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Particular draughts and plans of some of the principal towns and harbo...

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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

Document of indenture: Servent: Tuckerman, Jacob. Master: Warren, Jame...

One hour of American slavery is fraught with more misery than ages of ...

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Sheet of Fabric Labels with Sixteen Views of Buildings in Boston, New ...

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View of Beacon Street, Boston

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The liberator. v.11:no.28(1841:July 9)

Journal of the times Courtesy of Boston Public Library

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

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Johnson School, Tremont Street

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Phillips School, Pinckney Street

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General view, Charlestown Navy Yard, Stereoscope Card

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Josiah Johnson Hawes - Classroom in the Emerson School for Girls

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View in Navy Yard, showing Bunker Hill Monument and the training ship,...

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Josiah Johnson Hawes - Charles Sumner, 19th century

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Josiah Johnson Hawes - Miss Hodges of Salem

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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.

Minute representation of American Line of battleship, with explanation...

Minute representation of American Line of battleship, with explanations. This ship of war has 5 decks namely, from top to the water-line, lettered: S, spar or maindeck; T, berth-deck; U, upper gun-deck; V, lowe... More

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.

Boston, Massachusetts. Old Corner Bookstore

Old Corner Book Store: School and Washington Sts. Built 1712 Courtesy of Boston Public Library

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

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

Massachusetts. City of Boston

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Interior view of bookshelves at the Old Corner Book Store

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J. Weild, baker advertising card, Somerville, Massachusetts

The Hichborn House, Boston Massachusetts

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Park Street, Boston Massachusetts

Park St. The State House and Boston Common Courtesy of Boston Public Library

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

Untitled (class photograph), Boston Massachusetts

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Observation lesson, George Putnam School, class . . .

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Reading lesson in a grammar class.

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Brimmer School - interior - 6th class, 3rd division

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Girls' High & Latin Schools' building, class I - 6th year Greek compos...

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Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: Three girls sitting on the gras...

Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American, St. John’s, Newfoundland 1858–1924 New York)

Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: A mother pushing her baby in a ...

Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American, St. John’s, Newfoundland 1858–1924 New York)

Boston Athenaeum, Boston Massachusetts

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Charlestown High School (girls exercising on bars against the wall)

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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.

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

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Boston Public Library. Bates Hall

Boston Public Library, Copley Square. Bates Hall Courtesy of Boston Public Library

[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....

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Emmeline Pankhurst Defends Militant Methods; page 2

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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

Immigrants in night school. Location: Boston, Massachusetts.

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Boston Elevated Railway. Equipment. Cambridge subway car

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

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[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

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

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[Gavvy Cravath, Philadelphia NL & Tris Speaker, Boston AL (baseball)]

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

American Red Cross - Groups - Personnel of American Red Cross Mission ...

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Interior

Studio with cabinet. Courtesy of Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Amelia Earhart of transatlantic fame is received by President Coolidge...

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Old South Church, Boston, Mass.

The Old South Church is a familiar Bostonian landmark. It dates back to Revolutionary Days and contains a splendid display of historic relics. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Miami skyline at night as seen from MacArthur Causeway, Miami, Florida

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The Ohio Bank Bldg., Toledo, Ohio

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Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah

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Greetings from Nashville, Tennessee

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Main Street, Roxboro, N. C.

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Massachusetts. California. Washington. Arkansas

State capitol in Boston. State capitol in Sacramento. State capitol in Olympia. State capitol in Little Rock . Courtesy of Boston Public Library

You don't know beans until you come to Boston

Boston is famous not only for its "Beans" but is recognized as the commercial and industrial center of New England. The historic associations of Boston are a patriotic inspiration to people from all over the Un... More

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass. The Museum of Fine Arts occupies the unique position of being one of the few museums in the world, created and supported by private citizens. Its collections of Chinese, Japan... More

Greetings from Delaware -- state capitol in Dover, state flower the pe...

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Point Park, and Gateway Center, Pittsburgh, Pa.

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Greetings from Detroit, Michigan

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Greetings from Ybor City, Florida

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The Philadelphia Inquirer Building, Philadelphia, Pa.

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Pike's Alley & Middle Alley, West End

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Booth at Hotel Statler, May 4, 1932

The prohibition of the sale and consumption of alcohol did little to change behavior and resulted in increased criminality to meet the continued demand. Within five years of its passage, a new national campaign... More

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.

Lucy Stone

Text on Poster: Federal Thetre Presents Lucy Stone Alice Stone Blackwell A Drama of the Champion of Woman’s Rights By Maude Wood Park Copley Theatre 5 Nights Weekly Tues. to Sat. Matinee Saturdays Only ... More

Portland

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Sign on restaurant window during Thanksgiving week in South Boston, Vi...

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

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

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Joan Daly, winner of the Boston Press Photographers Association's Phot...

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Dr. Albert B. Sabin (right) shakes hands with Leo Dunphy, chapter chai...

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Rev. Virgil A. Wood entering crowded elevator in Boston School Committ...

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Crowds lined up waiting to enter War Memorial Auditorium

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Protesters against the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the eviction...

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Howard Thurman receiving his degree for Doctor of Divinity at BU Comme...

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Boy hugging woman at Winterfest

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Howard Thurman receives his degree for Doctor of Divinity

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Pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock, Harvard graduate student Michael Ferb...

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The 61st American Baptist Convention attendees at the War Memorial Aud...

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View of exterior of Boston University administration building

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Students blocking a fire truck at Brighton High School during demonstr...

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Crowd outside Alexander's bar in Allston

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Paul Revere statue, North Square

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William Warnock, Irish Ambassador to the U.S., (second left) met membe...

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Bill Baird at demonstration for liberalization of Massachusetts aborti...

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Anti-war protest at Boston Army Base

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Anti-war protest at the Massachusetts State House

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Anti-war protest at the Massachusetts State House

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Demonstration of Boston Mayor Kevin White's natural gas car in City Ha...

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Sarah Adler, Meghan Adler, and an unidentified boy collect donations f...

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Demonstration by Boston high school students outside offices of Boston...

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Demonstration by Boston high school students outside offices of Boston...

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California-bound adults and children wait out nor'easter, Bostonians c...

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Mary Stack, Once of East Boston, (Logan Airport Area) Now Lives Some 1...

Original Caption: Mary Stack, Once of East Boston, (Logan Airport Area) Now Lives Some 10 Miles North in Saugus. She Demonstrates Ear Guards That Did Not Bring Sufficient Relief from Tensions Caused by Aircraft... More