Witness to America's Past: Two Centuries of Collecting by the Massachusetts Historical Society - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0878463348 ISBN 13 : 9780878463343

Editeur : Northeastern University Press, 2005

Synopsis

This fully illustrated catalog, published in 1991 to accompany the Massachusetts Historical Society's 200th-anniversary exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, provides the reader with an engaging view of the books, manuscripts, artwork, and historical artifacts collected by the Society over two hundred years. Filled with color plates, black-and-white illustrations, detailed item descriptions, and entertaining anecdotal information, the catalog brings many of the most vital events in American and Massachusetts history to life through the examination of material artifacts. The book includes more than 160 of the most historically significant objects in the Society's collection--from paintings, prints, and engravings to unusual objects such as tea collected from the Boston Tea Party, a bureau whose drawers supposedly housed a witch during the Salem witch trials, and photographs of soldiers from the Massachusetts 54th Regiment, the most important African American regiment raised in the North during the Civil War.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Northeastern University Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0878463348
• ISBN 13: 9780878463343
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 207
• Éditeur: MHS Staff
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible