Historic New England

Handbill for the Electric Oil Torch, location unknown, undated

The kerosene oil torch can be used to light rolling mills, blacksmith shops and engine rooms. The steps for lighting it are described. It is for sale by Thompson & Hoague, hardware, iron & steel, Concord, New Hampshire.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258019

Ref. Code: EP001.01.071.01.04.010

Billhead for the N.W. Turner Company, importers and manufacturers of fine gas and electric light fixtures, Nos. 27 and 29 Bromfield Street, Boston, Mass., dated April 22, 1890

The Company was established in 1851. Piano, banquet and table lamps are among the items available for sale.

Date: 1890-04-22

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258023

Ref. Code: EP001.01.071.01.04.011

Billhead for C.H. McKenney & Co., gas chandeliers and electroliers, oil chandeliers and lamp goods, Boston, Mass., dated December 24, 1889

The factory is located at 28 to 40 Beach Street and the warerooms are located at 634 & 636 Washington Street in Boston, Massachusetts.

Date: 1889-12-24

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258024

Ref. Code: EP001.01.071.01.04.012

Billhead for R. Hollings & Co., chandelier and lamp makers, 93-95 Summer Street, Boston, Mass., dated September 13, 1901

Hollings is the New England agent for Tirrill's Improved Equalizer Gas Machine.

Date: 1901-09-13

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258025

Ref. Code: EP001.01.071.01.04.013

Billhead for the Seth W. Fuller Co., engineers & contractors for all kinds of electrical construction, supplies and novelties, 185 Devonshire & 48 Arch Streets, Boston, Mass., dated November 16, 1908

The business will contract for work in electric light wiring, bells, annunciators, telephones, burglar alarms and single plant installations.

Date: 1908-11-16

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258026

Ref. Code: EP001.01.071.01.04.014

Letterhead for Stuart-Howland Company, electrical merchandise, corner Congress & Purchase Streets, Boston, Mass., dated March 17, 1921

The business is an agent for the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company.

Date: 1921-03-17

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258027

Ref. Code: EP001.01.071.01.04.015

Billhead for the Stuart-Howland Company, electrical merchandise, corner Congress & Purchase Streets, Boston, Mass., dated January 13, 1921

The billhead lists various types of batteries purchased by the customer.

Date: 1921-01-13

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258028

Ref. Code: EP001.01.071.01.04.016

Billhead for the Stuart-Howland Company, electrical merchandise, corner Congress & Purchase Streets, Boston, Mass., dated January 13, 1921

The customer purchased Dover Irons as indicated on the billhead.

Date: 1921-01-13

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258029

Ref. Code: EP001.01.071.01.04.017

Billhead for the Stuart-Howland Company, electrical merchandise, corner Congress & Purchase Streets, Boston, Mass., dated January 14, 1921

The customer purchased miniature and auto bulbs according to the billhead listing.

Date: 1921-01-14

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258030

Ref. Code: EP001.01.071.01.04.018

Billhead for the Stuart-Howland Company, electrical merchandise, corner Congress & Purchase Streets, Boston, Mass., dated February 24, 1921

The customer purchased Dover Electric Flat Irons and fuse plugs with other items.

Date: 1921-02-24

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258031

Ref. Code: EP001.01.071.01.04.019

Billhead for the Stuart-Howland Company, electrical merchandise, corner Congress & Purchase Streets, Boston, Mass., dated April 15, 1921

Two Dover Irons were purchased by the customer.

Date: 1921-04-15

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258032

Ref. Code: EP001.01.071.01.04.020

Letterhead for the Re-New Lamp Company, renewers of electric incandescent lamps, office, 126 State Street, Boston, Mass., dated September 27, 1899

The factory is located at 121 Madison Street in Malden, Massachusetts.

Date: 1899-09-27

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258033

Ref. Code: EP001.01.071.01.04.021

Trade card for Henry Siegel Co., location unknown, 1911

Date: 1911

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258035

Ref. Code: EP001.01.072.01.01.001

Trade card for luggage, location unknown, 1912

Date: 1912

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258036

Ref. Code: EP001.01.072.01.01.002

Trade card for Winship & Willis, manufacturers and dealers in all kinds of trunks, No. 31 Elm Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The business carries valises, satchels and carpet bags in addition to trunks.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258037

Ref. Code: EP001.01.072.01.01.003

Trade card for Josiah Cummings, manufacturer and dealer in trunks, bags and umbrellas, 601 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated

Cummings has trunk and shawl straps and will make fancy bags to order.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258038

Ref. Code: EP001.01.072.01.01.004

Trade card for Horton Brothers, manufacturers and dealers in trunks, bags & valises of every description, No. 80 and 82 Union Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The business was established in 1845. The name W.H. Rich is on the lower left corner of the card.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258041

Ref. Code: EP001.01.072.01.01.005

Billhead for Neat, Kearney & Co., manufacturers and wholesale and retail dealers in sold leather iron-frame travelling trunks, valises, carpet bags, Nos. 52 & 54 Elm and 24 & 26 Friend Street, Boston, Mass., dated May 23, 1866

The retail store is located at 336 Washington Street in Boston, Massachusetts.

Date: 1866-05-23

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258042

Ref. Code: EP001.01.072.01.01.006

Billhead for Nathan Neat, manufacturer and wholesale and retail dealer in solid leather iron-frame travelling trunks, valises, carpet bags, No. 336 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., dated October 30, 1869

The business was established in 1825.

Date: 1869-10-30

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258044

Ref. Code: EP001.01.072.01.01.007

Advertisement for Crouch & Fitzgerald, trunks, bags, No. 1 Cortlandt Street, No. 556 Broadway, No. 723 Sixth Avenue, New York, New York, June 1882

Fine sole leather trunks and Gladstone Bags are a company specialty. The business was established in 1839. The advertisement is from the June 1882 "Brooklyn Advance."

Date: 1882-06

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258045

Ref. Code: EP001.01.072.01.01.008

Billhead for Winship & Roulstone, manufacturers of military & fire caps, trunks, valises, bags of every description, No. 31 Elm Street, Boston, Mass., dated March 16, 1856

The top of the billhead has an illustration of a figure in a military uniform and a pile of luggage.

Date: 1856-03-16

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258047

Ref. Code: EP001.01.072.01.01.009

Trade card for Elmes & Tebbetts, machinists and manufacturers of boilers, ships' tanks, steering wheels, Commercial Street, Bath, Maine, undated

The business manufactures and repairs all kinds of iron work in Bath, Maine.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258048

Ref. Code: EP001.01.073.01.01.001

Trade card for Elmes & Tebbetts, machinists, Commercial Street, Bath, Maine, undated

The business is the successor to George Moulton & Company.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258050

Ref. Code: EP001.01.073.01.01.002

Trade card for Hunt, Lyon & Co., manufacturers of best oak-tanned leather belting, dealers in rubber machine belting, steam packing, engine hose, 26 Devonshire Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The business has lace leather, belt rivets and burrs and belt cement.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258052

Ref. Code: EP001.01.073.01.01.003

Trade card for Clapp's Wood Pumps, Clapp Bros., Stow, Mass., undated

Clapp deals in all kinds of pumps and pipes and has iron dogs for sale. The manufactory is located at Harvard, Massachusetts.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258053

Ref. Code: EP001.01.073.01.01.004

Trade card for Palmer, Judd & Co., manufacturers of leather belting, 234 State Street, Hartford, Connecticut, undated

The office and sales room is located at No. 5, Allyn House Block, Asylum Street in Hartford, Conecticut. The card verso has a price list for stretched leather belting.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258055

Ref. Code: EP001.01.073.01.01.005

Trade cards for the Petroleum Fuel Company, manufacturers of improved machinery for steam boilers, heating, illuminating and cooking, 73 Blackstone Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The text on the card reads "Applying petroleum and its products to all mechanical and domestic uses."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258065

Ref. Code: EP001.01.073.01.01.006

Price list for the Victor Valve, Little & Smart, Peabody and Salem, Mass., undated

The Victor Valve is shown in the image with the sizes and prices below it.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258068

Ref. Code: EP001.01.073.01.01.007

Trade card for the Angular Wood Turning Lathe, Locke & Wood, 38 Hawley Street, Boston, Mass., undated

Door, drawer, organ stop knobs, handles and furniture ornaments are on exhibit at the business and in the Wood Working Department of the New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258070

Ref. Code: EP001.01.073.01.01.008

Advertisements for machinists, Boston, Mass., 1855

The ad on top is for Clarke & Smith, the proprietors of the Dedham Iron Works, with an office at No. 23 Exchange Street, Boston, Massachusetts. The lower ad is for A.J. Wilkinson, hardware, metals and mechanics' tools located at 2 Washington Street, at the corner of Wilson Lane in Boston, Massachuse...

Date: 1855

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258071

Ref. Code: EP001.01.073.01.01.009

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Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 258087

Ref. Code: PC001.04.02.2875

Trade card for A.J. Wilkinson & Co., manufacturers' agents, 184 & 188 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., 1875-1887

Wilkinson is an agent for Fleetwood, Dexter, Dirigo, Lester, Barnes and Rogers scroll saws. The card verso has a price list for fancy woods for bracket carving. The years "c. 1875-1887" is handwritten at the top of the card.

Date: 1875-1887

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258090

Ref. Code: EP001.01.073.01.01.010

Postcard for the Betts Machine Co., machine tools, Wilmington, Delaware, undated

Betts is the successor to The American Standard Gauge & Tool Works of Philadelphia. The Company manufactures measuring machines, standard gauges and shop corrective gauges on the Richards System.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258091

Ref. Code: EP001.01.073.01.01.011

Advertisement for the American Exposition, New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute, September-October 1883

The Institute's building on Huntington Avenue is shown in this advertisement for the 1883 American Exposition.

Date: 1883

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258092

Ref. Code: EP001.01.073.01.01.012

Trade card for The S.W. Jamison Bott & Shoe Crimping Machine Co., 40 Lincoln Street, Boston, Mass., undated

There is an image of the Crimping Machine on the card verso.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258093

Ref. Code: EP001.01.073.01.01.013

Trade card for The Brown Caloric Engine Co., 57, 59 & 61 Lewis Street, New York, New York, undated

The Company received a prize at the Grand Exhibition, American Institute, New York.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258094

Ref. Code: EP001.01.073.01.01.014

Trade card for Seth W. Fuller Electric Co., engineers and contractors, 100 Bedford Street, Boston, Mass., undated

Fuller repairs and cleans fans and carries goods at retail. The image caption reads "Just a Nibble" by E.H. Miner.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258095

Ref. Code: EP001.01.073.01.01.015

Envelope for the Lockwood Mfg. Co., manufacturers of machines and envelopes, 255, 257 and 259 South Third Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1876

The envelope was made on Lockwood's Patent Automatic Envelope Machine in Machinery Hall, Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876.

Date: 1876

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258096

Ref. Code: EP001.01.073.01.01.016

Billhead for Sweetser & Merritt, machinists, corner Church and Montello Streets, Brockton, Mass., dated September 30, 1884

The partners make upright drills and shoe machinery. The business deals in new and second hand machinery.

Date: 1884-09-30

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258097

Ref. Code: EP001.01.073.01.01.017

Billhead for the Hawkins Machine Co., manufacturers and dealers in boot and shoe machinery, steam engines, boilers, elevators, store, 49 High Street, factory, 137 Portland Street, Boston, Mass., dated July 18, 1884

There is an image of a machine on the billhead verso.

Date: 1884-07-18

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258098

Ref. Code: EP001.01.073.01.01.018

Billhead for the Carver Cotton Gin Co., machinists and manufacturers, East Bridgewater, Mass., dated December 10, 1884

The Company will manufacture iron and wood machinery of any description.

Date: 1884-12-10

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258099

Ref. Code: EP001.01.073.01.01.019

Billhead for the Fitchburg Machine Works, manufacturers of machinists' tools, Nos. 13 to 21 Main Street, Fitchburg, Mass., dated June 19, 1884

Both the office and the factory are located at Nos. 13-21 Main Street in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.

Date: 1884-06-19

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258100

Ref. Code: EP001.01.073.01.01.020

Advertisement for the Dirigo Shingle Machine, Hinckley & Egery Iron Company, founds and machinists, Bangor, Maine, dated November 22, 1878

The advertisement is from the November 22, 1878 "Bangor Daily Whig and Courier."

Date: 1878-11-22

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258101

Ref. Code: EP001.01.073.01.01.021

Large and extensive sale of mahcinery and tools will be sold at public auction, Monday, June 9, 1884, commencing at 9 o'clock a.m. at the Factory of D. Whittemore, Wollaston Heights, Mass.

Whittemore manufactured boots and shoes. Persons interested in attending the sale will be furnished with free passes to and from Wollaston Heights by applying at 50 Lincoln Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258102

Ref. Code: EP001.01.073.01.01.022

Billhead for Keith & Trufant, machinists and manufacturers of tack and nail machinery, wire nails and brads, 984 Main Street, Campello, Mass., 1880s

The business manufactures tack, nail and brad machinery in Campello, Massachusetts.

Date: 1880s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258103

Ref. Code: EP001.01.073.01.01.023

Advertisement for Austin's Patent Cream Freezer, J. & C. Berrian, 601 Broadway, New York, New York, April 1857

The advertisment for Austin's Cream Freezer is on the item verso and is from the April 1857 issue of "Knickerbocker Magazine." The ad which can be viewed is for piano-fortes manufactured by Steinway & Sons, 84 Walker Street, New York.

Date: 1857-04

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 258104

Ref. Code: EP001.01.073.01.01.024