Historic New England

Calendar, S.B. Goddard & Son Co., insurance, 15 Pleasant Street, Woburn, Mass., 1935

The image caption reads "A view of Woburn, Mass. in 1820 from Academy Hill." The calendar has the months September-December.

Date: 1935

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 273866

Ref. Code: EP001.13.05.001

Calendar, S.B. Goddard & Son Co., insurance, 15 Pleasant Street, Woburn, Mass., 1940

The image shows Ichabod Parker's Tavern, later known as the Mishawum House, at the corner of Mishawum Road and Main Street in Woburn, Massachusetts. A trade card attached to the calendar has a Christmas design and reads "Compliments of S.B. Goddard & Son Co., Savings Bank Building, Woburn, Massachus...

Date: 1940

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 273868

Ref. Code: EP001.13.05.002

Envelope for the Travelers calendar, The Travelers, Hartford, Connecticut, 1936

The caption reads "The Travelers 1936 calendar reproduced from Currier and Ives prints for." The illustrations reflect the print subjects in the calendar.

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 273873

Ref. Code: EP001.13.06.001

Calendar for New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., Post Office Square, Boston, Mass., 1883

In the calendar illustration children dressed to represent the four seasons progress up and down steps from a death figure on the right side of the image to an angel figure on the left side of the image.

Date: 1883

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 273874

Ref. Code: EP001.13.02.001

Calendar for New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., Post Office Square, Boston, Mass., 1884

The caption at the top reads "Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest." The Santa Claus figure holds the hand of a female figure wearing an 1884 tiara. The borders have small illustrations representing July 4, Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Date: 1884

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 273875

Ref. Code: EP001.13.02.002

Calendar for New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., Post Office Square, Boston, Mass., 1886

Priscilla Alden, early Plymouth colonist, is shown spinning in the calendar illustration. The caption reads "1620, Priscilla, 1886."

Date: 1886

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 273876

Ref. Code: EP001.13.02.004

Calendar for New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., Post Office Square, Boston, Mass., 1887

The caption above the illustration reads "How it happened." The years below the Company name read "1777, 1887." A Continental soldier tells three women how he was wounded while tea is served.

Date: 1887

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 273878

Ref. Code: EP001.13.02.005

Calendar for New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., Post Office Square, Boston, Mass., 1888

The illustration re-creates the "one if by land, two if by sea" event prior to Paul Revere's famous ride. Lines from the Longfellow poem are at the bottom of the item "And with muffled oar silently rowed to the Charlestown shore just as the moon rose over the bay."

Date: 1888

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 273879

Ref. Code: EP001.13.02.006

Calendar for New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., Post Office Square, Boston, Mass., 1889

The caption at the top of the item reads "1620, a boat from the Mayflower, Mary Chilton at Plymouth Rock." Mary Chilton was supposedly the first woman to step ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Date: 1889

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 273882

Ref. Code: EP001.13.02.007

Calendars for New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., Post Office Square, Boston, Mass., 1890

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 objects and / or historical text. The illustration caption reads "1...

Date: 1890

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 273885

Ref. Code: EP001.13.02.008

Calendar for New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., Post Office Square, Boston, Mass., 1891

The dates below the illustration are "1676, 1891." The caption reads "The hidden foe, settlers returning from church in the time of King Philip's War."

Date: 1891

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 273888

Ref. Code: EP001.13.02.009

Calendars for New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., Post Office Square, Boston, Mass., 1892

The caption reads "The moment of triumph morning of Oct. 19th, 1492." The scene depicts Christopher Columbus and his crew landing in the new world.

Date: 1892

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 273889

Ref. Code: EP001.13.02.010

Calendar for New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., Post Office Square, Boston, Mass., 1893

The U.S.S. Constitution and the H.M.S. Guerriere engage in battle on August 19 during the War of 1812.

Date: 1893

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 273890

Ref. Code: EP001.13.02.011

Calendar for New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., Post Office Square, Boston, Mass., 1894

The image caption reads "The return of the Mayflower."

Date: 1894

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 273891

Ref. Code: EP001.13.02.012

Calendar for New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., Post Office Square, Boston, Mass., 1895

The caption reads "Lifting of the fog, a New England fisherman off the Grand Banks."

Date: 1895

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 273892

Ref. Code: EP001.13.02.013

Calendars for New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., Post Office Square, Boston, Mass., 1897

The caption reads "A wreck off Highland Light, Cape Cod, Mass."

Date: 1897

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 273894

Ref. Code: EP001.13.02.014

Calendar for New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., Post Office Square, Boston, Mass., 1898

The caption below the Washington portrait reads "Washington at Valley Forge." The caption below the smaller image at the bottom reads "Washington's Headquarters at Valley Forge." At the bottom of the item stamped text reads "Compliments of E.A. Pierce, 181 Devonshire St. Room 17."

Date: 1898

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 273909

Ref. Code: EP001.13.02.015

Calendar for New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., Post Office Square, Boston, Mass., 1899

The image caption reads "An old New England homestead." At the bottom of the item stamped text reads "Compliments of E.A. Pierce, 181 Devonshire St. Room 17."

Date: 1899

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 273911

Ref. Code: EP001.13.02.016

Calendar for New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., Post Office Square, Boston, Mass., 1900

The image caption reads "King Philip, The last of the Wampanoags, signing the Treaty of 1671 with the Mass. Bay Colony in the Old Church at Taunton." At the bottom of the item stamped text reads "Compliments of E.A. Pierce, 181 Devonshire St. Room 17."

Date: 1900

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 273912

Ref. Code: EP001.13.02.017

Calendar for New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., Post Office Square, Boston, Mass., 1901

The image caption reads "The Boston Massacre, first blood of the Revolution, March 5, 1770." At the bottom of the item stamped text reads "Compliments of E.A. Pierce, 181 Devonshire St. Room 17."

Date: 1901

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 273916

Ref. Code: EP001.13.02.018

Calendar for New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., Post Office Square, Boston, Mass., 1902

The image caption reads "The ancient and the modern witch of New England." At the bottom of the item stamped text reads "Compliments of E.A. Pierce, 181 Devonshire St. Room 17."

Date: 1902

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 273919

Ref. Code: EP001.13.02.019

Calendar for New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., Post Office Square, Boston, Mass., 1903

The marriage of John and Priscilla Alden is commemorated in the illustration. The image caption reads "The marriage of Priscilla."

Date: 1903

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 273922

Ref. Code: EP001.13.02.020

Calendar for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, Mass., 1887

The image caption reads "John Hancock at Lexington directing the Minute Men to sound the alarm, 1775." The verso has a description of Hancock's role in the ringing of the bell to sound the alarm on the night of April 18, 1775.

Date: 1887

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 273926

Ref. Code: EP001.13.01.001

Ephemera scrapbook

This scrapbook contains harmful imagery and language including racist and stereotypical caricatures. 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...

Date: undated

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 273944

Ref. Code: MS004.003

Camden, Maine, scrapbook

This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings, many from the Camden Whig and Courier showing dates from 1889-1900. Articles include news of summer events and visitors as well as year-round news and comments. These include weather, deaths, boat yard launchings, weddings and visiting yachts.. These clip...

Date: 1889-1900

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 273945

Ref. Code: MS004.004

Boston area trade and greeting cards scrapbook

This scrapbook page contains harmful imagery regarding sexual harassment. 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...

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 273946

Ref. Code: MS004.005

Scrapbook; Boston area trade cards

This large "Card Album" contains a carefully arranged collection of Boston area trade cards interspersed with colorful embossed stickers and cards with sayings and biblical quotes. Included are images of famous political figures, humorous illustrations including a series of baseball terms, and trade...

Date: ca. 1882

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 273947

Ref. Code: MS004.006

Blank scrapbook

This blank scrap book is notable for its decorative embossed cover art. The latest copyright date is listed as 1881. Pages include an alphabetical index and pre-glued adhesives on each page.

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 273951

Ref. Code: MS004.007

Scrapbook of artwork

This slight album contains four pages depicting two house interiors, a girl's costume, and a servies of studies done in ink and chalk, possibly executed as part of an art lesson. The reverse of one image reads "Grade IV Stowager". the album is handmade, bound with brads. Applied illustrations on the...

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 273952

Ref. Code: MS004.008

Scrapbook of sewing and craft projects

This scrap book contains pictures using stitched yarns, colored paper patterns, woven strip patterns, or pinpricks. The condition of the binding is loose.

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 273953

Ref. Code: MS004.009

Scrapbook of cutouts

This clothbound bland book contains approximately 25 pages of cutout images of flowers, horses and riders, hunting scenes, birds, sailing ships and, most notably, horsedrawn fire apparatus and firefighters in action, dating from the late 1800s.

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 273954

Ref. Code: MS004.011

"Our Home" scrapbook

This home-made paperbound booklet entitled "Our Home" contains 12 pages of pasted-in views of house interiors, possibly dating from the 1920's. Each picture is annotated by the owner, Isabel Phillips, with critical comments regarding color schemes, designs and the comfort factor of pictured furnitur...

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 273956

Ref. Code: MS004.013

Quotations scrapbook

This hardbound blank book contains clippings and jottings by the owner, Margaret Danforth, who recorded quotations from a variety of writers and poets such as Shakepeare and Lincoln. The pages are interleaved with many loose newspaper an magazine clippings with sayings, poems, sentimental observatio...

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 273958

Ref. Code: MS004.014

Scrapbook of design clippings

This partially filled blank book, purchased in Boston, contains clippings and advertisements in the Art Nourveau stayle, dating from the 1890's. The owner was evidently interested in the type styles and designs of the period. A handwritten annotation refers to a book on Church Embroidery and there i...

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 274001

Ref. Code: MS004.015

Scapbook of sketches

The artist's initialls F.S. are inscribed on the front cover of this album, which contains watercolors, pencil and charcoal sketches done in an amateur style. Some topics include ladies with hats in profile, gentlemen in profile, and a lady in costume with a parasol. Notably, the artist has sketched...

Collection: Scrapbooks collection

GUSN: 274002

Ref. Code: MS004.016

Calendar for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, Mass., 1888

The image caption reads "American farmers firing the shots heard round the world." There is a portrait of John Hancock in the upper left corner of the illustration and an exterior view of the Hancock House in the lower right corner of the illustration.

Date: 1888

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 274003

Ref. Code: EP001.13.01.002

Calendar for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, Mass., 1889

The image caption reads "Responding to Paul Revere's alarm, April 19, 1775." The item verso describes the central image and the illustrations around the border. This is the fourth in the series of John Hancock historical calendars.

Date: 1889

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 274004

Ref. Code: EP001.13.01.003

Calendars for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, Mass., 1890

The illustration is the Boston Tea Party with the months shown as boxes of tea.

Date: 1890

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 274006

Ref. Code: EP001.13.01.004

Calendar for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, Mass., 1891

The image caption reads "John Hancock visiting President Washington Boston 1789."

Date: 1891

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 274007

Ref. Code: EP001.13.01.005

Calendar for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, Mass., 1892

The image caption reads "John Hancock, Colonel of the Cadets, receiving General Gage. Long Wharf, Boston, May 13th, 1774." The illustration is signed "Copeland 91." The bottom of the item reads "Photograve, Fred H. Allen & Co. Published by J.H. Foster, Hancock Bldg., Boston."

Date: 1892

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 274023

Ref. Code: EP001.13.01.006

Calendar for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, Mass., 1896

The image caption reads "Sunset, July 4th 1776. John Hancock announcing that the Declaration has been signed." The left side of the image has an exterior veiw of Independence Hall in Philadelphia.

Date: 1896

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 274038

Ref. Code: EP001.13.01.007

Calendar for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, Mass., 1897

The item has a portrait of John Hancock, two views of Faneuil Hall (1763, 1896), the Massachusetts seal, lottery tickets and the grasshopper weathervane.

Date: 1897

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 274040

Ref. Code: EP001.13.01.008

Calendar for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, Mass., 1898

The central image is the Sons of Liberty celebrating the repeal of the Stamp Act, August 14,1766 around the Liberty Tree. The lower right corner of the image has a tablet marking the location of the Tree at Essex and Washington Streets. The calendar has tear off pages for the months July-December 18...

Date: 1898

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 274041

Ref. Code: EP001.13.01.009

Calendar for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, Mass., 1899

The image caption reads "John Hancock delivering the annual oration on the Boston Massacre." Two separate illustrations show the Boston Massacre event and the exterior of the Old South Meeting House. The item verso has a description of the Boston Massacre. Text on the verso states "Great care has be...

Date: 1899

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 274075

Ref. Code: EP001.13.01.010

Calendar for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, Mass., 1900

The item verso has a key to the individuals shown in the illustration. The Old State House (1780) and the new State House (1900) are shown in separate images. The bottom of the item reads "Francis Marsh, Gen. Agent, 601 John Hancock Bldg., 178 Devonshire Street, Boston, Mass."

Date: 1900

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 274076

Ref. Code: EP001.13.01.011

Calendar for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, Mass., 1901

The caption below the portrait reads "Dorothy Quincy the wife of Gov. John Hancock." The item verso has background on Dorothy Quincy.

Date: 1901

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 274077

Ref. Code: EP001.13.01.012

Calendar for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, Mass., 1903

Paul Revere's ride and Christ Church where the signal lanterns were displayed are shown in the calendar illustrations. The bottom of the item reads "Francis Marsh, Manager for Eastern Massachusetts, Room 1, 178 Devonshire Street, Boston, Mass." The item verso describes the roles of John Hancock and ...

Date: 1903

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 274081

Ref. Code: EP001.13.01.013

Calendar for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, Mass., 1907

The image caption reads "John Hancock. The first signer of the Declaration of Independence. President of the Continental Congress. After the portrait by Copley." The text at the bottom of the item reads "Herbert S. Tapley, Agent, Danvers, Massachusetts."

Date: 1907

Collection: Ephemera collection

GUSN: 274083

Ref. Code: EP001.13.01.014