Historic New England

Jeddo-Highland Heaterange, Jeddo-Highland Coal Co., Heaterange Department, Jeddo, Pennsylvania

The appliance is a combination stove, furnace and water heater. It is available from W.G. Cunningham, 6 Brown Pl., Woburn, Massachusetts.

Date: 1933

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268261

Ref. Code: EP001.12.012.003.015

Reduced special net prices applying to catalogue no. 41, Excelsior Stove & Mfg. Company, Quincy, Illinois

Excelsior manufactures National Stoves, Ranges and Furnaces. The prices apply to the no. 41 catalogue for 1928-1929.

Date: 1928-09-01

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268263

Ref. Code: EP001.12.012.003.016

Net price book no. 24-28 I-2, Charter Oak Stoves and Ranges, Charter Oak Stove & Range Co., Antelope Street and Conduit, St. Louis, Missouri

This price list has product names, catalog page numbers and code words.

Date: 1928-04-04

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268264

Ref. Code: EP001.12.012.003.017

Gold Coin Stoves & Ranges, 59th annual catalog, The Gold Coin Stove Co., Troy, New York

Product names, descriptions, images and prices of stoves and ranges are included in the catalog. A handwritten letter and papers are orders from Mrs. Mary R. Delano in Vergennes, Vermont. The Company is the successor to Bussey & McLeod Stove Company.

Date: 1915-1916

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268265

Ref. Code: EP001.12.012.003.018

Trade card for Bell's Boston Highlands and City Express, 38 Broad Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The card lists the addresses where orders can be left for the business.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268266

Ref. Code: EP001.01.103.01.01.001

Tag for Samuel Tilton & Co's., cellar, 10 Quincy Market, Boston, Mass., undated

The business is on the south side of the Quincy Market building.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268267

Ref. Code: EP001.01.103.01.01.002

Morley Commercial Gas Cooking Equipment, heavy duty HD-75 series, Morley Manufacturing Co., Mascoutah, Illinois

Heavy duty gas ranges and storage compartments are described. The line is carried by the Morandi-Proctor Company in Everett, Massachusetts.

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268268

Ref. Code: EP001.12.012.003.019

Trade card for Webb's Salem and Boston Express, 26 Devonshire Street, Boston, Mass. and 131 Washington Street, Salem, Mass., undated

The Boston office is located at the New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Ohio Express Company on Devonshire Street. The Salem office is located at L.B. Moody's on Washington Street.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268269

Ref. Code: EP001.01.103.01.01.003

For modern kitchen planning! Thermador Electric Bilt-in Range, Thermador Electrical Manufacturing Company, Los Angeles, California

Features of the electric range are described. Cover margin text reads "A.I.A. File No. 35-C-11."

Date: 1950s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268270

Ref. Code: EP001.12.012.003.020

Leaflet for Joseph Breck & Sons, garden, farm, lawn, 51-52-53 North Market Street, Boston, Mass., June 1889

The business will accept a money order for the shipment of goods from the American Express Company. The leaflet describes the process for customers.

Date: 1889-06

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268274

Ref. Code: EP001.01.103.01.01.004

Cooking is fun with your new RCA Estate Electric Range, RCA Estate Appliance Corporation, Hamilton, Ohio

Cooking tips for using the features of the range are included. There is a newspaper clipping recipe for graham cracker rolls.

Date: 1954

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268273

Ref. Code: EP001.12.012.003.021

Handbill for Willis & Beal's South End Express, No. 2 Quincy Market, 77 Kingston Street, 5 Worcester Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The business delivers within Boston and forwards packages to all parts of the United States and Canada.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268275

Ref. Code: EP001.01.103.01.01.005

Riding apparel for ladies, gentlemen and juveniles, A. Beckwith & Co., merchandise sales co., 37 Essex Street, Boston, Mass.

Riding clothes for men, women and children are described in the catalog. A list of recommended riding academies in Massachusetts is included. The inside of the back cover describes their camping equipment catalog.

Date: 1936

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268277

Ref. Code: EP001.12.007.001.017

Receipt for the Fitchburg Railroad Corporation, Boston, Mass., dated May 29, 1862

The receipt is for delivery of the customer's items to the designated address. The billhead has train and steamship illustrations in the top corners.

Date: 1862-05-29

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268276

Ref. Code: EP001.01.103.01.01.006

Receipt for the Boston, Worcester and Western Railroad Corporation, Boston, Mass., dated April 15, 1853

The receipt is for the delivery of three casks, one box and one keg to the customer.

Date: 1853-04-15

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268278

Ref. Code: EP001.01.103.01.01.007

Announcing spring styles for 1929, Collins & Fairbanks Co., 383 Washington Street, 16 Bromfield Street, Boston, Mass.

Men's hats and suits are the primary merchandise displayed. Hat syles and fur scarfs for women are shown on the back pages of the catalog. Cold storage for furs and winter clothing is provided.

Date: 1929

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268280

Ref. Code: EP001.12.007.001.018

Receipt for the Old Colony & Fall River Railroad Corporation, Boston, Mass., dated April 27, 1863

The receipt describes the conditions for shipping items in the Railroad's care.

Date: 1863-04-27

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268279

Ref. Code: EP001.01.103.01.01.008

Billhead for Pratt's Express Co., Dr., Campello, Mass., dated July 31, 1884

Pratt's Campello Express has an office located at 75 Kilby Street in Boston, Massachusetts.

Date: 1884-07-31

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268281

Ref. Code: EP001.01.103.01.01.009

Miniature catalogue of the domestic paper fashions for the winter of 1875-6, published by the Domestic Sewing Machine Co., Broadway, corner 14th Street, Union Square, New York, New York

Clothing patterns for women, boys and girls are shown in the catalog. The styles are available at Wm. Douglas, dealer in stationery, fancy goods, Standard Block, Rockland, Massachusetts.

Date: 1875-1876

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268282

Ref. Code: EP001.12.007.001.019

Portrait album

One of ten small albums, eight leather bound and two with velvet bindings, containing gems (approximately 3/4" square tintype portraits that generally only pictured the head). No photographers are indicated. A few sitters are indexed at the back of the albums or in notes beneath the photographs.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 268284

Ref. Code: PC009.069A

Billhead for Pratt's Express Co., Dr., Campello, Mass., dated November 29, 1884

Pratt's Campello Express has an office located at 75 Kilby Street in Boston, Massachusetts.

Date: 1884-11-29

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268283

Ref. Code: EP001.01.103.01.01.010

Price list, fall and winter, 1895-6, Jordan, Marsh & Co. Boston, Mass.

The catalog has descriptions, prices and illustrations for merchandise carried by the Jordan Marsh department store. Part of the order form and instruction page is missing.

Date: 1895-1896

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268286

Ref. Code: EP001.12.007.001.020

Billhead for Pratt's Express Co., Dr., Campello, Mass., dated January 31, 1885

Pratt's Express has an office located at 75 Kilby Street in Boston, Massachusetts.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268285

Ref. Code: EP001.01.103.01.01.011

Billhead for Pratt's Express Co., Dr., Campello, Mass., dated May 30, 1885

Pratt's Express has an office located at 75 Kilby Street in Boston, Massachusetts.

Date: 1885-05-30

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268287

Ref. Code: EP001.01.103.01.01.012

Thaneil hosiery shades for spring and summer of 1932, Thayer McNeil, 47 Temple Place, Boston, Mass.

A color chart shows the hosiery shades available from the Company. The back cover has an order form.

Date: 1932

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268288

Ref. Code: EP001.12.007.001.021

Billhead for Pratt's Express Co., Dr., Campello, Mass., dated June 30, 1885

Pratt's Express has an office located at 75 Kilby Street in Boston, Massachusetts.

Date: 1885-06-30

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268289

Ref. Code: EP001.01.103.01.01.013

Billhead for B.W. Allard, Dr., Boston, Mass., dated June 1890

Allard has delivered freight to and from the Eastern Railroad.

Date: 1890-06

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268290

Ref. Code: EP001.01.103.01.01.014

Letterhead for Dexter, Abbot & Co., commission merchants, 200 Devonshire Street, Boston, Mass., 1870s

The business is located on Devonshire Street in Boston, Massachusetts.

Date: 1870s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268291

Ref. Code: EP001.01.103.01.02.001

Trade card for Whitney & Whiston, commission merchants, No. 77 State Street, Boston, Mass., undated

Business references for the firm are located in other cities such as New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268292

Ref. Code: EP001.01.103.01.02.002

When your Xmas packages are ready call the American Express, location unknown, December 1915

The brochure provides packing and shipping advice for customers sending holiday parcels. The verso describes the advantages of using money orders when sending cash gifts.

Date: 1915-12

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268293

Ref. Code: EP001.01.103.01.02.003

Letterhead for Hall & Company, commission merchants, 5 Chauncy Street, Boston, Mass., 1800s

The business is located on Chauncy Street in Boston, Massachusetts.

Date: 1800s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268294

Ref. Code: EP001.01.103.01.02.004

Receipt for the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, Dr., Westbrook, Mass., dated January 7, 1886

The receipt is for the transport of freight from Saybrook, Connecticut to Westbrook, Massachusetts.

Date: 1886-01-07

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268295

Ref. Code: EP001.01.103.01.02.005

Circular for Barbour & Son, commission merchants and brokers in India merchandize, No. 1 Central Wharf, Boston, Mass., undated

The business solicits customers interested in such items as linseed, saltpetre, gunny cloth and other India produce. There is an embossed stamp in the upper left corner of the item.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268296

Ref. Code: EP001.01.103.01.02.006

Gifts, Robert W. Kellogg, unusual gifts by the hundred, Springfield, Mass.

Gifts for personal use and the home are described in the catalog. An order form is included.

Date: 1927

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268299

Ref. Code: EP001.12.007.002.001

Receipt for John K. Ames, Machias, Maine, dated August 26, 1899

John K. Ames, on board the ship Jenny Lind, will deliver lumber from Machias, Maine to Beverly, Massachusetts.

Date: 1899-08-26

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268297

Ref. Code: EP001.01.103.01.02.007

Letterhead for Albert P. Clark & Co., 218 State and 27 Commerce Streets, Boston, Mass., dated March 31, 1866

Clark solcits a customer to purchase salt which has been imported at a loss.

Date: 1866-03-31

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268298

Ref. Code: EP001.01.103.01.02.008

1893 premium catalogue, illustrating many useful and valuable articles given away to consumers of Dunhams Cocoanut, Dunham Mfg. Co., New York, New York

Labels from packages of Dunham's Shred Cocoanut can be exchanged for such items as a baseball, paint box, camera and salt and pepper shakers. Recipes using shredded cocoanut are included.

Date: 1893

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268301

Ref. Code: EP001.12.007.002.002

Photograph album 70

This album has a wooden cover decorated with relief carving. William Sumner Appleton received it from his cousin, Alice Longfellow. Its original owner was Rev. Samuel Longfellow, the brother of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It contains cartes de visite of the Longfellow family, including Henry Wads...

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 268302

Ref. Code: PC009.070

Gifts for a Merry Christmas 1945, Sears Roebuck and Co., Chicago, Illinois

Clothing, toys, jewelry and home furnishings are among the offerings from Sears in their 1945 Christmas catalog.

Date: 1945

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268303

Ref. Code: EP001.12.007.002.003

Richter Stone Blocks, Block House, Inc., 43 East 19th Street, New York, New York

Toy building block sets are described, made by the firm of F. Ad. Richter & Cie., Rudolfstadt, Thuringia, Germany. They are sold and distributed by Block House, Inc. There is a separate supplement of colored drawings of the block structures in various settings. There is a note on both items that sta...

Date: 1920s

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268304

Ref. Code: EP001.12.007.002.004

B. Shackman & Co., the most complete selection of fine handcrafted cherrywood doll house furniture, accessories & antique doll replicas, 2 West 35th Street, New York, New York

Images, descriptions, sizes, and prices are provided for the dollhouse furniture and dolls. The furniture items include a Governor Winthrop Desk.

Date: 1971-1972

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268307

Ref. Code: EP001.12.007.002.005

"The Treasure Chest," year book 1929, Bigelow, Kennard & Co., 331 Washington Street, Boston, Mass.

Jewelry, watches, silver and tableware pieces are among the items sold at the store. A Company history is given with a drawing of the Washington Street store. The catalog has photographs of the employees working at designing, engraving and other processes.

Date: 1929

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268309

Ref. Code: EP001.12.007.003.001

Jordan Marsh department store decorated for Grand Army of the Republic, Washington St., Boston, Mass., 1890.

Exterior view of the Jordan Marsh department store decorated with flags, pennants, and bunting, for the Grand Army of the Republic parade along Washington St., Boston, 1890. There are pedestrians and horsecars along the street. The Twenty-fourth National Encampment of the G. A. R. was held in Bosto...

Date: 1890

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 268313

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.8630.001

Baird-North Co., gold & silversmiths, Providence, Rhode Island

Jewelry descriptions and prices are on each page. An ordering blank is included. The images are for fancy gold filled lockets, page D-93, pendants, page D-48 and diamond pendants and brooches, page D-29.

Date: 1911

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268310

Ref. Code: EP001.12.007.003.002

Shreve, Crump & Low Co. 1975/1976, 330 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass.

Jewelry, coins, porcelain and figurines created for the Bicentennial anniversary are described in the catalog with other offerings from the Company. An order form and envelope is included. The business has another location at the Mall at Chestnut Hill.

Date: 1975-1976

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268311

Ref. Code: EP001.12.007.003.003

"The Return of Spring," Shreve, Crump & Low, 440 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass.

Text on the cover reads "In celebration of the grand re-opening of our Boston flagship store." Jewelry, china and watches are shown in the pamphlet. The business has a location at the Mall at Chestnut Hill, 199 Boylston Street, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Date: 2007

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268312

Ref. Code: EP001.12.007.003.004

Cartier, gifts one dollar upwards, Cartier, Inc., Fifth Avenue and 52nd Street, New York, New York

The jewelry items are for women, men and children. A Mickey Mouse charm is shown on a bracelet. Cartier is also located in Paris and London.

Date: 1932

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268316

Ref. Code: EP001.12.007.003.005

R.H. White department store decorated for Grand Army of the Republic, Washington St., Boston, Mass., 1890

Exterior view of the R. H. White department store decorated with flags, pennants, and bunting, for the Grand Army of the Republic parade along Washington St., Boston, 1890. There are pedestrians and horsecars along the street. The Twenty-fourth National Encampment of the G. A. R. was held in Boston...

Date: 1890

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 268314

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.8630.002

Tremont Temple decorated for Grand Army of the Republic, 88 Tremont St., Boston, Mass., 1890

The Tremont Temple is decorated with flags, pennants, and bunting, for the Grand Army of the Republic parade along Tremont Street in Boston, 1890. There are pedestrians and horsecars along the street. The Twenty-fourth National Encampment of the G.A R. was held in Boston in August of 1890.

Date: 1890

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 268315

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.8630.003

Mid-May specials, sheet no. 2845, Butler Brothers, 495 and 497 Broadway, New York, New York

Butler Brothers is a wholesaler of department store merchandise. A separate leaflet entitled "Something for nothing" describes the forthcoming July catalog with a post card for requesting it. The envelope is addressed to R.D. Maplebeck in Rowley, Massachusetts.

Date: 1902

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 268371

Ref. Code: EP001.12.010.001.011

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