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Object of the Month MHS Gallery Annotated Newspapers of Harbottle Dorr

This view of the Old West Church in Boston, engraved by Rudolph Ruzicka, is one of a series of annual keepsakes printed by the Merrymount Press between 1903 and 1942. More »

Events

Environmental History Seminar Panel Discussion: Telling Environmental History
5:15PM Tuesday, 10 December 2013

Brown Bag The Memory Frontier: Memorializing King Philip's War in the Native Northeast
12:00PM Wednesday, 11 December 2013

Making History: The Salem Witch Trials in Documents & Artifacts
Pre-talk reception at 5:30 pm 6:00PM Wednesday, 11 December 2013

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Are those sketches of penguins?

Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch, Post 28

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