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Lawrence Park (December 16, 1873 – September 28, 1924) was an American art historian, architect, and genealogist who authored pioneering critical and biographical studies of portrait painters Gilbert Stuart, Joseph Badger, and Joseph Blackburn, active during the colonial and early federal periods of the United States. Park's four-volume ...
A guide to some of the Colonial Society's publication collections for the period of 1710 through 1939 is maintained by the Massachusetts Historical Society. [2] The topics can vary from the Pilgrim Fathers, [3] to the pirate Captain Thomas Pound. [4] In partnership with the University of Massachusetts Boston, it sponsors The New England Quarterly.
Commonwealth of Toil: Chapters in the History of Massachusetts Workers and Their Unions (1996) Hall, Donald. ed. The Encyclopedia of New England (2005) Hart, Albert Bushnell ed.Commonwealth History of Massachusetts, Colony, Province and State (1927–30), a five volume in-depth history, covering political, economic, and social matters online
From 1678 on Foster's woodcut appears on many colonial documents indicating that nearly all the official printing contracts went to him after that date." [35] An example of Foster's Massachusetts colonial seal also appears in Increase Mather's work, A brief history of the war with the Indians in New-England, published in 1676. [36]
History of the Massachusetts Bay Colony ... Pages in category "Colonial Massachusetts" ... Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company;
This list of museums in Massachusetts is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Dedham Pottery was an American art pottery company opened by the Robertson Family in Dedham, Massachusetts during the American arts & crafts movement that operated between 1896 and 1943. It was known for its high-fire stoneware characterized by a controlled and very fine crackle glaze with thick cobalt border designs.
The history of Springfield, Massachusetts dates back to the colonial period, when it was founded in 1636 as Agawam Plantation, named after a nearby village of Algonkian-speaking Native Americans. It was the northernmost settlement of the Connecticut Colony .