Minots Ledge off Boston Harbor : showing the proposed site of a light ...
Beneath Our Feet: Mapping of the features beneath the ocean’s surface began in Europe in the late-16th century, with cartographers using simple symbols such as soundings (numbers that indicate depth in fathoms)... More
At the General Court of their Majesties Colony of the Massachusetts Ba...
Positive Photostat.; This is supposed to be the first emission of paper money in the colonies.; Paper money. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as... More
At a General Court for their Majesties Colony of the Massachusetts Bay...
Incomplete. p. 2 wanting.; Positive Photostat.; Proclamation. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection... More
Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. By the honorable, the Lieutenant co...
Positive Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 29.
A new mapp of New England from Cape Codd to Cape Sables : describing a...
Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
By His Excellency, Joseph Dudley, Esq. Captain general and governour i...
Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans.; Coins. Rates of.; Proclamation. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Coll... More
By his Excellency, Joseph Dudley, Esq. Captain general and governour i...
Positive Photostat.; Proclamation.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio ... More
Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. At a session of the great and gener...
Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 42.
By His Excellency, Joseph Dudley, Esq. Captain General and Governor in...
Positive Photostat.; Proclamation.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio ... More
By His Excellency Samuel Shute, Esq. Captain Ganeral and Govenour in c...
Positive Photostat.; Proclamation.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio ... More
By the Honourable William Dummer, Esq; Lieut Governor & commander in c...
Positive Photostat.; Proclamation.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio ... More
Province of the Massachusetts Bay. Jeremiah Allen, Esq; Treasurer and ...
Tax warrant filled in in mss. for the town of Salem. and signed by Jeremiah Allen.; Ford 540.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as... More
Instructions for masters of transports, captains and commanding office...
Imprint 2.; Not in Evans.; Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 34, Folder 39.
By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; Lieutenant-Governour and command...
Picryl description: Public domain vintage illustrated book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
An act passed by the great and General Court or Assembly of His Majest...
Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 34, Folder 44.
At a great and General court of Assembly for the Province of the Massa...
Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 34, Folder 46.
By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; Lieutenant-Governour and command...
Imprint 3.; Not in Evans.; Proclamation. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 35, Folder 7.
By His Excellency William Shirley, Esq; Captain-General and Governour ...
Ford 1032.; Not in Evans.; Filled in in mss. and dated Apr. 17, 1755. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Co... More
Spencer Phips, Esq; Lieutenant-governour and commander in chief in and...
Ford 1064.; Evans 7711. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 35, Folder 18a.
By His Excellency, Thomas Pownall, Esq; Captain-general and governor i...
Proclamatkon.; Imprint 3.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 35, Folder 22.
By the Honourable His Majesty’s council, of the province of the Massac...
Imprint 3.; Proclamation.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 35, Folder 21.
By the honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; Lieutenant-Governor and commande...
Imprint 3.; Proclamation.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 35, Folder 20.
Anno Regni Georgii II. tricesimo primo. Levying of soldiers. An act pa...
Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 35, Folder 23.
Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, By the Honourable [blank] Judge of ...
Picryl description: Public domain vintage illustrated book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. By His Excellency the Governor, To ...
Filled in in mss for Moses Hawks, dated 14 March 1760 and signed T. Pownall.; Ford 1213.; Not in Evans.; On Verso: Library of Congress Manuscript Department seal. Available also through the Library of Congress ... More
To His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; Captain-general and Governor i...
Ford 1264.; Not in Evans.; On verso: Exchange, Mass. Hist. Soc., July 25 1916. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ep... More
William Bollan statement of account with the Province of Massachusetts...
Public domain scan of manuscript related to Massachusetts, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Anno Regni Regis Georgii Tertii, quarto et quinto 1764. Timber in Ipsw...
Imprint 3.; Not in Evans.; Not in Ford. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 36, Folder 11.
An address to the true-born sons of liberty in the government of the M...
Positive Photostat-- copy 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 36... More
By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; Captain-General and Governor i...
Positive Photostat.; Thanksgiving proclamation. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 36... More
Description of the pope. 1769. [Massachusetts 1769].Province of Massac...
Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans.; Not in Ford.; Verse. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Por... More
Massachusetts-Bay. By the Governor, A proclamation for proroguing the ...
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At a meeting of the following gentlemen, being committee from every to...
Ford 1702.; Evans 13439.; Stamped on verso: Mss Division.; On verso: Ac. 373. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate... More
By his excellency the Hon. Thomas Gage, Esq; Governor, and commander i...
Picryl description: Public domain vintage illustrated book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Colony of the Massachusetts-Bay To [blank] Field officers of the [blan...
Stamped on verso: 504. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 38, Fold... More
Watertown, [blank] 1775. Received of Moses Gill, Esq; treasurer of the...
Containing 3 blank receipts.; Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans.; Blank receipt.; Stamped on verso: 452. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as ful... More
Watertown, August 14, 1775. This day the following resolve pass’d the ...
Positive Photostat.; Stamped on verso: 452. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collectio... More
Instructions for the officers of several regiments of the Massachusett...
Positive Photostat.; Stamped on verso: 452. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collectio... More
A commission By His Excellency the Honorable Thomas Gage, Captain gene...
Positive Photostat.; Not in Ford.; Stamped on verso: 452. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephe... More
By his excellency the Hon. Thomas Gage, Esq; Governor, and commander i...
Positive Photostat.; Credited to New York by Evans 14186.; Two issues. One printed in double columns.; Not in Ford.; Proclamation. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsim... More
The [blank] day of [blank] 1775. Received of the [blank] Firelock to t...
Containing 2 blank receipts.; Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans.; Blank receipt.; Stamped on verso: 452. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as ful... More
In Congress, Friday, June 9, 1775. Resolved that no obedience being du...
Photographic copy.; Stamped on verso: 452. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection... More
Colony of Massachusetts Bay 1776. We the subscribers, do each of us se...
Public domain scan of manuscript related to Massachusetts, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
In observance of the Colony-writ to me directed, these are in the name...
Filled in in mss. for Berkshire to the selectment of Jericho and dated at Pittsfield. 29 April 1776 and signed by Israel Dickinson sheriff.; Ford 2015.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congr... More
Colony of Massachusetts-Bay, 1776. We the subscribers, do each of us s...
Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 347, Folder 12.
George Washington to James Warren, 15 January 1776 (LONG 18684)
A letter from George Washington at Cambridge to James Warren, Speaker for the General Courts of Massachusetts Bay. The letter references Peleg Wadsworth, grandfather of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. "The inclose... More
State of the Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of representatives, Decem...
Positive Photostat.; Stamped on verso: 595. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collectio... More
State of Massachusetts-Bay in the House of representatives. August 31,...
Ford 091.; Evans 15435.; On verso: Ford 2091. Evans 15435. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Eph... More
State of Massachusetts-Bay. [Blank] in the County of [blank] and state...
Filled in in mss for Samuel Phillips Savage of Weston dated at Boston Jan 17, 1777.; Ford 2112.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and ... More
An abstract from resolves containing the encouragement offered by the ...
Copy 2 formerly numbered as Portfolio 40, Folder 7. This item has been renumbered from Portfolio 40, Folder 7. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and ... More
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of representatives, March 15,...
Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 40, Folder 10.
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of representatives. February ...
Positive Photostat.; Stamped on verso: 595. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collectio... More
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of representatives, September...
Positive Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 40, Folder 3f.
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of representatives, January 2...
Positive Photostat.; Stamped on verso: 595. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 40, Folder 3a.
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In Council. January 9, 1777. Whereas by a ...
Positive Photostat.; Not in Ford.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 4... More
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of representatives, October 8...
Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans.; Stamped on verso: 595. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Eph... More
State of Massachusetts Bay In the House of representatives, September ...
Positive Photostat.; Stamped on verso: 595. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collectio... More
A map of the colony of Rhode Island : with the adjacent parts of Conne...
Includes Connecticut as far west as Branford and Farmington; Massachusetts extending west to the Connecticut River Valley and north to Boston, including Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket; and the easte... More
State of Massachusetts-Bay in the House of representatives, February 1...
Positive Photostat.; Stamped on verso: 595. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collectio... More
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of representatives, June 15, ...
Positive Photostat.; Stamped on verso: 595. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collectio... More
State of Massachusetts-Bay. Town of [blank] the [blank] day of [blank]...
Picryl description: Public domain vintage illustrated book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the year of our Lord, one thousand seve...
Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans.; Stamped on verso: 595. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Eph... More
Samuel Adams, esqr. One of the delegates from the province of Massachu...
Samuel Adams, full-length portrait, seated by window, facing slightly left.
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of representatives, Sept. 29t...
Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 41, Folder 5.
A new and accurate map of the colony of Massachusets [i.e. Massachuset...
Covers eastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, eastern Connecticut, and small portions of New Hampshire and Vermont. Relief shown pictorially. From Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure, vol. 66, Dec. 1780,... More
State of Massachusetts Bay. In the year of our Lord one thousand seven...
Copy 2 & 3 Photographic reproduction.; Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 3 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Col... More
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of representatives ... Wherea...
Evans 16859.; 2565 C 13 20 May 44 Rec. R. B. June 1944. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Port... More
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of representatives, May 5th, ...
Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans.; Stamped on verso: 595. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Eph... More
State of Massachusetts-Bay in convention, June 16, 1780. Whereas, upon...
Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 41, Folder 3. Copy scanned: 1
To his excellency William Shirley Esqr., Captain General and Commander...
This draught of the northern English Colonies, together with the French neighbouring settlements; taken partly from actual surveys, and partly from the most approved draughts and other accounts Courtesy of Bost... More
A new chart of Massachusetts Bay drawn from the latest authorities
Public domain image of a navigation map, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime geography, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description:
An exact plan of the sea coast of the continent from Paucatuck River e...
Public domain scan of a architecture diagram, settlement map, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
engraving from "Chronicles of the First Plantin of the Colony of Massa...
This image has been taken from scan 000008 from "Chronicles of the First Plantin of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, from 1623 to 1636. Now first collected from original records and contemporaneous manuscripts,... More
map from "Chronicles of the First Plantin of the Colony of Massachuset...
This image has been taken from scan 000408 from "Chronicles of the First Plantin of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, from 1623 to 1636. Now first collected from original records and contemporaneous manuscripts,... More
A circumstantial account of an attack that happened on the 19th of Apr...
Positive Photostat.; A British account of Battle of Lexington.; Battle of Lexington. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Prin... More
The iron light house on Minots Rock, Massachusetts Bay
Picryl description: Public domain image of Boston, Massachusetts, from Boston Pictorial Archive, New England history, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A new chart of Massachusetts Bay, and part of the coast of Maine /
Scale ca. 1:200,000. LC copy annotated in ink and watercolor to show lights. Oriented with north to the right. Depths shown by soundings. Covers coast of New England from Buzzards Bay to Monhegan Island. "Enter... More
Map of the Colony of Rhode Island with the adjacent parts of Connectic...
Black and white photo of colonial era map (1778) of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut; map produced by Thomas Kitchin, Sr.; printed for R. Baldwin. Mounted to dark gray cardboard with label describing... More
Chart of Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay : with map of the adjacen...
Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Boston Bay and approaches nautical chart
As part of its mission to provide navigational aids for the entire country, the U.S. Coast Survey published charts at various scales. Some covered small geographical areas, such as harbors. Others, such as this... More
Balloon view, Provincetown to Boston
Bird's-eye view. Covers the coasts of the Cape Cod Bay and Massachusetts Bay. Oriented with north toward the lower right. LC copy mounted on cloth backing. Available also through the Library of Congress Web sit... More
Massachusetts Bay with the coast from Cape Ann to Cape Cod
Boston Bay and approaches / triangulation by C.O. Boutelle and T.J. Cram ; topography by H.L. Whiting .. [et al.] | Cape Cod Bay / triangulation by C. M. Eakin and Capt. T. J. Cram ; topography by H. L. Whiting... More
[Marblehead, Massachusetts., New Fountain Inn]
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, colonial house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Marblehead, Massachusetts., New Fountain Inn
Title from jacket. "3416 B" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034374. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Geo. W. Eldridge's chart D, Massachusetts Bay and the coast from Chath...
Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
The steamship Dorothy Bradford, Boston to Provincetown and return dail...
Public domain photo of vintage Massachusetts postcard, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Eastham is located in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod. It is known for its... More
Fishing smacks i.e. schooners, just after the finish, First Fishermen'...
Photo shows the Jesse Costa in the foreground. The Rose Dorothea is in the background, with broken foretopsail. (Source: C. Seavey, 2018) Title from jacket. Possibly by Nathaniel Livermore Stebbins. "4262" on n... More
[Fishing smacks, Jessie Costa] - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...
Public domain scan of print depicting a sailboat or small ship, seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fishing smacks i.e. schooner, Jessie Costa
Title from jacket. Probably the first Fishermen's Race; possibly by Nathaniel Livermore Stebbins. "4254" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036870. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Rose Dorothea, with broken topmast in first [?] Fishermen's Race for L...
Public domain scan of print depicting a sailboat or small ship, seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Rose Dorothea, winner of Lipton Cup, in first ? Fishermen's Race
Possibly by Nathaniel Livermore Stebbins. "4255" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 022494. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
[Fishing smacks - first fishermen's race for Lipton Cup]
Public domain scan of print depicting a sailboat or small ship, seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Rose Dorothea leading Jessie Costa in first [?] Fishermen's Race for L...
Public domain scan of print depicting a sailboat or small ship, seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description