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Temporarily housed on shelf HGO-02-105-A-B-105 in HAV-01-403
GUSN-366924
Scrapbook of clippings published The Christian Science Monitor in a series titled "A New England Album." Each clipping has an illustration and accompanying description of a historic structure, such as houses, inns, bridges, and churches, in New England. Each illustration was drawn by D. C. Sturges, a staff artist at The Christian Science Monitor. The compiler of the scrapbook is unknown. Materials are undated.
Structures featured are located in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire. Structures include the Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford, Massachusetts; The Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts; the Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry House in Wakefield, Rhode Island; the Adams Mansion in Quincy, Massachusetts (now known as The Old House at Peacefield); the Old Ship Church in Hingham, Massachusetts; and The Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts, among others.
The structures featured are related to a number of historic figures, including, but not limited to, Paul Revere; former presidents of the United States Calvin Coolidge, John Adams, and Franklin Pierce; colonist Jonathan Fairbanks; John Quincy Adams; Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry; painter James McNeill Whistler; Colonel Isaac Royall, Jr.; and poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
clippings (information artifacts)
houses
churches (buildings)
inns
historic farms
historic houses
historic sites
historic buildings
historic house museums (buildings)
bridges (built works)
taverns
gaols
scrapbooks
clippings (information artifacts)
1 scrapbook ; 14 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches
MS004
Scrapbooks collection
2023
MS004.061
Gift of Revolutionary Spaces, 2023
Medford (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Concord (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Wakefield (Washington county, Rhode Island)
Quincy (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
Hingham (Plymouth County, Massachusetts)
Sudbury (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Dedham (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Plymouth (Windsor county, Vermont)
Hillsboro (Hillsborough county, New Hampshire)
York county (Maine) [county]
Topsfield (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Danvers (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Franklin (Merrimack county, New Hampshire)
Augusta (Kennebec county, Maine)
Portland (Cumberland county, Maine)
Plymouth (Plymouth County, Massachusetts)
Woburn (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Lowell (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Wethersfield (Hartford county, Connecticut)
Marshfield (Plymouth County, Massachusetts)
Lexington (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Christian Science Monitor (Publisher)
Sturges, Dwight Case, 1874-1940 (Artist)
scrapbooks
clippings (information artifacts)
Perry, Oliver Hazard, 1785-1819
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
Sturges, Dwight Case, 1874-1940
Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
Revere, Paul, 1735-1818
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933
Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869
Fairbanks, Jonathan, 1594-1668
Adams, John, 1735-1826
Royall, Isaac, Jr., 1719-1781
Royall, Isaac, Sr., 1677-1739
Christian Science Monitor
Adams Family
House
Newspaper clippings
Church
Battles of Lexington and Concord (1775)
Scrapbook is bound by a single string along the spine. Front and back cover are partially separated. Pages are friable. Scrapbook must be handled with extreme care.
Item
Temporarily housed on shelf HGO-02-105-A-B-105 in HAV-01-403
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