Historic New England

Dreamland, Tunbridge, Vermont, 1963

Reed visited Vermont's Tunbridge Fair, camera in hand, on several occasions. In 1964, Vermont Life published a major photo-essay on the fair, which the editors referred to as "Vermont's own" World's Fair. The fair had a well-earned reputation for being the place where Vermonters let their hair down....

Date: 1963

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194067

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.026

Tunbridge Fair burlesque, Tunbridge, Vermont, 1963

Reed visited Vermont's Tunbridge Fair, camera in hand, on several occasions. In 1964, Vermont Life published a major photo-essay on the fair, which the editors referred to as "Vermont's own" World's Fair. The fair had a well-earned reputation for being the place where Vermonters let their hair down....

Date: 1963

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194068

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.027

Stowe VFD, Stowe, Vermont, 1951

The Volunteer Fire Department in Stowe used an old house to practice their fire-fighting skills. Reed shot with his large format camera, which allowed him to capture the great range of subtleties in the clouds of steam and smoke. The 4" by 5" negative used in this camera permits great richness of to...

Date: 1951

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194070

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.028

Tree branches, Newport, R.I. 1951

Tree branches are outlined against the sky in this abstract photograph.

Date: 1951

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194071

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.029

Adams Wood Mill, Stowe, Vermont, 1952

Reed created this photograph on commission for the mill, probably for an advertisement. Reed was drawn to the way the operator was almost obliterated from view by the shower of wood chips.

Date: 1952

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194073

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.030

Soaped window, Boston, 1953

Reed has described his interest in the calligraphic quality of these random scratches on a soaped window. Images such as this were at the center of much of the creative photography in Boston in the 1950s. Most often referred to as "subjective" in style, it was an approach to photography that paralle...

Date: 1953

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194074

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.031

Charles River, Mass., 1953

Reed photographed industrial sites on several different occasions during his career. In each instance, he worked to make the building appear natural to its surroundings. In this approach, Reed carried on a tradition established by painters and writers living in America a century earlier. The ideal w...

Date: 1953

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194075

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.032

Charlestown, Mass., 1954

Confronted with the problem of how to cover riots in the Charlestown Prison, which were taking place out of sight behind the walls, Reed spent time shooting the environs. Unable to tell the prisoners' story, he created a composition that celebrates the urban landscape while depicting the distance be...

Date: 1954

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194077

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.033

Woman in water, Newport, R.I.

With three simple elements, the body, the water, and the sky, this image exemplifies a tendency towards simplicity characteristic of Reeds creative photography of the mid-1950s.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194078

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.034

Bonfire barrels, Deerfield, Mass., 1955

In New England, many small towns celebrated the Fourth of July with bonfires. Here Reed captures the monumentality of the tower of barrels before they were burned.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194079

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.035

Texas tower, off Cape Cod, Mass., 1955

This rig was an artificial island that served as offshore housing for an early warning radar station for the Continental Air Defense Command. Built in Quincy, it was stationed about 100 miles east of Cape Cod. The five man-made islands in this system, covering 1,000 miles of the eastern seaboard, we...

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194081

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.036

Ledger of Ordway and Williams, Deerfield, N.H., 1807-1808

Merchandise is predominantly fabric and liquors. Other articles range from thimbles to a saddle, with occasional dyes, pieces of clothing, tableware, and food supplies. The credit side of the ledger is an example of barter with goods interspersed with services. Not indexed.

Date: 1807-1808

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194082

Ref. Code: MS002.046

Account books of James Whittemore and Tufts and Whittemore, Weymouth, Mass., 1818-1833

4 account books

Date: 1818-1833

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194083

Ref. Code: MS002.047

Account daybook of James Whittemore, Weymouth, Mass., 1818-1826

Food, fabrics, lumber, and clothing are listed with prices. Individuals' names appear when accounts are settled.

Date: 1818-1826

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194084

Ref. Code: MS002.047.01

Account daybook of James Whittemore and Tufts and Whittemore, Weymouth, Mass., 1826-1833

Food, fabrics, lumber and clothing are listed with prices. Individuals' names appear when accounts are settled.

Date: 1826-1833

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194085

Ref. Code: MS002.047.02

Account book of James Whittemore and Tufts and Whittemore, Weymouth, Mass., 1819

Rentals are itemized for use of horse or of horse and chaise or sleigh. Destinations are in eastern Massachusetts. Clients named only occasionally. Rental of a barn and sale of manure are recorded on last few pages. Back cover appears to be made of printing shop waste - an uncentered page of etc...

Date: 1819

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194086

Ref. Code: MS002.047.03

Album 18-1: Boston Transit Authority : "Photographs of section 2. Beacon Hill Tunnel"

This album includes approximately ninety 5 x 7 inch prints of Tremont Street, especially between Winter and Temple Streets; Boston Common; the construction offices; tunneling operations; and Park Street station underground, including a view of the Cambridge interchange. The images of architectural s...

Date: 1910-1911

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194088

Ref. Code: PC009.018-1

Stock book of James Whittemore and Tufts and Whittemore, Weymouth, Mass., 1823

Inventory of yardgoods, notions, clothing items, hardware (including brass knobs), fish hooks, tools, and books. Outstanding in its variety and listing of small, personal items (shaving brushes, dressing combs, fans etc.). Listing of names having "account in ledge" and of holders of outstanding note...

Date: 1823

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194087

Ref. Code: MS002.047.04

Daybook of James Tirrell, 1825-1833

Items charged include pieces of clothing, foods (with herbs noted), notions, some carpenter's supplies, yardgoods, hides, etc. Also many carting jobs. Charges often offset by labor in making shoes or boots. Newspaper clippings superimposed on pages are mid-nineteenth century. Poetry and editorial...

Date: 1825-1833

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194089

Ref. Code: MS002.048

Daybook of Charles Glines and Co., Canterbury, N.H., Feb. 1883-1884

Transactions are purchases and sales of a variety of foods and household needs.

Date: 1883-1884

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194090

Ref. Code: MS002.049

Horses, Vermont-Quebec border, 1958

Two horses stand nose-to-tail, side-by-side in a field.

Date: 1958

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194098

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.037

Album 18-2: Boston Transit Authority: Boston Common and Public Garden

This album consists of approximately ninety 5 x 7 inch and 8 x 10 inch prints of Boston Common; fences and gates of the Boston Public Garden; fences of the Common along Boylston Street; the Park Square entrance to Common, as standing and in course of removal; birds-eye views of the Public Garden; wo...

Date: 1895

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194092

Ref. Code: PC009.018-2

Daybook of Lewis and Richardson, Boston and Roxbury, Mass., 1811-1815

Listed with cost are foods, hardware, building materials, paper, shoes, leather etc. Several schooners listed on "Adventures to Pleasant River" page.

Date: 1811-1815

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194091

Ref. Code: MS002.050

Daybook of Josiah Sartell, Sartell and Childs, and Sartell and Kendall, Townsend, Mass., 1808-1829

Charges are listed for lumber and sawing, and for labor, in-house construction, and farming chores. Also for hooping barells. Services and purchases from creditors, displaying a barter economy, document details of lifestyle. Arithmetic instruction fills pages 1-97.

Date: 1808-1829

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194093

Ref. Code: MS002.051

Album 18-3: Boston Transit Authority: Tunnel Construction

This album dates from Mar. 22, 1900, to June 28, 1902, and it includes approximately one hundred twenty-five 5 x 7 inch and 8 x 10 inch photographs of tunnel construction; Shawmut Avenue near Pleasant Street, with machinery; construction workers; shafts; Commercial Street; Atlantic Avenue, including...

Date: 1900-1902

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194096

Ref. Code: PC009.018-3

Account book of Nathaniel Brackett, 1817-1822

Livestock dealer Skins, hides, and cattle bought and sold are listed by number or weight with monetary value and customer's name. There is no other type of entry and no suggestion of the tanning process.

Date: 1817-1822

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194094

Ref. Code: MS002.052

Ledgers of Jeremiah and John Pearson, 1673-1741

2 ledgers

Date: 1673-1741

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194095

Ref. Code: MS002.053

Ledger of Jeremiah Pearson, 1673-1689

Listed transactions including those primarily regarding making of meal and fulling of cloth, with weaving and spinning also noted. Some odd jobs and personal business indexed to some extent, including farm chores and construction of a workhouse and prison in 1743 at Salisbury.

Date: 1673-1689

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194097

Ref. Code: MS002.053.01

Album 18-4: Boston Transit Authority: Traffic Congestion

This album is inscribed "Photographs made in connection with investigation of congestion of traffic, etc." It includes approximately forty-five 3 x 5 inch views of Central Wharf; South Market Street; Blackstone Street; North Market Street; Dock Square; Exchange Street; Faneuil Hall Square; Union Str...

Date: 1907

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194099

Ref. Code: PC009.018-4

Ledger of Jeremiah Pearson, 1685-1741

Besides the grinding of corn, rye and wheat into meal and flour, there is a quantity of business in fulling and weaving. Also see 9 pages from end for note regarding hauling masts for six weeks with many other entries specifying logging, drawing, and hauling of masts.

Date: 1685-1741

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194100

Ref. Code: MS002.053.02

Winter, Stowe, Vermont, 1963

Ice and snow accumulate on a window and shutter in Stowe, Vermont.

Date: 1963

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194111

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.038

Album 18-5: Boston Transit Authority: Washington Street

This album includes approximately twenty-seven 5 x 7 inch views of Washington Street, surveyed block by block in 1904. It documents the street from buildings numbered 572 to 754, plus other unnumbered buildings. Some of the photographs in this album have been removed and placed in the appropriate Wa...

Date: 1904

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194101

Ref. Code: PC009.018-5

Album 18-6: Boston Transit Authority: Subway Entrances

This album includes approximately fourteen 5 x 7 inch photographs of subway entrances, including Boylston Street seen from the burial ground on Boston Common; Tremont Street; Central Square in Cambridge; the Revere House, Bowdoin Square (hotel); Dover Street; and two unidentified subway entrances, ...

Date: ca. 1914

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194103

Ref. Code: PC009.018-6

Account book of City Mills, 1830-1832

Records amounts of meal ground for customers, most of whom have accumulated debts under $200 over a period of three to six months.

Date: 1830-1832

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194102

Ref. Code: MS002.054

Account book of Josiah Allen, Boston, Mass., 1780-1828

First quarter of book itemizes sale of leather, hair, and bark. More than half is devoted to payment for labor - mainly in painting and carpentry including work on long wharf. Allen family genealogy notes appear in last portion.

Date: 1780-1828

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194104

Ref. Code: MS002.056

Album 18-7: Boston Transit Authority: Construction

137 5x7 views, including construction of subway near School Street; tunnel at Scollay Square; Boylston Street Station exit; tunnel near Hollis Street; construction work on Section 11, with many buildings indicated, some in snow; Court Street, including both construction and street views, with detail...

Date: 1897-1898

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194105

Ref. Code: PC009.018-7

Album 19: Views of Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire

This album includes seventeen 4 x 5 inch photographs of buildings and scenery in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, taken in 1903. The album includes images of an inn, a tavern, a church, and the green. This album is a travel memento. It is inscribed, but the inscriptions are difficult to read.

Date: 1903

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194106

Ref. Code: PC009.019

Account book of Nathaniel Hesseltine, Weston, Vermont, 1829-1838

Itemizes a variety of small articles sold. Lists towns in Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire. Gives some schedule of travels with uneven faithfulness. Many personal comments suggesting village life. ("A fuss took place" etc.). 1829 road petition regarding towns of Weston, Andover, and Walpole,...

Date: 1829-1838

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194107

Ref. Code: MS002.057

Invoice book of William Jackson and Co., Boston, Mass., 1856-1861

Accounts of shipments of candles and soap, naming customer and container ship; wharfage and insurance charges and destination (mostly US ports) are given. Last third of book is confined to soap factory expenses and itemizing of orders for soap, some exported and some apparently distributed locally.

Date: 1856-1861

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194108

Ref. Code: MS002.058

Ledger, Boston, Mass., 1816-1840

Lists essential materials, with cost, in candle-making, some imported. Includes orders shipped to customers running into 4 figures.

Date: 1816-1840

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194109

Ref. Code: MS002.059

Album 21: Historic Doorways and Buildings

The images of Boston and the surrounding area are bound with material relating to Charleston, South Carolina, and other southern areas. The album includes several hundred 3 x 4 inch photographs varying from detailed views of doorways to general elevations. The Boston images include several details o...

Date: ca. 1928

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194112

Ref. Code: PC009.021

Ledger of Mather Withington, 1792-1831

A partially indexed itemization of professional services (appraising, measuring, protracting, writing warrants, and making appearances in court) with reimbursement by selectmen. An equal amount of space is taken up with household and personal expenditures and labor including farm chores, masonry, a...

Date: 1792-1831

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194113

Ref. Code: MS002.060

Evening Snowfall, Stowe, Vermont, 1971

Snow and ice cover trees in Stowe, Vermont.

Date: 1971

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194115

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.039

Album 22: Boston Buildings and Streets, Part 1

The photographs in Album 22 appear to have been produced in the 1890s or early 1900s as copies of earlier prints originally produced from the 1850s to the 1880s. The originals have not been located, making these albums a significant resource for views by Boston photographers of churches, streets, a...

Date: 1850-1880

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194116

Ref. Code: PC009.022

Account book of Nathan Weston Jr., Maine, 1853-1856

Records fees for legal services under clients' names, occasionally with hometown. Attorney Weston appears to have been in the employ of Penobscot County while carrying on his private practice in east and central Maine, with at least one client in Boston and one railroad company.

Date: 1853-1856

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194114

Ref. Code: MS002.061

Account book, May 1831-July 1832

Records shipments of indigo, most totaling in four figures. Notes quantities, consignments, and names of vessels.

Date: 1831-1832

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194117

Ref. Code: MS002.062

Dump fire, Stowe, Vermont, 1971

The burning at the local dump was a volatile public issue in Stowe. Reed spent many hours documenting the deleterious effects of the smoke on the small town. In this view, he included a series of fence posts evocative of grave markers in a not-so-subtle allusion to the potential impact of pollution....

Date: 1971

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194123

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.040

Album 23: Boston Buildings and Streets, Part 2

The photographs in Album 23 are duplicates of the photographs in Album 22. They appear to have been produced in the 1890s or early 1900s as copies of earlier prints originally produced from the 1850s to the 1880s. The originals have not been located, making these albums a significant resource for ...

Date: 1850-1880

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194118

Ref. Code: PC009.023

Account book of M.L. Williams, Boston, Mass., 1889-1890

Records terms of leases and payments for office quarters, giving names of tenant firms and some addresses.

Date: 1889-1890

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194119

Ref. Code: MS002.063

Account book, New York, 1861-1879

A young man's records of various employment: farm chores, carriage-building, etc. Purchases of food, books, and clothing are interspersed among farm business, shoe repair, etc. Weather reports and declaration of worth at interest (at age 21) and several New York addresses appear.

Date: 1861-1879

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194120

Ref. Code: MS002.064

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