1788-1917, undated, predominant 1913-1917
Temporarily located on shelf HGO-02-105-A-H-401 in HAV-01-403
GUSN-369647
Collection contains four account books documenting the business activities of C. L. Cooney Antiques, providing a detailed account of the stores customers and items sold. The account books are dated 1913-1917. The collection also contains miscellaneous manuscripts, including a receipt; two letters; and a pamphlet detailing the history of Broadhearth. The miscellaneous manuscripts, with the exception of the Broadhearth pamphlet, are unrelated to C. L. Cooney Antiques; they were retained in the collection as they were found and subsequently donated with the account books.
account books
business (commercial function)
sales records
antiques (object genre)
consumers
stores
account books
manuscripts (document genre)
.42 linear feet (1 legal size document case, 8 legal size folders)
An electronic finding aid is available through Historic New Englands Collections Access Portal. A paper finding aid is available in the Library & Archives.
Materials were donated to Historic New England by Paul and Maria Freedberg in 2023.
MS079
C. L. Cooney Antiques collection
2023
MS079
A collection of account books documenting the business activities of C. L. Cooney Antiques, an antique dealer operating in Boston, Massachusetts during the early 20th century. Collection also contains a small number of unrelated manuscripts.
1788-1917, undated, bulk 1913-1917
Gift, Paul and Marie Freedberg, 2023
Alexandria (Alexandria Indep. City, Virginia)
Athens (Athens county, Ohio)
Baltimore (Baltimore Independent City, Maryland)
Bennington (Bennington county, Vermont)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Brockton (Plymouth County, Massachusetts)
Cambridge (Dorchester county, Maryland)
Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Chicago (Cook county, Illinois)
Cleveland (Cuyahoga county, Ohio)
Concord (Merrimack county, New Hampshire)
Danvers (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Dublin (Cheshire county, New Hampshire)
Eliot (York county, Maine)
Evanston (Cook county, Illinois)
Framingham (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Gloucester (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Jackson (Carroll county, New Hampshire)
Kansas City (Jackson county, Missouri)
Lancaster (Worcester county, Massachusetts)
Long Island (Hamilton county, New York state) [island]
Lowell (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Macon (Bibb county, Georgia)
Madison (New Haven county, Connecticut)
Milton (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
Morrisville (Lamoille county, Vermont)
Nantucket (Nantucket Island, Nantucket county, Massachusetts)
New Haven (New Haven county, Connecticut)
New York City (New York state)
Newport (Rhode Island island, Newport county, Rhode Island)
Newtonville (Newton, Middlesex county, Massachusetts) [part of inhabited place]
Niagara Falls (Niagara county, New York state)
Pasadena (Los Angeles county, California)
Peterborough (Hillsborough county, New Hampshire)
Petersham (Worcester county, Massachusetts)
Philadelphia (Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania)
Providence (Providence county, Rhode Island)
Ravenna (Portage county, Ohio)
Salem (Essex county, Massachusetts)
San Francisco (San Francisco county, California)
Sherborn (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Saint Charles (Kane county, Illinois)
Saint Louis (St. Louis Indep. City, Missouri)
Sudbury (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Swampscott (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Webster (Worcester county, Massachusetts)
Woodstock (Windsor county, Vermont)
Worcester (Worcester county, Massachusetts)
Youngstown (Mahoning county, Ohio)
Cooney, Charles L. (Dealer)
account books
manuscripts (document genre)
Bigelow, Henry Forbes, 1867-1929
Bigelow, William Sturgis, 1850-1926
Blackall, Clarence H. (Clarence Howard), 1857-1942
Brackett, Walter M., 1823-1919
Brown, William Adams, 1865-1943
Coolidge, Baldwin, 1845-1928
Coolidge, Edith, 1879-1976
Coolidge, Harold Jefferson, 1870-1934
Cooney, Charles L.
Crane, Josephine Boardman, 1873-1972
Cushing, Grafton, 1864-1939
Dean, H. C., Mr.
Emmerton, Caroline Osgood, 1866-1942
Forbes, Allan, 1874-1955
Godspeed, Charles E., 1867-1950
Hallowell, John White, 1879-1927
Hallowell, Marian Hathaway, 1884-1968
Jenkins, Lawrence W. (Lawrence Waters), 1872-1961
Lanier, Henry Wysham, 1873-1958
Lincoln, Waldo, 1849-1933
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924
Mollenhauer, Emil, 1855-1927
Nicholson, Grace, -1948
Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941
Prouty, Dwight Mortimer, 1874-
Prouty, Ethel Bigelow, 1876-1950
Rowe, Lewis Earle, 1882-1936
Schofield, William Henry, 1870-1920
Sears, Clara Endicott, 1863-1960
Sleeper, Henry Davis, 1878-1934
Wanamaker, John, 1838-1922
Wolf, Elsie de, 1859-1950
Bigelow, Kennard & Co. (Boston, Mass.)
The Boston Antique Shop
Boston Consolidated Gas Company
C. L. Cooney Antiques
Art Institute of Chicago
George E. Vernon & Co.
Henry Jewett Players
Irving & Casson
Little & Browne
R. Marston & Co.
Shreve, Crump & Low
T. F. Welch & Co.
Saugus Iron Works
Phillips Exeter Academy
Antique dealers
Antiques business
Financials
Account books
This collection is available for research.
Materials were rehoused in acid-free folders.
Collection
Temporarily located on shelf HGO-02-105-A-H-401 in HAV-01-403
Accruals are not expected.
No materials have been removed from this collection.
Materials are entirely in English,
Item identification. Box #. C. L. Cooney Antiques collection (MS079). Historic New England, Library & Archives.
Jordan Meyerl, Senior Archives Cataloguer, 2025
This finding aid is Second Edition DACS-compliant.
Charles L. Cooney was the proprietor of C. L. Cooney Antiques, which operated from the basement of the Park Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts, until 1914. In 1914, operations moved to 379 Boylston Street in Boston. Cooney purchased Broadhearth, the house located on the site of Saugus Iron Works, from Wallace Nutting (1861-1941) in 1920. The property was sold by Cooneys estate in 1925 to antiques dealer Philip Rosenberg (1878-1951).
Linebaugh, Donald W. (2010). Saugus Iron Works: The Roland W. Robbins Excavations, 1948-1953 (William A. Griswold and Donald W. Linebaugh, Eds.) National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
The collection is arranged in 2 series:
Series I. Account books, date
Series II. Miscellaneous manuscripts, date
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