1789-1950
Guide to the Photograph Collection
Abstract
Photographs, postcards, and engravings of Massachusetts cities and towns.
Collection Description
Photographs and other graphic material depicting various Massachusetts cities and towns, monuments, historic buildings and houses, and churches. Subjects include views of Boston, Lexington, Plymouth Rock, and Shaker communities in Harvard and Shirley, among many other places. All of the views are mounted and were originally identified, sometimes erroneously, with attached typescript notes by the staff of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Photographers include Charles H. Rogers of Plymouth, Mass. and Richard Merrill; most of the photographers, engravers, and artists are unidentified. Includes stereographs, engravings, photomechanical prints, and postcards.
Acquisition Information
Gift of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, May 2000.
Arrangement
These photographs are arranged alphabetically by city or town.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Beverly
Box 1#196.1
Nathan Dane House, Beverly, ca. 1895
Unknown photographer.Boston
Box 1#196.2
Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Boston Common, 1900-1910
Color postcard.
Box 1#196.3
Boston Harbor, ca. 1870-1880
Unknown photographer.
Box 1#196.4
Custom-House, Boston, ca. 1856
Engraving by J. Andrews after a drawing by C. H. Billings.
Box 1#196.5
Faneuil Hall in 1775 from an engraving in the Massachusetts Magazine of 1789, ca. 1860
Engraved by C. B. Hall, New York.
Box 1#196.6
Faneuil Hall, ca. 1870-1875
Unknown photographer.Stereograph.
Box 1#196.7
Faneuil Hall, ca. 1907
Color postcard.
Box 1#196.8
First Church of Christ, Scientist, ca. 1927
Unknown photographer.
Box 1#196.9
Haymarket Square, 1852
Clipping from Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion.
Box 1#196.10
North view of King's Chapel, Tremont St., 1833
Frontispiece from F. W. P. Greenwood's History of King's Chapel.
Box 1#196.11
King's Chapel, interior, ca. 1896
Unknown photographer.
Box 1#196.12
An East View of the Meeting House in Hollis Street, Boston; now erecting on the ruins of one lately destroyed by fire, 1788
Engraving from Columbian magazine, 1788, by J. Vallance after a drawing by C. H. Bulfinch.
Box 1#196.13
Old North Church, ca. 1900
Unknown photographer.
Box 1#196.14
Paul Revere House, interior, ca. 1905
Color postcard.
Box 1#196.15
Old State House, ca. 1870-1875
Stereograph by an unknown photographer.
Box 1#196.16
Old State House, ca. 1910-1920
Color postcard.
Box 1#196.17
Old State House, lower rotunda, ca. 1935
Postcard.
Box 1#196.18
New State House, ca. 1825
Engraving by Abel Bowen.
Box 1#196.19
New State House, ca. 1904
Color postcard.
Box 1#196.20
East View of State Street, Boston, ca. 1843
Engraving by J. J. Heath. Printed by S. N. Dickinson & Co.
Box 1#196.21-196.22
View of part of the town of Boston in New England, undated
Color photomechanical reproduction and a black and white photograph of the Paul Revere engraving.
Box 1#196.23
View of the town of Boston the Capital of New England, 1787
Engraving from Columbian Magazine, Dec. 1787.
Box 1#196.24
Boston and Bunker Hill from the east, ca. 1840
Engraving signed W. H. Bartlett; F. O. Freeman.
Box 1#196.25
View of Boston from the Bunker Hill Monument, ca. 1870-1875
Stereograph by an unknown photographer.Cambridge
Box 1#196.26
Craigie House, Cambridge, ca. 1895
Unknown photographer.
Box 1#196.27
"Washington elm," Cambridge, ca. 1900
Unknown photographer.Charlestown
Box 1#196.28
Bunker Hill Monument, Charlestown, ca. 1870-1875
Stereograph by an unknown photographer.
Box 1#196.29
Bunker Hill Monument, Charlestown, ca. 1885
Stereograph by an unknown photographer.Concord
Box 1#196.30
Minute Man Statue, Concord, ca. 1906
Unknown photographer.Groton
Box 1#196.31
Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass., ca. 1868
Engraving attributed to Thomas Chubbuck.Harvard
Box 1#196.32
Church Office & Meeting House, Harvard Shaker Community, ca. 1890
Stereograph by an unknown photographer.
Box 1#196.33
Square House, Harvard Shaker Community, ca. 1890
Stereograph by an unknown photographer.Holden
Box 1#196.34
"Badger Farm," Holden, ca. 1911
Unknown photographer.Home of Louise Hamilton Murdock and Emma Baxter.
Ipswich
Box 1#196.35
Whipple House, Ipswich, ca. 1900
Stereograph by an unknown photographer.Lenox
Box 1#196.36
Elm Court, Lenox, after 1885
Unknown photographer.Home of William D. Sloane.
Lexington
Box 1#196.37
View of the Monument and Battle-Ground, at Lexington, Mass., 1852
Clipping from Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, vol. 2.
Box 1#196.38
Minute-Man statue by H. H. Kitson on Lexington battle green, ca. 1900
Unknown photographer.
Box 1#196.39
Old Belfry, Lexington, ca. 1900
Unknown photographer.
Box 1#196.40
Lexington Common, ca. 1910
Stereograph published by Keystone Views Co.
Box 1#196.41
Battle Monument, Lexington, ca. 1935
Unknown photographer.
Box 1#196.42
Stephen Robbins House, Lexington, ca. 1915
Unknown photographer.Nantucket
Box 1#196.43
Quaker Meeting House (interior), Nantucket, undated
Unknown photographer.Plymouth
Box 1#196.44
National Monument to the Forefathers, Plymouth, ca. 1880-1893
Stereograph taken by C. H. Rogers, Plymouth, Mass.
Box 1#196.45
Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth, ca. 1880-1893
Stereograph taken by C. H. Rogers, Plymouth, Mass.
Box 1#196.46
Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth, 1893-1898
Unknown photographer.
Box 1#196.47
Plymouth Rock, ca. 1880-1893
Stereograph taken by C. H. Rogers, Plymouth, Mass.
Box 1#196.48
Plymouth Rock, ca. 1900
Unknown photographer.
Box 1#196.49
Plymouth Rock, 1898
Photomechanical reproduction of photo by E. M. Perry.Saugus
Box 1#196.50-196.51
Iron Works, Saugus, ca. 1950
Taken by Richard Merrill.Shirley
Box 1#196.52
North Family buildings, Shaker Community, Shirley, ca. 1870
Stereograph by an unknown photographer.
Box 1#196.53
North Family buildings, Shaker Community, Shirley, ca. 1870-1875
Stereograph taken by B. F. Foster, Milford, N.H.
Box 1#196.54
North Family buildings, Shaker Community, Shirley, ca. 1870
Stereograph by an unknown photographer.South Hadley
Box 1#196.55
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, ca. 1880
Unknown photographer.Preferred Citation
Massachusetts views III, Photo. Coll. 196, Massachusetts Historical Society Photo Archives.
Access Terms
This collection is indexed under the following headings in ABIGAIL, the online catalog of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related persons, organizations, or subjects should search the catalog using these headings.
Persons:
Merrill, Richard, photographer.
Rogers, Charles H., photographer
Organizations:
Saugus Iron Works--Photographs.
Subjects:
Boston (Mass.)--Photographs.
Boston (Mass.)--Pictorial works.
Church buildings--Massachusetts--Pictorial works.
Cities and towns--Massachusetts--Pictorial works.
Dwellings--Massachusetts--Photographs.
Engravings.
Harvard (Mass.)--Photographs.
Historic buildings--Massachusetts--Photographs.
Historic buildings--Massachusetts--Pictorial works.
Lexington (Mass.)--Photographs.
Massachusetts--Photographs.
Massachusetts--Pictorial works.
Monuments--Massachusetts--Photographs.
Photomechanical prints.
Plymouth (Mass.)--Photographs.
Postcards.
Shakers--Massachusetts--Photographs.
Shirley (Mass.)--Photographs.
Stereographs.