Historic New England

Account books, 1807-08, 1817-1833

Bound together: two account books. The first, dating from 1807-1808, evidently was kept by a clerk (as evidenced by the entry for October 1808: "To Theodore Lyman for my services as a clerk [...]," as well as someone making purchases of liquors and cloth for ship's stores or for individuals. This is...

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194341

Ref. Code: MS002.125

In search of snow, Stowe, Vermont, 1964

A young child, dressed warmly, pulls a sled down a dirt road in search of a perfect hill. Snow is piled on either side of the country road.

Date: 1964

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194338

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.051

Picturesque Litchfield County

Picturesque Litchfield County, by Rev. Newell Calhoun. Chicago: The Gravure Illustration Company, 1900.9 part work, including Winsted, Norfolk, New Milford, New Hartford, Torrington, Sharon, Lakeville, Salisbury, Litchfield, Thomaston, Canaan, and Washington. Excellent photographic quality. 9 parts...

Date: 1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194339

Ref. Code: PC009.115

Worcester Illustrated

"Worcester Illustrated." Portfolio of 53 (gravure) plates, excellent quality, wide coverage of local buildings and scenic sites, 1884. Plate #2 titled "Asylum for the Chronic Insane" is missing.

Date: 1884

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194343

Ref. Code: PC009.116

Account book of Samuel Harris, Boston, Mass., Jan. 24, 1800 - Jan. 12, 1809

Records payments to himself for hours worked and to "boy." Also records purchases of lumber and hardware, in addition to rental of shays and other expenses.

Date: 1800-1809

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194344

Ref. Code: MS002.126

Art Work of Plymouth County, Massaschusetts

"Art Work of Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Published in Nine Parts, Chicago: the W. H. Parish Publishing Company, 1896." Cross-referenced in geographic files. Buildings and scenic views. [Gravure] prints are of high quality.

Date: 1896

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194349

Ref. Code: PC009.119

North and South Shore Views

"North and South Shore Views." Photomechanical prints by the Forbes Company, illustrating scenic views and hotels in Nantasket, Marblehead, and Manchester. This volume lacks at least 5 plates, probably of Manchester. The Manchester Historical Society holds the complete volume.

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194351

Ref. Code: PC009.121

Little & Browne Architectural Projects

Albums compiled by the architects Arthur Little and Herbert Browne documenting completed work for several clients.The majority of photographs in these albums were probably commissioned by the firm of Little and Browne to the photographic studios of William Clark (formerly of Soule Photograph Company...

Date: ca.1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194354

Ref. Code: PC009.122A

Scrapbook of Herbert Browne

Albums compiled by the architects Arthur Little and Herbert Browne documenting completed work for several clients.The majority of photographs in these albums were probably commissioned by the firm of Little and Browne to the photographic studios of William Clark (formerly of Soule Photograph Company...

Date: ca. 1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194358

Ref. Code: PC009.122B

Temporary

Series

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 194359

Ref. Code: MS008.TMP

Little & Browne Architectural Projects

Albums compiled by the architects Arthur Little and Herbert Browne documenting completed work for several clients.The majority of photographs in these albums were probably commissioned by the firm of Little and Browne to the photographic studios of William Clark (formerly of Soule Photograph Company...

Date: ca. 1900

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194364

Ref. Code: PC009.122C

Temporary

Series

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194362

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP

Account Books

Sub-series

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194363

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB

Adventure and account book of James Rundlet, Portsmouth, N.H., 1791 - 1793

Brief accounts of shipments of butter, limes, meats, and fish between New Hampshire, West Indies, and Jamaica, naming customer, insurance, and duty charges and profits incurred. Ships mentioned by name.

Collection: Rundlet-May family papers

GUSN: 194367

Ref. Code: MS025.TMP.AB.JR001

Little & Browne Architectural Projects

Albums compiled by the architects Arthur Little and Herbert Browne documenting completed work for several clients.The majority of photographs in these albums were probably commissioned by the firm of Little and Browne to the photographic studios of William Clark (formerly of Soule Photograph Company...

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194368

Ref. Code: PC009.122D

Little & Browne Architectural Projects - Gardens

Albums compiled by the architects Arthur Little and Herbert Browne documenting completed work for several clients.The majority of photographs in these albums were probably commissioned by the firm of Little and Browne to the photographic studios of William Clark (formerly of Soule Photograph Company...

Date: 1908-1909

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194372

Ref. Code: PC009.122E

Account book of Roger Orvis, Goshen, Conn., 1771-1807, 1809-1814

Manuscript account books kept from 1771 to 1807 by builder, furniture-maker, and agricultural worker Roger Orvis of Goshen and Norfolk, Litchfield County, CT, to record his work framing buildings, performing specified agricultural work, and making bedsteads and sleighs, for named Litchfield County ...

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194374

Ref. Code: MS002.136

Account book of Talcott Curtiss, Granville, Hampden County, Mass., 1813-1817

Manuscript business account book, 1813 to 1817, kept by young furniture maker Talcott Curtiss of Granville, Hampden County, MA, to record the wide range of items he built for named customers on specified dates for reported prices, as well as his purchases of cherry, chestnut, hemlock, and pine board...

Date: 1813-1817

Collection: Account books collection

GUSN: 194375

Ref. Code: MS002.137

"Scrap Book": photographs of Pauline Lindsay and her friends and family

Album presumably put together by Pauline Lindsay, with a handwritten title in the front that reads, "The Best Moving Pictures And Entertainments I Have Seen During 1938 And 1939." The first page of the album has a magazine clipping of a photograph of Mickey Rooney glued onto it. The rest of the al...

Date: 1934-1938

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194380

Ref. Code: PC009.093

Picturesque Franklin

Removed to books, 1995.

Date: 1891

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194383

Ref. Code: PC009.096

Roland Newhall interior decoration scrapbook

Removed to scrapbooks, 1995. Interior decoration. A notebook belonging to Roland Newhall, Public School Division (Boston?) 1916. Includes notes on wallpaper, furniture styles, "Colonial doorways," magazine clippings of interiors.

Date: 1916

Collection: Photograph albums collection

GUSN: 194384

Ref. Code: PC009.099

Old North Church, Boston, Mass., 1954

In the image the steeple is lifted by crane to the top of the scaffold enclosed church. The steeple of Boston's Old North Church was seriously damaged by Hurricane Carol on August 31, 1954. The rebuilding of the steeple was a matter of great civic pride in the city. This was the church from which pa...

Date: 1954

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194385

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.052

Mount Vernon Street reflections, Boston, 1955

An open door reflects the image of construction workers across the street. Through the opened door, more construction and rubble can be seen.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194386

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.053

Mount Vernon Street repairs, Boston, 1955

This image depicts a ditch-digger in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood being persistently ignored by three fur-clad women. Reed's instincts drew him to the contrast between the worker and the residents.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194387

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.054

Boston vendor, 1955

A boy investigates goods on a street vendor's table. Other shoppers browse food items.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194388

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.055

North End, Boston, 1955

A female vendor stands outside her shop in the North End of Boston.

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194389

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.056

Organ grinder, Boston, 1955

Reed remembers well the afternoon he made this photograph. Every time he had the shot just right, the boy on the left would jump into the picture. Reed's frustration over this intrusion kept him from printing the image for many years. Yet, now we find that the boy adds a spark of interest. Reed is n...

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194391

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.058

Boston Globe, Boston, 1956

For eighty-seven years, the Boston Globe headquarters was located on "Newspaper Row," a section of Washington Street in downtown Boston, before moving to Dorchester in 1958. Until then, for many Bostonians, part of any day included catching the latest news before it was printed. Here we can see the ...

Date: 1956

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194393

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.059

Poker player, Morrisville, Vermont, 1950

Townsmen sit around a card table playing poker. An onlooker smokes a cigarette.

Date: 1950

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194394

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.060

Twenty below zero, Waterbury, Vermont, 1951

A car, house, and buggy sit in the icy snow in Waterbury, Vermont.

Date: 1951

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194405

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.061

Men at cattle auction, Morrisville, Vermont, 1953

In this study of a group of farmers watching a cattle auction, Reed was clearly interested in the character revealed by their weathered faces. The image was published in the National Humane Review as part of a story documenting inhumane treatment of animals during auctions.

Date: 1953

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194408

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.062

Dowser, Plainfield, Vermont, 1953

A weathered man in overalls, possibly a farmer, holds a v-shaped stick in search of natural elements.

Date: 1953

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194410

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.063

Advertisement for tinned beef, canned by Colonial Provision Company, Boston, Mass., 1948

The advertisement for canned beef with gravy was originally printed in The Epicure's October 1948 issue. The Colonial Provision Company used an image of a chef wearing a large toque on both the cans and in their advertisements. The recipe is branded as "Traditionally New England!"

Date: 1948

Collection: Non-Historic New England periodicals

GUSN: 194412

Ref. Code: SC002.TMP.015

Aroostook County potato picking, Maine, 1954

A young girl wearing a kerchief kneels in a field as she picks potatoes and places them in a large basket. Other pickers and barrels can be seen across the field.

Date: 1954

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194413

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.064

Tug of war, Caledonia County, Vermont, 1958

A crowd cheers on an enormous outdoor game of tug-of-war.

Date: 1958

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194414

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.065

Waiting, Enosburg Falls, Vermont, 1958

Two elderly women wearing dresses sit on the steps outside of a large building, possibly a church.

Date: 1958

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194415

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.066

Northern Vermont family, 1960

When Reed stopped to take a picture of this family in their yard, they asked for a minute to tidy up. The mother did not feel that she had enough presentable clothes for all of her children, and made some of them stay indoors--they can just be seen looking out the window.

Date: 1960

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194416

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.067

Springtime, Stowe, Vermont, 1971

A tractor plows a large field on a beautiful spring day in Vermont. A farmhouse can be seen in the distance.

Date: 1971

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194417

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.068

Audrey, Stowe, Vermont, 1949

This portrait is the earliest photograph in the exhibition. Although the sitter was never pleased with it, thinking it made her look too stern, for Reed it held all the promise of the medium he was just starting to understand. He knew the sitter, but still found that the photograph offered discoveri...

Date: 1949

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194418

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.069

Self-portrait, Boston, 1953

Verner Reed held his camera up to a mirror to take this self-portrait.

Date: 1953

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194419

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.070

Robert Frost, Boston, 1954

The poet Robert Frost (1874-1963) was long associated with the New England states of Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire. He became one of the best-known poets in the country. Reed took this picture of Frost autographing a book for Life while covering the Boston Arts Festival.

Date: 1954

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194423

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.071

Al Duca, Boston, 1954

Artist Al Duca is exhaling cigarette smoke in this informal portrait. The knick-knacks on the window ledge behind him are illuminated by exterior light, which is the only light source in the picture.

Date: 1954

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194424

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.072

T.S. Eliot, Cambridge, Mass., 1955

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948, earned both of his degrees from Harvard University, where he also went on to become the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry. Here he is shown surrounded by his students at Harvard in a photograph that Reed made while on as...

Date: 1955

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194427

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.073

Senator George Aiken, Putney, Vermont, 1956

George Aiken (1892-1984) was a U.S. senator for 34 years (1941-1975). Even so, he was fondly called Governor Aiken throughout his years in Washington, a carryover from his term as the Governor of Vermont (1937-1941). Aiken was a dedicated environmentalist. In 1984, Vermont designated a 5,000-acre pa...

Date: 1956

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194429

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.074

President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Newport, R.I., 1958

The Eisenhower years coincided with Reed's career with Life. Reed was often called upon to cover presidential visits in case something newsworthy occurred. He recalls the particular agony of this assignment in Newport: "The only reason I was there was because it was Life's policy to have a photograp...

Date: 1958

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194432

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.075

Turkeys, Boston, 1952

Two baby carriages stand outside a Boston grocery store. A large sign stating the price of turkeys hangs immediately above the carriages.

Date: 1952

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194433

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.076

DAR, Newbury, Vermont, 1953

Three women hold cups and saucers in a residence in Newbury, Vermont.

Date: 1953

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194434

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.077

New shoes, Newbury, Vermont, 1953

Two older women stand beneath a clothesline on a sunny day in Vermont. One of the women shows off her new shoes to her friend.

Date: 1953

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194435

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.078

Puddle jumper, Boston, 1953

A man in a coat and hat stretches his legs wide to navigate over a puddle. The winter streets of Boston are covered in snow, ice, and water.

Date: 1953

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194437

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.079

Boston Arts Festival, 1954

The Boston Arts Festival was both a celebration of local artists and a protest. There was a growing feeling among artists living and working in the Boston area that they were being overlooked by the area museums, which were more concerned with international trends than with the diverse and vibrant c...

Date: 1954

Collection: Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972

GUSN: 194439

Ref. Code: PC044.TMP.080

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