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Old Homes, Old Families album

Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Location Note

HGO-01-001-O-C-307

GUSN

GUSN-283426

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Description

The clippings in this album, entitled Scraps, are largely from a series called Old Homes, Old Families and are illustrated with line engravings of historic houses in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine, possibly rom the Boston Globe. Also included are many poems and articles about families and family life in Olden Times dating from the 1890s.
Among the houses documented are: Phipps House, Salem Street, Boston; Nurse House, Danvers; Blaney House, Everett; Chute House, Byfield; Sampson Estate, Bedfored; Kersiah Randell House; and homes in Exeter and Hampton, NH and Tunbridge, VT.

Details

Descriptive Terms

scrapbooks

Physical Description

One scrapbook;

Collection Code

MS004

Collection Name

Scrapbooks collection

Reference Code

MS004.034

Date Notes

1890s

Record Details

Material Type

scrapbooks

Description Level

Item

Location Note

HGO-01-001-O-C-307

Related Items

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

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