Carmen D. Valentino Rare Books & Manuscripts
Historical note
Vendor.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Reeves family diaries
Diaries of a South Boston father and son. Included are accounts of the weather; household, garden, and neighborhood happenings; attendance at community, religious, music, lecture, and seance events; local and national news; reading habits; health, births, deaths, and marriages; visitors; as well as correspondence sent and received.
Collection is open for research; digital version also available.
Stoddard, Lovering, & Company telegraphic code book
Contains telegraphic codes to transmit sensitive textile trade business, compiled by Boston textile brokers Stoddard, Lovering, & Company. Includes codes for business phrases and mill names.
Open for research.
Michael J. Twomey broadcast log books
Two hardcover notebooks documenting broadcasts and live performances of Michael J. Twomey's Boston-based band, originally called Twomey's Irish Pipers' Orchestra, later renamed Twomey's Irish Minstrels. Also included are a photograph of the orchestra, a program for The Irish Pipers' Band of Boston Second Annual Grand Costume Ball, and two newspaper clippings of articles concerning the band.
Collection is open for research.
Valentine & Macfarland ledgers
Consists of one day book with daily sales and store inventories and one cash book with customer names and accounts for Valentine & Macfarland, a Boston textile company.
Open for research.
Austin W. White papers
This collection documents the creative life of Massachusetts schoolboy Austin W. White roughly between the ages of nine and sixteen. Materials include small handmade books of fables detailing the adventures of American boys, several school compositions, sketchbooks, and a two-year run of a weekly handwritten satirical newspaper, "The Sober Giggler."
Collection is open for research; a portion is also availalbe digitally.