Box MS0171.02

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1863, 68, 69 Hinsdale Bridge Passes for one Horse Vehicle and no more than two persons (three January 1863, ten November 1868, eight November 1869) all signed by Charles Chapin, Treasurer.

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1867 Agreement to build a bridge at Hinsdale by Lemuel Liscom using timber beams. (The Liscom family especially L. F. also has a saw and planning mill in Hinsdale).

Scope and Contents 1868 Letter from L. F. Liscom in Boston to his father Lemuel in Hinsdale on the Letterhead of the Solid Lever Bridge Company, Cottrell, Liscom & Merrill’s Patents. Proprietors and Contractors, No. 46 Congress Street, Boston. (Contents of letter discuss health of family, viewing the Massachusetts Infantry, Artillery & Cavalry (Frank and brother Samuel both serve in the Civil War in New Hampshire 14th Infantry) on the Common, paying for his “segars” (Liscom farm grows tobacco)...

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains an assortment of 129 pieces of ephemera including 28 letters with 21 envelopes, ten business cards of bridge building companies, five postcards of New England bridges and a locomotive, eleven photographs (seven cyanotype, four black & white/sepia), two sketches bridges, four personal notes/lists, 20 bridge toll coupons, three bridge building contracts, four booklets and one bridge blueprint.

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3” x 5” Business Card with etching of a bridge over a river with two boats. Card advertises Solid Lever Bridge Company, Cottrell, Liscom & Merrill”s Patents. Proprietors and Contractors, No. 46 Congress Street Boston, Mass. On reverse of card is listed Advantages of the Solid “Lever Bridge.” I. Economy, II. Convenience of Construction, III. Strength, IV. Elegance of Form

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2 ½” x 4 ¼” Business Card with photograph of a double span Parker’s Patent Wrought-Iron Truss Bridge (written beneath photo in handwriting is Holyoke Mass). On reverse is printed National Bridge & Iron Works, Blodgett & Curry, Proprietors, 15 State Street, Boston, Mass. Chas. H. Parker, Consulting Engineer. A. W. Parker, Supt. Of Works. Contractors for Building and Erecting Wrought-Iron Railway and Highway Bridges and Roof Trusses.

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2 ¼” x 4” Sepia photograph (one and one-half story Cape Cod style house with long front porch with six columns, group of three women, seven men and one boy on porch, one man on horse. Four windows on end wall. (Note in pencil on back): Mr. Browns House Me. (ie. Maine) where Frank (L. F. Liscom) boarded while building a bridge.)

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2 3/8” x 4” Sepia photograph ( distant view of same house as previous but also shows out buildings connecting house to a barn with split rail fence. Four men and picket fence are near house and barn. Man astride a horse on snowy rutted road. (Note in pencil on back): Mr. Browns house Olamon Me. Boarded there while building Bridge L. F. Liscom)

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains an assortment of 129 pieces of ephemera including 28 letters with 21 envelopes, ten business cards of bridge building companies, five postcards of New England bridges and a locomotive, eleven photographs (seven cyanotype, four black & white/sepia), two sketches bridges, four personal notes/lists, 20 bridge toll coupons, three bridge building contracts, four booklets and one bridge blueprint.

Scope and Contents 2 ½” x 4 ¼” Sepia photograph (upward view from river level of a camel back truss bridge with printed title as Parker’s Patent Wrought-iron Bridge. (Handwritten beneath title in black ink - Fitchburg Mass). On reverse is printed National Bridge & Iron Works, Blodgett & Curry, Proprietors. 15 State Street, Boston, Mass. Contractors for Building and Erecting Wrought-Iron Railway and Highway Bridges and Roof Trusses. Chas. H. Parker, Consulting Engineer (over) A....