Historic New England

101 practical suggestions for home improvements, the new 1936 ed., Johns Manville Corporation, 75 Federal Street, Boston, Mass., 1936

Trade catalog detailing different ways for consumers to improve their home through renovation or smaller interior decoration changes. Articles showcasing company products and processes are accompanied by photographic prints showing both before and after renovations.

Date: 1936

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 361201

Ref. Code: EP005.643

101 practical suggestions for home improvements, the new 1937 ed., Johns Manville Corporation, 75 Federal Street, Boston, Mass., 1937

Trade catalog detailing different ways for consumers to improve their home through renovation or smaller interior decoration changes. Articles showcasing company products and processes are accompanied by photographic prints showing both before and after renovations.

Date: 1937

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 361202

Ref. Code: EP005.644

How to remodel your home, edited by Victor S. Fox, Style Publications, Inc., 60 East 42nd Street, New York, N Y., 1946

Catalog detailing different ways for consumers to improve their home through renovation or smaller interior decoration changes. Articles showcasing products and processes are accompanied by photographic prints showing both before and after renovations. Edited by Victor S. Fox. Published by Style Pub...

Date: 1946

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 361203

Ref. Code: EP005.645

House & Garden remodeling guide to home improvement, fall-winter 1970-1971, Conde Nast Publications, Inc., 420 Lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y., 1970

Catalog detailing different ways for consumers to improve their home through renovation or smaller interior decoration changes. Articles showcasing products and processes are accompanied by photographic prints showing both before and after renovations. Published by Conde Nast Publications, Inc.

Date: 1970

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 361204

Ref. Code: EP005.646

How to modernize your farm home, edited by H. E. Wichers and Ellen L. Pennell, Successful Farming, Des Moines, Iowa, 1935

Periodical containing articles detailing how consumers can best remodel their farm homes. Each individual article focuses on separate rooms within the house, describes processes and interior design tips, and provides accompanying photographic prints.

Date: 1935

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 361205

Ref. Code: EP005.647

One hundred birthday gifts, Daniel Low & Co., Jewelers & Silversmiths, Salem, Mass., 1913

Trade catalog containing gifts for people of all ages, specifically geared towards gifts given as birthday presents. Examples of gifts include engraved cards, pearls, gold jewelry, and bond paper. Each product is accompanied by photographs of illustrations of the products, product numbers, price, an...

Date: 1913

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 361226

Ref. Code: EP001.12.007.003.020

Advertisement for Hood's sarsparilla, C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass., circa 1882

Advertisement for C. I. Hood's patent medicine, specifically their sarsaparilla product. The front of the advertisement is a color lithograph of four kittens on a footstool. The verso of the advertisement contains testimonials from 30 drugstore owners who sell the product as well as an article writt...

Date: undated

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 361228

Ref. Code: EP001.01.076.02.01.013

Growing Old Gracefully pamphlet, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, Mass., 1955

Pamphlet issued by the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company describing how consumers can enjoy their life as they begin to age and retire. Topics discussed include undertaking hobbies and enjoying leisure time, acknowledging the changes one's body goes through, and how to keep financial securi...

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 361230

Ref. Code: EP001.01.065.01.01.032

Dry well: medicinal and toiletries bottles, slide 30, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated January 1975. Numbered as slide 30 in the to...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361235

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00003

Ceramic miscellany, slide 17, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 17 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361236

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00004

Dry well: miscellaneous ceramics, knick-knacks, etc., slide 18, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 18 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361237

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00005

Miscellany, slide 36, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 36 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361238

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00006

Dry well: window glass, lamp chimneys, misc., slide 33, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 33 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361239

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00007

Miscellaneous bottles, slide 35, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 35 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361240

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00008

Replacement bottles, slide 34. Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 34 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361241

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00009

Pottery misc. and ceramic cups, slide 20, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 20 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361242

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00010

Dry well: cups (soft paste), mugs, compote cover, slide 21, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 21 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361243

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00011

Pharmaceutical bottles, slide 31, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 31 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361244

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00012

"Stoneware," slide 27, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 27 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361245

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00013

Ceramic chinoiserie, slide 16, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 16 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361246

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00014

Earthenware (American?), slide 19, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 19 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361247

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00015

"Stoneware," slide 28, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 28 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361248

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00016

"Stoneware," slide 26, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students.Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 26 in the top left co...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361249

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00017

Toilet bottles, slide 29, miscellany, Cooper-Frost-Austin House, Cambridge, Mass.

One slide of sixteen from early 1970s archaeological excavation at the Cooper-Frost-Austin House completed by the Peabody Museum's Putnam Archaeological Laboratory. Images were taken by Richard Michael Gramly and unnamed Harvard students. Slides are dated 1975. Numbered as slide 29 in the top left c...

Date: 1975

Collection: Historic New England properties photographic collection

GUSN: 361250

Ref. Code: PC006.CFA.02.COO00018

Log book of the Cossack, 1928-1937

A log book for a yacht called the Cossack dated 1928-1937. Contains 149 pages, of which 95 are blank. Entries document the travels of the Cossack during the summer months between different harbors and islands in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Entries written in multiple hands. ...

Date: 1928-1937

Collection: Miscellaneous manuscript collection

GUSN: 361254

Ref. Code: MS029.002.033

RH interiors, Restoration Hardware, 3053 Filmore St, Suite 235, San Francisco, Cailf., 2015

Trade catalog for furniture from Restoration Hardware. The catalog advertises furniture for spaces including dining rooms, living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, libraries, and media rooms, divided into sections representing designers or specific design philosophies. Most pages are set up as two-page sp...

Date: 2015

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 361257

Ref. Code: EP001.12.009.002.128

RH, Restoration Hardware, 3053 Filmore Street, Suite 235, San Francisco, Calif., Fall 2016

Trade catalog for furniture from Restoration Hardware. The catalog advertises furniture for spaces including dining rooms, living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, libraries, and media rooms, divided into sections representing designers or specific design philosophies. Most pages are set up as two-page sp...

Date: 2016

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 361258

Ref. Code: EP001.12.009.002.129

Bee culture

Sub-sub-series

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 362614

Ref. Code: PC001.02.02.0920

Bee culture

File

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 362615

Ref. Code: PC001.02.02.0920.0100

Cape Cod cottages, National Plan Service, Inc., undated

Plan books containing designs for Cape Cod cottages. Each design comes with a floor plan, the design number, an illustration of the house, cubic and square footage, and a description of its unique features. Published by the National Plan Service, Inc. Front cover of the first plan book advertise...

Date: undated

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 362638

Ref. Code: EP005.730

The "home of homes," National House Plan Service, Providence, R.I., undated

Plan book containing small home designs. Each design comes with a floor plan, the design number, an illustration of the house, cubic and square footage, and a description of its unique features. Published by the National House Plan Service and designed by architect Harry Marshak. Front cover adv...

Date: undated

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 362639

Ref. Code: EP005.731

A home of your own, National Plan Service, Inc., undated

Plan book containing small home designs. Each design comes with a floor plan, the design number, an illustration of the house, cubic and square footage measurements, and a description of its unique features. Published by the National Plan Service, Inc. Front cover advertises The DeForest & Hotch...

Date: undated

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 362645

Ref. Code: EP005.734

Premier small homes: new ideas by small home architects, Remington Press, Providence, R.I., undated

Plan book containing small homes designs. Each design comes with a floor plan, the design number, an illustration of the house, cubic and square footage measurements, and a description of its unique features. The designs were designed by architect Harry Marshak. Published by Remington Press, based i...

Date: undated

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 362646

Ref. Code: EP005.735

New homes, Andrew Little & Sons, Little Falls, N.Y., undated

Plan book containing house designs. Each design comes with a floor plan, the design number, an illustration of the house, cubic and square footage measurements, and a description of its unique features. Includes articles describing the steps involved in selecting a floor plan, selecting a site, and ...

Date: undated

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 362649

Ref. Code: EP005.736

Homes for better living, National Plan Service, Inc., 1941

Plan book containing house designs. Each design comes with a floor plan, the design number, an illustration of the house, cubic and square footage measurements, and a description of its unique features. Published by the National Plan Service, Inc. Front cover advertises The Plainville Lumber & Co...

Date: 1941

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 362650

Ref. Code: EP005.753

Diamond homes by The Diamond Match Company, National House Plan Service, Providence, R.I., undated

Plan book containing house designs. Each design comes with a floor plan, the design number, an illustration of the house, cubic and square footage measurements, and a description of its unique features. Published by the National House Plan Service and designed by architect Harry Marshak. Distributed...

Date: undated

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 362652

Ref. Code: EP005.738

Diamond homes by The Diamond Match Company, 1946 rev. ed., National House Plan Service, Providence, R.I., 1946

Plan book containing house designs. Each design comes with a floor plan, the design number, an illustration of the house, cubic and square footage measurements, and a description of its unique features. Published by the National House Plan Service and designed by architect Harry Marshak. Distributed...

Date: 1946

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 362669

Ref. Code: EP005.739

Select homes of moderate cost..., National Plan Service, Inc., undated

Plan book containing house designs. Each design comes with a floor plan, the design number, an illustration of the house, cubic and square footage measurements, and a description of its unique features. Published by the National Plan Service, Inc. Front cover advertises Newell Coal and Lumber Co...

Date: undated

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 362670

Ref. Code: EP005.754

Small homes, National Plan Service, Inc., undated

Plans book containing small house designs. Each design comes with a floor plan, the design number, an illustration of the house, cubic and square footage measurements, and a description of its unique features. Published by the National Plan Service, Inc. Front cover of the first plan book advert...

Date: undated

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 362671

Ref. Code: EP005.752

To-day's designs of small homes, "New ideas by small home architects," Nationwide House Plan Service, Providence, R.I., undated

Plan book containing small house designs. Each design comes with a floor plan, the design number, an illustration of the house, cubic and square footage measurements, and a description of its unique features. Published by the Nationwide House Plan Service. Front cover of the first plan book adve...

Date: undated

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 362673

Ref. Code: EP005.751

Select homes, National Plan Service, Inc., undated

Plan books containing small house designs. Each design comes with a floor plan, the design number, an illustration of the house, cubic and square footage measurements, and a description of its unique features. Published by the National Plan Service, Inc. Front cover of the second plan book adver...

Date: undated

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 362675

Ref. Code: EP005.750

Planned homes of individual design, National Plan Service, Inc., 1946

Plan book containing small home designs published by National Plan Service, Inc. Each design comes with a floor plan, the design number, an illustration of the house, cubic and square footage measurements, and a description of its unique features.

Date: 1946

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 362678

Ref. Code: EP005.749

National builders catalog, formerly Home builders catalog: a reference work for contractors, building material dealers and builders; containing manufacturers' catalogs and data on materials and equipment; articles analyzing the problems of home construction; illustrations and plans of small homes and garages, 5th ed., National Building Publications, division of National Trade Journals, Inc., 1931

Catalog containing manufacturers' catalogs, data on materials and equipment, and articles discussing issues of home construction. Illustrations or photographic prints and floor plans of small homes and garages are featured. Advertisements for companies selling various building materials and house pl...

Date: 1931

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 362681

Ref. Code: EP005.740

1929 Home builders catalog: a reference work for building contractors, building supply dealers, architects and home owners; containing authentic information on building materials and home equipment and hundreds of original illustrations and plans of all types of small homes, garages, etc., 4th ed., National Building Publications, division of National Trade Journals, Inc., 1929

Catalog containing manufacturers' catalogs, data on materials and equipment, articles discussing issues of home construction, and illustrations and plans of small homes and garages. Advertisements for companies selling various building materials and house plans are found throughout the catalog.

Date: 1929

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 362687

Ref. Code: EP005.756

1927 Home builders catalog: a reference work for buildings contractors and home owners containing authentic information on building materials and home equipment and hundreds of original illustrations and plans of all types of small homes, 2nd ed., Home Builders Catalog Company, 1927

Catalog containing manufacturers' catalogs, data on materials and equipment, articles discussing issues of home construction, and illustrations and plans of small homes and garages. Advertisements for companies selling various building materials and house plans are found throughout the catalog.

Date: 1927

Collection: Richard Cheek architectural plan book collection

GUSN: 362690

Ref. Code: EP005.757

Poster, National Homes Corp., 1957

Poster advertising "Pacemaker" and "Custom-Line" floor plans from National Homes. Poster is dated 1957. Each floor plan is accompanied by a name and its square footage.

Date: 1957

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 362719

Ref. Code: EP001.15.025

Lorna Simpson photographs, Corridor, 2003

Five photographs from Lorna Simpson's color video, Corridor, 2003 exhibited in Yankee Remix: Artists Take on New England. This exhibition at Mass MoCA was a collaboration between SPNEA (now Historic New England) and Mass MoCA; the exhibit was open between 2003-2004. Yankee Remix invited artists, ".....

Collection: Lorna Simpson photographs, Corridor, 2003

GUSN: 362758

Ref. Code: PC088

Corridor, 2003, photograph 1 of 5

Five photographs from Lorna Simpson's color video, Corridor, 2003 exhibited in Yankee Remix: Artists Take on New England. This photograph depicts the exterior of Coffin House on the left and Gropius House on the right. This exhibition at Mass MoCA was a collaboration between SPNEA (now Historic New ...

Collection: Lorna Simpson photographs, Corridor, 2003

GUSN: 362762

Ref. Code: PC088.001

Corridor, 2003, photograph 2 of 5

Five photographs from Lorna Simpson's color video, Corridor, 2003 exhibited in Yankee Remix: Artists Take on New England. This photograph depicts a morning scene of a woman collecting candles on the left and a woman applying cream in a mirror on the right.This exhibition at Mass MoCA was a collabora...

Collection: Lorna Simpson photographs, Corridor, 2003

GUSN: 362763

Ref. Code: PC088.002

Publications: Random Recollections by Clara Codman Wolcott, 1934

1.21 linear feet (1 document case)

Collection: Codman family papers

GUSN: 362767

Ref. Code: MS001.09.06.15b

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