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Original art collection, 1820s-mid-20th century
The Original Art Collection contains approximately 1,000 drawings, paintings, sketches, and illustrations in various media, mainly ink, pen, pencil, and ...
"Johnnie Kelliher's Corner," Corner of Leverette and Green Sts.
Detailed drawing of corner building. Shows two sides of building.[ III A 4a.]
First Harrison Gray Otis House, 141 Cambridge St.
Otis House before widening of street. Shows laundry on first floor of house. Very detailed. [563R or 3205?]
London Bridge, Phillips and Anderson Sts.
Detailed view of corner building.
Alley in "London Bridge," West End
Detailed drawing of alley. Barber pole shown.
Old South Chapel - Entrance from Spring Lane.
Very detailed drawing, particularly of business signs.
Ridgeway Lane.
Impressionistic drawing of lane facing West Chapel.
Scotto's Alley at Creek Square.
Well-detailed drawing of alley.
Archway between Leverett and Chambers Sts.
Drawing of alley with archway; few details. [43/280?]
Change Ave. and Old Stock Exchange.
View down Change Avenue to entrance of Stock Exchange. A few details of Stock Exchange building.
Northeast corner of Province Court.
Shows NE corner of Province Court (Not House). Shows buildings from about 2nd floor up. Published in the Boston Evening Transcript, Oct. 9, 1920.
Oldest Theatre in Boston, North Market St. and Brendalls Lane.
Well-detailed drawing of cluster of buildings on North Market Street.
Old Rathole (Harvard Place and Province Court).
Very dark, almost impressionistic picture, not much detail.
Province Court, Entrance to the Rat Hole (Harvard Place).
Very dark picture, shows entrance from street and stairway down.
Exit from the Rat Hole (Harvard Place).
Predominantly black, shows end of Rat-Hole and stairway.
Pemberton Square, Feb. '87
Predominantly black. Some detail in foreground showing men loading boles into a horse drawn wagon. Background buildings less detailed.
Change Ave., 1894.
Good details such as readable signs on buildings along narrow street. Predominantly black.
Grove Square, 1890.
Fairly detailed picture of houses surrounding square.
Atwoods Oyster House, Marshall St., 1890.
Gray pencil, some detail of Oyster House but rest is blurred.
"Old Tavern" or "Old Mansion" or "The Tory House" or "The John Constant House."
Finely detailed picture of house showing 2 sides including attached outbuilding (circa 1735). Great deal of historical background on John Conant and his ...
Opposite the Hotel.
Colors: black and gray on beige. Tree dominates most of the picture. Shows a country road with a few houses along it.
Ante-Revolutionary Cottage.
Gray pencil sketch of house or cabin on hill looking down on angular rocks and boulders. Trees surround house and grow down hill.
Boulder-View of the Penobscot River.
Gray pencil sketch showing stone wall in foreground running along field with large, lone boulder standing free. River and trees and mountains in distance.
Leary's
View of mountains with road and house centered in middle of picture. Greens, browns, blues.
Octagon House, Sharon
Octagonally shaped house amid woods on side of lake or pond. Note on back from Town Clerk of Sharon describes location of house, built by Charles Stevens.
Lake Connecticut, Magatioway Mountains.
Simple gray pencil sketch of lake and surrounding countryside, with mountains in distance.
Boulder Notch - Speckle Mountain.
Simple gray pencil sketch of boulder protruding from hillside, with building below and hills and mountains in the background.
Upper Bagadua.
Simple gray pencil sketch of leafless trees, lake and mountains.
"Katahdin Over Lake Katahdin."
Gray pencil sketch of lake in foreground with mountain in distance.
Kimball's - Atlantic Ave.
Gray pencil sketch of buildings next to ocean rocks and boulders in foreground. Note on back indicates that this must be Peter Kimball's first hotel, about ...