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Reverend Timothy Walker House, 276 North Main Street, Concord, Merrimack County, NH

Reverend Timothy Walker House, 276 North Main Street, Concord, Merrima...

Significance: The old (1733-74) portion of the house is representative of the typical New England minister's house in the 2nd quarter of the 18th century. It was enlarged toward the end of the century and agai... More

Blakeslee House, 1211 Barnes Road, Wallingford, New Haven County, CT

Blakeslee House, 1211 Barnes Road, Wallingford, New Haven County, CT

Significance: The Blakeslee House is significant as a relatively well-preserved example of 18th-century New England domestic architecture. Its post-and-beam framing, central-chimney plan, clapboarded exterior,... More

Tuttle Bridge, Spanning Housatonic River on Golden Hill Road, Lee, Berkshire County, MA

Tuttle Bridge, Spanning Housatonic River on Golden Hill Road, Lee, Ber...

Significance: The Tuttle Bridge is an excellent, virtually unaltered, example of William O. Douglas's 1885 patent, which he claimed improved upon his earlier (1878) patent for a lenticular truss bridge. The Tu... More

Mission Frame House, King & Kawaiahao Streets, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI

Mission Frame House, King & Kawaiahao Streets, Honolulu, Honolulu Coun...

Significance: The house is credited as the oldest frame house in the Hawaiian Islands, built during the reign of King Kamehameha II. It gains additional distinction from the fact that it represents one of the... More

Mission Frame House, King & Kawaiahao Streets, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI

Mission Frame House, King & Kawaiahao Streets, Honolulu, Honolulu Coun...

Significance: The house is credited as the oldest frame house in the Hawaiian Islands, built during the reign of King Kamehameha II. It gains additional distinction from the fact that it represents one of the... More

Phippsburg Congregational Church, Gun Hill at Kennebec River, Phippsburg, Sagadahoc County, ME

Phippsburg Congregational Church, Gun Hill at Kennebec River, Phippsbu...

Significance: This structure was first built in 1802, "new-modeled" with Gothic exterior detailing added when the pews were replaced, the gallery removed, and the entry relocated. New windows were added in 1909... More

Mechanic Street Bridge, Spanning Israel River, Lancaster, Coos County, NH

Mechanic Street Bridge, Spanning Israel River, Lancaster, Coos County,...

Significance: The Mechanic Street Bridge is an excellent example of the bridge truss developed in the 1840s by Peter Paddleford of Littleton, New Hampshire. The design features a multiple kingpost truss with l... More

Mechanic Street Bridge, Spanning Israel River, Lancaster, Coos County, NH

Mechanic Street Bridge, Spanning Israel River, Lancaster, Coos County,...

Significance: The Mechanic Street Bridge is an excellent example of the bridge truss developed in the 1840s by Peter Paddleford of Littleton, New Hampshire. The design features a multiple kingpost truss with l... More

Col. Fremont's last grand exploring expedition in 1856

Col. Fremont's last grand exploring expedition in 1856

Fremont and his abolitionist supporters are ridiculed. In particular, the artist condemns the Republican candidate's alliance with New York "Tribune" editor Horace Greeley and Henry Ward Beecher and Beecher's r... More

Willimantic Linen Company, Mill No. 1, Immediately West of South Main Street, North Bank of Willimantic River, Windham, Windham County, CT

Willimantic Linen Company, Mill No. 1, Immediately West of South Main ...

Significance: Mill No. 1 was the first large industrial building erected by the Willimantic Linen Company, in a complex which remained the major source of local employment for 130 years. Expansion of facilitie... More

Cheshire Number One Mill, Main & Grove Streets, Harrisville, Cheshire County, NH

Cheshire Number One Mill, Main & Grove Streets, Harrisville, Cheshire ...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The mill was built in 1847 and was operated continuously as a woolen textile m... More

Caesaria River House, Perry Road, Greenwich, Cumberland County, NJ

Caesaria River House, Perry Road, Greenwich, Cumberland County, NJ

Significance: The Caesaria River House, a significant example of a southeastern New England timber framing tradition transplanted to the mid-Atlantic, represents the first period of durable building in the regi... More

Norwich Line, between New York, Boston and Worcester, via New York and New England Railroad

Norwich Line, between New York, Boston and Worcester, via New York and...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Parsons, C. R.

Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge, Spanning Connecticut River between Cornish, NH, & Windsor, VT, Cornish City, Sullivan County, NH

Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge, Spanning Connecticut River between Cor...

Significance: The Cornish-Windsor Bridge is the longest covered bridge in the U.S. and the second-longest two-span covered bridge in the world. It is an excellent example of the work of James Tasker and Bela F... More

Fort Rodman Military Reservation, Officers' Quarters, West side of entrance drive, .2 mile south of Rodney French Boulevard, New Bedford, Bristol County, MA

Fort Rodman Military Reservation, Officers' Quarters, West side of ent...

Significance: The Officer's Quarters exterior retains its integrity of location, setting, materials, and workmanship. Its construction was associated with the installation of Fort Rodman of Endicott Period bat... More

Fort Rodman Military Reservation, Officers' Quarters, West side of entrance drive, .2 mile south of Rodney French Boulevard, New Bedford, Bristol County, MA

Fort Rodman Military Reservation, Officers' Quarters, West side of ent...

Significance: The Officer's Quarters exterior retains its integrity of location, setting, materials, and workmanship. Its construction was associated with the installation of Fort Rodman of Endicott Period bat... More

Whittier Bridge, Spanning the Bearcamp River, West Ossipee, Carroll County, NH

Whittier Bridge, Spanning the Bearcamp River, West Ossipee, Carroll Co...

Significance: Whittier Bridge is a good example of the bridge truss developed in the 1840s by Peter Paddleford of Littleton, New Hampshire. The design features long counterbraces to help distribute loads throu... More

Salmon Dutton House, Cavendish, Windsor County, VT

Salmon Dutton House, Cavendish, Windsor County, VT

Significance: The Salmon Dutton House demonstrates the additive quality indicative of many New England houses from its traditional ca. 1781 saltbox form to accommodate new uses over time including store, inn, a... More

Durfee Mills, Plymouth Avenue & Pleasant Street, Fall River, Bristol County, MA

Durfee Mills, Plymouth Avenue & Pleasant Street, Fall River, Bristol C...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The Durfee Mills was the largest single firm of textile manufacturers in Fall ... More

Durfee Mills, Plymouth Avenue & Pleasant Street, Fall River, Bristol County, MA

Durfee Mills, Plymouth Avenue & Pleasant Street, Fall River, Bristol C...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The Durfee Mills was the largest single firm of textile manufacturers in Fall ... More

Champion-International Paper Company, West bank of Spicket River at Canal Street, Lawrence, Essex County, MA

Champion-International Paper Company, West bank of Spicket River at Ca...

Significance: Although much of the paper mill complex is not longer extant, the surviving structures represent the chronology of several important New England paper manufacturing companies, from the pioneering ... More

Champion-International Paper Company, West bank of Spicket River at Canal Street, Lawrence, Essex County, MA

Champion-International Paper Company, West bank of Spicket River at Ca...

Significance: Although much of the paper mill complex is not longer extant, the surviving structures represent the chronology of several important New England paper manufacturing companies, from the pioneering ... More

Orthodox Congregational Church, Central & Church Streets, Manchester, Essex County, MA

Orthodox Congregational Church, Central & Church Streets, Manchester, ...

Significance: Copied from the Country Builder's Assistant, America's first architectural treatise, this classical form became the archetype of early American ecclesiastical architectural practices. Tall steepl... More

Hotel Charles, 1741-1767 Main Street & 9-17 Frank B. Murray Street, Springfield, Hampden County, MA

Hotel Charles, 1741-1767 Main Street & 9-17 Frank B. Murray Street, Sp...

Significance: The Hotel Charles complex was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on February 24, 1983 as a contributing structure in the Downtown Springfield Historic Resources Area (63 properties... More

Hotel Charles, 1741-1767 Main Street & 9-17 Frank B. Murray Street, Springfield, Hampden County, MA

Hotel Charles, 1741-1767 Main Street & 9-17 Frank B. Murray Street, Sp...

Significance: The Hotel Charles complex was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on February 24, 1983 as a contributing structure in the Downtown Springfield Historic Resources Area (63 properties... More

Hotel Charles, 1741-1767 Main Street & 9-17 Frank B. Murray Street, Springfield, Hampden County, MA

Hotel Charles, 1741-1767 Main Street & 9-17 Frank B. Murray Street, Sp...

Significance: The Hotel Charles complex was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on February 24, 1983 as a contributing structure in the Downtown Springfield Historic Resources Area (63 properties... More

Wickham-Virginialentine House, 1015 East Clay Street, Richmond, Independent City, Virginia

Wickham-Virginialentine House, 1015 East Clay Street, Richmond, Indepe...

Significance: The Wicham-Valentine House is one of the finest domestic expressions of early Neo-classical architecture in America. The design of the mansion, which was built in 1812 for John Wickham, was execu... More

Wickham-Virginialentine House, 1015 East Clay Street, Richmond, Independent City, Virginia

Wickham-Virginialentine House, 1015 East Clay Street, Richmond, Indepe...

Significance: The Wicham-Valentine House is one of the finest domestic expressions of early Neo-classical architecture in America. The design of the mansion, which was built in 1812 for John Wickham, was execu... More

Wickham-Virginialentine House, 1015 East Clay Street, Richmond, Independent City, Virginia

Wickham-Virginialentine House, 1015 East Clay Street, Richmond, Indepe...

Significance: The Wicham-Valentine House is one of the finest domestic expressions of early Neo-classical architecture in America. The design of the mansion, which was built in 1812 for John Wickham, was execu... More

U.S. Coast Guard Cape Cod Canal Station, Station House, Off Coast Guard Road, about 1 mile north of U.S. Route 6A intersection, Sandwich, Barnstable County, MA

U.S. Coast Guard Cape Cod Canal Station, Station House, Off Coast Guar...

Significance: The station house was constructed as an updated office and residential (berthing) facility for the U.S. Coast Guard Cape Cod Canal Station following the demolition of the original facility at a si... More

U.S. Coast Guard Cape Cod Canal Station, Station House, Off Coast Guard Road, about 1 mile north of U.S. Route 6A intersection, Sandwich, Barnstable County, MA

U.S. Coast Guard Cape Cod Canal Station, Station House, Off Coast Guar...

Significance: The station house was constructed as an updated office and residential (berthing) facility for the U.S. Coast Guard Cape Cod Canal Station following the demolition of the original facility at a si... More

U.S. Coast Guard Cape Cod Canal Station, Station House, Off Coast Guard Road, about 1 mile north of U.S. Route 6A intersection, Sandwich, Barnstable County, MA

U.S. Coast Guard Cape Cod Canal Station, Station House, Off Coast Guar...

Significance: The station house was constructed as an updated office and residential (berthing) facility for the U.S. Coast Guard Cape Cod Canal Station following the demolition of the original facility at a si... More

U.S. Coast Guard Cape Cod Canal Station, Station House, Off Coast Guard Road, about 1 mile north of U.S. Route 6A intersection, Sandwich, Barnstable County, MA

U.S. Coast Guard Cape Cod Canal Station, Station House, Off Coast Guar...

Significance: The station house was constructed as an updated office and residential (berthing) facility for the U.S. Coast Guard Cape Cod Canal Station following the demolition of the original facility at a si... More

India Point Railroad Bridge, Spanning Seekonk River between Providence & East Providence, Providence, Providence County, RI

India Point Railroad Bridge, Spanning Seekonk River between Providence...

Significance: The India Point Railroad Bridge is one of 25 surviving swing bridges in southern New England, and one of three in Rhode Island. It is an example of early-twentieth-century bridge truss design in ... More

India Point Railroad Bridge, Spanning Seekonk River between Providence & East Providence, Providence, Providence County, RI

India Point Railroad Bridge, Spanning Seekonk River between Providence...

Significance: The India Point Railroad Bridge is one of 25 surviving swing bridges in southern New England, and one of three in Rhode Island. It is an example of early-twentieth-century bridge truss design in ... More

India Point Railroad Bridge, Spanning Seekonk River between Providence & East Providence, Providence, Providence County, RI

India Point Railroad Bridge, Spanning Seekonk River between Providence...

Significance: The India Point Railroad Bridge is one of 25 surviving swing bridges in southern New England, and one of three in Rhode Island. It is an example of early-twentieth-century bridge truss design in ... More

Zehender Theil Americae darinnen zubefinden: Erstlich, Zwo Schiffarten Herrn Americi Vesputii vnter König Ferninando in Castilien vollbracht. Zum andern: Ein gründlicher Bericht von dem jetzigen Zustand der Landschafft Virginien ... Beneben einer Heyrath dess Königs Powhatans in Virginien Tochter, mit einem vornemmen Englischen,

Zehender Theil Americae darinnen zubefinden: Erstlich, Zwo Schiffarten...

The 1st pt. is based on Vespucci's letters giving an account of his 1st and 2d voyages, in 1497 and 1499. First issue. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 196. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. ... More

Zehender Theil Americae darinnen zubefinden: Erstlich, Zwo Schiffarten Herrn Americi Vesputii vnter König Ferninando in Castilien vollbracht. Zum andern: Ein gründlicher Bericht von dem jetzigen Zustand der Landschafft Virginien ... Beneben einer Heyrath dess Königs Powhatans in Virginien Tochter, mit einem vornemmen Englischen,

Zehender Theil Americae darinnen zubefinden: Erstlich, Zwo Schiffarten...

The 1st pt. is based on Vespucci's letters giving an account of his 1st and 2d voyages, in 1497 and 1499. First issue. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 196. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. ... More

Zehender Theil Americae darinnen zubefinden: Erstlich, Zwo Schiffarten Herrn Americi Vesputii vnter König Ferninando in Castilien vollbracht. Zum andern: Ein gründlicher Bericht von dem jetzigen Zustand der Landschafft Virginien ... Beneben einer Heyrath dess Königs Powhatans in Virginien Tochter, mit einem vornemmen Englischen,

Zehender Theil Americae darinnen zubefinden: Erstlich, Zwo Schiffarten...

The 1st pt. is based on Vespucci's letters giving an account of his 1st and 2d voyages, in 1497 and 1499. First issue. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 196. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. ... More

Zehender Theil Americae darinnen zubefinden: Erstlich, Zwo Schiffarten Herrn Americi Vesputii vnter König Ferninando in Castilien vollbracht. Zum andern: Ein gründlicher Bericht von dem jetzigen Zustand der Landschafft Virginien ... Beneben einer Heyrath dess Königs Powhatans in Virginien Tochter, mit einem vornemmen Englischen,

Zehender Theil Americae darinnen zubefinden: Erstlich, Zwo Schiffarten...

The 1st pt. is based on Vespucci's letters giving an account of his 1st and 2d voyages, in 1497 and 1499. First issue. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 196. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. ... More

Zehender Theil Americae darinnen zubefinden: Erstlich, Zwo Schiffarten Herrn Americi Vesputii vnter König Ferninando in Castilien vollbracht. Zum andern: Ein gründlicher Bericht von dem jetzigen Zustand der Landschafft Virginien ... Beneben einer Heyrath dess Königs Powhatans in Virginien Tochter, mit einem vornemmen Englischen,

Zehender Theil Americae darinnen zubefinden: Erstlich, Zwo Schiffarten...

The 1st pt. is based on Vespucci's letters giving an account of his 1st and 2d voyages, in 1497 and 1499. First issue. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 196. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. ... More

Zehender Theil Americae darinnen zubefinden: Erstlich, Zwo Schiffarten Herrn Americi Vesputii vnter König Ferninando in Castilien vollbracht. Zum andern: Ein gründlicher Bericht von dem jetzigen Zustand der Landschafft Virginien ... Beneben einer Heyrath dess Königs Powhatans in Virginien Tochter, mit einem vornemmen Englischen,

Zehender Theil Americae darinnen zubefinden: Erstlich, Zwo Schiffarten...

The 1st pt. is based on Vespucci's letters giving an account of his 1st and 2d voyages, in 1497 and 1499. First issue. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 196. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. ... More

The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles : together with The true travels, adventures and observations, and A sea grammar /

The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles : to...

Includes index. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Kislak accession no.: 2000.037.01.0012 (v. 1) Kislak accession no.: 2000.037.02.0012 (v. 2)

The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles : together with The true travels, adventures and observations, and A sea grammar /

The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles : to...

Includes index. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Kislak accession no.: 2000.037.01.0012 (v. 1) Kislak accession no.: 2000.037.02.0012 (v. 2)

The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles : together with The true travels, adventures and observations, and A sea grammar /

The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles : to...

Includes index. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Kislak accession no.: 2000.037.01.0012 (v. 1) Kislak accession no.: 2000.037.02.0012 (v. 2)

[Page of illustrated alphabet from New England Primer, 1721: letters A through F]

[Page of illustrated alphabet from New England Primer, 1721: letters A...

Reference copy may be in LOT 7003. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Rare Bk. Div.; Alphabets; Primers; Shelf.

[Title page and last page of Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the "Salem Witchcraft, 1692", from the writing of Cotton Mather, New York, 1846]

[Title page and last page of Strange Phenomena of New England in the 1...

last page, with "confession of Salem jurors". Illus. in: Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the "Salem Witchcraft, 1692", from the writing of Cotton Mather, New York, 1846, last page... More

The Centennial exhibition--old-time New England farm-house / F.S. Church.

The Centennial exhibition--old-time New England farm-house / F.S. Chur...

Composite of eight illustrations depicting a New England farmhouse replica on exhibit at the Centennial Exposition of 1876; includes interior scenes showing spinning wheels, pieces of furniture, and three women... More

A New England stump fence - Victorian era public domain image

A New England stump fence - Victorian era public domain image

Public domain photograph of Middle East, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Boston & Maine Railroad and connections.

Boston & Maine Railroad and connections.

Map of New England and part of Canada showing relief by hachures, major drainage, cities and towns, state boundaries, and the railroad network with main lines emphasized. Scale ca. 1:1,000,000. LC Railroad maps... More

[A Bit of New England coast, Marblehead, Massachusetts.]

[A Bit of New England coast, Marblehead, Massachusetts.]

Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

C.R. Reno's successful comedy, Along the Kennebec a New England story laughingly told.

C.R. Reno's successful comedy, Along the Kennebec a New England story ...

D9745 U.S. Copyright Office Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 4516. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

[Concord, N.H., loading granite, New England granite quarry]

[Concord, N.H., loading granite, New England granite quarry]

Public domain photograph - historical image of New Hampshire, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

C.R. Reno's successful comedy, Along the Kennebec a New England story laughingly told.

C.R. Reno's successful comedy, Along the Kennebec a New England story ...

D1026 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: An actual scene: The explosion. Created and "copyright, 1900, by The U.S. Printing Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York." No. 3802. Piece missing from lower cent... More

The Lowell High School Girls' Basketball Team--New England Champions

The Lowell High School Girls' Basketball Team--New England Champions

Thirteen girls posed, with girl in center holding basketball. Copyright by Marion, Lowell, Mass.

ARC hospital at Mossley Hill, Liverpool, the Officers' Dining Room in the main Administration building. Dr. Edmund Muspratt, a public spirited citizen of Liverpool, donated his magnificent old residence and its seven acres of grounds for the nucleus of the hospital. The house lent itself admirably to use as a hospital and in the record time of 34 days it was equipped and made ready for patients

ARC hospital at Mossley Hill, Liverpool, the Officers' Dining Room in ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC England. Group title: Hospital, England. Data: Central Div. Potomac Div. Moun... More

New England lunch room front - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

New England lunch room front - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A New England Stream, Massachusetts. Stereoscope Card. Library of Congress.

A New England Stream, Massachusetts. Stereoscope Card. Library of Cong...

No. 112. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Slatersville Green, Green & School Streets, Slatersville, Providence County, RI

Slatersville Green, Green & School Streets, Slatersville, Providence C...

Significance: The Slatersville Green is in many ways the embodiment of an idyllic New England village with a temple-front church (made of wood and topped by a steeple) overlooking the town green. Around the ope... More

Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New Haven, Connecticut. View from courthouse

Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New H...

Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New Haven, Connecticut. Metal mural detail

Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New H...

Public domain photograph of 3d object museum collection, metal, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New Haven, Connecticut. Foyer II

Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New H...

Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sitting by the kitchen stove on a cold autumn day in New England. Near Bradford, Vermont, Orange County

Sitting by the kitchen stove on a cold autumn day in New England. Near...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright, e.g. University of Virginia, Franconia, New Hampshire, Maine. Finnish descent farm youth helping repairs and upkeep. New England house and farm, Livermore, Maine. Washburn homestead

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright, e.g. University of...

Title and other information from lot catalog card and caption on print for LC-USW3-056839-E. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More inform... More

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright, e.g. University of Virginia, Franconia, New Hampshire, Maine. Finnish descent farm youth helping repairs and upkeep. New England house and farm, Livermore, Maine. Washburn homestead

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright, e.g. University of...

Public domain photograph - historical image of New Hampshire, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Street in Woodstock, Vermont. One of the oldest towns in New England. Woodstock, Vermont

Street in Woodstock, Vermont. One of the oldest towns in New England. ...

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New England prudence near Cortland, New York

New England prudence near Cortland, New York

Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gloucester, Massachusetts. A whale codfish, the fish that was probably reponsible for the early explorations in this part of the country and made New England famous

Gloucester, Massachusetts. A whale codfish, the fish that was probably...

Picryl description: Public domain image of fishing, fishing boat, river, lake, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tank guns is the present work of this lathe, shown here at its former job-shaping wooden rollers used with a belt control to carry steaks into the cube steak machine which is this New England plant's normal production. Conversion of this lathe, and the stepping up of its speed, has turned his skill from peacetime work to war production. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tank guns...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Victory food from American waters. "They that go down to the sea in ships." This tribute to fishermen who have lost their lives at sea, stands in Gloucester, Massachusetts, one of the most famous fishing towns in New England

Victory food from American waters. "They that go down to the sea in sh...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conversion. Safety razor plant. From razor blades to V-blocks in few weeks! That's the story of Estelle Wilson, one of a New England razor company's many women employees who are now operating machines recently converted to production of war essentials. Gillette

Conversion. Safety razor plant. From razor blades to V-blocks in few w...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a pile of logs. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a pile of logs. Office of War Information P...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. Mrs. Elizabeth Esty and Florence Drouin, pond woman, use regular logging piles to bring the logs into place on the slip. The timber sawed at this mill is wood felled by the hurricane which hit New England, in September 1938

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

New York, New York. Young New England fisherman going below to his sleeping quarters

New York, New York. Young New England fisherman going below to his sle...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Amtrak Acela High-speed train doing a test run through New England before it is put in service

The Amtrak Acela High-speed train doing a test run through New England...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Bailey's Island Church, on Bailey's Island, part of Harpswell, Maine

Bailey's Island Church, on Bailey's Island, part of Harpswell, Maine

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Autumn in New England's Barnet, Vermont

Autumn in New England's Barnet, Vermont

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Test run of the high-speed Amtrak Acela train in New England before putting it into service

Test run of the high-speed Amtrak Acela train in New England before pu...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Detail of the prisoners numbers at the Holocaust Memorial, Boston, Massachusetts

Detail of the prisoners numbers at the Holocaust Memorial, Boston, Mas...

The New England Holocaust Memorial is a memorial dedicated to the Jews that lost their lives in the Holocaust during World War II, located in Boston, Massachusetts.Designed by Stanley Saitowitz and erected in 1... More

A classic c. 1800 New England "saltbox"-style house at Pettengill Farm, a nineteenth-century saltwater farm on the estuary of the Harraseeket River, near Freeport, Maine

A classic c. 1800 New England "saltbox"-style house at Pettengill Farm...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The estate's 140 acres, now owned by the Freeport Historical Society, include fields and woods, antique apple orchards, and the salt m... More

Mailbox, Bonnet Shores, Rhode Island; Wickford, Rhode Island; Pow Wow, Lafayette, Rhode Island

Mailbox, Bonnet Shores, Rhode Island; Wickford, Rhode Island; Pow Wow,...

Index data: 1-4, Mailbox at Bonnet Shores; 5-7, Wickford; 8-10, Crafts stand, van had Massachusetts license plates; 11-16, Craft stands; 17-20, Visitors photograph Indian children from New Mexico and show them ... More

Pow Wow, Lafayette, Rhode Island, Carl Fleischhauer

Pow Wow, Lafayette, Rhode Island, Carl Fleischhauer

Index data: 1-2, The drum with dancers in background; 3-4, Dance with audience. Man with beaded black costume is Paul Bullock; 6-7, Dance; 8-9, Two Indians (Micmac is a New England tribe); 10-15, Dancers; 16-19... More

Avon Congregational Church, 6 West Main Street, Avon, Hartford County, CT

Avon Congregational Church, 6 West Main Street, Avon, Hartford County,...

Significance: The Avon Congregational Church Meeting House, built in 1819, is considered to be among the finest works of skilled local architect/builder David Hoadley. He designed numerous churches and residenc... More

Curtis Freewill Baptist Church, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Curtis Freewill Baptist Church, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Significance: The Curtis Freewill Baptist Church served as both a religious building for students of Storer College and as its own congregational church for African American residents of Harpers Ferry and nearb... More

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan Bluffs, New Shoreham, Washington County, RI

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan...

Significance: The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse is significant as a primary aid to the navigation of an otherwise dangerous area, once referred to as the "stumbling block" of the New England coast. It mark... More

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan Bluffs, New Shoreham, Washington County, RI

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan...

Significance: The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse is significant as a primary aid to the navigation of an otherwise dangerous area, once referred to as the "stumbling block" of the New England coast. It mark... More

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan Bluffs, New Shoreham, Washington County, RI

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan...

Significance: The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse is significant as a primary aid to the navigation of an otherwise dangerous area, once referred to as the "stumbling block" of the New England coast. It mark... More

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan Bluffs, New Shoreham, Washington County, RI

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan...

Significance: The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse is significant as a primary aid to the navigation of an otherwise dangerous area, once referred to as the "stumbling block" of the New England coast. It mark... More

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan Bluffs, New Shoreham, Washington County, RI

Block Island Southeast Light, Spring Street & Mohegan Trail at Mohegan...

Significance: The Block Island Southeast Lighthouse is significant as a primary aid to the navigation of an otherwise dangerous area, once referred to as the "stumbling block" of the New England coast. It mark... More

Proctor House, Jeffrey's Neck Road (moved from South Main Street, abutting Choate Bridge), Ipswich, Essex County, MA

Proctor House, Jeffrey's Neck Road (moved from South Main Street, abut...

Significance: Now part of the Ross Tavern site, the Proctor House represents early New England architectural expression. Historian Abbott Lowell Cummings cites "the cyma molded overhanging girt, the crease mol... More

Robbins & Lawrence Armory, 196 Main Street, Windsor, Windsor County, VT

Robbins & Lawrence Armory, 196 Main Street, Windsor, Windsor County, V...

Significance: The period of significance for the private Armory is 1846-1856. The factory was constructed in 1846 and was the site of innovation and invention in the manufacture of firearms and machine tools un... More

Police Station No. 10, 1170 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Police Station No. 10, 1170 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Suffolk County, M...

Significance: This building is one of the first municipal buildings built in Roxbury after its annexation to Boston in 1868. It is also important as a work by Gridley J.F. Bryant, who with various partners des... More

Police Station No. 10, 1170 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Police Station No. 10, 1170 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Suffolk County, M...

Significance: This building is one of the first municipal buildings built in Roxbury after its annexation to Boston in 1868. It is also important as a work by Gridley J.F. Bryant, who with various partners des... More

Cabot Station Electric Generating Plant, Gantry Crane, Montague City Road, Turners Falls vicinity, Montague, Franklin County, MA

Cabot Station Electric Generating Plant, Gantry Crane, Montague City R...

Significance: The gantry crane is an integral part of Cabot Station, an early and substantial example of American hydroelectric engineering. When built, the plant as the largest hydroelectric facility in New E... More

Clinton Mill, 93 Clinton Street, Woonsocket, Providence County, RI

Clinton Mill, 93 Clinton Street, Woonsocket, Providence County, RI

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: The Clinton Mill is typical of the large stone cotton textile mills of Rhode I... More

Christ Church (Episcopal), 1 Dresden Avenue, Gardiner, Kennebec County, ME

Christ Church (Episcopal), 1 Dresden Avenue, Gardiner, Kennebec County...

Significance: This is the third "Gothick" church built in New England and one of the earliest built in America. Christ Church played a pioneering role, introducing a new architectural style to America. This sty... More

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland Division, Boston & Maine Railroad, Sterling, Worcester County, MA

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland...

Significance: Hastings Bridge represents a type of construction that was once common but rarely survives, the wooden truss. It is the oldest extant timber pony truss bridge identified in the Massachusetts stat... More

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland Division, Boston & Maine Railroad, Sterling, Worcester County, MA

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland...

Significance: Hastings Bridge represents a type of construction that was once common but rarely survives, the wooden truss. It is the oldest extant timber pony truss bridge identified in the Massachusetts stat... More

Song of New England - Public domain American sheet music

Song of New England - Public domain American sheet music

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Woonsocket Company, Number 1 Mill, 100 Front Street, Woonsocket, Providence County, RI

Woonsocket Company, Number 1 Mill, 100 Front Street, Woonsocket, Provi...

Part of New England Textile Mill Survey, 1967-68, sponsored by HABS, Smithsonian, and Merrimack Valley Textile Museum Significance: This 1829 building is a typical Rhode Island stone cotton mill of the first ha... More

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