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Broadsides, 1763 to 1929
The State Library has digitized approximately 100 broadsides from our collection, which range from governmental communications and political election notices to poems, memorials, odes and addresses, and even commercial advertisements.
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Alexander Parris Digital Project
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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The Bounty Manuscript
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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Massachusetts Stone Bridge Project
This collection of data compiled by the Massachusetts Highway Department and the Massachusetts Stone Bridges Historic Research Project includes pictures, maps, city directories and legislation pertaining to Massachusetts Stone Bridges from 1764 to 1929. |
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John James Audubon's Birds of America
This collection of plates from John James Audubon's Birds of America covers the first and fourth volumes of the famous four volume set. The Commonwealth of Massacusetts purchased a subscription for the "double elephant folio" in 1833 and remains one of the State Library's greatest treasures.
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Acts and Resolves 1960-1996
The Acts and Resolves are the published yearly compilation of session laws and resolves passed by the legislature. The State Library of Massachusetts has digitized volumes from 1960 to 1996.
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Zimmer Index
Compiled by librarians at the State Library of Massachusetts 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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