Sixteenth Annual Report of the Directors of the American Education Society, Presented at the Annual Meeting, Boston, 1832. Boston: Printed for the Society by Perkins & Marvin, 1832. Octavo. This Sixteenth Annual Report of the American Education Society documents the activities, finances, and ideological priorities of one of the most.....
Philis, Mr. Report of the Commission Charged to Examine Memoirs Relative to the Education of Women. Third Subject: Morality. 1827. This 1827 manuscript records one of the earliest sustained formal debates advocating systematic education for women across social classes. Structured as a commission evaluation of submitted memoirs, the text advances.....
Lincoln, Abraham. Message of the President of the United States… on the Rights of Colored Persons in the Army (1864) documents federal policy and legal interpretation concerning the status and compensation of African American soldiers and officers during the Civil War and provides direct evidence of how the U.S. government.....
Report of the Arguments of the Attorney of the Commonwealth at the Trials of Abner Kneeland. Boston: Beals, Homer, 1834. First edition. 8vo. This 1834 publication documents one of the most consequential early American prosecutions concerning freedom of expression and religious dissent. The trials of Abner Kneeland, a Universalist minister.....
Original vintage photograph of three people marching against workplace discrimination in Massachusetts. 9" x 7.5". Black and white silver gelatin photograph. Original vintage photograph shows two men picketing the Wyman-Gordon metal components company for racial discrimination in 1964. Their signs read: "Racial Discrimination at Wyman-Gordon?", and the men appear to.....
African American law enforcement photographic archive, 1940s–1969, documenting the presence and professional roles of Black police officers during the decades spanning segregation and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. These images record individual officers, peer relationships, and public-facing roles within police institutions, providing visual evidence of Black participation.....
Coon, Clarence; Coon, Michael. Coons family Air Force service archive, 1942–1944 and 1968–1969, documents two generations of American military experience across World War II and the Vietnam War, offering direct evidence of shifting military culture, wartime attitudes, and generational identity within a single family. Clarence Coon’s New York, World War.....
Ireland, Alexander. In Memoriam. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Recollections of His Visits to England, 1882, presents a contemporary account of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s engagements with British literary culture, written by a close associate who facilitated his lecture tours and maintained long-term correspondence with him. Compiled immediately following Emerson’s death, the work.....
[Women Suffrage] BLACKWELL, Alice Stone. (1857-1950), Woman Suffrage Leader And Editor, Daughter Of Henry Blackwell And Lucy Stone. Autograph Letter Signed. ALS, 1p, in pencil: SEPTEMBER 12, 1923. Alice Stone Blackwell writes in her hand: "Dear Howard, thanks for the checks. All's prepared for Kitty to start tomorrow. Lizzie Rogers.....
Anti-Vietnam War press photographs recording violent police response, campus protest, social justice organizing, and police confrontation, circa 1969 to 1972, include recruitment protests, street mobilization, coalition messaging, and state response through photographs tied to the Vietnam Moratorium, University of Chicago protest activity, and University of Michigan demonstration culture. Between Chicago.....
November 30, 1934 edition of the "Boston Evening Transcript" with front page article on the shootout that killed George "Baby Face" Nelson (real name was Lester Joseph Gillis). Nelson was a bank robber and murderer in the 1930s, known as Baby Face due to his youthful appearance and small stature.....
Waterhouse, Benjamin. Autograph note signed written after 1814 by Benjamin Waterhouse, the Harvard physician who introduced Edward Jenner’s smallpox vaccination to the United States and helped establish the earliest vaccination campaigns in North America. Waterhouse emerged as a central figure in early American public health after learning of Jenner’s experiments.....
Urban transit photo archive depicting MBTA trolley, PCC, and commuter rail operations across Greater Boston during the agency’s first decade of system consolidation and modernization, 1970–1972, shortly after the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority absorbed many aging lines and inherited rolling stock from earlier private and municipal systems. Several captions identify.....
[Public Transit][Massachusetts] Trolley and railway car photograph archive documenting electric transit circulation across Boston and the Greater Boston Area, including Lynn, Haverhill, Lawrence, Saugus, Marblehead, Watertown in the 1930s. The archive records cars, trolley routes, terminals, and yards on the streets of Boston and surrounding cities during the long transition.....
[Women's Education] [Law] [Boston University] Boston University School of Law, Class of 1913 photograph featuring six early women law graduates. Imperial sized photo measures 17" x 19". Photo shows ninety-two individual oval portraits arranged around a central block of five faculty members. Titled in manuscript: "Boston University, School of Law.....
This January 1804 session laws volume preserves the enacted statutes of the Massachusetts General Court, including the original incorporation of Bradford Academy, an institution that became one of the earliest centers of advanced education in the Commonwealth and a foundational site in the history of women’s education in New England.....
Women's Educational Movement. Bradford Female Academy Catalog 1886. A catalog from one of the most important historical female academics. Contains names of current students and an outline of the curriculum. Bradford opened as the first coeducational institution in Massachusetts, but due to overwhelming interest from parents of girls with no.....
[Women's Education] Young Boston woman's personal unbound scrapbook archive, with information about her Brown University scholarship. 10 oversize pages, unbound, each 16" x 12" pages, decorated with 27 pieces of ephemera and 5 silver gelatin photographs. No covers, Circa 1940s. These pieces belong to one Lois Paradise, a high school.....
Eulogy for Ralph Waldo Emerson. Written by C. A. Bartol. "Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Discourse in West Church". Boston: A. Williams & Co., 1882. Octavo. Original blue printed wrappers. 20 pages. "How shall I present Ralph Waldo Emerson...?" "What, as his main characteristic, this man stood for was unity in.....
East Coast resort and camp photograph album documenting leisure travel, scouting, rail movement, and social life across North Carolina, Cape Cod, Prouts Neck, and other eastern locations, circa 1941 to 1944, with direct evidence of how wartime era recreation and home life continued throughout WWII. The album contains handwritten place.....
[Women History] [Women's Education] Caroline Dall. The College, the Market, and the Court; or Woman's Relation to Education, Labor, and the Law. Printed in Boston: Lee and Shepard (1867). Early ownership signature of James Gould dated 1867 to ffep. The College, the Market, and the Court; or Woman's Relation to.....
Caroline Hazard. President of Wellesley College. Autograph Letter Signed from Caroline Hazard. 3 pages. 4.5 x 6.75 inches. “I remain very truly yours, Caroline Hazard”. On letterhead of Oakwoods, Peace Dale (Rhode Island) on 12 January (no year, but circa 1900). To John E. Bowen, editor of The Independent. In.....
[Abolition] [African Americana] SUMNER, Charles. Defence of Massachusetts. Speeches of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Boston Memorial for the Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Bill, and in Reply To Messrs. Jones of Tennessee, Butler of South Carolina, And Mason of Virginia in the Senate of the United States, June 26.....
Chelsea fire real photo postcard archive documenting the destruction of civic, religious, medical, and financial institutions in Chelsea, outside of Boston, Massachusetts, after the November 1908 fire, one of the most destructive urban fires in early twentieth century New England. This collection displays not only the ruined architecture but on.....
All Impressments Unlawful and Inadmissible, circa 1808 American political pamphlet addressing British naval impressment and the Chesapeake Leopard Affair, a diplomatic crisis that intensified tensions between the United States and Great Britain in the years preceding the War of 1812. The text centers on a letter from Secretary of State.....
