Mass. Historical Online Collections

description - Silver planchet, 18th century The Bucks of America, an all-Black military company, seems to have operated in a military capacity in Boston during the American Revolution. No documentation definitively links the them to a particular Revolutionary… subject - Massachusetts. --Militia. --Company, Bucks of America. relation - Identifier - http://www.masshist.org/database/787

description - From the Jeremy Belknap papers. Page 2 is a receipt of payment in exchange for freedom of Corydon signed by Otis Baker, "one of the administrators," 13 April 1778. This is a bill of sale for a sixteen-year-old slave named Corradan from William… subject - Slavery --New England --History --18th century relation - Identifier - http://www.masshist.org/database/545

description - Boston: n.p., 1802. Please note: page 2 of the original pamphlet (a blank page) is not shown within this web presentation. This pamphlet, printed in 1796, outlines the rules of the African Society, a Boston group of African Americans organized to… subject - African Society. relation - Identifier - http://www.masshist.org/database/573

description - Phillis Wheatley writes to her friend Obour Tanner on 21 March 1774 with news of Mrs. Susannah Wheatley's death. She also sends along five copies of her book, Poems on Various Subjects, which Obour had requested. subject - African American women poets. relation - Identifier - http://www.masshist.org/database/775

description - This is a poem written by Phillis Wheatley on the death of Charles Eliot, 1 September 1772. Charles Eliot was but 12 months old when he died, and in the poem Wheatley attempts to offer solace to the parents, based upon the notion that the baby died… subject - African American women poets. relation - Identifier - http://www.masshist.org/database/795

description - Rufus Putnam (1738-1824), a farmer, surveyor, and soldier, made this "New Plan of Several Towns in the County of Worcester," in 1785 when he lived in Rutland, Massachusetts. This is a remarkable overview map of many (but not all) towns within… subject - Maps, Manuscript --1785. relation - Identifier - http://www.masshist.org/database/1723

description - Pen and ink and watercolor map. The manuscript map of Weymouth lists twenty-two prominent places including roads, taverns, bridges, ponds, mills, and houses. The neighboring towns, Braintree, Randolph, Abington, and Hingham, are identified, although… subject - Maps, Manuscript--1800. relation - Identifier - http://www.masshist.org/database/1720

description - Pen and ink map. Attributed to Jeremy Belknap, the manuscript map of Plymouth Harbor shows the coast of Massachusetts from Marshfield to Eel River (now Beach Park), including Duxborough (now Duxbury), Clarke's Island, Sauquish Point (now Standish… subject - Maps, Manuscript. relation - Identifier - http://www.masshist.org/database/1711

description - Pen n and ink and watercolor map. A manuscript plan of the turnpike road from Boston to Taunton by Jonas Kendall shows the locations of bridges, rivers, ponds, swamps, meetinghouses, and residents' houses. The map depicts two different possible… subject - Blue-Hill Turnpike Road. relation - Identifier - http://www.masshist.org/database/1709

description - Boston: B. & J. Loring, 1802. This map, published in 1802, is the second edition of the first official map of Massachusetts entitied, Map of Massachusetts Proper, originally published in 1801. The idea for a state map began to take shape in 1791 when… subject - Massachusetts --Maps. relation - Identifier - http://www.masshist.org/database/95

description - From the Atkins family photographs, Photo. 37.211 subject - Cienfuegos (Cuba)--Photographs. relation - Identifier - http://www.masshist.org/database/137

description - This photograph depicts employees of E. Atkins & Co. standing under the old slave bell at the Soledad estate. It was taken circa 1895, during the start of Cuba's renewed war for independence from Spain (which would soon become known as the… subject - Cienfuegos (Cuba)--Photographs. relation - Identifier - http://www.masshist.org/database/136

description - In this photograph, taken in 1923, Edwin Atkins is sitting in the gardens at Soledad, wearing a black armband on his left arm. Earlier that year, his second son, Edwin F. Atkins, Jr., was killed in a plane crash off Key West, Fla. along with his two… subject - Atkins, Edwin Farnsworth, 1850-1926 --Photographs. relation - Identifier - http://www.masshist.org/database/135

description - From the Atkins family photographs, Photo. 37.6 subject - Atkins, Katharine W., 1860-1953 --Photographs. relation - Identifier - http://www.masshist.org/database/134

description - From the Atkins family photographs, Photo. 37.410 subject - Cienfuegos (Cuba)--Photographs. relation - Identifier - http://www.masshist.org/database/133

description - On 31 March 1924, botanist and plant explorer Dr. David Fairchild snapped this photograph of fellow botanists Robert M. Grey and Thomas Barbour picking papayas with a worker at the Harvard Botanical Station gardens. The Station, located on the E.… subject - Botanical gardens--Photographs. relation - Identifier - http://www.masshist.org/database/132

description - From the Atkins family photographs, Photo 37.212 subject - Cienfuegos (Cuba)--Photographs. relation - Identifier - http://www.masshist.org/database/131

description - From the Atkins family photographs, Photo 37.309 subject - Cienfuegos (Cuba)--Photographs. relation - Identifier - http://www.masshist.org/database/130

description - From the Atkins family photographs, Photo 37.4 subject - Atkins, Edwin Farnsworth, 1850-1926 --Photographs. relation - Identifier - http://www.masshist.org/database/129

description - From the Atkins family photographs, 37.267. subject - Cienfuegos (Cuba)--Photographs. relation - Identifier - http://www.masshist.org/database/128