EXTENT: 3.2 linear feet (2 boxes, 2 portraits [one boxed with collection, one stored unboxed])

ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT: Three series. I: Richardson family papers and ephemera; II: Photographs; III: Portraits and artifacts.

BIOGRAPHIES:
C.O. Richardson was co-proprietor with Lewis McIntosh of H. Richardson & Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (established 1840).

Henry P. Richardson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 28 September 1820; died [ca. 1867]. He was married to Caroline O. Eaton.

Henry Preston Richardson, was born 15 January 1866 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and died 30 March 1939, Concord, Massachusetts. In 1883 married Maria Rebecca Smith and is listed in Concord vital records as a farmer and a grocer. Henry and Maria’s children were Laurence Eaton Richardson (b.1883), Joseph Smith Richardson (b. 1884), Jeanie Noyes Richardson (b. 1886), and Wilbur Preston Richardson (b. 1888).

Laurence Eaton Richardson was born in Concord, Massachusetts on 10 December 1883, the son of Henry Preston and Maria (Smith) Richardson. He attended Concord Public Schools and graduated from Harvard College in 1916. Mr. Richardson served as a U.S. Army Captain with the military police during World War I and in France during World War II as a Second Lieutenant with the 101^st Field Artillery. A lifelong Concord resident, he was active in town government and community organizations. He wrote several volumes on Concord history, including Concord River (1964) and The Concord Independent Battery (1973). Laurence Richardson was married to Anne (Weed) Richardson and together they had three daughters. Both Laurence and Anne Richardson died in 1985.

Joseph Smith Richardson was born in Concord, Massachusetts on 5 January 1884, the son of Henry Preston and Maria (Smith) Richardson and brother of Laurence Eaton Richardson. He was married to Gladys Spencer and they had two sons and a daughter.  Joseph Richardson’s service includes five years as Sergeant, Battery A, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, prior to World War I. During the war he was a First Lieutenant, B Battery, 5^th Regiment Field Artillery, France. (Joseph Richardson went to France as a civilian to join the French Ambulance Corps. When the United States entered the war Americans in the Ambulance Corps were inducted into the U.S. Army.) Mr. Richardson was a member of the Social Circle in Concord (elected 1932).  He died in 1955.

SCOPE & CONTENT: An eclectic collection of materials generated and collected by the Richardson family and related families (Smith and Eaton). Collection consists of materials relating to four generations of the Richardson family. Papers include photocopy of H. Richardson & Co. catalogue; resolutions upon the death of Henry Richardson from various Masonic lodges (1867); photographs and documents relating to Joseph S. Richardson’s military service, particularly his service during World War I; obituary and article on the death of Anne (Weed) Richardson (1985); ephemera includes Miss Emma Smith’s invitation to the Sesquicentennial of the Social Circle of Concord and associated materials (1932); On Concord River, a handmade book illustrated by Concord photographer Alfred W. Hosmer; materials relating to a production of “Arsenic and Old Lace” in Concord, Mass. (1949); materials relating to Civil Defense in Concord (1951); photographs include Richardson family photographs and Concord-related photographs; an Addison Grant Fay pencil; two portraits (Henry P. Richardson, 1820-[ca.1867]).

SOURCE OF ACQUISITION: Donated by Frederick S. Richardson, January 2006.

PROCESSED BY: C. Manoli-Skocay, April 2006; finding aid created May 2006; rev. Dec. 2006.

Series I: Richardson Family Papers and Ephemera, 1867-1985

Box 1, Folder 1: H. Richardson, undated:
Catalogue: H. Richardson & Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, established 1840 (photocopy)

Box 1, Folder 2: Henry Richardson, 1867:
Resolutions upon the death of Henry Richardson from various Masonic Lodges, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1867

Box 1, Folder 3: Joseph S. Richardson, materials relating to military service, 1914-1919 and undated:
Discharge statement: Joseph S. Richardson from the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, May 1914

Photograph: Ben Ticknor, Sam Hoar, Clement R. Ford, Joe Murray, Joseph S. Richardson (all in uniform), undated (ca.1918)

Letter from Richard R. McCormick to Joseph S. Richardson, 30 May 1919

Narrative of incident involving Joseph S. Richardson (manuscript and typescript), undated

Box 2: Joseph S. Richardson, documents, 1906-1932 (oversize materials):
Certificate of Admittance to the Third Degree of Masonry, Corinthians Lodge, Concord, Massachusetts, 7 May 1906

Certificate of Admittance as Royal Arch Mason, Royal Arch Chapter, Concord, Massachusetts, 4 February 1907

Certificate of Promotion, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Militia of Massachusetts, 20 April 1912

Certificate of Qualification in Theoretical Work as Second Lieutenant of Field Artillery, The Service Schools, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, 30 June 1914

Certificate of Service, The American Ambulance Field Service, August 1917

Certificate of Commission, President of the United States, Officers Reserve Corps of the Army of the United States, 22 August 1917 (and envelope)

Certificate of Life Membership, Corinthian Lodge, Concord, Massachusetts, 14 March 1932

Box 1, Folder 4: Anne (Weed) Richardson, 1985:
Article and obituary, Concord Journal, “Concord woman dies in nursing home fire,” 31 January 1985

Letter from Roddy [Eleanor Rodman Snelling] to Fred Richardson on death of Anne Richardson, 5 February 1985

Box 1, Folder 5: Ephemera: Materials relating to the Social Circle Sesquicentennial, 1932:
Program: “The One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Social Circle in Concord, Massachusetts,” 10 May 1932

Charles W. Hutchinson, M.D., “The Concord of 1932,” 10 May 1932 (mimeographed typescript)

Social Circle meeting announcement, 14 April 1933 (mimeographed copy).

Box 1, Folder 6: Ephemera: On Concord River:
Illustrations by Alfred W. Hosmer, Concord, Mass. (undated)

Box 1 Folder 7: Ephemera: Materials relating to a production of “Arsenic and Old Lace,” Concord, Mass., 1949:
Photocopy of program (includes Laurence E. Richardson, Frederick Richardson)

Photographs

Notes

Box 1, Folder 8: Ephemera: Materials relating to Civil Defense in Concord, 1951:
Department of the Air Force, Ground Observer’s Guide, 1951

Armband, “Warden, Civil Defense, Concord, Mass.”

Box 1, Folder 9: Ephemera, 1898-1976 and undated:
Includes Concord-related ephemera; Roster of Concord Artillery, Company I, Sixth Regiment Infantry, M.V.M, 1898

Newsclippings

Series II: Photographs, [ca. 1860s] - 1939

Box 1, Folder 10: Smith Family Portrait , undated [ca. 1860s]:
Photographic copy of Smith family portrait, (daguerreotype [?])

Box 1, Folder 11: Richardson Family Photographs and Related Families (Smith, Eaton), 1886-1939 and undated:
Robert E. Richardson (Civil War attire, with horse), undated

Joseph S. Richardson, Jeanie N. Richardson, Wilbur P. Richardson, June 1893

Joseph Smith Richardson (at Aunt Mary Eaton’s on Monument St.), circa 1886

Joseph S. Richardson, circa 1891

Joseph S. Richardson, High School graduation picture, 1900

Joseph S. Richardson, 1912? [sic]

Joseph S. Richardson, Jaffrey, NH, undated (older age)

H.P. Richardson, 1939

Henry P. Richardson at 95 Main St., undated

Henry P. Richardson at Lime Quarry, Estabrook Woods, Concord, undated

Henry P. Richardson, Hill Burying Ground, Concord, undated

Sudbury River at Martha’s Point: Harry Eaton, Jack Eaton, Robert Gage, Robert Goodwin, Joseph S. Richardson, Ripley Gage, Richard Eaton(?) [sic], DeHart Houston, undated

Box 1, Folder 12: Joseph S. Richardson, [1913-14] – 1918 and undated:
Joseph S. Richardson, on maneuvers, Wareham, Mass., 1913-14

Joseph S. Richardson, undated

Postcard: Joseph S. Richardson in France, 21 November 1917

Various images of Joseph S. Richardson in uniform, outside 95 Main St. house, 1918

Box 1, Folder 13: 95 Main Street House, undated:
95 Main Street house, Concord, Mass.

Northeast Room, 95 Main St.

Northwest Room, 95 Main St.

Gertrude Todd, Sue Dyer, Maria Richardson at 95 Main Street House, Concord (3 images)

Box 1, Folder 14: Richardson & Smith Family Farms, undated
Smith Farm, Strawberry Hill Rd., Concord (J.A. Smith in center)

Smith Farm, Strawberry Hill Rd., Concord (landscape)

Smith Farm, family on steps of house: Martha Smith, Maria Rebecca Smith (Richardson),

Louise Smith Scott, Sue Dyer, Aunt Kitty Tolman Smith, Rebecca Smith, Lawrence

Eaton Richardson, Paul Smith (2 images)

H.P. Richardson Farm, Lowell Rd., Concord, Mass.

Brooks Farm, built by Seth Brooks, (Acton, Mass.?)

Unidentified barn

Box 1, Folder 15: People (miscellaneous), undated:
Camp on River, opposite Martha’s Point, Concord, Mass.: Constance Binney, Benjamin Ticknor, Clement R. Low, Peggy Bourquin ? Pittsburg, Augusta Cobb, Joseph S. Richardson, unknown, Betty Dumaine, Lawrence E. Richardson

Isabella Eaton, Alfred Carter, Nelly Carter, Jack Eaton, unidentified location

Box 1, Folder 16: Concord Streetscapes, undated:
Angier’s Mill Dam (A.W. Hosmer photograph)

Dam of Spencer Brook, Angier’s Mill Dam, off Barrett’s Mill Road, (A.W. Hosmer photograph)

From Main St., back of house on River St.

Main St., Concord, Mass. (2 views)

Monument St. (?)

Monument Square (and negative)

Wright Tavern, Unitarian Church

Street scene, unidentified

Box 1, Folder 17: Concord Structures, undated:
62 Main St.

Block House, Main St.

Block House, Lowell Road, (2 copies)

Emerson School, Stow St.

Gage House, Elm St.

High School, Stow St.

Hubbard House, Ebenezer House, Hubbard St.

Monument at Old North Bridge

Monument Street, (across from Aunt Mary Eaton’s)

Corner Nashawtuc Rd. and Main St.

Old Fire House, Masonic Lodge, Monument Square 

Ripley School, Old High School, Moved from Sudbury Rd., to Hubbard St.

Shepard Tavern (Wheeler House at Concord Academy), Main St.

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, mortuary chapel (tool house)

Stone Cottage, Monument St.

Thomas Todd House, 97 Main Street 

Tolman House, Lexington Rd. 

Town Hall [sic], Concord, Mass.

Unitarian Church (and negative)

The Wayside

Wright Tavern (2 images)

Box 1, Folder 18: Concord People - Groups, undated [ca. 1917-18]:
Volunteers (majority female), Veteran’s Building, Thoreau St., (A.W.Hosmer photograph)

Volunteers (male, in uniform), Veteran’s Building, Thoreau St., (A.W. Hosmer photograph)

Volunteers for Spanish-American War, Veteran’s Building, Thoreau St.

Military parade, Armory, Concord, Mass. [ca.1917, 1918]

Box 1, Folder 19: Concord Centennial Celebration, 1875
President Grant and cabinet members

Cattle Show building

Box 1, Folder 20: Outside Concord, 1872 and undated:
Boston Fire, 1872

Gunboat Concord, undated

Parade, Battery A, Massachusetts Avenue at Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass., undated (2 images)

Box 1, Folder 21:
Miscellaneous identified photographs

Box 1, Folder 22:
Unidentified photographs

Series III: Portraits and Artifacts

Box I: Artifact (boxed):
Pencil, A.G. Fay, Concord, Mass.

Box III:
Portrait of Henry Richardson (1820- [ca. 1867]), boxed with collection

Vault:
Portrait of Henry P. Richardson (1820- [ca. 1867])