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Adams, Fisher, and Hallett family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss-445
Abstract The Adams, Fisher, and Hallett family papers is comprised of a wide range of original documents including correspondence, a bible record, deeds, diaries, family registers, marriage intentions, newspaper clippings, photographs, probate records, recipes, receipts and wills. There are numerous poems, stories, lectures and addresses written by various family members. The photographs, many of which are identified, include daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes. There is also a painted miniature...
Dates: 1779-1988; Majority of material found within ( 1840-1934)

Albert Harrison Hoyt papers, 1751-1920.

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-186
Abstract

Correspondence, biographical sketches, genealogies, Bible records, public documents, notes, photos, and other papers, reflecting Albert H. Hoyt's genealogical and historical interests and his activities with Office of the Paymaster General and Massachusetts Treasury Office. Includes materials relating to the Freeman, Hoyt, Marshall, McClenachan, Randolph, and Stuart families.

Dates: 1751-1920

Alford family collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-1174
Scope and Contents This collection contains documents of Kenneth Thomas Alford (1914-1980) and his wife Clarissa Teacora (Brown) Alford (1913-1992). The documents include correspondence, deeds, photographs, estate papers, and copies of vital statistic certificates. There are also items documenting Kenneth's education at West Virginia State College, military service in the U.S. Marines 1943-1946, and 1972 retirement as a civilian computer operator working at L. G. Hanscom Field (Bedford, Mass.). The deeds...
Dates: 1912-1992

Alice Steele Cheney Baltzell papers, 1930-1935.

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-1020
Scope and Contents The collection represents Alice (Cheney) Baltzell's research of her Cheney ancestors. The collection consists primarily of genealogical notes regarding the Cheney family. The material includes pedigrees, county and town records, parish records, deeds and wills. These records are transcripts or photocopies taken from original documents. There is very little source material in this collection. The primary focus of the collection is on the English research of the Cheney family's...
Dates: 1930-1935.

Ana Byrd Hall papers, 1919-1924.

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-300
Scope and Contents

Genealogies, notes, records and correspondence pertaining to the descendants of William Seavey (1601-1688) and Thomas Seavey (1627-1708/9) and allied families (Abbott, Bean, Drake, Hall, Odiorne, Pickering).

Dates: 1919-1924

Arthur E. Linnell papers, 1902-1968.

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-25
Scope and Contents

Consists of genealogies for Cape Cod families, 1335-1968, compiled by Arthur E. Linnell of Wollaston, MA between 1902-1934 with additional records and ancestral charts prepared by his daughter, Amelia A. Linnell of Falmouth, MA, between 1950-1968. The genealogies are followed by a section of vital records, principally cemetery transcriptions from Cape Cod towns, ca. 1772-1946, and a group of 17 photographs and 12 glass plates primarily of Linnell family members.

Dates: 1902-1968

Arthur Enoch Howlett papers, 1959-1969.

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-43
Scope and Contents Contains correspondence and research notes on the descendants of Andrew Elliot (bap. 1627-1703), who immigrated to Beverly, Massachusetts from England in 1668. The notes includes extracts from Bible records (as well as the title page from an original 1801 Bible), state census records, ships' lists, wills and deeds. This is followed by a series of vital records from New England and Quebec on Elliot descendants. There is also research on 155 families allied to the Elliot family and a small...
Dates: 1959-1969

Atkinson and Lancaster family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss-31
Abstract The Atkinson and Lancaster family collection contains documents, photographs, ephemera, and textiles relating to five generations of the Atkinson family of Newburyport and Newton, Massachusetts, and Calcutta, India, the allied Lancaster family of Newburyport, and lesser amounts by the Cook family of Salem, Mass. The letters and business papers of John Atkinson, of Newburyport, Mass. and Calcutta, India, his daughter Doctor Lizzie D. R. Atkinson, and her siblings make up the bulk of the...
Dates: 1777-1964

Becker, Eckert, and Jacobi family correspondence

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-1296
Scope and Contents Collected letters, clippings, and some photographs received by Edward, Johanne, Elsie Jacobi, and Marguerite Marshall of Holliston, Mass., from their German relatives, including Becker, Eckert, Fischer, Jacobi, and other families. Letters likely concern family matters, but letters in English do comment on economic, political, and social conditions of Germany in the years following WWII. Many of the Marshall's German relatives resided in the cities of Chemnitz (later Karl-Marx-Stadt),...
Dates: 1879-1982; Majority of material found within 1933-1956

Bed Warmer

 Collection
Identifier: TN027.1
Scope and Contents

A brass bed warmer with wooden handle and hinged lid, etched with a flower motif.

Dates: Circa 1800

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R. Stanton Avery Special Collections 68
Fine Art Collections 16
 
Subject
Deeds -- Massachusetts -- Boston 5
Genealogical correspondence. 5
Receipts (Acknowledgments) 5
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 5
oil paintings (visual works) 5
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paintings (visual works) 5
Europe -- Description and travel. 4
Photographs 4
portraits 4
Deeds 3
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources. 3
Booksellers and bookselling -- Massachusetts -- Boston. 2
Boston (Mass.) -- Commerce. 2
Business records -- Massachusetts -- Boston. 2
Church records and registers -- Massachusetts -- Boston. 2
Colonial Massachusetts 2
Consuls. 2
Court records. 2
Deeds -- Massachusetts -- Watertown. 2
Diplomats. 2
Ice industry 2
Logbooks 2
Merchants -- Massachusetts -- Boston. 2
Obituaries. 2
Patents. 2
Poetry. 2
Portrait miniatures. 2
Scrapbooks. 2
Sermons. 2
Teachers -- Massachusetts -- Boston. 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns 2
United States -- History -- King William's War, 1689-1697. 2
Wharves -- Massachusetts -- Boston. 2
Women teachers. 2
World War, 1914-1918 2
porcelain dolls 2
toys 2
Account books. 1
Adrigole (Ireland) -- Genealogy. 1
Allihies (Ireland) -- Genealogy. 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
American loyalists -- Massachusetts -- Boston. 1
American loyalists -- Massachusetts -- Medford 1
American loyalists. 1
Americans -- India 1
Andover (Mass.) -- Genealogy. 1
Anglican church buildings -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee. 1
Appleton (Me.) -- Surveys. 1
Apprentices -- Massachusetts -- Boston. 1
Apprentices -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge. 1
Apprenticeship programs -- Maine 1
Arrest’s comet. 1
Associations, institutions, etc. -- Massachusetts -- Boston. 1
Astronomers -- Massachusetts -- Boston. 1
Atmospherics. 1
Azores -- Description and travel 1
Baptists -- Missions. 1
Beara Peninsula (Ireland) -- Biography. 1
Beara Peninsula (Ireland) -- Emigration and immigration. 1
Beara Peninsula (Ireland) -- Genealogy. 1
Beara Peninsula (Ireland) -- History. 1
Bere Island (Ireland) -- Genealogy. 1
Bible records -- Rhode Island -- Newport. 1
Bible records. 1
Bills of lading 1
Bills of lading -- Massachusetts -- Boston. 1
Bills of sale -- Massachusetts. 1
Bonane (Ireland) -- Genealogy. 1
Book industries and trade -- Massachusetts -- Boston. 1
Book industries and trade -- Massachusetts -- Newburyport. 1
Book industries and trade -- New Hampshire -- Concord. 1
Book industries and trade -- New Hampshire -- Exeter. 1
Book industries and trade -- New Hampshire -- Portsmouth. 1
Boston (Mass.) -- Church history. 1
Boston (Mass.) -- Genealogy. 1
Boston (Mass.) -- History. 1
Boston (Mass.) -- Maps. 1
Boston (Mass.) -- Social life and customs. 1
Boston Tea Party, Boston, Mass., 1773 1
Boston, Mass. 1
Brazil -- Commerce -- United States 1
Broadsides -- Massachusetts -- Boston. 1
Burnside's Expedition to North Carolina, 1862. 1
California -- Social life and customs. 1
Cambridge (Mass.) 1
Cambridge (Mass.) -- Genealogy. 1
Camden (Me.) -- Surveys. 1
Campaign management. 1
Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Genealogy. 1
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
Castletown Bearhaven (Ireland) -- Genealogy. 1
Caucus. 1
Cemeteries -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown. 1
Cemeteries -- Ireland -- Beara Peninsula. 1
Cemeteries -- Maine -- Swan's Island. 1
Cemeteries -- Massachusetts -- Eastham (Town) 1
Cemeteries -- Massachusetts -- Chatham. 1
Cemeteries -- Massachusetts -- Harwich. 1
Cemeteries -- Massachusetts -- Wellfleet. 1
Charities -- Massachusetts. 1
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Language
English 76
German 1
 
Names
Abbott family. 3
Cook family 2
Lincoln, Levi, 1782-1868. 2
South Cove Corporation (Boston, Mass.) 2
United States. Army 2
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United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 10th (1861-1864) 2
United States. Department of State 2
United States. Navy 2
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852. 2
Abbott, Arthur Ernest, 1916-1990. 1
Abbott, Charlotte Helen, 1844-1921. 1
Abbott, Clifford Nelson, 1931-2012. 1
Abbott, George, 1821-1897. 1
Adams, Evangeline, 1872?-1932 1
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 1
Addington, Isaac, 1645-1715. 1
Albatross (Ship : active 1847) 1
Alford family 1
Alford, Clarissa Teacora Brown, 1913-1992 1
Alford, Ethel A. 1
Alford, Kenneth Thomas, 1914-1980 1
Anderson, Richard Heron, 1821-1879 1
Annable family. 1
Ardent (Schooner) 1
Asia (Ship) 1
Atkins family 1
Atkinson, Elizabeth Ann Lancaster, 1828-1914 1
Atkinson, John, 1799-1852 1
Atkinson, John, 1828-1888 1
Atkinson, John, 1865-1931 1
Atkinson, Lizzie Daniel Rose, 1859-1933 1
Atlas (Schooner : active 1823-1824) 1
Bach, John M. 1
Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893 1
Benbury family 1
Benjamin, J. P. (Judah Philip), 1811-1884 1
Berkshire (Ship) 1
Bischof, Grace S., 1922-1980. 1
Bliss, Horace A. 1
Bosson family. 1
Bouvé, Edward T. 1
Bradley, Moses 1
Browne, Albert G. (Albert Gallatin), 1835-1891 1
Buckminster family. 1
Bullock, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1816-1882. 1
Bumstead family. 1
Bumstead, Jeremiah 1
Bundy family. 1
Burgess, John T. 1
Bussell family. 1
Capen, Hopestill, 1731-1807 1
Chamberlain, George Walter, 1859-1939? 1
Chapin, Aldus Manutius, 1811-1880. 1
Chase, Lucy A. H. 1
Child, Susanna, 1773-1856. 1
Child, Thomas, 1731-1787. 1
Child, Thomas, 1782-1851. 1
Citizen (Schooner) 1
Clay, C. C. (Clement Claiborne), 1816-1882 1
Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 1
Coffin, Mildred Stowell, 1885-1976. 1
Collins, Clement 1
Confederate States of America. Army 1
Confederate States of America. Department of the Treasury 1
Converse, James. 1
Cook, Benjamin Gray, 1813- 1
Cook, Caleb, Jr., 1797-1837 1
Cook, Caleb, Sr., 1774-1837 1
Cook, Susan, 1808-1900 1
Cooper, Samuel, 1798-1876 1
Copeland, Benjamin Franklin, 1798-1863. 1
Corliss, Horatio G. F., 1813-1873. 1
Coverly, Sarah 1
Croswell family. 1
Croswell, Andrew, 1709-1785 1
Croswell, William, 1760-1834. 1
Curtis, George Ticknor, 1812-1894. 1
D'Erlanger, Emile B. (Emile Beaumont), 1866- 1
Dale, William J. 1
Davis, Eliphalet, -1879. 1
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 1
Davis, Varina, 1826-1906 1
Denison, Daniel, 1613-1682. 1
Dickinson, Edward, 1794-1865. 1
Dingley, Amasa, -1798 1
Diomede (Schooner : active 1820-1822) 1
Doane, Gilbert Harry, 1897-1980. 1
Dodge family 1
Drayton, Thomas, 1808-1891 1
Drinkwater family 1
Drinkwater, Allen, Jr. 1
Drinkwater, Theophilus 1
Du Bois, Coert, 1881-1960. 1
Du Bois, Jane, approximately 1913-1935. 1
Du Bois, Margaret Mendell. 1
Eggleston, Edward W. 1
Emerson family. 1
Ewer, Charles, 1790-1853. 1
Ford, John, 1740-1822. 1
Fort Mary (Saco, Me.) 1
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