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A broadside is a single-sheet printed document, usually eighteen to twenty inches high by fifteen or sixteen inches wide, that was suitable for posting on walls or carried, rolled up, to distant places. The subject matter of broadsides is diverse, ranging from governmental communications and political election notices to poems, memorials, odes and addresses, and even commercial advertisements. This collection contains materials ranging from the American Revolution to gubernatorial proclamations of the present day.
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This manuscript volume is from crewmembers and mutineers of the ship HMS Bounty. The volume includes partial autobiographies, a short list of Tahitian words with English translation, the names and birthdates of Matthew Quintal's children (who were born on Pitcairn Island), and a clipping from the "Worcester Evening Gazette," dated 1881.
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Alexander Parris (1780 - 1852) was one of the most prominent architect-engineers of Massachusetts in the first half of the nineteenth-century. The digital archive holds material pertaining to fifty projects spanning the years 1803 to 1851, from specifications for a Boston Customhouse to drawings of the Edward Preble House in Portland, Maine.
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A growing number of state publications are now available electronically, either digitized or created in digital form. These include recent documents that are published solely in electronic form and heavily-used series that have been digitized, such as Massachusetts Election Statistics and the Massachusetts Acts and Resolves.
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A growing number of state publications are now available electronically, either digitized or created in digital form. These include recent documents that are published solely in electronic form and heavily-used series that have been digitized, such as Massachusetts Election Statistics and the Massachusetts Acts and Resolves.
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Compiled by librarians at the State Library in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Zimmer Index covers newspaper articles of interest to legislators and citizens of the Commonwealth. This resource indexes newspapers from Boston and the surrounding area from 1878 to 1937.
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The collection centers on the State House, including its construction and history, and on legislators and other political figures.
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The State Library's collection of rare books is especially strong in Massachusetts and New England history, politics, law, and biography. It includes a comprehensive selection of early printings of Massachusetts laws, legislative documents and journals, and other state documents.
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Sixty souvenir collections are part of the State Library's Special Collections. Souvenirs include posters, programs, calendars, postage stamps, puzzles, mugs, t-shirts, and other artifacts.
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The bulk of the collection of architectural plans, which date from 1850 to 1995, (in the State Library's Special Collections department) comprises plans of the State House. Diagrams, floor plans, details, technical drawings, and landscape plans document the structural and physical changes to the State House as well as One Ashburton Place.
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An historic compendium of photographs, pamphlets, and ephemera about the State House, Massachusetts politicians, and various Massachusetts communities. The Burrill File is found in the State Library's Special Collections.
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