Description: USS Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG 13) is the seventh ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of Guided Missile Frigates. Includes a newspaper clipping published in The Boston Globe on October 12, 1980: "Frigate Morison joins Navy fleet".
Description: Connections: Suminsby Genealogical Records, Higgins, Hull, Owen, Marshall, Phelps. "History of United States", by Bancroft, George. "The Winthrop Fleet of 1630", by Banks, C. E.
Description: Fourteen generations of Gotts in The United States, beginning with the immigrant ancestor, Charles Gott (b. 1598) from Cambridge, England.
Description: An unaddressed letter by Harold Peabody regarding a hearing in Washington, D.C. about road construction in Lafayette National Park. Peabody believes further development of the park should be prohibited and is discouraged by proposals for carriage roads through the Bubble Pond Valley. People Mentioned: George Wharton Pepper
Description: This letter was written to Mr. Clark in 1865, while Jacob was at sea, five years before his marriage. The letter says: Philadelphia, Dec 23/65 Mr. Clark Sir What money you have for me from the Schr [Schooner?] please pay it over toward my Taxes. I am loading general cargo for Savannah. I got a fair Freight, but business is very dull & I shall be a long time loading. Coal to Boston is $3.00 & very scarce. There is a great deal of ice in the river. I am afraid it will close before I get out. Res. yours J.W. Carroll [show more]
Description: A photocopy of authorization from Sect. of Treasury to acquire or purchase for the United States land to use for Life-Saving Stations, Houses of Refuge & Beacons.
Description: The plans of a house designed by James W. Bryan shown in Scientific American – Architects and Builders Edition (1887). The plans shown here are from the 1887 magazine. They depicted a house built in Kansas City, Missouri in 1885.
Description: 1. Plans for "Garden treatment between Mr. Lamont's and Mr. Milliken's houses", 721-723 Park Avenue, New York 2. Paving plan No. 2 for the garden of Gerrish H. Milliken Esq., 723 Park Avenue, New York
Description: Left to Right: Alfred Gilley Stanley (1879-1950) - seated Marion E. Stanley (1913-) - on her father's lap Mabel Florence (Moore) Stanley (1888-1939) - standing Charles Warren Stanley (1920-) - held by his mother
Description: Marion is on the right. “This is Marion and Lonny Stanley as she calls herself when she gets her rompers on. The day before this was taken they would not pick up the apples off the ground so Alfred would not let them have any applesauce for supper. In the morning they filled the basket and had their pictures taken.”
Description: Left to Right: Mabel Florence (Moore) Stanley, Mrs. Alfred Gilley Stanley (1888-1939) Mable Florence Stanley (1915-) Two neighbor children Marion E. Stanley (1913-) “Here we have the noisy four sitting on an old horse out in the yard. Marion is in front and two of one of our neighbors who took the picture is next to her and Florence has a big hole in her stocking. Florence does not want me to send you this with the hole. By the pleased look on Mabel’s face you would think all these kids belonged to her.” [show more]