massachusetts

London, Septemb. 27, Yesterday morning arrived three Holland mails, wh...

Positive Photostat. 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 33, Folder 30.

[Chart of Plymouth Bay. nautical chart

Scale ca. 1:24,000. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Hand colored. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 960 Vault AACR2

The Scotch Butchery, Boston, 1775, British Cartoon Print

Print shows Lords Bute and Mansfield conferring, to their right stands Simon Fraser and Lord Wedderburn, "Deputies" to the aforenamed. On the far right are soldiers wearing Highland dress (of the 71st Regiment ... More

A correct view of the late battle at Charlestown : June 17th, 1775 /

Shows troops in action, British ships, and the village of Charleston. Bird's-eye-view. Exhibited in G&M exhibit, May 1975. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2

A view of Boston from Dorchester Neck / Wm. Pierre delin.

Print shows view across harbor of Boston from Dorchester, Massachusetts. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, .... London : 1777... More

A new plan of Boston Harbour from an actual survey.

Scale ca. 1:110,000. "N.B. Charlestown burnt June 17th, 1775 by the regulars." Index for points of interest. Cited in David McNeely Stauffer's American engravers upon copper and steel as appearing in the Pennsy... More

The House of representatives, apprehending it of importance, that the ...

Not in Ford. 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 43, Folder 7.

Massachusetts / Historic map, Library of Congress

J.R. Hewitt, saddle, harness and trunk maker, and dealer in valises, c...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Chubbuck.

Massachusetts Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridians: London and Philadelphia. State II (post 1799), according to Wheat & Brun. LC copy has in pencil on red bordered label on verso: 449/5. Wheat & Brun 1969, 217 Availabl... More

[Squares] - Architectural drawing, public domain image

In album: "Principles of Perspective". Album not signed; attribution based on inscription inside cover "Indentified as belonging to Charles Bulfinch, & in his handwriting. Ellen L. Bulfinch, Nov. 13, 1894." Fro... More

Honorable Theophilus Parsons, late Chief Justice of Massachusetts / St...

Theophilus Parsons, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left. Engraved for the Analectic Magazine. Copyright by Moses Thomas.

Grand bobalition, or "Great anniversary fussible"

Another in the "bobalition" series of broadsides parodying the manners, illiteracy, and dialect of Boston blacks. (See no. 1819-2.) The illustration shows a black militia troop marching from left to right. The ... More

Cattle show, exhibition of manufactures, and ploughing match, at Worce...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Colton (S.H.) & Co.

Map of the United States compiled from the latest and most accurate s...

Detailed map of the eastern United States to about the 97th Meridian. Shows drainage, relief by hachures, state and county boundaries, cities, towns and villages, canals, roads, and railroads in operation and p... More

New method of assorting the mail, as practised by Southern slave-holde...

A portrayal of the nocturnal raid on the Charleston post office by a mob of citizens and the burning of abolitionist mails found there in July 1835. Mail sacks are handed through a forced window of the ransack... More

[U.S. custom house, Boston, Massachusetts. Elevation]

Inscribed in pencil: "Boston Custom House" and "I. [sic] B. Young Archt." Blind stamp: Geo. W. Rapp, architect & sup., Cincinnati, Ohio. Stamp: B9. Gift ; American Institute of Architects / American Architectu... More

Plantation melodies / J.H. Bufford's lith., Boston.

Music cover showing two boys seated on bench, with one of them playing a flute, and the other holding book of music.

District No. 9. Bolting Free soilers ... A free soiler. Taunton. Nov. ...

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 60, Folder 13.

Now on exhibition, the celebrated blood hounds. Here and spot. the mon...

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 73, Folder 26.

Destruction of Minot's Ledge lighthouse

Illus. in: Gleason's pictorial, v. 1, no. 1 (1851 May 3), p. 20.

Katy Darling A favorite song / / J. H. Bufford's Lith., Boston.

Print showing title page illustration with man looking sadly at grave of "Katy Darling."

The First mass in the temples of Yucatan, Mexico

During Cortez's conquest of Mexico. Illustration from: Harper's Monthly, 1855, vol. 12.

The Boston and Cambridge new horse railroad / .

Illus. in: Ballou's pictorial (1856 June 7). Title and other information transcribed from unverified data in Pictorial Americana (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1955), p. 63.

Principal floor. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows a floor plan for the Boston Public Library. Illus. in: Proceedings at the dedication of the building for the Public library of the city of Boston. Boston : prepared and printed by authority of the c... More

[Henry L. Dawes, Representative from Massachusetts, Thirty-fifth Congr...

Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 32. Each item includes subject's origi... More

[Eli Thayer, Representative from Massachusetts, Thirty-fifth Congress,...

Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 30. Each item includes subject's origi... More

Confectioner's cake and pastry bakery ... Geo. H. Carter. Charlestown,...

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 64, Folder 26.

[Daniel W. Gooch, Representative from Massachusetts, Thirty-fifth Cong...

Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 28. Each item includes subject's origi... More

Steamboat line. Stage notice. fare reduced! Cohasset, Scituate & the G...

Transportation.; Stage coach. 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 64, Folder 30.

Honorable Oakes Ames of Massachusetts. - Public domain portrait print

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

Honorable Henry Wilson of Massachusetts. - Public domain portrait phot...

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

The twenty-seventh national anti-slavery subscription anniversary ... ...

Stamped on verso: 31 130.; Anti-slavery fair, held January, 1861. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collec... More

Lord Howe evacuating Boston March 1776

Engraving by J. Godfrey after M.A. Wageman. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: US History Revolution, 1775-1783 Campaigns & battles; Massachusetts; Shelf.

Charles Dickens' new book! "Uniform with Great expectations," The Lamp...

Prospectus.; Handwritten on verso: Nov. 1861. 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 4a.

Notice! The undersigned, one of the surgeons appointed "To examine mil...

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 69, Folder 29.

[Unidentified man with hat] / Photographed by L. H. Hale, 293 Washingt...

Notation on verso: Mrs. Berry. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, wh... More

[Unidentified man] / T. R. Burnham, photographer. 247 Washington Stree...

Public domain photograph - 19th-century male studio portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Petersburg, Virginia. Company D, 1st Massachusettsachusetts Cavalry

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Co. D, 1st Mass. Cavalry, in front of Petersburg, Va., Aug. 1864. Annotation from negative, glass side: 9. Corresponding print is in LOT 4188. C... More

Banks, Honorable Nathaniel Prentice of Massachusetts. General in Union...

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

Death and burial of Abraham Lincoln [Cut of Abraham Lincoln A nation m...

Poem of four stanzas.; 2582 E 8 12 Jy 46.; Rec. 7-18-46.; $6.00.; 5-31-46 pv; Goodspeed; 398 217; DCM 10 5-13-46 Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images a... More

[Menu Dec. 1868].

Picryl description: Public domain photo of restaurant menu, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Unidentified man] / W. S. Warren, No. 41 Winter Street, Boston.

W. S. Warren worked as a photographer at 41 Winter from 1870-1874. (Source: A directory of Massachusetts photographers, 1839-1900 / research by Chris Steele & Ronald Polito ; edited by Ronald Polito, c1993, p. 133)

Norcross, Honorable A. of Massachusetts. - Public domain portrait phot...

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

Our only true medical diploma since 1871--none other genuine / Why Dr....

Public domain reproduction of political cartoon, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View of Springfield, Massachusetts. 1875.

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

Extension of library of Harvard College. Ware and Van Brunt architects...

Print shows sectional views and the floor plan for the library extension Harvard University. Illus. in: American architect and building news, vol. 4, no. 152. Boston : J. R. Osgod & Co., Nov. 23, 1878, opposite p. 173.

View of Ashland, Mass. 1878. - Public domain old map

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 268 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus. and index to points of interest. AACR2

Foxborough, Massachusetts. 1879. Historic map, Library of Congress

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Hand colored. Bird's-eye view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 292.1 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus. AACR2

Monson, Massachusetts. 1879. Historic map, Library of Congress

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Hand colored. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 310.1 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus. and index to poin... More

The political pot in Boston : who will get the pork?

No accession number. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.

Our national coast defenses, Library of Congress drawings collection

No accession number. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.

William Phips, governor of Massachusetts, 1692 to 1694

William Phips, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly left. Copyright by J.R. Osgood & Co.

George Henry Boughton - Rose Standish, portrait print

Print shows Rose Standish, full-length portrait, standing facing left. P23882 U.S. Copyright Office. Printed at top center: Copyright registered. Publication date based on copyright statement and/or copyright ... More

East Pepperell, Massachusetts. 1886., engraving, Library of Congress

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 287 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Indexed for points of interest. AACR2: 100; 710/1

Westford, Massachusetts. 1886. Historic map, Library of Congress

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 328 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Indexed for points of interest. AACR2

East Douglas, Massachusetts. 1886.. 19th century, Library of Congress ...

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 286 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Indexed for points of interest. AACR2: 100; 710/1; 710/2

[Honest John Morrill, Boston Beaneaters, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: Goodwin & Company. "Morrell"- -caption on card. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Dick Johnston, Boston Beaneaters, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: Goodwin & Company. "R. F."- -caption on card. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Ezra Sutton, Boston Beaneaters, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: Goodwin & Company. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

The Oaks, Waverly - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

Style 19. Upright piano-forte, designed and manufactured by Henry F. M...

Photo copyrighted by Henry F. Miller & Sons, Piano Co., Boston, Mass. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mass. Boston Misc.; BI; Ads. Misc.; Music... Pianos; Adv... More

Old State House, Boston - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic Capitol building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...

Public domain image of a historic view of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Abbott [sic] Hall, Marblehead - Public domain image. Dry plate negativ...

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

U.S.S. Boston. Warship photograph collection

Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Wayside Inn, Sudbury, Massachusetts.

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

Gore 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

The Charlesgate, Boston - Victorian era public domain image

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Old Manse from the highway, Concord, Massachusetts]

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

Whittier's birth place, Haverhill, Massachusetts

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 011979. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts.. 19th century, Library of Congres...

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

[Borough Gardens from south, Dorchester, England]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "11255". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at h... More

Lowell House, Cambridge, Massachusetts. - Public domain image. Dry pla...

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

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, the Walker Building

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

[Holyoke, Massachusetts., Holyoke Dam and Mt. Tom from bridge]

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

The delivery room / Boston Photogravure Co.

Print shows the Woburn (Mass.) Public Library delivery room. Illus. in: New England Magazine, an illustrated monthly, new series vol. 1, no. 6. Boston : New England Magazine Company, Feb.1890, p. 620.

[Battle scene at Bunker Hill] - Drawing. Public domain image.

In the heat of battle, the Colonial volunteers fight the British Redcoats from atop Bunker Hill. One of the colonists waves an American flag, while others dressed in civilian clothes overcome the British foe w... More

[Massachusetts. Lynn. shoe factories, 1895?: a lining stitcher (woman)...

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Charles River, Echo Bridge, Newton, Massachusetts.]

Picryl description: Public domain image of an arch bridge, stone structure, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Main entrance. Boston Public Library

Photograph shows the staircase corridor at the main entrance of the Boston Public Library. 26619 U.S. Copyright Office. 69479-B-1 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1895 by Charles Pollock, Boston.

[Surf near Nanepashemet Hotel, Marblehead, Massachusetts.]

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

[Samuel Francis Smith, 1808-1895, full-length portrait, seated at a ta...

15742 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of 2 photos by J. Albert Cole. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf; Massachusetts, PI; sources checked and other i... More

[Shoe factories, Lynn, Massachusetts.: exterior view of shoe factories...

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Massachusetts; Industry & manu. Shoes; Women Employment 1845?; Shelf.

N. A. - Northborough--Building side walls Sec. 10 - Sta. 422

Construction of the Clinton-Wachusett sewage and water supply system, Northborough, Massachusetts. No. 724. and photographer name from Massachusetts Archives. Glass negative for this photograph is at the Commo... More

Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1895-96

37462B2 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Notman Photo Co.; June 27, 1896; DLC/PP-1901:42097. Sitters labeled under image. Photographs of sitters mounted onto painted background and rephotographed.

Mariner's Landmark. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Snarled tree on rocky coast; Massachusetts. Photo copyrighted by Mrs. George W. Harvey, Annisquam, Mass. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Trees; Mass; Shelf.

[Cover of souvenir album of historic sites of Boston, shaped as beanpo...

Cover of souvenir album, Boston Baked Beans, by L. Prang & Co. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mass. Boston Misc; Mass. Boston Faneuil Hall; Food.

Elmer Chickering - R.S. Allen - Boston base ball club

Photograph shows Robert Allen, shortstop for the Boston Beaneaters, full-length studio portrait, standing before backdrop, wearing baseball uniform and glove. C47042 U.S. Copyright Office. Stamped on mount: El... More

[Steamboats: MASSACHUSETTS - bow to right]

Photoprint copyrighted by C.E. Bolles. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: New York Hudson River; Boats; Bridges.

The champion of all champions--"Hoping to deserve your appreciation, I...

John L. Sullivan, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, with fists raised.

The Frog Pond, Boston Common view, photochrome print postcard.

In album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 53452. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955.

State House, Boston - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic Capitol building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge

Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). "18" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013046. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[The Bathing beach, Magnolia, Massachusetts.]

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

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bureau, office furniture, desk, chair, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

My Massachusetts home / Photograph by Wm A.W. Eager.

Two people standing in front of house. No. 1. Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old fashioned gardens, Lawson estate, Dreamwold, Egypt, Massachusetts.

Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description

Library, Worcester Art Museum [Worcester, Massachusetts.]

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

[Glimpse of paradise, Smith College, Northampton]

Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, pond, water reflection, romantic landscape, 18th-19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.