Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Title | Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society PDF eBook |
Author | Massachusetts Historical Society |
Publisher | |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 1795 |
Genre | Massachusetts |
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For the statement above quoted, also for full bibliographical information regarding this publication, and for the contents of the volumes [1st ser.] v. 1- 7th series, v. 5, cf. Griffin, Bibl. of Amer. hist. society. 2d edition, 1907, p. 346-360.
The Trumbull Papers
Title | The Trumbull Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Trumbull |
Publisher | |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | Connecticut |
ISBN |
The Private Jefferson
Title | The Private Jefferson PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Adams |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN | 9781936520084 |
Both exhibition and book celebrate the society's 225th year. Distributed for the Massachusetts Historical Society
The Crooked & Narrow Streets of the Town of Boston 1630-1822
Title | The Crooked & Narrow Streets of the Town of Boston 1630-1822 PDF eBook |
Author | Annie Haven Thwing |
Publisher | |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Boston (Mass.) |
ISBN |
History of Hadley
Title | History of Hadley PDF eBook |
Author | Sylvester Judd |
Publisher | |
Pages | 646 |
Release | 1863 |
Genre | Amherst (Mass.) |
ISBN |
Numismatics of Massachusetts
Title | Numismatics of Massachusetts PDF eBook |
Author | Malcolm Storer |
Publisher | [Cambridge, Mass.] : Massachusetts Historical Society |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Numismatics |
ISBN |
"Primarily it is a catalogue of the pieces in the collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society...."--Pref.
The Massachusetts Historical Society
Title | The Massachusetts Historical Society PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Leonard Tucker |
Publisher | Massachusetts Historical Society |
Pages | 710 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
When Jeremy Belknap and seven associates met in Boston on January 24, 1791, to establish the Massachusetts Historical Society, there was nothing like it anywhere in North America. Belknap, concerned that accident and carelessness were jeopardizing America's documentary heritage, proposed an organization to provide a secure repository for rare manuscripts and printed works and a publication program to "multiply the copies" of these valuable items. The Society that eight Boston gentlemen created that evening was the first institution anywhere for "the collection and preservation of materials for a political and natural history of the United States". The Massachusetts Historical Society: A Bicentennial History, 1791-1991, is a candid and detailed account of this remarkable institution's first two centuries. Despite its location and its name, the Society has never been a provincial institution, dedicated to chronicling the story of a single city or state. Through its incomparable library and publications, as well as through the writings of such illustrious members as Belknap, Francis Parkman, William Hickling Prescott, Samuel Eliot Morison, and scores of modern scholars, the Society has been - and continues to be - a profound influence on the study of a nation's history.