Historic New England

Lands End, Rockport, Mass.

This blue-tinted lithograph has a large section showing Turks Head Inn and land divided into house lots. There are also four small views in the bottom corners: up close of the Inn, Thatchers Island, Bathing Pavilion, and the steamer Penobscot.

Date: ca. 1895

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198943

Ref. Code: GC002.02.034

"Camp Sargent," Encampment of the Boston Light Infantry at Springfield, Mass., July 1840

This lithograph depicts a detailed view of the encampment, showing soldiers at attention, tents, and people watching.

Date: 1840-07

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198944

Ref. Code: GC002.02.035

Birthplace of Harriet Newell, Haverhill, Mass.

A charming, if amateurish rendering of a colonial home circa 1800.

Date: 1880s

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198945

Ref. Code: GC002.02.140

View of Putnam, Conn.

This lithograph presents a panoramic view of Putnam, showing the street layouts and buildings. A wide variety of buildings are shown, including churches, mills, houses, etc.

Date: 1877

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198947

Ref. Code: GC002.02.037

[Sailboats at anchor]

Depiction of what looks to be fishing boats at anchor in a small harbor. Includes small dorries anchored in the foreground. Artist signed in pencil and in the plate on the lower right.

Date: ca. 1915

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198946

Ref. Code: GC002.02.141

Bishops of the M.E. Church

A cluster of small portraits of the Bishops of the M.E. Church. The Holy Bible and the Cross and Crown flank the top portrait.

Date: 1872

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198949

Ref. Code: GC002.02.142

Congregational Church, Stratford, Conn.

This sepia-toned lithograph presents a detailed view of the Congregational Church in Stratford, Conn.

Date: 1860s

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198948

Ref. Code: GC002.02.038

Mount Washington

A landscape print of Mt. Washington with some buildings in the middleground.

Date: 1851

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198950

Ref. Code: GC002.02.039

Henry Ward Beecher, pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Fine portrait with a narrative border by W. Momberger describing important events in Beecher's life.

Date: 1870

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198951

Ref. Code: GC002.02.143

White Mountain Station House

This photomechanical print is a reproduction of a lithograph dated circa 1860. It shows good detail of the Station House, as well as a train and stagecoach.

Date: 1950s

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198955

Ref. Code: GC002.02.040

Cottonus Matherus [Cotton Mather]

A formal portrait of Mather done by the British born Pelham, John Singleton Copley's step-father.

Date: ca. 1727

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198953

Ref. Code: GC002.02.144

Rev. F.W.P. Greenwood

A formal portrait of the Reverend Greenwood .

Date: 1844

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198954

Ref. Code: GC002.02.145

Advance of civilization

A magazine reproduction.

Date: 1855

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198956

Ref. Code: GC002.02.146

Newport, N.H., 1857

This lithograph shows two people on a hill overlooking Newport, New Hampshire. It shows a panoramic and scenic townscape, with the locations of churches and buildings represented.

Date: 1857

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198958

Ref. Code: GC002.02.041

A. Burlingame

Portrait of a main. His name below is mostly illegible, other than A. Burlingame.

Date: 1860s

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198957

Ref. Code: GC002.02.147

Manchester Locomotive Works

This is a very detailed color lithograph showing the factory of Manchester Locomotive Works, "manufacturers of locomotives, stationary steam engines and tools." The bottom half of the print shows a Pioneer locomotive.

Date: ca. 1855

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198959

Ref. Code: GC002.02.042

American Harvesting

This is a black and white etching, with impressionistic detail. There are tiny figures working in the field with the haywagon.

Date: 1851

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198960

Ref. Code: GC002.02.043

Street in New Bedford, Mass.

This print is a photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, and depicts a black and white view of a street scene in New Bedford, including people, children, a carriage and a hay wagon.

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198962

Ref. Code: GC002.02.044

Brattleboro, Vt.

This black, white, and ochre-toned lithograph shows a panoramic view of Brattleboro, Vermont. The major buildings are numbered on the print and are listed in the margin.

Date: 1886

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198964

Ref. Code: GC002.02.045

Gamaliel Bailey

Portrait of Gamaliel Bailey, editor of the abolitionist paper the "National Era."

Date: 1855-1859

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198965

Ref. Code: GC002.02.148

A River Pier

This etching is an impressionistic view of a house along the Kennebec River. It is black and white on cloth, and from a collection published by Dodd, Mead.

Date: 1887

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198969

Ref. Code: GC002.02.046

[Benjamin] Franklin

1 lithograph

Date: 1859

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198971

Ref. Code: GC002.02.149

Hallet, Davis, and Co., Pianoforte Manufacturers, Boston, Mass.

This is a two-tone woodcut of the Hallet, Davis, and Co. building in Boston's South End, showing a very detailed street scene with carriages, and factory wagons carrying piano boxes. The print advertises that Hallet, David & Co. is the sole agency for Rugg's Music Store in Lowell, Mass.

Date: ca. 1870

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198970

Ref. Code: GC002.02.047

Birds-eye view, Centennial Buildings

This lithographs presents a detailed view of the Centennial Buildings and grounds at Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. Below the plate, the building dimensions are given.

Date: 1875

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198972

Ref. Code: GC002.02.048

[President Garfield and his family]

Family portrait of President James A. Garfield, his wife Lucretia Garfield, their five children, and possibly President Garfield's mother.

Date: ca. 1881

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198973

Ref. Code: GC002.02.150

Machinery Hall, Centennial International Exhibition, 1876

This is a detailed view of the Machinery Hall done in two tones. The view also shows people on the fairgrounds and a statue near the hall.

Date: 1874

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 198975

Ref. Code: GC002.02.049

American Baptist Publication Society certificate

Membership certificate to Rev. S. B. Swaim, given on September 3, 1845.

Date: 1841-1891

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199128

Ref. Code: GC002.02.191

Longfellow Calendar

This image is a calendar advertisement for the literary works of Longfellow, with a medallion portrait of the author. There are also figures of Priscilla and Evangeline. It is a handsome decorative work, with a fine design on the back.

Date: 1883

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199132

Ref. Code: GC002.02.104

Merchant's Gargling Oil Liniment

Advertisement for Merchant's Gargling Oil, a health remedy and cure-all. The original liniment, first sold in 1833, was meant to cure anything that could ail a domestic animal. The human version of the liniment was introduced in 1875. The yellow wrappers were for animal, the white wrappers for hu...

Date: [1880s]

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199133

Ref. Code: GC002.02.105

Sanford's Ginger

"Sanford's Ginger arrests all summer complaints." The humourous image is of Sanford's Ginger policing a watermelon and a pickle.

Date: 1886

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199136

Ref. Code: GC002.02.106

Bury Fair (a comedy in 5 acts by Thomas Shadwell)

This production of "Bury Fair" was the project of Harvard's chapter of Delta Upsilon.

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199134

Ref. Code: GC002.02.193B

Piso's Cure for Consumption, Piso's Remedy for Catarrh

This chromolithograph depicts an attractive summer scene of six children fishing from a dock at the seaside. Below the scene: "On receipt of 20c a copy of this picture without the advertisement will be sent by mail. Address E.T. Hazeltine, Warren, PA."

Date: 1880-1889

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199140

Ref. Code: GC002.02.107

The Howe scale

This vintage advertisement depicts a pretty maiden standing on a commercial factory scale. The floral painting on back is incomplete.

Date: ca. 1887

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199137

Ref. Code: GC002.02.194

Everett Grammar School diploma

One diploma awarded to Caroline M. Smith from the city of Boston, Everett Grammar School.

Date: 1880s

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199138

Ref. Code: GC002.02.195

Jersey

This image depicts a milkmaid with two cows in a woodland scene.

Date: 1881

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199144

Ref. Code: GC002.02.108

East view of the village of North Bridgewater, Mass., 1844

"From a lithograph in possession of Mr. R.C. Kimball." Shows a view and public buildings of the town.

Date: 1882

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199143

Ref. Code: GC002.02.196

The Little Father

This image depict a little boy with his five rabbits framed in a lattice decorated with wildflowers.

Date: 1881

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199148

Ref. Code: GC002.02.109

Artist's proof from a sketch by Sam S. Frizzell

This image shows a view of suburban house, carriages, horse back rider, pedestrians, and newly planted trees in an unknown suburb.

Date: 1881

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199146

Ref. Code: GC002.02.197

Blue Birds

This image depicts two bluebirds in a garden setting with a house and a pond in the background. Spray apple blossoms frame the left-side and left-forefront diagonal of work.

Date: 1880

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199154

Ref. Code: GC002.02.110

Harvard College tercentenary

"A prospect of Harvard University and of Radcliffe College" celebrating the tercentenary of the school.

Date: ca. 1935

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199150

Ref. Code: GC002.02.198

The Fenway

This image shows a bird's-eye view of the Fenway. "Compliments of John C. Kiley" is in the lower left corner of the print.

Date: 1911

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199152

Ref. Code: GC002.02.199

The Pet Lamb

This image depicts a European-style farm-maid feeding her pet lamb while another sheep looks on. There is a rustic twig fence in the foreground, and a church spire in the left background.

Date: 1881

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199156

Ref. Code: GC002.02.111

Little Alden and Co., Boston and New York

This shows a view of the factory alongside the river with boaters and a man leading cows in the foreground. It has been cut down and the legend is hardly visible.

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199155

Ref. Code: GC002.02.200

[Little girls dancing hand in hand]

This image depicts two poorly dressed little girls dancing happily hand in hand. One girl has a pink dress; the other girl is wearing a tan dress and she is also missing a shoe.

Date: 1880-1889

Collection: Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s

GUSN: 199162

Ref. Code: GC002.02.112