Historic New England

Automobile Party

Group portrait of men, women and children seated in an automobile next to a house. The car belongs to GMT, two of the people are identified as OWS + AHS.

Date: 1906

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319973

Ref. Code: PC067.02.151

Automobile Party

Group portrait of men, women and children seated in an automobile next to a house. The car belongs to GMT, two of the people are identified as EKS, JKS, DMS, AHS

Date: 1906

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319974

Ref. Code: PC067.02.152

Automobile Party

Group portrait of men, women and children seated in an automobile next to a house. The car belongs to GMT, two of the people are identified as Mr. T, Mrs. T, OWS, JKS, DMS, AHS.

Date: 1906

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319975

Ref. Code: PC067.02.153

Automobile Party

Group portrait of men, women and children seated in an automobile next to a house.

Date: 1906-07-01

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319976

Ref. Code: PC067.02.154

House on 155 Shaw Ave

Photograph of a house in Edgewood, RI. Several people gather on the front steps. The house has a lawn and trees suround it.

Date: 06-1907

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319977

Ref. Code: PC067.155

House on 155 Shaw Ave

Photograph of a house in Edgewood, RI. Several people gather on the front steps. The house has a lawn and trees suround it.

Date: 06-1907

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319978

Ref. Code: PC067.02.156

Portrait, family around the Christmas tree, location unknown, undated

There are two older children in front, a toddler in a high chair in front of the mother and the father behind the little girl.

Date: 1907-12-25

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 319979

Ref. Code: PC067.02.157

Trade card, Kimball Bros. & Co., dealers in general merchandise, Sanford, Maine

Text on the card verso reads "Dealers in everything! Goods sold at bottom prices. Please call and see. No trouble to show goods." The image caption reads "Corner Store, Sanford, Me." A billiard hall is above the store.

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320042

Ref. Code: EP003.002.014

Trade card, Currier & Hodskins, dealers in dry good and carpets, corner Main and Court Streets, Springfield, Mass.

Horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians can be seen in the illustration on the card verso. The business is located in Hampden House at the intersection of Main and Court Streets.

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320044

Ref. Code: EP003.002.015

Trade card, J.R. Libby, wholesale and retail dealer in dry good and carpets, Savings Bank Building, Biddeford, Maine

At street level the storefront for Libby can be seen with a doorway for "YMCA" to the right.

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320045

Ref. Code: EP003.002.016

Trade card, American Twin Freezer, North Bros. Mfg. Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

A young girl reads a book of fairy tales while operating the ice cream freezer. The description on the verso states the crank is swung back and forth to operate the freezer. A partition placed in the freezer allows two flavors or ice cream and sherbert to be done at the same time.

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320046

Ref. Code: EP003.001.012

Trade card, the Gem Freezer, American Machine Co., manufacturers of hardware specialties, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The product is described on the card verso with prices for various sizes. Every freezer includes a copy of Mrs. S.T. Rorer's new book "Dainty Dishes" which has directions for making 120 different ice creams, water ices, sherbets, frozen fruits and puddings. The item is carried by Jordan Marsh & Comp...

Date: 1890

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320047

Ref. Code: EP003.001.013

Index of The Hartford Rubber Works Co. and John W. Gray & Co., 272 Asylum Street, Hartford, Connecticut

The brochure lists many products including lawn and fire hoses, piston packings, faucet washers, bicycle tires, printers' blankets, fruit jar rings, cement, weather strips, galvanized oil cans, hard rubber syringes, ice bags, waterproofs and footballs. The item verso has an illustration of a woman u...

Date: ca. 1890

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320050

Ref. Code: EP003.001.014

Trade card, Newhall's Magic Saleratus, manufactured by H.B. Newhall, 76 Broad Street, Boston, Mass.

This trade card contains racist and stereotypical imagery. Historic New England acknowledges historical records / objects may contain harmful imagery and language reflecting attitudes and biases of their creators and time in which they were made. Historic New England does not alter or edit object...

Date: 1880s

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320081

Ref. Code: EP003.001.015

Trade card, Keystone Wringers for sale here, manufactured by F.F. Adams & Company, Erie, Pennsylvania

Several wood and iron frame wringers are displayed in the image. The factory in Erie can be seen with trains in the foreground. A New York port is in the upper left side of the image with a ship delivering the wringers to Europe. A Philadelphia port is in the upper right side of the image with a shi...

Date: 1870s

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320082

Ref. Code: EP003.001.016

Trade card, Goodrich & Mallary, manufacturers & venders of Stanley's Patent Air-Tight Parlor Stoves, Nos. 15 & 16 Gerrish Block, Blackstone Street, Boston, Mass.

The business carries cooking ranges and stoves, hoisting machines, copy'g presses and hollow wares. They are agents for M.H. Collins' Patent Stationary Ventilators and Tinman's Tools.

Date: 1850s

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320121

Ref. Code: EP003.003.011

Trade card, Spicers & Peckham, stove founders, Providence, Rhode Island

A newsboy hawks handbills advertising the ranges and parlor stoves. A kitchen range is on the card verso.

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320122

Ref. Code: EP003.003.012

Trade card, Golden Star Oil Stoves, Myers, Osborn & Company, Cleveland, Ohio

The stove is a substitute for cook stoves and ranges and is adapted for summer use. It can be used all year for cooking, baking, broiling, ironing and all laundry purposes. The illustration on the verso shows the stove in an open position.

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320131

Ref. Code: EP003.003.013

Notebook

A bound notebook in which someone has recorded 308 negatives. The first few pages have listed the "Names of Wholesalers" in various cities around New England. Then the negatives are listed, organized by date and location. After that the notebook is blank.

Date: undated

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 320125

Ref. Code: PC067.03.158

Negative Sleeves

141 paper negative sleeves. The sleeves have space and lines on the front to write in information on the negative such as date, title, exposure and developer. These sleeves usually include a date, title and negative number but rarely more information than that.

Date: undated

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 320132

Ref. Code: PC067.03.159

Trade card, Early Breakfast Stoves, Redway & Burton, Cincinnati, Ohio

A mother rouses a family that would rather remain in bed in the cartoon puzzle illustration. The lower portion of the card has the caption "And the same effect is always produced by using the Early Breakfast Stove." Text on the card verso describes the stoves and states they are "fully guaranteed a...

Date: ca. 1880

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320143

Ref. Code: EP003.003.014

Trade card, buy Royal Falmouth Ranges, made by Auburn Stove Foundry Co., Auburn, Maine

Four children play with a toy in a Christmas setting in the card image. The card verso has images of the parlor stove and a kitchen stove.

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320147

Ref. Code: EP003.003.015

Negative Boxes

5 boxes of "Cramer Crown Plates". Many of the negatives were stored in these boxes. On the side of the box someone has written the location and year in which the negatives were taken. On the front of the box someone has written that same information plus a list of the titles of the plates contained...

Date: undated

Collection: O. W. Stevens collection of glass plate negatives, 1898-1912

GUSN: 320148

Ref. Code: PC067.03.160

Circular, National Vapor Stoves, National Vapor Stove and Mfg. Co., Cleveland, Ohio

The item verso has illustrations of the 1873 and 1890 gasoline cook stoves. The safety of the gasoline stove is described in the text.

Date: 1890

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320229

Ref. Code: EP003.003.016

Trade card, Dix & Freeman, wholesale dealers in West India goods, No. 3 Long Wharf, Boston, Mass.

The proprietors are Thomas R. Dix and Geo. A. Freeman.

Date: 1840s

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320230

Ref. Code: EP003.005.010

Trade card, Tute, Fay & Morey, dealers in teas and tobacco, No. 16 Southn Market Street, and 16 Chatham Street, Boston, Mass.

The proprietors are Rensalear Tute, Philemon Morey and Charles F. Fay.

Date: 1860s

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320231

Ref. Code: EP003.005.011

Trade card; Morse, Denny & Co., commission wool merchants, 130 Congress Street, Boston, Mass.

The partners are Sterne Morse, Clarence H. Denny and Joseph G. Shed.

Date: 1870s

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320232

Ref. Code: EP003.005.012

Trade card, Elliott & Ahlberg, stevedores, Baltimore, Maryland

The card verso has "Rates of Pilotage for Chesapeake Bay."

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320233

Ref. Code: EP003.005.013

Trade card, Haas Hog and Poultry Remedy, Dr. Joseph Haas, Indianapolis, Indiana

Text on the card verso describes the medication. Two pigs and a rooster deliver the remedy in a boat. The image caption reads "The Relief Committee, Cheer up comrades, we are coming."

Date: 1882

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320235

Ref. Code: EP003.005.014

Trade card, Boss Patent Cases, J.A. Smith, jeweler, 358 Broadway, Saratoga Springs, New York

Smith carries James Boss gold watch cases.

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320236

Ref. Code: EP003.005.015

Trade card, Mrs. Potts' Cold Handle Sad Irons, Enterprise Manufacturing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

A man paints images of the irons on a fence. The caption reads "Our special artist on the road." An observer states "Just what my mother wants."The irons are sold by B. Callender & Co., 246 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts.

Collection: Trade card albums collection

GUSN: 320237

Ref. Code: EP003.005.016

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: 320387

Ref. Code: PC009.069B

Portrait album

One of ten small albums, which contains contains small copies of paintings published by J.E. Tilton Co. in Boston, Mass. These are mostly sentimental, but there are also portraits (taken from paintings) of George and Martha Washington, Abraham Lincoln and soldiers in uniform.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320388

Ref. Code: PC009.069C

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: 320389

Ref. Code: PC009.069D

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: 320390

Ref. Code: PC009.069E

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: 320391

Ref. Code: PC009.069F

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: 320392

Ref. Code: PC009.069G

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: 320393

Ref. Code: PC009.069H

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: 320394

Ref. Code: PC009.069I

Portrait album

This album was removed to the print collection.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320395

Ref. Code: PC009.069J

Portrait album

One of ten small albums, which contains portrait cartes de visite, including two half-size ones, and a tintype of carte de visite size (approximately 2 1/2" x 4 1/2"). 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: 320396

Ref. Code: PC009.069K

Alice Pearse wearing a blue velvet ensemble

Originally purchased in 1883 by Miss C. L. W. French of Roxbury and Boston from Mlle Camille Lipman of Rue Drouot, Paris. "A tantalizing bit of evidence suggests that Miss French may have been a suffragette, for this dress was worn in 1920 by a relative at a celebration of the Nineteenth Amendment ...

Date: undated

Collection: Personal photographic collection

GUSN: 320472

Ref. Code: PC004.01.P.0900.001

Alice Pearse wearing a red satin ensemble

1 black and white photograph

Date: undated

Collection: Personal photographic collection

GUSN: 320473

Ref. Code: PC004.01.P.0900.002

Le Garde-meuble, ancien et modern

Le Garde-meuble, ancien et moderne was a bimonthly periodical published in Paris between 1839 and 1935. The publication consisted of illustrations of furniture and interior decoration from the reign of Louis-Philippe to the Third Republic. Its title is a reference to the royal Garde-meuble establish...

Date: 1845-1868

Collection: Le Garde-meuble, ancien et modern

GUSN: 320515

Ref. Code: GC007

Album 118A: "Municipal Architecture in Boston from Designs by Edmund M. Wheelwright, City Architect, 1891-1895," Vol. 1

1 of 2 volumes

Date: 1898

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320524

Ref. Code: PC009.118A

Album 118B: "Municipal Architecture in Boston from Designs by Edmund M. Wheelwright, City Architect, 1891-1895," Vol. 2

1 of 2 volumes

Date: 1898

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 320525

Ref. Code: PC009.118B

Business card for Harry's Cheese & Cold Cuts, 98 Blackstone Street, Boston, Mass., undated

The business carries imported and domestic cheeses. A handwritten note on the verso reads "Haymarket, voted best cheese shop in Boston in 2015."

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 320720

Ref. Code: EP001.01.046.04.01.051

Congregational House, 14 Beacon St., Boston, Mass., May 2, 1904.

View of the front facade of Congredational House, 14 Beacon St., Boston, Mass., designed by the architectural firm of Shepley, Ruttan, and Coolidge. The building is on the National Register of Historical Places, The follwoing description of the bas reliefs is from the Congregational House webis...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 320728

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.0340.0770.001

Exterior view of Mystic House, Medford, Mass.

Mystic House offered rooms and meals to persons coming for the races at Mystic Park. Text stamped on the item verso reads "Goodell Photographer 378 Mass. Avenue Boston."

Date: 1903

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 320806

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.1790.0050.002

Exterior view of the judges' stand, Mystic Park, Medford, Mass.

The judges' stand at Mystic Park is seen with horses grazing on the left and houses in the distance. Text stamped on the item verso reads "Goodell Photographer 378 Mass. Avenue Boston."

Date: 1903

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 320808

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.1790.0050.003

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