Historical Materials

This section of the website contains information on people, places, events, and industries related to Lane's pictures. Historical documents, photographs, and objects are categorized by subject. Click on a name from a list below to see an entry.

J.F. Wonson & Co's Wharf, showing fish flakes

Filed under: Drying Fish » // Flake Yard »

1851 Map of the Towns of Gloucester and Rockport (detail showing wharves)

Filed under: Fort (The) and Fort Point » // Low (Frederick G.) wharves » // Maps » // Rogers's (George H.) wharves » // Town / Public Landings » // Waterfront, Gloucester » // Windmill »

First Order Fresnel Lens for Thacher Island lighthouse beacon

Filed under: Objects » // Rockport, Mass. - Thacher Island Twin Lighthouses »

The first Ten Pound Island Lighthouse

Filed under: Gloucester, Mass. - "Ten Pound Island Light »

Inner Harbor, Gloucester

Filed under: Duncan's Point » // Gloucester Harbor, Inner / Harbor Cove » // Historic Photographs » // Schooner (Fishing) » // Waterfront, Gloucester »

Noah Brooks' Library

Filed under: Brooks, Noah » // Historic Photographs »

Dorothy Little Stevens to F. H. Lane, Castine, 10.16.1851

Filed under: Castine – Stevens Home » // Chronology » // Letters » // Owl's Head » // Rockland Harbor, Maine – Owl's Head Light » // Stevens, Joseph, Sr. and Dorothy Little »

1859 Cape Ann Advertiser 12.2.1859

Filed under: Fears, Robert » // Newspaper / Journal articles » // Studio Descriptions »

Architectural plans for Pavilion Hotel, front elevation

Filed under: Pavilion Hotel »

Water bucket from ship "Boston"

Filed under: "Boston" (Packet Ship) » // Objects »

Wheel of the "Jamestown"

Filed under: "Jamestown" (U.S. Sloop of War) » // Forbes, Robert Bennet »

Subscription List and Mailing for "Castine, From Hospital Island" 1855

Filed under: Lithography (Sales & Exhibitions) »

Gloucester Buildings & Businesses

Alex Patillo Dry Goods

Babson House

Baptist Church (Old, First, 1830) (Pleasant Street)

Baptist Church (Second, 1851) (Pleasant Street)

Brick Houses / Gloucester House Hotel

Brookbank

Burnham Brothers Marine Railway

Center & Co.

Collins's, William (estate wharf)

Gloucester – City Views

Gloucester, Mass. - Citizen's Cheap Cash Store (68 Front Street)

Harbor Methodist Church (Prospect Street)

Hovey, Charles House

Isaac A. P. Smith store

J. C. Calef Dry Goods

John Trask Paint Store

Lane's Stone House, Duncan's Point

Low (David) House

Low (Frederick G.) wharves

Marine Insurance Company

Old First Parish / Subsequent Fourth Parish Church (at the Green)

Pavilion Hotel

Procter Brothers

Riggs School

Riverdale Methodist Church (Washington Street)

Riverdale Mills

Rogers's (George H.) wharves

Ropewalk

Sanders-Davidson House

Sawyer Free Library

Second Parish Meeting House (West Gloucester)

Steepbank

Town House

Trinity Congregational Church (Middle Street at School)

Union School

Unitarian Church / First Parish Church (Middle Street)

Universalist (Original) Meeting House (Sargent)

Universalist Church (Middle and Church Streets)

Cape Ann Locales

Cut, The (Stacy Blvd.)

Field Beach / Crescent (or Cressy's) Beach / Long Beach

Five Pound Island

Flagpole above Freshwater Cove

Folly Cove

Fort (The) and Fort Point

Fresh Water Cove

Gloucester Harbor, Inner / Harbor Cove

Gloucester Harbor, Outer

Good Harbor Beach / Bass Rocks

Pavilion (Publick) Beach

Pole's Hill

Rafe's Chasm

Riverdale / Town Parish

Rocky Neck

Salt Island

Site Photographs

Stage Rocks / Stage Fort / Stage Head

Ten Pound Island

Thacher Island

Town / Public Landings

Vincent's Cove

Waterfront, Gloucester

West Gloucester – Little River

Western Shore

Wolf Hill

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Maine Locales & Buildings

Bangor

Bear Island

Blue Hill

Brooksville / Ram Island / Indian Bar

Camden Mountains

Castine

Castine – Dresser's Ropewalk

Castine – First Parish Church (1790) / Unitarian Universalist Church

Castine – Fort George

Castine – Hospital Island

Castine – Millard Dennett's Sail Loft

Castine – School

Castine – Stevens Home

Castine – Trinitarian Congregational (Second) Parish (1829)

Castine – Witherle & Co.'s Store

Christmas Cove

Isle Au Haut

Kennebec River

Mount Desert Island & Rock

Negro (Curtis) Island, Camden Harbor

Boston Locales, Businesses, & Buildings

Boston Light Infantry

New York City Locales, Businesses, & Buildings

Vessels (Specific / Named)

"America" (Schooner Yacht)

"Antelope" (Brig)

"Antelope" (Steam Demi-Bark)

"Bessie Neal" (Schooner)

"Boston" (Packet Ship)

"Britannia" (Cunard Steamship)

"Cadet" (Brig)

"Caledonia" (Cunard Steamship)

"California" (Full-Rigged Ship)

"Constitution" (U.S. Frigate)

"Eastern Star" (Bark)

"Emblem" (Schooner)

"General Gates" (New England Boat; Casco Bay Boat)

"Golden Rule" (Clipper Ship)

"Golden State" (Clipper Ship)

"Harvest Moon" (Side-Wheel Steamer)

"Hibernia" (Steam Ship)

"Jamestown" (U.S. Sloop of War)

"Julia" (Sloop Yacht)

"Mary Ann" (Packet Ship)

"Mary" (Bark)

"Massachusetts" (Auxiliary Steam Packet Ship)

"Matilda" (Ship)

"McLane" (Cutter; Steam Vessel)

"Michael Angelo" (Packet Ship)

"National Eagle" (Clipper Ship)

"Nightingale" (Clipper Ship)

"Northern Light" (Yacht)

"Ohio" (Ship)

"Orazimbo" (Whaler)

"Phantom" (Cruising Yawl)

"R. B. Forbes" (Tow Boat)

"Samuel Lawrence" (Packet Ship)

"Southern Cross" (Clipper Ship)

"Spitfire" (Clipper Ship)

"Star Light" (Clipper)

"Starr King" (Clipper)

"Superior" (Sloop)

"Sweepstakes" (Clipper Ship)

"T. F. Secor" (Steamboat)

"Tarterno" (Half Brig)

"Unicorn" (Cunard Steamship)

"Widgeon" (Sloop Yacht)

"Winged Arrow" (Clipper Ship)

"Yacht" (Side-Wheel Steamboat)

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Vessel Types

An Overview of All Rigging and Vessel Types

Bark / Barkentine or Demi-Bark

Brig

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Flags, Lighthouses, & Navigation Aids

American ensign / flag

Beacons / Monuments / Spindles

Camden, Maine – Negro (Curtis) Island Light

Castine, Maine – Dice (Dyce) Head Lighthouse

Gloucester, Mass. - "Ten Pound Island Light

Gloucester, Mass. – Annisquam Harbor Lighthouse

Gloucester, Mass. – Eastern Point Light

Mount Desert, Maine – Mount Desert Rock Light

New Bedford, Mass. - Clarks Point Light

Northeast Harbor, Maine – Bear Island Lighthouse

Portland Harbor, Maine – Portland Head Light

Rockland Harbor, Maine – Owl's Head Light

Rockport, Mass. - Thacher Island Twin Lighthouses

Signal Systems (Flags & Maritime Codes)

Vinalhaven, Maine – Saddleback Ledge Light

York, Maine – Boon Island Light

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Maritime & Other Industries & Facilities

Gloucester Harbor – Use

Grand Bank, Newfoundland, Canada

Granite Quarrying / Shipping

Salt Marsh Hay / English Hay

Shipbuilding / Repair

Trade Routes and Statistics

Vessel Details: Decorations / Ship Carvings

Vessel Details: Parts / Fittings

Vessel details: Rigging and Sails

People

Babson, Amanda Stanwood

Babson, Annette

Babson, Edward

Babson, Emmeline (Emma) Rogers (Mrs. William Friend)

Bowles, Ada[line] Chartine (Burpee)

Burnham: Parker (Jr.), Joseph & Elias

Cleland, Captain Richard

Dale, Capt. and Mrs. Frank

Dale, Eben B.

Davidson, Dr. Herman Elvas

Davidson, Mrs. Herman Elvas

Davis, Harriet Phena (Mason) (Mrs. William F.)

Forbes, Robert Bennet

Foster, Florence

Fremont, Major General and Mrs. John C.

Friend, Joseph Sayward

Low, Capt. Frederick Gilman

Low, Capt., and Mrs. Gorham Parsons

Low, Colonel David

Lucas, Mr.

Mackay, Capt. Harvey Coffin and Mrs. Sarah Somes

Mayo, Reverend Amory Dwight

Mellen, Mary Blood

Miller, William Hoffman

Procter, Elizabeth C.

Quincy, Mrs. Josiah, Jr.

Rogers, Rev. Richard P.

Silsbee, Nathaniel, Jr.

Stacy, Mr. and Mrs. John Hancock

Stanley, Mrs. John

Stevens, Caroline Foster

Stevens, Helen (Helen Stevens Babson)

Stevens, Joseph, Jr.

Stevens, Joseph, Sr. and Dorothy Little

Stott, Mrs. Alex

Tilden, George

Tilden, Rev. William Phillips

Trask, John

Tuckerman, Stephen Salisbury

Wigglesworth, Thomas, Jr.

Wilbur, Horace B.

Winchester, William D.

Winter, Fitz Henry

Winter, Ignatius

Witherle, William Howe

Woodbury, Capt. Obadiah

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Fitz Henry Lane Biography

Babson History of the Town of Gloucester

Biographical information

Chronology

Documents / Objects

Funeral & Burial

Gloucester Community / Participation / Other projects

Lane & Scott's, Lith. – Boston

Letters / Manuscripts

Portraits of Lane

Professional

Residences

Signature / Name change

Studio Descriptions

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Lithography

Anderson, Peter – Mass.

Bouvé & Sharp, Lith. – Boston

Bouvé, E. W., Lith. – Boston

Bradford, L. H., Lith. – Boston

Bufford, J. H. Lith. – Boston

Clegg and Dodge – Gloucester, Mass.

Conant, Albert - Boston

Cook, C., Lith. – Boston

Currier (& Ives) – New York

De Vaudricourt, Augustus

Griffin, Joseph, Pub. – Maine

Ives and Putnam, Pub. – Salem, Mass.

Lane & Scott's, Lith. – Boston

Lithography (Sales & Exhibitions)

M. M. Tidd, Lith. – Boston

Moore's, T. - Lith. - Boston

Oakes and Swan, Pub. – Boston

Parker & Ditson, Pub. – Boston

Pendleton's, Lith. – Boston

Procter Brothers – Gloucester, Mass.

Reed, Geo. P., Pub. – Boston

Rice, E. A. & Co. – Lowell, Mass.

Sarony & Major, Lith. – New York

Sharp & Michelin, Printers – Boston

Sharp's, J. C., Lith. – Boston

Sheet Music by other artists

Thayer's, Lith. – Boston

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Prints & Illustrations after Lane

Babson History of the Town of Gloucester

Cape Ann Advertiser Masthead

Gloucester, Mass. Town Seal

Goode, The Fisheries and Fishing Industries of the United States

Horticultural Hall

Landing at Cape Anne

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19th-Century Exhibitions

Albany, N.Y. – 1864 Palmer's Sculpture

Albany, N.Y. – Albany Gallery of Fine Arts

Baltimore, Md. – 1856 Maryland Historical Society

Boston - 1860 New Hall at Bumstead Place

Boston - 1862 Leonard & Co. Auction

Boston - Harding's Gallery

Boston – 1864 Joseph Leonard & Co.

Boston – 1864 Sailors' Fair

Boston – Boston Artists Association

Boston – Boston Athenaeum

Boston – Boston Mechanics' Association

Boston – New England Art Union

Boston – Oakes Music Store

Brooklyn – 1864 Taylor House Sanitary Fair

Castine, Maine – 1856 Witherle & Co.

Gloucester - Center & Co.

Gloucester, Mass. - Citizen's Cheap Cash Store (68 Front Street)

Gloucester, Mass. – 1856 Lyceum Fair

Gloucester, Mass. – 1863 Sanitary Fair

Gloucester, Mass. – Gloucester Bank

Gloucester, Mass. – Marine Insurance Company

Gloucester, Mass. – Procter Brothers

New York – American Art Union

New York – Apollo Association

New York – National Academy of Design

Portland, Maine – 1859 Maine Mechanical Association

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19th-Century Criticism

Newspaper / Journal articles

Personal Reviews

Drawing Technique

Artists' Materials Trade Catalogues

Drawing Manuals

Graphite (and the Borrowdale Mine)

Mechanical vs. Free Hand

Modern Graphite Pencil

Whatman Paper

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19th-Century Documentation

Diaries / Ledgers / Etc.

Historic Photographs

Letters

Maps

Newspaper / Journal Articles

Objects

Publications

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