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
Twenty Dollar Bond Certificate issued to Michael O'Flynn, 10 March 1866. Certificate number 1730 / 271. Printed by Continental Bank Note Co., New York, [1860s].
Engraving by unknown artist, 30 January 1788. Printed by Benjamin Russell in the Massachusetts Centinel
Manuscript copy of Franklin's letter written by James Bowdoin.
Woodcut. [Boston: printed by John Foster, 1677]. Originally published in William Hubbard's The Present State of New-England. "Wine Hills" version.
Silk thread and watercolor on silk by Lydia Young Little James, circa 1803-1804
Poster image by Haskell Coffin. [United States] : United States Treasury Dept., [between 1914 and 1918].
Gold with enamel, black lacquer box; medal 56 mm; box 13.2 x 9.5 x 4 cm
Issued by the Howard Banking Company, Boston, Mass., on 23 August 1857
Ink, watercolor, colored pencil on wove lined paper by Making Medicine (Cheyenne). Pages 18-19, Book of sketches made at Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida, 1877
