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Audubon's Birds of America
Lithographer Julius Bien issued this rare edition of Audubon’s Birds of America in 1860 in New York.
Reclaiming Heritage
Algonquian-language printed books and pamphlets. Also includes town records, land deeds, and account books from English settlements established on Nipmuc homelands
McLoughlin Bros. Catalogs, Price Lists, and Order Forms
These items range in date from 1867 though 1947.
Ambrotypes
Ambrotypes became popular in the mid-1850s, and were much less expensive to produce than daguerreotypes.
Charles Peirce Collection
British and American satirical prints published between 1796 and 1807.
Daguerreotypes
Daguerreotypes, the first commercial form of photography, appeared in America around the year 1839.
David Claypoole Johnston Family Collection
Watercolors, cartoons, colored proofs, engravings, pencil, pen, ink and wash drawings by noted cartoonist and humorist David Claypoole Johnston.
Drawings
Graphite, pen, ink and wash, chalk, watercolor and charcoal ranging in size from items used as bookmarks to large landscapes intended for display in the home.
European Political Print
Includes caricatures and cartoons from 1720 to 1843.
Farber Gravestone Collection
Images documenting the sculpture on gravestones
Hawaiian Engravings
Separately published prints produced by students at the Lahainaluna School on the island of Maui.
Images of Worcester
This collection of glass plate negatives document the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, as it looked from about 1905 to 1910.
Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballads
Early 19th century broadside ballads.
Painted Portraits, Miniatures and Sculpted Portrait Busts
Paul Revere Collection
Separately published prints, currency, receipts and bookplates, illustrations and plates, and political pieces.
Personal Photographs of Theodore C. Wohlbrück
Glass plate negatives taken by the photographer Theodore C. Wohlbrück (1879–1936).
Photographs 17th and 18th Century Structures in Massachusetts
Harriette Merrifield Forbes photographed Massachusetts structures from 1887 to 1945.
Photographs of North American Indians, 1850-1900
Nineteenth-century photographs of Indigenous peoples of North America
Photographs of the New England Fair by B.T. Hill
A collection of glass plate negatives taken at the Worcester County Agricultural Society's fairgrounds in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Photographs of Tuskegee Institute
Photographs depicting life in and around Tuskegee Institute, in Tuskegee, Alabama, ca. 1890-1915, taken by an unknown photographer.
Printed Ribbon Badges
Badges ranging in date from 1824 to 1900,
Silhouettes
Silhouettes primarily dating from the first part of the nineteenth century.
Tintypes
Tintypes were produced from the mid-1850s until as late as the mid-1930s
Watch Papers
Watch papers ranging in date from the 1790s to 1910.
Letters of Abigail Adams
Letters written between 1784 and 1816,
