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Boston was so named in honor of the birthplace of the Rev. John Cotton, their second minister, who was from Boston, England.
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1914 Steamship Berths Assignment for Foreign Passenger Steamship Lines
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- 1882 King's Handbook of Boston Harbor by M. F. Sweetser. Illustrated by Charles Copeland and others. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Moses King, Publisher, Harvard Square. Over two-hundred original illustration and index are included in this almost 300 page comprehensive guide to the Boston Harbor.
- 1890s American Journal of Progress: Special Extra Number Descriptive and Illustrating Boston - The Metropolis of New England. The Financial, Commercial and Manufacturing Center of the East whose Features of Good Order, Thrift, Education and Refinement, render her one of the most Noted and Progressive Cities of the Civilized World. 32 Pages, Tabloid Size. Photographs include: State House; Post Office; Ericsson Statue; City Hall; New Court House; Farragut Statue; New York and New England Mutual Insurance Co's Buildings; Birds' Eye View From State House to Harbor; Custom House; State Street Looking Towards Old State House; T Wharf; Atlantic Avenue - North From Commerce Street; State Street from Tower of Old State House; YMCA Building; Public Library; Algonquin Club; Boston Art Club ; Art Museum; New Old South Church; South Market Street Looking West; Technology Building; Odd Fellows Hall; Copley Square; South Market Street Looking East; Natural History Rooms; Harvard Medical School; Washington Statue; Equitable Building; New England Telephone Building; Tremond Building; Chamber of Commerce Building; Mason Building; Jewelers Building; Winthrop Building; Exchange Building; Brazer Building; Ames Building; Worthington Building; Fiske Building; North End Terminal Station; Hotel Vendome; Touraine Hotel; Parker House; Rialto Building; Yourth's Companion Building; Masonic Temple; HOtel Brunswick; King's Chapel; Old South Church; Washington Statue; Army and Navy Monument; Old State House; Faneuil Hall; Esther Monument; Brewer Fountain; Bunker Hill Monument; South End Terminal Station; Public Garden, Panorama from Arlington Street x2; Washington Statue Public Gardens; Commonwealth Avenue; Headquarters Master Painters and Decorators Association; First Meeting Place - Old Master Painters' Union; Assembly-Room - M.P. and D. A.; Ernest Schuprach; Thomas Sproules; Schupbach & Zeller, Painters & Decorators Building; Bernhard Zeller; T. M. Henderson; John C. Sperry; J. U. Sperry Painters & Decorators Building; R. L. Tingley; Albert Schneider; F. W. Schneider; Robert R. Rose; M. F. Shay; W. E. Shay; Philip Sundell; Geo. W. Brooks; William E. Delorey; C. G. Campbell; Charles H. Schneider; C. G. Campbell, Painters and Decorators Building; Geo. C. Stevens; John E. Patten; John E. Stevens; Frank Wallburg; Wallburg & Woehrn Fresco Painters Building; Henry J. Woehrn; Henry C Hathaway Building - Staff members posed in front; Henry C. Hathaway; A. P. Button; G. H. Tobey; P. J. Mitchell; Amos Snow; Randin Johnson; E. P. Longley; Z. Hancock. Contain many articles regarding the history of the buildings and biographies of many prominent businessmen at that period in time.
- 1899 Map of Boston Harbor with Piers of the Steamship Lines and Major landmarks identified.
- 1904 Booklet: In And About Historic Boston
- 1912 Booklet: Boston, Published by L. H. Nelson Company, Portland, ME. Photograph record of Boston included Photographs of: State House; Public Library, Copley Square; City Hall; New Boston Custom House; South Station; North Station; Brimstone Corner; Tremont Street, Showing Common and Subway Entrances and Exits; Washington Street; Quincy Market View; Government Building, Post Office Square; The Boston Opera House; State Street; Boston Chamber of Commerce; Faneuil Hall (The Cradle of Liberty); Old State House, Washington and State Streets; King's Chapel, Tremont Street; Keith's Theatre; Old Granary Burying Ground, Tremont Street; Christ Church (Old North), Salem Street; Bunker Hill Monument, Charlestown; Boston Massacre Monument, Boston Common; Shaw Memorial, Boston Common; Boylston Street, from Berkeley; Soldiers' Monument, Boston Common; Tremont Temple, Tremont Street; Trinity Church; Old South Meeting House; The New Old South, Corner Boylston and Dartmouth Streets; Hollis Street Church; Edward Everett Hale, Late Pastor Emeritus; The First Church of Christ Scientist; 4 Views of The Public Garden; The Museum of Fine Arts; The Copley-Plaza Hotel; Cambridge Bridge; Scollary Square, Subway Station; Symphony Hall, Huntington Avenue; Hotel Somerset; Hotel Brunswick, Clarendon and Boylston Street; Simmons College; City Hall, Cambridge; Collage of Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard College, McKean Gate, Samuel Dexter Memorial Gate; Class of 1875 Gate; Class of 1877 Gate; Collage of Five Views of the Harvard Medical School; Harvard Yard showing Matthews Hall, Harvard Hall, Hollis Hall and Holworthy Hall; Harvard Yard showing University Hall and Weld Hall; Harvard Library; Harvard Hall; Harvard Union; Collage of Some of Harvard's Dormitories and the Statue of its Founder; Radcliffe College; Robinson Hall, Harvard University; Sever Hall, Harvard University; Class-Day Tree, Harvard University; Echo Bridge.
- 1913 Boston Guide Book: Up-To-Date Guide Book of Boston and Surroundings, Published by the New England News Company. 128 Pages. Photographs included: Entrance to Public Library; Phillips Brooks Memorial; Trinity Church, Copley Square; Hotel Nothingham, Public Library and New Old South Church at Copley Square; Scene in Public Garden; Birds' Eye View of Public Garden; Tremont Street Mall; Band Stand, Boston Common; Boston Common; Granary Burying Ground; Collage of Col. William Prescott, Christopher Columbus, Bulfinch Monument of the Revolution, Gen. N. P. Banks and Maj. Gen. "Joe" Hooker; State House; Collage of Daniel Webster, William Lloyd Garrison, Ether Monument, Horrace Mann, Charles Sumner; King's Chapel; City Hall; Old South Church; Washington Street, North of Summer Street; Post Office; Old State House; Paul Revere's House; Bunker Hill Monument; New England Conservatory of Music; Christian Science Church; Boston Opera House; New Boston Art Museum; Mrs. John L. Gardner's Palace; Harvard Bridge; Esplande Charles River Basin; Collage of Law School, Lawrence Scientific School, Campus, Memorial Hall and Statue of John Harvard, Harvard College; Stadium, Harvard College; Washington Elm; Harvard Medical School; Longfellow Bridge; City Hall, Cambridge; Chestnut Hill Reservoir; Collage of John Glover, Admiral Farragut, Evacuation Monument Dorchester Heights, Alexander Hamilton, Samuel Adams; Scene in Franklin Park; Marine Par, City Point Head House; Entrance, North Station; South Terminal Station; Map of Boston Terminals of the Bay State Street Railway Co. which operates 940 miles of trolley lines around Boston. Includes Index, List of Illustrations, List of Advertisers, Large Fold-Out Map of Boston Giving All Points of Interest with Every Railway and Steamboat Terminus, Prominent Hotels, Theatres and Public Buildings.
