Engraving of the Dowse Library at the Massachusetts Historical Society, circa 1856
Watercolor drawing of Presidential birthplaces, 1822
Manuscript letter from Robert E. Lee to George W. C. Lee, 1863
Manuscript map of Boston drawn by Jeremy Belknap, 1787
Daguerreoptype of Caroline Wells Healey Dall
Quitclaim deed for the peninsula of Boston, 19 March 1685
Sarah Gooll Putnam diary 2, 22-23 February 1862
Catalog of the Overman Wheel Co., designed by Will Bradley
caring for the children of Dr. Joseph Warren
Copper pattern coin designed and engraved by Paul Revere, 1776
Telegram from Dean Rusk to Leverett Saltonstall, 24 September 1963.
Tea leaves in glass bottle collected on the shore of Dorchester Neck the morning of 17 December 1773.
Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Mather, 12 May 1784
Letter from William Tudor to Delia Jarvis, 24 December 1776
Ambrotype of Ralph Farnham, 7 July 1858
The First Prospect of an American College
A letter from Abraham Lincoln to Joshua Fry Speed
Broadside advertising a Fourth of July rally sponsored by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in 1854.
Published in London in 1773, Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religous and Moral, was the first book of poetry by a Black American.
Paul Revere writes in support of Deborah Sampson Gannett, who served during the American Revolution disguised as a man.
The American Party (the Know-Nothing Party) comes to power in Massachusetts in 1855
Benjamin Franklin sent a recipe "To make Milk Punch" to James Bowdoin, a Boston merchant and the future governor of Massachusetts, on 11 October 1763.
One of two known surviving copies of a certificate of attendance at Dr. John Warren's anatomical lectures and demonstrations, engraved by Paul Revere.
Mugs depicting the heads of the 1960 Republican candidates for President, Richard M. Nixon, and Vice President, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
Written by Samuel Sewall in 1700, The Selling of Joseph was the first anti-slavery tract published in New England.
Saltonstall wrote this letter to her family while she was serving with the American Red Cross in France during World War I.
Hamilton wrote this letter the day before his duel with Aaron Burr.
The Columbia and Washington Medal commemorating "the first American Adventure on the Pacific Ocean."
This is the first issue of the first continuously published newspaper in America.
"On Saturday next will be perform'd, by a society of ladies and gentlemen, at Faneuil-Hall, the Tragedy of Zara ... "
Letter from William Whiting to Fitz-John Winthrop, 4 March 1703/4 [1704]
Letters by Octave Chanute and Godfrey L. Cabot following the Wright brothers' successful flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Robert M. Grey, Mr. Brooks, and Thomas Barbour gathering papayas at the Harvard Botanical Garden, Soledad, Cuba
Photograph by Francis Blake, circa 1885
Compiled from actual surveys made by Order of the General Court and under the inspection of Agents of their appointment. by Osgood Carleton; engraved by Joseph Callender and Samuel Hill, 1801.
Photograph. Handwritten on verso: "Boston / Horse car / The last in Boston / Dartmouth Street / near Old South / Give by [?] / May 5, 1917"
Gilt bronze and red enamel medal by Frank A. Gendreau. Boston, 1912. Inscription: Boston Red Sox Baseball Club World's Champions
