Catalog of the Manuscripts of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Author : Massachusetts Historical Society
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Page : pages
File Size : 20,44 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : Massachusetts Historical Society
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File Size : 20,44 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : Massachusetts Historical Society. Library
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Page : pages
File Size : 32,49 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Manuscripts
ISBN : 9780816108503
Author : Massachusetts Historical Society
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Page : pages
File Size : 27,90 MB
Release : 1980
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Author : Louis Leonard Tucker
Publisher : Massachusetts Historical Society
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 14,13 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
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When Jeremy Belknap and seven associates met in Boston on January 24, 1791, to establish the Massachusetts Historical Society, there was nothing like it anywhere in North America. Belknap, concerned that accident and carelessness were jeopardizing America's documentary heritage, proposed an organization to provide a secure repository for rare manuscripts and printed works and a publication program to "multiply the copies" of these valuable items. The Society that eight Boston gentlemen created that evening was the first institution anywhere for "the collection and preservation of materials for a political and natural history of the United States". The Massachusetts Historical Society: A Bicentennial History, 1791-1991, is a candid and detailed account of this remarkable institution's first two centuries. Despite its location and its name, the Society has never been a provincial institution, dedicated to chronicling the story of a single city or state. Through its incomparable library and publications, as well as through the writings of such illustrious members as Belknap, Francis Parkman, William Hickling Prescott, Samuel Eliot Morison, and scores of modern scholars, the Society has been - and continues to be - a profound influence on the study of a nation's history.
Author : Massachusetts Historical Society
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Page : 963 pages
File Size : 22,44 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : Massachusetts Historical Society
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Page : 941 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : Massachusetts Historical Society
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Page : 895 pages
File Size : 45,65 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : Massachusetts Historical Boston
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 1970-06-01
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ISBN : 9780816108220
Author : Massachusetts Historical Society. Library
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Page : 116 pages
File Size : 28,95 MB
Release : 1811
Category : America
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Author : Massachusetts Historical Society
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Page : 793 pages
File Size : 50,59 MB
Release : 1969
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