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Castle William, a British fortification on an island in Boston Harbor

Drawing shows a distant view of Castle William, a British fortification on an island in Boston Harbor. Title from item. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 gra... More

A political lesson / J. Dixon invenit et fecit., British Cartoon Print

Print shows a rearing black stallion (possibly representing America) which has thrown its rider (possibly representing England). The rider has struck his head on a mile marker "To Boston VI miles" behind which ... More

A front view of the lines taken from the advanced post near Browns hou...

Print shows two cheval-de-frise and two buildings in the middle distance. Title from item. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, .... More

A view of the country towards Dorchester, taken from the advanced work...

Print shows open countryside looking toward Dorchester, Massachusetts, with soldiers in redoubt on the left. Title from item. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Br... More

Boston from Willis Creek / Wm. Pierre delin.

Print shows distant view of Boston from across river. Title from item. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, .... London : 1777-17... More

Long Island open on the north side of Nicks Mate Island

Print shows islands (Long Island Head, Gallop Island, and Nix's Mate) in Boston Harbor and a distant view, on the right, of Boston. Title from item. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the... More

A plan of the sea coast from Boston Bay to the light house near Rhode ...

Scale 1:253,440; 4 statute miles to 1 in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by shading. Has watermarks. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of N... More

A view of the harbour of Boston taken from Fort Hill

Print shows tents and wooden fence in foreground and Boston Harbor in the background. Title from item. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. D... More

A perspective view of the salt works in Salisbury, New England

Print shows view of a salt works on the Merrimack River, near Newburyport, Massachusetts, with large meadow in the foreground. Title from item. Engrav'd for the Penna. Magazine. Illus. in: The Pennsylvania Maga... More

A north view of the Castle William in the harbour of Boston

Title from item. Illus. in: The Massachusetts magazine, or, Monthly museum of knowledge and rational entertainment. Boston, Mass. : Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, vol. I, no. V, 1789 (May), frontispiece... More

Mount Auburn Cemetery--Monument to Judge Story [and map of the cemeter...

Copyright by R. Martin. Illus. in: Mount Auburn Cemetery illustrated, frontispiece.

A very bad man

The first of two prints formerly thought to be anti-Jackson satires, but actually dealing with the sensational trial of Methodist minister Ephraim K. Avery in May 1833 for the murder of Sarah Maria Cornell. (Se... More

[Title page from "Memoir of Ann Elizabeth Pierce" and frontispiece eng...

Illus. in: Memoir of Ann Elizabeth Pierce, who died in H n, Mass., aged nine years and seven months / Amos Augustus Phelps. Boston : Massachusetts Sabbath school society, 1833, frontispiece and cover. Published... More

A minister extraordinary taking passage & bound on a foreign mission t...

The second of two prints surrounding the scandalous trial of Methodist minister Ephraim K. Avery for the brutal murder of factory girl Sarah Maria Cornell. (See "A Very Bad Man," no. 1833-13). Contrary to Weite... More

The Massachusetts hoar, outwitted, or hopping-John, and Johnny-cake, f...

An imaginative but puzzling commentary on sectional tensions over slavery between New England abolitionists and southern agrarian slaveholders. In his sweeping satire the artist also portrays a considerable hos... More

Twelve preludes and voluntaries for organ, or piano with aeolian attac...

cover page only From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyri... More

The Indian's prayer - by I.Woodbury

pgs missing at end From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Cop... More

Tom Thumb's grand march

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Grand sliding thirds waltz

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Amelia Isabella waltz

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Sled waltz

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Camp march

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

The statesman's dirge

cover pageonly From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyrig... More

[Title page of Henry D. Thoreau, Walden; or life in the woods, 1854, s...

Walden Pond--A reduced plan, 1846

Illus. in: Walden; or, life in the woods, 1854.

Corydon waltz

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

Festival waltz

cover only From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright D... More

John Eliot preaching to the Indians

Title from item. Illus. in: Ballou's pictorial, v. 10, (1856), p. 232. Reference copy in LOT 4709 L.

On the cross

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1820-1860 (Microfilm M 3106) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form) In bound volumes: Copyright Deposits 1820-1860

A View of the house of the late Hon'ble Jonathan Corwin (Judge of the ...

Place of trial for persons charged with witchcraft, Salem, Mass., 1692.

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

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

[Civil War envelope for Company G, Stoneham Rifles, Massachusetts Volu...

Title devised by Library staff. Addressed to Mr. William Clark, Dery [i.e. Derry?], N.H.; bears 3 cent stamp; postmarked Washington, Apr. 22, 1862. Annotation on verso: Geo. P. Boyce, Apr. 20, '62. Gift; Tom Li... More

An august convention

The National Union Convention met in Philadelphia in August 1866 to create a political party that would back President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction program and to elect a new Congress. Here, the convention ... More

Thacher's Island lights--south tower / phot. by Hervey Friend, 77 Fron...

Stereograph shows the southern Thacher Island lighthouse with adjacent keeper's house. Title from item. Cape Ann Views. Stamped: Office of the Light House Board, Oct. 4, 1869.

Iron light-house on Minot's Ledge

Illus. in: Galaxy, 1869, vol. 7, no. 2, p. 244. Title from item.

Thacher's Island lights--north tower / phot. by Hervey Friend, 77 Fron...

Stereograph shows the northern Thacher Island lighthouse with adjacent keeper's house. Title from item. Cape Ann Views. Stamped: Office of the Light House Board, Oct. 4, 1869.

[Group of people on porch and balcony(?) of house in Massachusetts(?)]...

Josephine redowa

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Jerusalem, forever bright

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Wake now the song of glory

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

I could not say good bye mother

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Labor and liberty

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

I will go west!

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Yet there is room

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Are you not a coquette, Lulu darling?

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Come birdie, come

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

When 'tis starlight

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Poor old vet

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Hush, don't make a noise, or else you'll wake the baby

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Hildebrand Montrose

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Happy farmer

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Cuckoo song from La Marjolaine

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

The Kingdom shall be the Lord's

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

He comes for me

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Brass band music, march [title page only]

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Prayer, musical notation

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Thy King cometh

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Buds and blossoms [title page only]

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Summer reveries [title page only]

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Submission, musical notation

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Winter, musical notation

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Twinkle, twinkle, little stars schottische

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

The Waves on the seashore

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Sleep, baby, sleep

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

The Turkish reveille

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Easter anthem

Child-faith; or, A. B. C

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

The Celebrated witch waltzes

Olivette, overture[cornetts 1st & 2nd]

Song - Im volkston

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

The Pretty cantiniere

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

Uncle Josh Whitcomb's reels

The Waiting heart

Bird of the forest; Morceau

50th Congress Massachusetts Delegation / Brady & Handy Photo, Wash., D...

Composite of fourteen head-and-shoulders portraits of 50th Congress Massachusetts delegates including: Robert Davis, John D. Long, Leopold Morse, Patrick A. Collins, Edward D. Hayden, Henry C. Lodge, Henry L. D... More

Massachusetts - incidents of the street-car troubles in South Boston a...

Also includes image of the schooner "Dauntless." Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v.64, 1887 March 5, p. 40.

Pilgrims going to church

Print shows Pilgrims walking through a snowy landscape toward a church. Title from item. Copyright 1893 by Gebbie & Co. Illus. in: The American continent and its inhabitants before its discovery by Columbus / A... More

Minot's Ledge light house with comparative sections of other Sea Rock ...

Above print: U.S. Light-house establishment, 1894. Illus. in: Annual Report of the U.S. Light-House Board, 1894, plate opposite p. 221. Title from item.

Fitting the masonry on government island

Print showsearly stage of construction of Minot's Ledge Lighthouse. Illus. in: New England Magazine, v. 15, no. 2 (1896 October), p. 136. Title from item. From article: "The building of Minot's ledge lighthouse."

Walsh, Dem. Mass., 10/3/19

A Cornfield

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

Two people standing in front of house. No. 1.

The Seal of the province of Massachusetts Bay

Wachusett Dam - boulders in the excavation, Feb. 12, 1901

Construction of the Clinton-Wachusett sewage and water supply system, Massachusetts.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts House of Representatives

Photograph shows composite portraits of the Representatives of Massachusetts in 1901. All portraits are identified, the central portrait shows "Hon. J. Myers, Speaker". Print also includes insets of the House... More

Mount Hermon School, Mount Hermon, Massachusetts

Copyright 1901 by Detroit Photographic Co. Title from item. Title on inventory list: Mount Herman School. Caption for similar image (LC-D4-13672) lists title as: Mount Hermon School, Mount Hermon, Mass. Detroit... More

Wachusett Dam, westerly end of excavation, Oct. 1 '03

Construction of the Clinton-Wachusett sewage and water supply system, Massachusetts.

[Labor Day parade] / motion picture

Shows a parade through bunting-draped streets, probably in the town of Leominster, Mass. First, a decorated grandstand bearing the banner "Leominster heartily greets its guests" is seen, and then the camera pan... More

An unexpected challenge / J.S. Pughe.

Illustration shows the newly elected Democratic governor of Massachusetts, William L. Douglas, as a gladiator holding a sword labeled "Popular Approval" and a shield showing the Seal of the State of Massachuset... More

[Women at work in an unidentified laundry, possibly in Boston]

Photograph shows interior view of a laundry with two women standing next to large sinks, one operating a wringer, and another woman standing next to a drying rack placed near a stove, and several large baskets ... More

Park St. subway entrance, Boston, Mass.

Postcard shows pedestrians and three entrances to the Boston subway on commercial area of Park Street. F34781 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 7014a. Title from item.

Steamer Merrimac and Chain Bridge connecting Newburyport and Amesbury,...

Postcard shows entrance and surface of the chain bridge, a single-span, steel wire cable suspension bridge, decked in timber, crossing the Merrimack River, and the Steamer Merrimac on the left about to pass und... More

[The Huguenot and Rockrimmon, first electric cars through Brimfield to...

Group of men posed in front of two railroad cars. By(?) F. Edgar Brown, Brimfield, Mass.

Chelsea fire, Chelsea, Mass., April 12, 1908

Postcard shows fire scorched residential landscape, man shouldering a rifle on the right, and people walking on the road. F67427 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item.

The Chelsea, Mass. conflagration, April 12, 1908

Postcard shows fire scorched landscape including: St. Rose's Church R. C., The State Armory, Washington Avenue, and Walnut Street.

Kissel Kar

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

[The Turner garden at Waban, Mass.]

The Turner family in an open area, hammock between two trees, Mrs. Turner seated at table, her son beside her. LOT 10137 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service... More

Whither

[The swing, a study of Mrs. Turner and her children. Made at Waban, Ma...

Mrs. Turner, holding daughter, who is standing in a swing, while looking down at her son holding a kitten. LOT 10137 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in ... More

[Lollipops, a study of Mina Turner and her cousin Elizabeth posed in W...

Mina Turner and cousin Elizabeth, eating lollipops as they are seated at the foot of stairs while light beams on them from above, in the background a woman watches them in the shadows of a doorway. LOT 10137 ... More