Historic New England

New colonial bungalows and new Aladdinette Homes, The Aladdin Co., Bay City, Michigan

The item is the "Supplement to the Book of Aladdin Homes." Illustrations and floor plans of the various home designs are described for customers. A price list is included in the catalog. Aladdinette Homes are houses designed with apartment unit features.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283487

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.048

Wood beds, twenty-nine designs, Frank A. Hall & Sons, 25 West 45th Street, New York, New York

1 trade catalog ; 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283488

Ref. Code: EP001.12.009.002.074

Helsinki china and faience, by Arabia from Finland, Finland Ceramics & Glass Corporation, 225 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York

Dinnerware patterns are shown in black-and-white photographs with product details.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283490

Ref. Code: EP001.12.012.004.007

Borghese illustrated catalogue, Charles Hall, Inc. 3 East 40th Street, New York, New York

Text on the last page reads "Borghese is made by Niepold's Washington, D.C. and distributed to dealers throughout the United States by Charles Hall Inc." The Borghese reproductions are described with dimensions and prices.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283492

Ref. Code: EP001.12.013.003.025

Borghese catalogues, Charles Hall, Inc. 3 East 40th Street, New York, New York

Text on the last page reads "Borghese is made by Niepold's Washington, D.C. and distributed to dealers throughout the United States by Charles Hall Inc." The Borghese reproductions are described with dimensions and prices.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283497

Ref. Code: EP001.12.013.003.026

Modern homes, Sears, Roebuck and Co., Chicago

Home designs for which Sears provides the plans, specifications and building materials but the labor and land are taken care of by the customer.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283498

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.049

Aladdin homes built in a day catalog no. 30, The Aladdin Company, Bay City, Michigan

The catalog has photographs, illustrations and floor plans for the prefabricated houses. A price list is pasted inside the front cover. The inside of the back cover has indexes. A smoking lamp is shown on the front cover with the name "H.S. Stearns." A leaflet inside the catalog states the prices ar...

Date: 1918

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283504

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.050

Home of homes, Peoples Savings Bank, 27 Market Square, Providence, Rhode Island

The small house plans are done by architects under the Nationwide House Plan Service. The bank offers assistance on securing mortgages.

Date: 1946

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283510

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.051

Sherwin-Williams home decorator, your painting economy guide, The Sherwin-Williams Co., Cleveland, Ohio

Interior decorating painting suggestions are shown for rooms in a home. Tips for painting on various surfaces and doing interior and exterior painting are provided. A Sherwin-Williams store is located at 330 Main Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts.

Date: 1960

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283512

Ref. Code: EP001.12.013.005.053

Leavens Furniture 1932, William Leavens & Co., Inc., 32 Canal Street, Boston, Mass.

The catalog has an index and an order form for customers.

Date: 1932

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283513

Ref. Code: EP001.12.009.002.075

Bibi fine crystal creations, lamps, created and manufactured by Bibi & Co., 1709 65th Street, Brooklyn, New York

The Company carries candelabras, hurricane lamps, table lamps and chandeliers among its products.

Date: 1941

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283516

Ref. Code: EP001.12.013.004.044

Catalog for Marshall Studios, inc., lampshades, lamps, 3001 N. New Jersey Street, Veedersburg, Indiana

The catalog has an index and price lists for customers.

Date: 1941

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283517

Ref. Code: EP001.12.013.004.045

Catalog for Mottahedeh and Sons, old glass, china, tole, Mottahedeh, 225 5th Avenue, New York City, New York

The catalog has black-and-white photographs of glass objects for customers.

Date: 1941

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283521

Ref. Code: EP001.12.012.002.008

Family planned kitchens, by Crane, Crane Co., 836 So. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illinois

The catalog has suggestions for arranging a kitchen for efficiency and family comfort.

Date: 1950s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283523

Ref. Code: EP001.12.012.003.028

Supplement to Portfolio No. 37, lamps, The Crest Company, 501 West 35th Street, Chicago, Illinois

Standing and table lamps are shown in the catalog supplement.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283524

Ref. Code: EP001.12.013.004.046

Portfolio 38, The Crest Company, 501 West 35th Street, Chicago, Illinois

The Company has an extensive line of standing and table lamps.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283533

Ref. Code: EP001.12.013.004.047

Spring and summer styles of Rice & Hutchins shoes, The Atlas Shoe Company

The cover title reads "Rice and Hutchins shoes for the entire family, spring 1926." The catalog has an in stock list of merchandise and an index. An order form is included in the catalog.

Date: 1926

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283534

Ref. Code: EP001.12.007.004.006

Presenting Grosfeld House Glassic, Grosfeld House, 320 East 47th Street, New York, New York

Grosfeld carries furniture that incorporates plastic elements in the design. There are three loose sheets: 1)A reprint of a Grosfeld House ad from the September 1941 issue of "Interior design and decoration." 2)Page No. L-116 showing two coffee tables from the "Grosfeld House Album of Photographs." ...

Date: 1941

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283537

Ref. Code: EP001.12.009.002.076

Homes of character, Lewis Manufacturing Company, Bay City, Michigan

House designs for which Lewis provides the plans, specifications and building materials but the labor and land are taken care of by the customer.

Date: 1920

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283539

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.052

Beacon Hill Collection, inspired by the early designers & craftsmen of the eighteenth century who created & made furniture of lasting beauty in keeping with the graceful living of the times, 6th ed., Kaplan Furniture Company, 91 Albany Street, Cambridge, Mass.

Kaplan creates reproductions of furniture pieces from Beacon Hill homes. The end papers are a "Map of Beacon Hill, showing sites of historic houses and points of interest of the Georgian era." A section in the back of the catalog displays the furniture in the showrooms of the B. Altman department st...

Date: 1940s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283545

Ref. Code: EP001.12.009.002.077

Drapery designs of distinction, by John W. Stephenson, 373 4th Avenue, New York, New York

Stephenson provides a pattern and drapery cutting service for customers.

Date: 1937

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283546

Ref. Code: EP001.12.013.008.009

Agricultural hardware, implements, machines and woodenware, illustrated catalogue, Joseph Breck & Sons, 47 to 54 North Market Street, Boston, Mass.

Breck carries all types of farm, gardening and home hardware merchanise. The catalog has an index.

Date: 1897

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283547

Ref. Code: EP001.12.001.001.002

Album of photographs, Grosfeld House, 320 East 47th Street, New York, New York

Text on the title page reads "The decorators' source for fine furniture, sole distributors of Cha-Ming, Nanching and Etching Lustre Broadlooms." The catalog has sections for living rooms, bedrooms, dining rooms, glassics and carpets. "Registered No. 2028" is stamped inside the back cover. The catalo...

Date: 1941

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283548

Ref. Code: EP001.12.009.002.078

Stanley Toy Home Model B-3 instruction book, C.C. Stanley, 191 Lake Street, Brighton, Mass.

Text on the cover reads "Containing mechanical drawings and specifications of all parts together with complete instructions for building and illustrations demonstrating the sequence of assembly."

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283550

Ref. Code: EP001.12.007.002.009

National refrigerator market report, 1941 illustrated retail edition, 3028 W. Hunting Park Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Text on the title page reads "The blue book of trade-in values for used refrigerators. Compiled by an appraisal board headed by Herman Hantober." Text from the preface reads "The National Refrigerator Market Report is a compilation of every model of every standard brand refrigerator manuactured with...

Date: 1941

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283553

Ref. Code: EP001.12.012.003.029

Hooker statue, State House grounds, Boston, Mass.

1 photograph

Date: 1904-04-26

Collection: Nathaniel L. Stebbins photographic collection

GUSN: 283281

Ref. Code: PC047.02.6090.15263

Bedroom book, by Isabel Gordon Curtis, Cincinnati, The Stearns & Foster Company

Advice for furnishing and maintaining bedrooms is provided in the catalog. The selection and care of mattresses is illustrated with Stearns & Foster products. The cover illustration in color was done by Guernsey Moore. The inside of the front cover is stamped "H. Messersmith & Sons, Niagara Falls, N...

Date: 1907

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283285

Ref. Code: EP001.12.009.002.067

Sawyer's New England homes, W.H. Sawyer Lumber Company, 66 Lincoln Street, Worcester, Mass., 1927

Each page has a photograph and floor plans for various styles of houses done by the Company. Each design is named after a New England city or town with an index on the last page.

Date: 1927

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283286

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.124

Plan book of modern American homes, book no. 5, Baker Lumber Co., 84 Foster Street, Worcester, Mass., undated

Each page has a photograph and floor plans for various styles of houses done by the Company. Doors and special additions such as garages and storage sheds are included in the back of the catalog. This is "Book No. 5" issued by the business. A price sheet is pasted in the catalog.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283289

Ref. Code: EP001.12.002.005.123

Ephemera scrapbook

This scrapbook, entitled "Scrap Book" with printed cover vintage 1870s, contains chromolithographed items of ephemera including mottos, religious sayings, holiday cards and images of young children in costume. Items are pasted on to pages which are now of poor quality and have come loose from the bi...

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 283288

Ref. Code: MS004.017

Album of hand copied poetry

Frontispiece is marked "Album" with an engraving picturing two young girls exhanging flowers and entitled "The Flowers", published by J.C. Riker, NY. It contains, in scattered order, several elegiac poems and musings by various authors on the subject of friendship and death. These entries, evidently...

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 283290

Ref. Code: MS004.018

United Cape Cod Cranberry Company, 110 State Street, Boston, Mass.

Cranberry planting and harvesting are shown in photographs and text for the Company's properties on Cape Cod and southern Massachusetts. The booklet was created for stockholders.

Date: 1909

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 283291

Ref. Code: EP001.12.008.001.039

Old Houses and Towns scrapbook

This bound scrapbook entitled "Old Houses and Towns," created by Miss Annie H. Thwings, contains approximately 100 pages of photomechanicals, mainly of colonial houses and meetinghouses throughout New England. The collection includes images of vernacular houses, New England landscapes, aerial views ...

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 283292

Ref. Code: MS004.019

Lillian Adams' scrapbook of ephemera

This hard bound book entitled "Card Album" contains the inscription "Given to Queen Mary by her Mother 1878" and consists of pasted-in chromolithographed ephemera including greeting cards, trade cards, clippings, and other ephemera. The scrapbook was apparently assembled by a young girl named Lillia...

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 283294

Ref. Code: MS004.020

Sugar packet scrapbook

The scrapbook contains approximately 18 pages of pasted-in, empty sugar packets collected from well-known restaurants such as Friendly Ice Cream Shops, Howard Johnson's, and many favorite eastern Massachusetts establishments such as Hilltop Steak House and the Union Oyster House. Accumulated during ...

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 283295

Ref. Code: MS004.021

Scrapbook of clipped engravings

This scrapbook, missing both its covers, contains mostly pasted-in enravings clipped from early magazines depicting a variety of images of people, animals, and dramatic scenes such as shipwrecks. Other clippings depict sentimental images of children and pets, a country fair, and other pastoral scene...

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 283296

Ref. Code: MS004.022

Friedman theater and opera program scrapbook

This scrapbook comprises and important collection of theater, opera and some concert programs from the years 1887-1895. The album is made up of approximately 85 pages with fromfour to six progams pasted on each page for a total of approximately 400-500 programs. The hadbound cover entitled Scrap Boo...

Date: 1887-1895

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 283297

Ref. Code: MS004.023

Burdick Sketchbook folders

2 folders of sketches and ephemera; 9 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 283298

Ref. Code: MS004.024

Scrapbook page

A folder contains one heavy sheet bearing a miscellany of pasted images, two of which are colored-in engravings of still lifes, one engraving of a Chinese peeler and several brightly colored birds.

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 283299

Ref. Code: MS004.025

Local architecture scrapbook

Scrapbook of well-illustrated news clippings relating to architectural and historical subjects pertaining to Boston, with some coverage of Andover, Amesbury, Salem, Bedford, Marblehead, Malden, Portsmouth, NH and other communities. Clippings date circa 1896-1910. Compiled by C. Park Pressey, whose n...

Date: 1900-1910

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 283302

Ref. Code: MS004.026

Glimpses of Old Boston from Rare Photographs and Prints clippings album

This scrapbook contains a nearly-complete set of clippings from the newspaper series "Glimpses of Old Boston" featuring landmark buildings and street scenes in the 1800s as well as a few associated clippings. Many of the photographs were lent by the Boston Athenaeum. It has an elaborately colored an...

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 283327

Ref. Code: MS004.039

Trade card scrapbook

With an embossed cover, this scrapbook contains a nicely arranged and extensive collection of trade cards for companies advertising hatters, soap makers, boots & shoes, pencils, stove polish, groceries and threads, many from the Boston area. Many of the depictions convey social commentary in gently ...

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 283332

Ref. Code: MS004.041

Davenport-Aldrich wedding scrapbook

This leather bound album contains newspaper clippings, telegrams, photographs and ephemera regarding the engagement and wedding of Dorothea Davenport and William T. Aldrich in Boston, March 28, 1910. Dorothea Davenport, a Boston society girl, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Davenport of B...

Date: 1910

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 283335

Ref. Code: MS004.043

Perkins calligraphy scrapbook

This is a scrapbook of calligraphy enthusiast L.D. Perkins of Rockland, Massachusetts, circa 1873-1877. It contains clippings, invoices, letters, envelopes, and examples of elaborate ornamental penmanship bound with the periodical "The Penman's Gazette," January 1876 - January 1877.

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 283339

Ref. Code: MS004.033

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

This is a bound copy of the "Pictorial Souvenir Edition of New London's Greatest Disaster, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 1938" published by The Day, New London (CT) on Oct. 1, 1938. It consists of 63 pages covering the hurricane and ensuing floods and fires caused by the storm, with articles and many photos ...

Date: 1938

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 283340

Ref. Code: MS004.036

History clippings scrapbook

This scrapbook contains extensive newspaper clippings taken from the "Glimpses of Old Boston from Rare Photographs and Prints, 1822," series many assembled as the 100th commemoration of the change from Town to City Government. There are also numerous clippings about architecture and historical event...

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 283341

Ref. Code: MS004.038

Ephemera scrapbook

This large scrapbook contains a collection of colorful calling cards, trade ephemera and stickers. Images are mostly of young ladies, children, dogs, birds and flowers. The 15 pages of entries are nicely arranged; the remianing pages were left blank. Businesses advertised on the trade cards include ...

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 283342

Ref. Code: MS004.042

Thwing scrapbook collection of pamphlets

This scrapbook, bound in 1923, belonged to Annie H. Thwing of Roxbury; the title "Miscellany" is printed on the spine. Thje first page lists, in her handwriting the contents of 23 items. These are a variety of pamphlets dating from 1860-1922 which are tipped into the binding in their entirety. There...

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 283345

Ref. Code: MS004.044

Moulton House scrapbook

This scrapbook contains photographs, clippings and related correspondence and invoices relating to the Jonathan Moulton House, Hampton, New Hampshire, its background and ownership by Mr. Harland Little. It includes material illustrative of residences of similar style in other parts of New England. I...

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 283344

Ref. Code: MS004.040a

Invitations scrapbook

This scrapbook contains a collection of invitations and replies for the years 1862-1891 recording the social life of the Cummings Family of Cambridge, MA. The occasions range from birthday parties at first to school plays, Harvard class days and commencements, numerous weddings and, finally, wedding...

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 283350

Ref. Code: MS004.047

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