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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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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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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.
