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Witness to America's Past: Two Centuries of Collecting by the Massachusetts Historical Society

Witness to America's Past: Two Centuries of Collecting by the Massachusetts Historical Society

LeBlanc, Ondine
Massachusetts Historical Society

Paperback

General United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0878463348
ISBN13: 9780878463343
Publisher: Massachusetts Historical Society
Published: Mar 16 2005
Pages: 207
Weight: 1.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.90
Language: English

This fully illustrated catalog, published in 1991 to accompany the Massachusetts Historical Society's 200th-anniversary exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, provides the reader with an engaging view of the books, manuscripts, artwork, and historical artifacts collected by the Society over two hundred years. Filled with color plates, black-and-white illustrations, detailed item descriptions, and entertaining anecdotal information, the catalog brings many of the most vital events in American and Massachusetts history to life through the examination of material artifacts. The book includes more than 160 of the most historically significant objects in the Society's collection--from paintings, prints, and engravings to unusual objects such as tea collected from the Boston Tea Party, a bureau whose drawers supposedly housed a witch during the Salem witch trials, and photographs of soldiers from the Massachusetts 54th Regiment, the most important African American regiment raised in the North during the Civil War.

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