massachusetts

The massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770, ...

Print shows British troops firing on citizens in Boston. Caption continues: in which Messrs Saml. Gray, Saml. Maverick, James Caldwell, Crispus Attucks, Patrick Carr were killed, six other wounded, two of them... More

Tea destroyed by Indians. [1773].

Positive Photostat.; Verse.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 3 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection... More

"Tea destroyed by Indians" - Public domain book illustration, Library ...

Poem honoring the Boston Tea Party, Dec. 1773. Reference copy may be in LOT 4412N. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: U.S. Hist. Dec. 1773; Boston Hist.; Shelf.

A sketch of the action between the British forces and the American pro...

Scale ca. 1:13,800. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Indexed for points of military interest. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of North America, 1750-178... More

A new and accurate map of the colony of Massachusets [i.e. Massachuset...

Covers eastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, eastern Connecticut, and small portions of New Hampshire and Vermont. Relief shown pictorially. From Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure, vol. 66, Dec. 1780,... More

John Malcom / dessiné et gravé par F. Godefroy.

Depicts event of January 25, 1774 when Boston Commissioner of Customs John Malcom (or Malcomb) was tarred and feathered and hung out his window by an angry mob.

View of the colleges at Cambridge, Massachusetts / delineated & engrav...

Print shows several buildings on the Harvard College campus, (l. to r.) Holden Chapel, Hollis Hall, Harvard Hall, and Massachusetts Hall.

Map of Wareham Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale 1:24,650; 125 rods to an in. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Meridians: Washington and Greenwich. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy annotated in pe... More

Map of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and...

Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: London and Washington D.C. "Entered according to Act of Congress, July 10th, 1839, by David H. Burr, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Col... More

Gorge between Holyoke and Tom Mrs. Hitchcock del. ; Pendleton's Lithog...

Print shows a bird's-eye view of the Connecticut River as it passes between Holyoke and Mount Tom. Pl. IV. Illus. from: Massachusetts. Geological Survey. Final report on the geology of Massachusetts, by Edward... More

View of the merchants exchange. Boston, Massachusetts.

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Thayer, B.W., & Co. Copyright deposit, District Court of Mass.: 1842

The Prize Song, "The Whig Chief"...dedicated...to Henry Clay, by the B...

Three oval views of Clay's birthplace, Hanover, Ky.; Clay's residence "Ashland"; and White House, Wash., D.C. LOT subdivision subject: Birthplace and Homes. Title and other information transcribed from caption ... More

The destruction of tea at Boston Harbor / lith. & pub. by Sarony & Maj...

Public domain photograph of Boston, Massachusetts, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Thurbers' fruit preserves and jellies / Forbes Co., Boston & N.Y.

Advertising card for Thurbers' fruit preserves and jellies, showing seven little girls with jars of preserves and jelly on shelves.

[Henry Laurens Dawes, senator of Massachusetts., three-quarters length...

Date based on similar image in the Brady-Handy Collection (LC-BH824- 5365).

Treasury Office-- city of Boston. Ward No. [blank] Your tax for the ye...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 68, Folder 21g.

Enrolled men of Reading!! The subscribers, Selectmen of Reading, hereb...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 71, Folder 14.

[Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger, Jr. (Boston, Loring, 1868): preface to ...

... Notice to the inhabitants and other persons liable to pay taxes in...

Charm of the East--Chewing tobacco--O.P. Shattuck, Worcester, Massachu...

Tobacco label showing half-length portrait of a woman holding a tray with carafe and glass. 1086C(?) U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Allen & Ellis.

Massachusetts - on the crest of the wave - a Nantucket fisherman retur...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 49, no. 1252 (1879 Sept. 27), p. 57. Reference copy may be in SSF (Graphic) - Fishing Misc. 187... More

Assessors' notice! To the inhabitants and other persons liable to pay ...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 76, Folder 26.

The new leader and the old chorus / Gillam.

Illustration shows John Logan labeled "New Leader" of the Republican Party, the "party of Reform and Puritee", holding a paper that states "Logan Speec[h] at Boston July 1885", standing in the street between th... More

[Wash., D.C. public school classroom scene, ca. 1899: students studyin...

Photograph shows students studying the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Mass. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. C... More

Iceman and helper with Jamaica Pond Ice Co. wagon, Boston, Massachuset...

Forms part of: Charles Henry Currier collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America's Library" at the Annenberg Space for Photography, 2018; B... More

U.S. Battleship Massachusetts. Warship photograph collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of naval activity, ship, sea, 19th-20th century navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bradley - His Book. Springfield, Massachusetts., The Wayside Press, 18...

Art nouveau poster showing a woman and peacock. Promotional goal: U.S. D41. 1896. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Women- ; Publ. Ind.; Advert. Books; Posters;... More

Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity house, Williams College

Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts. - Public domain image. Dry plat...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Daniel Webster Statue, State House grounds, Boston, Massachusetts.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a statue, monument, sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Handling a cargo from the fishing banks, Gloucester, Massachusetts.]

Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sever Hall, Harvard College - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Kitchen and living room, John Hancock House, Lexington, Massachusetts

Photograph of a photographic print copyrighted 1900 by Detroit Publishing Company. Hancock-Clark House. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013964. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Maternity building, New England Hospital for Women & Children, Dimock ...

Title from jacket. "39" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 068111. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Joseph Pennell - [The gold moon]

Italy, Venice. As described in Wuerth, "View from the Redentore, foreground heavily shaded, on opposite shore the Salute and other buildings in heavy gray mass against a brilliant rose and gold sunset sky and t... More

First Church, Salem, Massachusettsachusetts view, photochrome print po...

Copyright 1902 by Detroit Photographic Co. Title on inventory list: First Church, Salem. Captions for similar images (LC-D4-11984) lists title as: First Church, Salem, Mass. Detroit Publishing Co. no. "53831".... More

[Charles Park, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, about 1902]...

Maud Wood Park Collection. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1980:192, container 1, folder 5.

Count Reginald Ward, portrait bust, copyright: J.E. Purdy, Boston / J....

A black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Joseph Pennell - The Stock Exchange

New York City. Diagonal view down broad street, Roman facade, pediment, halfway down left side, tower in center, tightly grouped mass of figures, foreground, reddish highlighting throughout, including clouds. L... More

Roller coaster, [Paragon Park], Nantasket Beach, Massachusetts.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an amusement park, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Green Gables Club, the veranda restaurant, Magnolia, Massachusetts.]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tavern, pub, or small restaurant, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Old cannon captured from French, U.S. Arsenal, Springfield, Massachuse...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, or cannon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The State House, Boston, Massachusetts. postcard

Postcard shows close up view, front and side elevation, of Massachussets State House with additional side wings, copper dome, and equestrian statue of General Joseph Hooker on the left. People walking near the... More

Dedication of Christian Science Church, Boston, Massachusetts.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Unveiling tablet commemorating first settelment [sic] of Massachusetts...

Public domain photograph of a crowd, event, meeting, demonstration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

High Street, Holyoke, Massachusetts. - Public domain image. Dry plate ...

Public domain photograph - city, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

East end of College Hall, Wellesley College, Massachusetts.

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Thompson Memorial Chapel, Williams College, Massachusetts

Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070384. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Immigrants in night school. Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teacher, teaching, studying, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Emmeline Pankhurst Defends Militant Methods; page 2

Picryl description: Public domain newspaper clippings page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Pupil, Teachers of the Steamer Class in the Washington School. Locatio...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Miscellaneous. Hine no. 944. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs ... More

Robinson Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Early automobiles - Kissel Kar, Whitman studio, Massachusettsachusetts

Photograph shows five men sitting in Kissel Kar with Massachusetts license plate. Copyright by Whitman Studio, Malden, Mass. Title devised Copyright registration.

Marine Room, East India Marine Hall, Peabody Museum of Salem, Salem, M...

Title devised by cataloger. "No. 19" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039496. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Mill girls, Pacific Mills. Location: Lawrence, Massachusetts

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Mills. Hine no. 1176. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

Nearly 9 A.M. Girl (about 8 years old) carrying sack of hose supporter...

Title from NCLC caption card. Attribution to Hine based on provenance. In album: Tenement homework. Hine no. 3145. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photogr... More

[25-ton door, safe deposit vault, main office, Old Colony Trust Compan...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Suffragist Margaret Foley distributing the Woman's Journal and Suffra...

Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of Margaret Foley (right?) and an unidentified woman (left), both carrying pocketbooks and wearing fur-trimmed hats and fur stoles, standing outsi... More

[Joe Wood, Boston AL at Fenway Park, Boston (baseball)]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a sports competition, baseball player, baseball field, athlete, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Hank Gowdy, Lefty Tyler, Joey Connolly, Boston NL (baseball)]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a sports competition, baseball player, baseball field, athlete, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Miss Katharine Morey, Massachusetts state chairman for the National Wo...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Eight-year old Jack on a Western Massachusetts farm. He is a type of c...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Eight-year old Jack on a Western Massachusetts farm. He is a type of ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Gavvy Cravath, Philadelphiadelphia NL & Tris Speaker, Boston AL (base...

Title based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006. Title from caption card and item: Speaker & Cravath, outfielders respectively of Boston Red Sox & Phila.... More

[The Swimming Hole. Group of boys - 14 to 16 years - just returned fro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Jose de Sousa Magano. Refused certificate at Certificate Office. Loca...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Doffers - Boss said 14 and 15 years old. Indian Orchard Cotton Mill Lo...

In album: Mills. Title from NCLC caption card for Hine no. 4359. Hine no. 4360. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information ... More

Spinner. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts / Lewis W. Hine.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cone-winder - Said 17 years old. Indian Orchard Cotton Mill. Location:...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Mills. Hine no. 4357. Credit line: National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about the National... More

Accident cases at Union Hospital - Oscar Matoon - 14 years - 72 Oman S...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Beacon Street residence being demolished (next to State House) Young c...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Old North Church, Boston, Massachusetts

J228782 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of building in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

["Indian Ridge," Dr. Francis Bishop Harrington house, 166 Argilla Road...

Site History. House Architecture: built circa 1903. Landscape: Josephine Ruggles (Mrs. Francis B.) Harrington. Title, date, and subject information provided by Sam Watters, 2011. Forms part of: Garden and histo... More

Skyscraper office building - Public domain architectural drawing

Architectural drawing shows building as perspective projection rendering. Drawing made when Adams was a student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Purchase; GL & Abigail Adams Greenway; 2016; (DLC/PP-20... More

A sister's hands, ironing / Samuel Kravitt.

Photograph shows a close-up view of a sister's hands while she is ironing at the Hancock Shaker village near Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Photographer stamp on verso visible through paper mount; mounted on paper... More

Brother Ricardo Belden, box maker / Samuel Kravitt.

Photograph shows Brother Ricardo Belden making wooden oval boxes in a workshop at the Hancock Shaker village near Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Title from inventory. Signed and dated in ink on verso. Photographer ... More

A couple of people sitting at a table in a kitchen. Great Depression a...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

A couple of men standing next to a train car, possibly related to: Sce...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

A black and white photo of a boat in the water, possibly related to: T...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Near the waterfront, New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Photograph shows houses with smokestacks, and gas storage tanks in background.

WPA exhibition A. Arapoff, D. Greason, Elliot, Orr.

Poster for Federal Art Project exhibition at the Federal Art Gallery, 77 Newbury Street, Boston, Mass., showing brushes and still life painting of flowers in a pot.

The man behind the gun. John C. Garand, inventor of the semi-automatic...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of two men on a boat, Great Depression. FSA/OW...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Men going to work at the mills. Lawrence, Massachusetts

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

One third of the income from many localities in New England comes out ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mr. Melkon Loosigian, Armenian. Works fourteen-acre vegetable farm. So...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Provincetown, Massachusetts. Portuguese dory fisherman gossiping in fr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of two men working on a fence, Provincetown, M...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Boston and Maine railroad shops at Billerica, Massachusetts. Tremendou...

Public domain photograph related to Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Provincetown, Massachusetts. Portuguese dory fisherman gossiping in fr...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Hauling in the trawl aboard a Portuguese drag boat off Cape Cod, Massa...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gloucester, Massachusetts. Gaspar Favozza, son of an Italian-American ...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Gloucester fishermen pulling in their nets to bring their catch nearer...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Douglas military aircraft Army. The Douglas A-20 (Havoc) light bomber,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Irving Fine, Aaron Copland, Nadia Boulanger, Walter Piston at the Old ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a portrait of composer or musician, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Berkshire Music Center, Lenox, Massachusetts. Opera house, exterior II...

Annotation: for Progressive architecture. Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fire House, Old Deerfield, Massachusetts. Exterior II

Public domain photograph of train station, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. McConnell Hall and Sabin Ro...

Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jolly Cholly, North Attleboro, Massachusetts

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Food. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph arc... More

Comprehensive plan for the national capital, mass transportation plan.

Scale ca. 1:130,000. "September 30, 1978." Shows existing and proposed subways in the Washington metropolitan area. "NCPC Map File No. 40.00/100.00-28420." Available also through the Library of Congress Web sit... More