Archives of American Art
Carrig-Rohane Shop records
Carrig-Rohane Shop
AAA.carrshop
Archival Resource Key
6.7 Linear feet
1903-1962
The Carrig-Rohane Shop records measure 6.7 linear feet and date from 1903 to 1962. The records document the founding of the Boston company, frame design and production, and the financial transactions of the shop. The numerous framing records, such as pattern and specification order books, are particularly valuable for researching and matching custom frames with specific works of art of the late 19th and early 20th century. The frame patterns are also useful for researchers interested in the history of frame design.
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Historical Note
In 1903 Herman Dudley Murphy, Walfred Thulin and Charles Prendergast began making frames and in 1906 H.D. Murphy opened "The Frame Shop of Herman Dudley Murphy" on Clarendon Street in Boston.
According to the meeting minutes, on June 13, 1911, the frame shop incorporated under the name "The Thulin-Murphy Co." with Walfred Thulin as the President. The shop name was then changed to "Carrig-Rohane" on February 5, 1914, and on October 23, 1915, the shop came under the management of Robert Churchill Vose, Sr. and Nathaniel Morton Vose.
The corporation was eventually dissolved on March 29, 1939, and the framing operations moved to the Vose Galleries' premises.
Scope and Content Note
The Carrig-Rohane Shop records date from 1903 to 1962, and measure 6.7 linear feet. The records document the founding of the company, frame design and production, and the financial transactions of the shop. Series 2: Frame Orders and Specifications is particulary valuable for researching the frames used for late 19th and early 20th century American works of art. The frame patterns can be cross-referenced with the orders to obtain visual documentation of the frame desing used with a specific work of art. The frame patterns are also useful for researchers interested in the history of frame design.
The records of the Carrig-Rohane Shop also include financial and business records, printed material, sketches of frames, and photographs of sketches and sculptures.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into seven series:
Missing Title
- Series 1: Frame Patterns, circa 1903-1962 (boxes 1-2, 1 linear ft.)
- Series 2: Frame Orders and Specifications, 1904-1962 (boxes 2-5, 3 linear ft.)
- Series 3: Financial Records, 1908-1939, undated (boxes 5-7, 1.9 linear ft.)
- Series 4: Business Records, 1903-1955, undated (box 7, 11, 0.6 linear ft.)
- Series 5: Printed Material, 1906 (box 7, 0.1 linear ft.)
- Series 6: Works of Art, 1931, 1936, undated (boxes 7, OV 10, 0.1 linear ft.)
- Series 7: Photographs, undated (box 7, 0.1 linear ft.)
Provenance
The Carrig-Rohane Shop records were donated by Robert Churchill Vose, Jr., Duxbury, Massachusetts, April 4, 1974, January 13, 1975, April 5, 1984, February 1, 1986, and March 17, 1987.
Funding for the processing and microfilming of this collection was provided by a grant from the Eli Wilner & Company, Inc., New York, New York.
Restrictions on Access
The collection is open for research. Patrons must use microfilm copy.
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Alternative Forms Available
This collection is available on 35 mm microfilm reels 4974-4982 at the Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Researchers should note that the arrangement of the material described in the container inventory does not reflect the arrangement of the collection on microfilm.
Preferred Citation
Carrig-Rohane Shop records, 1903-1962. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Processing Information
The collection was processed and the finding aid written by Jill Lundin in 1994.
Photographs
Works of art
Picture frames and framing
Art, American
Picture frame industry -- Massachusetts -- Boston
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- United States
Vose, Robert Churchill, 1873-
Vose Galleries of Boston
Murphy, Hermann Dudley, 1867-1945
Thulin-Murphy (Firm : Boston, Mass.)
Thulin, Walfred, 1878-1949
Carrig-Rohane Shop (Boston, Mass.)
Frame Patterns
Series 1
Archival Resource Key
circa 1903-1962
(boxes 1-2, 0.9 linear ft.)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains photographs of the various frames that were constructed at the shop. Most of the photographs include the pattern number assigned by the Carrig-Rohane Shop for order purposes. There are two groups of numerically ordered frame patterns, one assembled from loose photographs in the collection and the other made from a set of negatives found in the collection. The six bound photograph books, the cyanotype photographs, and the loose photographs of frame patterns are primarily unordered duplicates of the two numerical sets. Included is a price list of frame patterns, as well as a book of frame patterns ordered.
Existence and Location of Copies
Frame patterns are on reel 5974.
Photographs of patterns #1-57
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circa 1903-1962
1
1-4
Photographs of patterns #1-92A and unidentified from slides and negatives
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circa 1903-1962
1
5-6
Negatives and prints of frame patterns
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circa 1903-1962
1
7-9
Bound photograph book of frame patterns (original collation)
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circa 1903-1962
1
10-15
Photograph album of frame patterns
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circa 1903-1962
1
16
Photographs of frame patterns (cyanotypes)
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circa 1903-1962
1
17
Photographs of frame patterns
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circa 1903-1962
1
18
Price list of frame patterns
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circa 1903-1962
2
1
Frame patterns ordered
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circa 1903-1962
2
2
Frame Orders and Specifications
Series 2
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1904-1962
(boxes 2-5, 3.1 linear ft.)
Scope and Contents note
Information about frame orders and specifications can be found in this series in the order books dated 1904 to 1962. Information includes the patron or gallery who ordered the frame, the artist and often the title of the work of art, the frame pattern number, frame measurements, the color of the frame, and the materials used. The dates for the frame orders extend past the closure of the Carrig-Rohane Shop because frames continued to be made on the premises of Vose Galleries. The Order/Ledger Book contains order numbers 1333-3692 and can be used to cross-reference information about these particular orders which are also found in the general order books. Indexes in several of the Order Books include the order number printed above the page number where the order can be found. Also included are records of frame orders for photographs and mirrors.
Orders
Archival Resource Key
1904-1907
2
3
Scope and Contents
Reel 4974
Orders
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1907-1912
2
4
Scope and Contents
Reel 4974
Orders
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1912-1916
2
5
Scope and Contents
Reel 4974
Orders
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1916-1918
2
6
Scope and Contents
Reels 4974-4975
Orders
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1918-1919
2
7
Scope and Contents
Reel 4975
Orders/Ledger
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1915-1924
2
8-10
Scope and Contents
Reel 4975
Orders
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1924-1928
2
11-18
Scope and Contents
Reels 4975-4976
Orders
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1924-1930
3
1-9
Scope and Contents
Reels 4976-4977
Orders
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1928-1952
3
10-16
Scope and Contents
Reels 4977-4978
Orders
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1930-1962
4
1-7
Scope and Contents
Reels 4978-4979
Orders
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1936-1956
4
8-14
Scope and Contents
Reel 4979
Orders
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1923-1928
4
15
Scope and Contents
Reel 4979
Photograph frames and mirror consignments
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1919-1929
4
16
Scope and Contents
Reel 4979
Frame profiles of orders
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1905-1906
5
1
Scope and Contents
Reel 4979
Mirror orders
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1905-1919
5
2
Scope and Contents
Reel 4979
Financial Records
Series 3
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1908-1939, undated
(boxes 5-7, 1.9 linear ft.)
Scope and Contents note
Financial records are standard and include invoices, accounts receivable ledgers, general ledgers, consignment account ledgers, income tax forms, a cash book, and accounting reports and notes. The reports contain accounts receivable, accounts payable, and trial balances recorded every six months.
Invoices
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1923-1930
5
3-10
Scope and Contents
Reels 4979-4980
Invoices
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1931-1939
5
11-13
Scope and Contents
Reel 4980
Accounts receivable
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1915-1923
5
14-17
Scope and Contents
Reels 4980-4981
Accounts receivable
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1917-1937
5
18-19
Scope and Contents
Reel 4981
Accounts receivable
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1917-1937 cont.
6
1
Scope and Contents
Reel 4981
General ledger
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1908-1911
6
2
Scope and Contents
Oversized material housed in Box 8.
Scope and Contents
Reel 4981
Consignment accounts ledger
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1915-1916
6
3
Scope and Contents
Reel 4981
Consignment accounts ledger
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1915-1922
6
4
Scope and Contents
Reel 4981
Income tax forms
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1911-1914
6
5
Scope and Contents
Reel 4981
Accounting reports/notes
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1909-1936, undated
6
6-12
Scope and Contents
Reel 4981
Accounting reports/notes
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1909-1936, undated cont.
7
1-7
Scope and Contents
Reel 4982
Oversized General ledger from Box 6, Folder 2
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1923-1939
8
Scope and Contents
Reel 4981
Oversized Cash book
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1909-1918, undated
9
Scope and Contents
Reel 4982
Business Records
Series 4
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1903-1955, undated
(box 7, 11, 0.6 linear ft.)
Scope and Contents note
Business records found in this series include scattered official and legal documents for Thulin-Murphy, Inc. and the Carrig-Rohane Shop. Several routine letters can also be found here.
Existence and Location of Copies
Business records in box 11 are unfilmed. All other business records are on reel 4982.
Transcribed history notes of R.C. Vose
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circa 1903-1939
7
8
Letters (scattered)
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1926, 1927, 1953, 1955, undated
7
9
Thulin-Murphy Incorporation documents
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1911
7
10
Meeting record book
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1911-1939
7
11
Stockholder records
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1911-1915, 1922-1933
7
12
Thulin-Murphy stock certificates
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1911-1922
7
13
Insurance Policies
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1914
7
14
Lease extensions
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1906-1913
7
15
Inventories
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1926, 1927, 1929, 1936-1938
7
16-17
Notes
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undated
7
18
Ephemera
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undated
7
19
Copyright registration
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1905-1909
11
1
Letters
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1919-1924
11
2-7
Inventories
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1933-1935
11
8
Printed material
Series 5
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1906
(box 7, 0.1 linear ft.)
Scope and Contents note
This series consists of one folder containing a copy of an article, Individual Treatment of the Picture Frame, by Frederick W. Coburn. The article includes discussion of the work of Herman Dudley Murphy, Charles Prendergast and Walfred Thulin.
Existence and Location of Copies
Printed material is on reel 4982.
Printed Material
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1906
7
20
Works of art
Series 6
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1931-1936, undated
(boxes 7, OV 10, 0.1 linear ft.)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains detailed sketches of frames drawn in pencil and ink. Most of the sketches have notations such as measurements of the works of art they were intended for, as well as the names of clients purchasing the frame and artists who had produced the artwork to be framed. Some of the sketches are oversized. The series also contains a print and a watercolor sketch by unidentified artists.
Existence and Location of Copies
Works of art are on reel 4982.
Sketches of frames
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1931, 1936, undated
7
21
Print and watercolor
Archival Resource Key
undated
7
22
Oversize sketches of frames
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OV 10
Photographs
Series 7
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undated
(box 7, 0.1 linear ft.)
Scope and Contents note
This series contains 3 folders of photographs. There are several photographs of sketches by famous artists, several photographs of sculpture, primarily of women with children, and a folder of miscellanous photographs showing interiors with frames, furniture, and unidentified individuals.
Existence and Location of Copies
Photographs are on reel 4982.
Photographs of Sketches
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undated
7
23
Photographs of Sculpture
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undated
7
24
Photographs, Miscellaneous
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undated
7
25