Historic New England

Antique purchase, Albany, Vermont, 1951

A man in a trenchcoat, viewed from behind, attempts to fit a large wooden wheel in the back of his car.

Date: 1951

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194549

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.013

Moulton House scrapbook

Removed to scrapbooks. Includes photographs, clippings and related memorabilia (correspondence, invoices) relating to property, its background and ownership by Mr. Harland Little. Includes material relating to residences of similar style in other parts of New England. Date, 1920. Includes some in...

Date: 1920

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194538

Ref. Code: PC009.140A

Little scrapbook

Removed to scrapbooks. Consists of memorabilia, snapshots and clippings, covering among other subjects commencement and class reunion of Bates College (Lewiston, Maine), outings in New Hampshire gardens and garden club activities. Includes letter of acknowledgement for albums from W.S. Appleton, 19...

Date: ca. 1920

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194539

Ref. Code: PC009.140B

Account book of Edward Rundlet, physician and merchant, Portsmouth, N.H., 1851-1853

Labeled "accounts settled." Customer's name appears only when accounts are settled. Entries include payments on taxes, insurance, railroad fees, and assorted household expenses.

Date: 1851-1853

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194543

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-ER-I-2

Hampton Falls Unitarian Church scrapbook

Removed to scrapbooks. Presumed to be part of this collection, consists of clippings relating to Unitarian Church services, photographs of church, and pageant "Ancestor's Sunday" 1952.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194540

Ref. Code: PC009.140C

Moulton House scrapbook

Removed to scrapbooks. Consists of genealogical notes, architecture of the house and letters of interest received by the Littles.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194542

Ref. Code: PC009.140D

Moulton House Legendary and Historical Notes

Removed to scrapbooks. Legendary and historical notes on the Jonathan Moulton House owned by Mr. Harland Little.

Date: 1920-1950

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194544

Ref. Code: PC009.140E

Moulton House manuscript material

Removed to Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection. Separated from this collection and filed with "miscellaneous manuscripts: semibound." Volume of original and manuscript copies of documents relating to the Moulton Family of Hampton, New Hampshire. Compiled by Jennie Brooks of Salem, Massachusetts.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194546

Ref. Code: PC009.140F

Account book of Edward Rundlet, physician and merchant, Portsmouth, N.H., 1855-1863

Scattered monthly accounts noting amount paid or due. Type of services or merchandise not indicated. Entries paid out include taxes, postal due, and insurance fees.

Date: 1855-1863

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194547

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-ER-I-1

Keeping dry, Albany, Vermont, 1951

A man sits on a wooden bench with a handkerchief on his head to protect him from the rain. A woman holds an umbrella over him.

Date: 1951

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194555

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.014

Couple at auction, Albany, Vermont, 1951

Two elderly women sit together and talk at an antiques auction in Vermont.

Date: 1951

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194556

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.015

Sweet briar waltz : recreation march

The cover depicts two maidens dancing around a tree. A cherub plays a lute above them.

Date: 1873

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 194562

Ref. Code: EP001.10.TMP.069

Account book of Edward Rundlet, physician and merchant, Portsmouth, N.H., 1858-1860

Financial entries covering specific foodstuffs and household items, taxes, and large sums paid to Mechanics and Traders Bank. Prices given for all items, but there are no monthly or yearly totals evident.

Date: 1858-1860

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194563

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-ER-II-3

Account book for James Rundlet May, physician, Portsmouth, N.H.

Records expenditures for a Memorial Day celebration kept by the "Memorial Committee." Itemized costs for the brass band, musicians, printing costs, etc. Also lists city appropriations and contributions. Includes a brief letter from the Memorial Committee appointing the writer to manage the account.

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194567

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-JRM-I-2a

Sketches of European Churches

Album compiled by architect J.W. Ames. Includes detailed sketches of European churches, interiors, circa 25 photographs; 10 pen and ink sketches.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194568

Ref. Code: PC009.142

Historic houses in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine

Removed to scrapbooks, 1995. Album of clippings illustrated with line engravings of historic houses in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine. Part of series titled "Old Homes, Old Families" plus other articles, not from this series, relating to the same subject. Houses documented include...

Date: 1890s

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194575

Ref. Code: PC009.143

Account book of James Rundlet May, physician, Portsmouth, N.H., 1881-1882

Small monthly record of personal expenses. Items such as stamps, telegrams, food, and clothing are listed. Includes summary by type of expenditure: clothing, gifts, and traveling for a two year period. Cost of journeys to Boston, New York, Washington, Norwich, and Windsor are itemized. Names men...

Date: 1881-1882

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194570

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-JRM-I-2ab

Account book of Jonathan Sayward, merchant, York, Maine, 1741

Concerns small shipping transactions of foodstuffs (rum and molasses) and various drygoods. Also contains figures for lumber lengths, religious poetry, and two brief accounts of ocean trips from Maine to Boston and Rhode Island. These include weather observations. Names mentioned: Capt. Josiah Beal,...

Date: 1741

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194573

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.SY-1-3

Account book and memorandum for Samuel Lord, financial investor, Portsmouth, N.H., 1851-1878

An accounting of income and expenditures. Lists property holdings and investments with values. Profit losses are itemized and clients listed by name. Also includes a yearly financial summary (state of affairs) in a journal format, mentioning topic of interest in the cotton manufacturing trade. The 1...

Date: 1851-1878

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194578

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.RM-SL-I-5

Bungalow designs

Removed to scrapbooks, 1995. Bungalow designs compiled from newspapers, circa 1910-1920. Floor plans, renderings and photographs of various styles by Glenn Saxton, Charles Sedgwick and others.

Date: ca. 1915

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194576

Ref. Code: PC009.144

Columbian Portfolio: World's Fair 1893

Columbian portfolio. Photographs of World's Fair 1893. 22 halftone plates, plus color supplements (10) Illustrating individual buildings and general views with explanatory text. Color supplement published July 2, 1893 by Chicago Tribune Art Supplement and photomechanicals published by The Jones Br...

Date: 1893

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194579

Ref. Code: PC009.145

Views of Massachusetts and Vermont

4x7 albumen prints, exposed in the 1880s, probably by an amateur photographer. Quality and pictorial interest are above average. Views include: Provincetown, Massachusetts; Hyde Park, Massachusetts; Boston, Massachusetts; Moon Island Pumping Station and Sewarage Plant, Bellows Falls, Vergennes, Ru...

Date: ca. 1880

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194583

Ref. Code: PC009.146

Cash book of Jonathan Sayward Barrell, merchant, York, Maine, 1818-1835

Record of accounts listing customers, personal travel expenses, laborers' wages, and banking transactions. Includes some brief memoranda about "putting out" son, Joseph, to Stephen Lowell in Boston. Also, includes contracts of employment with live-in laborers.

Date: 1818-1835

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194598

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.SY-I-12a

House and Family Album

34 pages of gaslight prints, 3-4 prints per page, documenting interiors, pasttimes, pets, and family members. Locality not identified. Views include parade, attic storage, decorations. Pictorial quality is very good; print quality is variable. Dates to circa 1900. A avaluable study album for int...

Date: ca. 1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194596

Ref. Code: PC009.147

Views of New York State

Largely views of New York State, including Vassar College, circa 1890s. 61 photographs

Date: ca. 1895

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194597

Ref. Code: PC009.148

Views of Families in Massachusetts

28 albumen prints, 4x7, circa 1886. Includes views of families posed in front of their homes in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. Pictorial quality above average.

Date: ca. 1886

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194600

Ref. Code: PC009.149

Travel Album of W. B. Storer

Travel album (10 1/2 x 12) evidently compiled or owned by W.B. Storer whose name appears on the cover. Of particular interest is a large group of cartes de visites documenting various regional styles of Russian military dress, issued by a St. Petersburg photographer. Thre are also photographs of exc...

Date: 1860-1870

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194606

Ref. Code: PC009.151

Art Masterpieces of Europe

30 leaves of "art masterpieces" from collections in Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome, Paris, London. Carte de visite size, but not mounted in the usual fashion on cards. Two pages include larger size views, dating probably from the 1870s. Overall this album constitutes an interesting record of taste...

Date: ca. 1870

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194609

Ref. Code: PC009.152

Receipt of Jonathan Sayward Barrell, merchant, York, Maine, 1765-1814

Receipts for purchase of drygoods, livestock, servicing livestock, and state and parish taxes. All receipts include a signature or personal marking. As executor for Jonathan Sayward (father), the writer kept receipts of bequests to family members. Includes mention of bequest money to be used as part...

Date: 1765-1814

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194610

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.SY-I-12b

Carte-de-Visite album

Carte-de-visite (1860s) album in good condition (5x6 inches). Original ownership unknown. The sequence appears to be in original order with an unusual portrait of a disabled man at the end. Locality appears to be Manchester, New Hampshire.

Date: 1860

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194611

Ref. Code: PC009.153

Edith Erley, Christmas 1905

Postcard album, inscribed "Edith Erley, Christmas, 1905" with decorative cover, dimensions 8x14 1/2. Included are views of the following: Maine: Waterville, Old Orchard, Poland Springs, Portland, Rockland, Lewiston, York, Kennebunk, Wells Beach New Hampshire: Manchester, Somersworth, Portsmouth ...

Date: 1905

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194618

Ref. Code: PC009.154

Cashbook for Jonathan Sayward Barrell, merchant, York, Maine, 1820-1823

A combination of accounts: expenses incurred on trips from Maine to Boston, and business transactions and accounts relating to shipping. Includes extensive figures for cords of wood.

Date: 1820-1823

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194614

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.SY-I-12c

Cashbook of Jonathan Sayward Barrell, merchant, York, Maine, 1818-1820

A brief monthly listing of cash received, merchandise and names of customers are not mentioned. Possibly a partial account as monthly amounts received are very small.

Date: 1818-1820

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194615

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.SY-I-14a

New England Postcard Album

Postcard album compiled by unknown, possibly Bannister, Readsboro, Vermont circa 1906. Useful for coverage of western Massachusetts (Northampton and vicinity), and Readsboro, Vermont.

Date: ca. 1906

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194619

Ref. Code: PC009.155

Cashbook

Cashbook for the "Upper Store," including brief monthly listings of cash received. Merchandise and names of customers are not listed. Includes occasional mention of names and foodstuffs.

Date: 1817-1818

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 194620

Ref. Code: MS031.01.06.02.01

Postcard Album

Postcard album, compiler unknown. Includes series of views of Eagle Lake and Eagle Lake Camps, Maine. Good coverage of Rochester, Vermont and Fort Kent, Maine. Also Sherbourne, VT, Peterborough, NH and Orange, MA

Date: ca.1937

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194622

Ref. Code: PC009.156

Cashbook

Brief monthly accounts noting cash sales from general merchandise. Few specifics are given. Includes mention of expenses on a trip to Boston and a list of articles on board the ship "Fair Play."

Date: 1818

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 194623

Ref. Code: MS031.01.06.02.02

Notes payable

Monthly accounting for notes, with individuals named. Many transactions with the New Hampshire Union Bank.

Date: 1809-1811

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 194634

Ref. Code: MS031.01.06.04.01

Account book

Includes itemized expenses incurred while boarding away from home. Contains an inventory of clothing and bedding taken on board the U.S. Frigate Congress and expenses incurred in the West Indies. Extensive listing of board lengths and prices.

Date: 1799-1805

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 194636

Ref. Code: MS031.01.12.01.01

Account book

Scattered accounts of ships' cargo. Includes bricks, foodstuffs, fish, and lumber. Small accounts. Costs not always given. Ships mentioned: "Success."

Date: 1822

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 194639

Ref. Code: MS031.01.12.01.02

Residence on Mystic Lake, Arlington, Mass.

This album, presumably by an amateur photographer, documents the interior (hall, parlor, dining room, library, sitting room) of a middle class residence. See pages 6, 13, 15, 16, 20, 34, and 37 for wallpaper. The residence is probably located on Mystic Lake in Arlington, Mass., according to Richard ...

Date: 1880-1890

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194652

Ref. Code: PC009.159

Account book

Detailed household account. Merchandise is itemized and is very specific. For example: errand boy, charity donations, cost for a piece of fruit. Also includes a separate spinning and yarn account.

Date: 1835-1851

Collection: Sayward family papers

GUSN: 194651

Ref. Code: MS031.01.16.02.01

Massachusetts Residences and Clubs

Bound album 10x14 consisting of 5x6 photographs (some smaller) by an amateur photographer documenting a variety of interiors and exteriors of residences as well as clubs in the following localities: Newburyport, Sherborn, East Wakefield, Portsmouth and Newbury. There are several scenes of family ac...

Date: 1900-1915

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194660

Ref. Code: PC009.161

Pinesbank, Jamaica Plain, 1891

"Pinesbank," "Jamaica Plain, 1891" A titled album of 14 plates, consisting of 3 photos per plate in circular Kodak format. Images document family life of Mr. and Mrs. Peder Olson and their children who leased "Pinbank" in 1891. Of special interest because the daguerreotype collection of SPNEA's...

Date: 1891

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194661

Ref. Code: PC009.163

Kingston, Massachusetts Residence

This consists of 26 leaves, on which are mounted 4x7 photographs, average to good quality, documenting the residence, guests, residents, interiors and surroundings of a (summer?) house in Kingston, Massachusetts, 1898-1899, apparently belonging the to the Barker family. Other residences in the town...

Date: 1898-1899

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194663

Ref. Code: PC009.164

Chelsea, Massachusetts

Series of 21 mounted photographs of Chelsea, MA [O.F. Baxter?. 1868?]. Attribution and date are based on the similarity between photograph 9 of the series and a stereoscopic view of the 4th of July celebration, Chelsea, 1868 published by O.F. Baxter, Chelsea, MA (first series) in our collection....

Date: 1868

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194671

Ref. Code: PC009.180

Beauport

This consist of approximately 50 leaves, mounted on each side (rather casually) with a variety of black and white (few early color prints, 1950s) photographs depicting social occasions at Beauport, in Eastern Point, Gloucester, Massachusetts. Dates span the 1940s and early 1950s. People are lavish...

Date: 1940-1950

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194667

Ref. Code: PC009.165A

Beauport

Beauport, "Gloucester, August 1940" 19 photographs mounted on black paper by an unidentified photographer, 1940. Spiral binding. The album contains chiefly interior views of rooms corwded with furnishings and various collections (16), but also depicts men looking out toward a ship as they lunch...

Date: 1940

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194668

Ref. Code: PC009.165B

Beauport

Red leather photograph album (21 1/4x14") with gold embossed lettering and case of Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Found on site and removed in 1991. Compiled circa 1936 by Mrs. Charles E. F. McCann. Captions to the photographs and articles were provided by the compi...

Date: 1936

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194669

Ref. Code: PC009.165C

Landscape paintings by Philip Little

"Book of photos of paintings by Mr. Philip Little, artist." 13 landscapes (depicted in black and white) dating principally from 1908-09. Titles are supplied. Evidently the personal copy of Philip Little, since his initials are on the cover of this otherwise unpossessing paper album.

Date: 1908-1909

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194670

Ref. Code: PC009.167

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