Massachusetts
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/n79007084
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Coleman and Truss family letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0103
Overview
Contains letters written before, during, and after the Civil War by the Coleman family of St. Clair, Alabama
Dates:
1860 - 1868
Folder 31, 1972, 1974, 1976
File — Box 5276: Series Box 5276 [1006241616], Folder: 31
Identifier: Folder 31
Abstract
Images of Hermann family in Tallahassee, Florida; Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts; Christmas.
Dates:
1972, 1974, 1976
"Great Ordinance of Freedom" letter, 1855 August 9
File — Box WSC002: [1006241709], Folder: W0150.06
Scope and Contents
A form letter from a group of Massachusetts citizens (including Samuel Bowles, John M. Clark, Samuel G. Reed, Gersham B. Weston, Edwin F. Jenks, Ivers Phillips, John A. Goodwin, and P. Emory Aldrich) calling for a convention of the people to discuss the "almost universal opposition of Massachusetts to the repeal of the 'Great Ordinance of Freedom,'" and to the "aggressioins of the Slave Power, in its invasion of Kansas...".
Dates:
1855 August 9
Herman Packard journal
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1092
Abstract
Diary of a Pennsylvania minister and agent of the American Tract Society, written while he was in New Orleans and Greenville, Louisiana, in 1839 and 1846.
Dates:
1837-1847
Joanne H. Smith Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1288
Abstract
A letter dated 11 October 1835, from Boston to Miss Susan C. Farley, Ipswich, Massachusetts. Smith, a former pupil of Farley's, discusses the latter's intention to go to Tuscaloosa, Alabama to teach at the Tuscaloosa Female Institute.
Dates:
1835-10-11
Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Hudson Letters, 1900-1906
File — Box 4257.003: [1006214228], Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
One letter to Reverend Hudson of Peabody, Massachusetts, from John M. Nichols of Portland, Maine, saying he (Nichols) had been appointed the principle of Lewiston High School in Lewiston, Maine, and including newspaper clippings describing the appointment. The second letter is from S. F. Kittredge to Mrs. Hudson to tell her about her trip by train to Oregon and to discuss church business.
Dates:
1900-1906
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.036: [1006241533]
Identifier: 2009-178
Abstract
This collection consists of thirty-six photographs depicting people engaged in leisurely activities at Big Barbee Lake in Indiana and Webster Lake in Massachusetts.
Dates:
1900 - 1909
Wade Hall Photographs, Small Collection
Collection — Box 2009001.030: [1006241527]
Identifier: 2009-134
Overview
This collection consists of ten photographs depicting people. One photograph depicts President Calvin Coolidge in Sioux City, Iowa, August 25, 1927.
Dates:
1910 - 1920
Whitman Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4228
Overview
The Whitman Family Papers contain correspondence, diaries, photographs, clippings, books, and memorabilia related to the members of this prominent New England family, particularly Jason Whitman (1799-1848), a Unitarian minister in Portland, Maine, and Lexington, Massachusetts; and Bernard and Minnie Hamilton Whitman, who lived in Brazil and Colombia in the 1870s and 1880s while Bernard worked in South America as an engineer and street railway builder.
Dates:
1830-1950