jonathan Sayward Barrell, merchant, York, Maine, 1818-1820

A brief monthly listing of cash received, merchandise and names of customers are not mentioned. Possibly a partial account as monthly amounts received are very small.

Date: 1818-1820

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194615

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.SY-I-14a

New England Postcard Album

Postcard album compiled by unknown, possibly Bannister, Readsboro, Vermont circa 1906. Useful for coverage of western Massachusetts (Northampton and vicinity), and Readsboro, Vermont.

Date: ca. 1906

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194619

Ref. Code: PC009.155

Cashbook

Cashbook for the "Upper Store," including brief monthly listings of cash received. Merchandise and names of customers are not listed. Includes occasional mention of names and foodstuffs.

Date: 1817-1818

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 194620

Ref. Code: MS031.01.06.02.01

Postcard Album

Postcard album, compiler unknown. Includes series of views of Eagle Lake and Eagle Lake Camps, Maine. Good coverage of Rochester, Vermont and Fort Kent, Maine. Also Sherbourne, VT, Peterborough, NH and Orange, MA

Date: ca.1937

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194622

Ref. Code: PC009.156

Cashbook

Brief monthly accounts noting cash sales from general merchandise. Few specifics are given. Includes mention of expenses on a trip to Boston and a list of articles on board the ship "Fair Play."

Date: 1818

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 194623

Ref. Code: MS031.01.06.02.02

Notes payable

Monthly accounting for notes, with individuals named. Many transactions with the New Hampshire Union Bank.

Date: 1809-1811

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 194634

Ref. Code: MS031.01.06.04.01

Account book

Includes itemized expenses incurred while boarding away from home. Contains an inventory of clothing and bedding taken on board the U.S. Frigate Congress and expenses incurred in the West Indies. Extensive listing of board lengths and prices.

Date: 1799-1805

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 194636

Ref. Code: MS031.01.12.01.01

Account book

Scattered accounts of ships' cargo. Includes bricks, foodstuffs, fish, and lumber. Small accounts. Costs not always given. Ships mentioned: "Success."

Date: 1822

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 194639

Ref. Code: MS031.01.12.01.02

Residence on Mystic Lake, Arlington, Mass.

This album, presumably by an amateur photographer, documents the interior (hall, parlor, dining room, library, sitting room) of a middle class residence. See pages 6, 13, 15, 16, 20, 34, and 37 for wallpaper. The residence is probably located on Mystic Lake in Arlington, Mass., according to Richard ...

Date: 1880-1890

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194652

Ref. Code: PC009.159

Account book

Detailed household account. Merchandise is itemized and is very specific. For example: errand boy, charity donations, cost for a piece of fruit. Also includes a separate spinning and yarn account.

Date: 1835-1851

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 194651

Ref. Code: MS031.01.16.02.01

Massachusetts Residences and Clubs

Bound album 10x14 consisting of 5x6 photographs (some smaller) by an amateur photographer documenting a variety of interiors and exteriors of residences as well as clubs in the following localities: Newburyport, Sherborn, East Wakefield, Portsmouth and Newbury. There are several scenes of family ac...

Date: 1900-1915

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194660

Ref. Code: PC009.161

Pinesbank, Jamaica Plain, 1891

"Pinesbank," "Jamaica Plain, 1891" A titled album of 14 plates, consisting of 3 photos per plate in circular Kodak format. Images document family life of Mr. and Mrs. Peder Olson and their children who leased "Pinbank" in 1891. Of special interest because the daguerreotype collection of SPNEA's...

Date: 1891

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194661

Ref. Code: PC009.163

Kingston, Massachusetts Residence

This consists of 26 leaves, on which are mounted 4x7 photographs, average to good quality, documenting the residence, guests, residents, interiors and surroundings of a (summer?) house in Kingston, Massachusetts, 1898-1899, apparently belonging the to the Barker family. Other residences in the town...

Date: 1898-1899

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194663

Ref. Code: PC009.164

Chelsea, Massachusetts

Series of 21 mounted photographs of Chelsea, MA [O.F. Baxter?. 1868?]. Attribution and date are based on the similarity between photograph 9 of the series and a stereoscopic view of the 4th of July celebration, Chelsea, 1868 published by O.F. Baxter, Chelsea, MA (first series) in our collection....

Date: 1868

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194671

Ref. Code: PC009.180

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