Historic New England

Aerial view of Paragon Park, Nantasket Beach, Mass., undated

Aerial view of the amusement park, Paragon Park, at Nantasket Beach. The park was created as part of "New England World's Fair." The Park is lit by 100,000 electric lights, covers 20 acres and includes exhibition halls, a roller coaster, other rides, and beach access. Numerous flags fly over the gro...

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191159

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.034

Shooting the chutes at Wonderland, Revere Beach, Mass.

Full color postcard depicting the boat chute ride at Wonderland amusement park, Revere Beach, Massachusetts. Gondola style boats filled with tourists shoot down a water filled slide under a bridge filled with spectators and into a canal lined with more spectators. In the background more rides and pa...

Date: 1907

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191164

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.035

Nantasket Beach and Plymouth, Nantasket Beach Steamboat Co., Boston, Mass., 1916

The Company ran boats between Boston and the South Shore of Massachusetts, including Nantasket Beach and Plymouth. The cover depicts the steamer "Rose Standish" flying many flags, pushing through the water.

Date: 1916

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191169

Ref. Code: EP001.01.117.01.01.039

Panoramic view of beach and boardwalk, Salisbury Beach, Mass., undated

Large panorama postcard featuring the board walk and amusement park at Salisbury Beach, Massachusetts. Visitors walk the boardwalk and the beach. There are numerous amusement rides and a row of diners near a parking lot.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191179

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.036

Three men haying on a marsh, Hampton, N.H., undated

Image features three men with pitchforks harvesting hay on a salt marsh. Two of the men are working on a hay stack and the third watches.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191181

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USNH.0680.0030.001

Hay stacks on marshes, Plum Island, Newburyport, Mass., undated

Full color postcard featuring hay stacks propped up on wooden piles on the marshes of Plum Island.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191183

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.037

Men and boys digging clams, Provincetown, Mass., undated

The full-color postcard shows men and boys digging for clams. There is a large pile of clams and full baskets as well. Behind the workers is a marsh and the waterline.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191185

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.038

Men having clam bake on beach, location unknown, undated

A large group of men sit on the beach tending a pit where the clam bake is being prepared. Small boats have been pulled up on the sand. The beach lines a cove.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191186

Ref. Code: PC001.04.02.2875.001

Fisherman in rough weather gear, location unknown, undated

The full color post card features a close-up of a Cape Ann fisherman dressed in yellow rough weather gear rowing a boat. His beard is white and he smokes a pipe.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191187

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.039

Temporary

Series

Collection: Arland A. Dirlam architectural collection

GUSN: 191192

Ref. Code: AR006.TMP

Yachting Trips and Motor Trips in Maine

One album of 80 black & white photographs with a few postcards. Title reads "Yachting and Motor Trips Maine and Mountains July 17th to Aug 31st 1913." Presumably a family album of summer yachting trips in Maine and motor trips to other places. Detailed pictures of boating parties on yachts, fishi...

Date: 1913

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191207

Ref. Code: PC009.265

Album 6: Historic Homes of Eastern New England by Wilfred French

This album includes thirty-six 6 x 8 inch photographs of historic buildings in Dedham, Quincy, Cohasset, Hingham, Pembroke, Duxbury, Kingston, Woburn, Everett, Saugus, Sudbury, Concord, and Lexington, Massachusetts taken by Wilfred French circa 1890. There is emphasis on First Period buildings. The ...

Date: ca. 1890

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191208

Ref. Code: PC009.006

Oh! Why hast thou taught me to love thee?

Cover depicts a man and woman in a wooded area. The man appears to be wooing the woman.

Date: 1829

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191221

Ref. Code: MS007.01.13.04

Isle of beauty fare thee well!

Cover depicts a man and a woman in a small sailboat looking across the water at an island with a Greco-Roman-styled building on it.

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191227

Ref. Code: MS007.01.13.05

The corsair's bride

Cover depicts a woman seated on a rocky beach, a lyre propped against the rock behind her. Ships with tattered sails, one of them probably a pirate ship, are in the background.

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191232

Ref. Code: MS007.01.13.06

New York, O what a charming city!

Cover depicts New York City, as seen from across the water.

Date: 1831

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191234

Ref. Code: MS007.01.13.07

The beauties of Scottish and Irish melody: no. 1

Cover depicts a woman playing the piano forte.

Date: 1831

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191237

Ref. Code: MS007.01.13.08

I would I were a fairy, or, bright thoughts for dark hours

Cover depicts a fairy asleep in a grotto.

Date: 1841

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191244

Ref. Code: MS007.01.14.01

Fishing and clamming equipment against delapidated wall, Biddeford Pool, Maine, 1883

Large photograph printed on a thin tissue paper. The image features an assortment of nets, buckets, anchors, oars, sails and a hull all piled in front of a delapidated building. It appears that there is a fish market on the right side of the image.

Date: 1883

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191262

Ref. Code: PC001.02.03.02.004

Temporary

Sub-series

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191260

Ref. Code: EP001.02.TMP

Coal wharves, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Full color postcard depicting the coal wharves at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Steam boats and large sailing ships share the docks. Factories line the shore and a ferry slips through the harbor.

Date: 1909

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191264

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.040

Boulevard by moonlight showing Dragon Gorge scenic route, Revere Beach, Massachusetts

Full color postcard depicts a brightly lit boulevard at Revere Beach, Massachusetts, with a full moon above. Lights are strung along the buildings and over the street itself.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191269

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.041

Cape Ann Fisherman and dory

Full color postcard depicting a fisherman wearing rough weather gear rowing a small boat. Taken on Mill River, the water is calm, with other boats anchored nearby and houses lining the shore.

Date: 1905

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191270

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.042

Salt haying, Polpis, Nantucket

In Polpis on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, a farmer collects cut hay in an ox cart in a salt marsh.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191271

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.043

Schooner Augustus Hunt covered in ice, unloading at the Boston Gas Company's North End Works, 1880s.

The docked schooner Augustus Hunt is covered in thick ice and hoarfrost.

Collection: General marine photographic collection

GUSN: 191274

Ref. Code: PC055.TMP.009

Amusement park and bandstand, Salisbury Beach, Mass., 1910

View of the Salisbury Beach amusement park from the parking lot. A ferris wheel and roller coaster can be seen among other rides. The arcade has many customers and an old Coca-Cola advertisement is on one wall.

Date: 1910

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191275

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2580.0010.001

Merrill's Wharf, New Bedford, Mass., undated

The image of Merrill's Wharf in New Bedford, Massachusetts features a large sailing ship and nearby buildings. A large bulding bearing the sign "Sail Loft" is on the right. The wharf has an air of decline with logs strewn about and grass growing between pieces of pavement.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191278

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.USMA.2010.0090.001

Casks of whale oil, awaiting a market, New Bedford, Mass.

Featured in the postcard are rows of casks filled with whale oil. Many are leaking and/or marked with the letters NS. The dock on which they are laid is also home to a very large sailing ship.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191279

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.044

New Bedford, Mass., speeders, Holmes Mill

Interior view of a factory with speeder machines. The machines line the floor, with mechanisms from floor to ceiling. No factory workers are shown. Spools of yarn or thread are piled on top of some of the machines.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191282

Ref. Code: PC001.03.01.TMP.045

Label for Cocheco, Cocheco Mills, Dover, New Hampshire, undated

Below the image the text reads "Lawrence & Co., Boston."The label features a pair of women dressed in Greco-Roman style seated in front of smokestacks and a large cog. One woman has painted a design and the other is holding a bolt of fabric with the same design patterned on it.

Date: ca. 1866

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191285

Ref. Code: EP001.01.114.01.02.025

Temporary

Sub-sub-series

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191287

Ref. Code: PC001.02.01.TMP

Sperm whaling, "the capture," New Bedford, Mass.

Full-color postcard depicting the hunting of a sperm whale. Six men man a whale boat that has launched from a nearby ship. The small boat is in danger of capsizing in the rough water created by the struggling whale.

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191290

Ref. Code: PC001.03.02.TMP.005

Temporary

Sub-series

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191291

Ref. Code: EP001.04.TMP

Temporary

Sub-series

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 191292

Ref. Code: EP001.05.TMP

Temporary

Sub-series

Collection: Boston Transit Archive, 1895-1960s

GUSN: 191300

Ref. Code: PC017.02.TMP

Temporary

Series

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 191303

Ref. Code: SC002.TMP

Album 17: Views of Boston and Vicinity by Henry Peabody

This album consists of approximately one hundred 8 x 10 inch prints (including some platinum-toned) taken by Henry Peabody circa 1903 to 1904, apparently for the Detroit Publishing Company. An index accompanies this volume which includes several outstanding panoramas of Boston Harbor from various di...

Date: ca. 1903

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191305

Ref. Code: PC009.017

Temporary

Sub-series

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191306

Ref. Code: PC001.01.TMP

Temporary

Sub-sub-series

Collection: General photographic collection

GUSN: 191307

Ref. Code: PC001.04.02.TMP

Temporary

Subgroup

Collection: Bowen family papers

GUSN: 191308

Ref. Code: MS006.TMP

Amy Robsart to the Earl of Leicester

Cover depicts Amy Robsart and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191315

Ref. Code: MS007.01.14.02

Oh swift we go, a sleighing song

Cover depicts two men watching a large sleigh with many passengers pass them. Snow covers the landscape and four horses pull the carriage.

Date: 1840

Collection: Barrett family papers

GUSN: 191327

Ref. Code: MS007.01.15.01

Temporary

Series

Collection: Robert Bayard Severy photographic collection

GUSN: 191316

Ref. Code: PC045.TMP

Massachusetts Towns and Landscapes

46 black and white photographs probably from the end of the 19th century. Locations include Gloucester, Sudbury, Andover (Abbot House), Saugus, Newburyport, Franklin Park, Northboro (including the Eames' house and Eames' house boarders), the Neponset River in Mattapan, the Charles River, Norumbega ...

Date: ca. 1890

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 191323

Ref. Code: PC009.199