Niagara Falls Handbill Collection, 1838-1886, n.d. (non-inclusive)

According to legend, the Burning Springs were discovered by early natives in the Niagara Peninsula. Bridgewater Mills was built on the site of the spring. During the excavation of the factory; workmen uncovered the spring. Samuel Street and Thomas Clark recognized the potential of this as a tourist attraction so they built a wooden shelter over the spring. The spring was covered with a barrel with a pipe protruding from it. This became the first tourist attraction at Niagara. The Cave of the Winds was a cavern located behind the Bridal Veil Fall. It was originally named the Aeolus Cave. In 1920, a sudden rock fall from the ceiling killed 3 tourists. The cave was destroyed in 1955 as it was deemed dangerous. The captain of the Maid of the Mist was usually a farmer who owned the land where the ship docked. In 1846, the first steam powered Maid of the Mist was launched. By 1848, the first suspension bridge was built over the gorge and the main purpose of the Maid of the Mist was no longer to carry people who needed to travel, but now the focus was on people who wanted to view the Falls at close range. Source: http://www.niagarafrontier.com/burningsprings.html http://www.niagarafrontier.com/winds.html http://reservationsystems.com/niagara_daredevils/maid_of_the_mist.html

Marriage Bond between Thomas A. Allen of Grimsby and Sarah Bridgeman of Grimsby

Marriage Bond between Thomas A. Allen of Grimsby and Sarah Bridgeman of Grimsby signed by Adam Duff of Grimsby and Palmer Bugbee [Buckbee] of Grimsby, Sept. 28, 1838.

Book Review of Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Thomas P. Lowry

Although Lewis and Clark literature has proliferated in the last decade, few works have added scholarly discourse to this field of study. The highly focused Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition, however, will likely stand out on the Lewis and Clark bookshelf as an important contribution.

Catharine Waugh McCullouch papers in the Mary Earhart Dillon collection, 1869-1945

Collection primarily documents McCulloch's research on women's legal status, and her work with the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association, the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and the League of Women Voters. There is also documentation of women in the legal profession, of McCulloch's friendships with the other women suffragists and lawyers, and some biographical material. The papers contain little information about her family or social life.

Bond of Samuel Shapleigh and Thomas Adams to the Harvard Corporation, Aug. 15, 1789

Shapleigh and Adams' signatures have been cut out from the bottom of this document. It was "signed, sealed and delivered" in the presence of Thomas Gray and Darius Shaw.

Theses, in Comitiis publicis Harvardini Collegii quod est Cantabrigiae Nov-Anglorum, defensae & pro viribus propugnatae a Juvenibus in Artibus initiatis, [1660-1753]

The bound volume holds handwritten transcriptions of selected Harvard Commencement Theses copied by Isaac Mansfield (Harvard AB 1742). The manuscript volume holds only the Theses chosen for public disputation. The volume includes Theses transcriptions for which no original broadsides are known to still exists.

Letter from John Quincy Adams to his brother, Thomas Boylston Adams, 1786 July 2

This letter was written by John Quincy Adams on July 2, 1786 to his younger brother, Thomas Boylston Adams, who was then staying with their uncle, the Reverend John Shaw, in Haverhill, Massachusetts. In the letter, John gives Thomas advice on life as a student at Harvard, instructing him to choose his friends carefully, to favor those who are virtuous and studious over those who are idle and prone to vice, to maintain an "unblemished moral reputation," and to spend as much as six hours each day studying in order to excel as a scholar.

Marshfield, Massachusetts, 1838 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of Marshfield, Mass., surveyed by John Ford Jr. ; on stone by J.E. Moody. It was published by Thomas Moore's Lithography in 1838. Scale [1:19,800]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, railroads, drainage, public buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, mines, etc.), private buildings with names of property owners, town boundaries and more. Relief is shown by hachures. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.

The correspondence of Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bart., speaker of the House of Commons. With a memoir of his life. To which are added, other relicks of a gentleman's family.

Memoir.--Correspondence.--Extracts from the private account-book of Isabella, Duchess of Grafton.--Sir Thomas Hanmer, grandfather of the speaker, his account of France in 1648.--Extracts from Sir Henry North's Eroclea.--Miscellaneous letters.--Memoir of Charles Lee.--Poetry of the late H.F.R. Soame.

The Scots revised reports. : House of lords series ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

Médecine pratique de Thomas Sydenham ; traduite par A.-F. Jault ; revue par Baumes. Suivi de l'Essai sur les fièvres et des dissertations sur les maux de gorge gangréneux et la colique de Dévonshire /

Mode of access: Internet.

The complete works of Josh Billings, (Henry W. Shaw)

Mode of access: Internet.

Théâtre de Pierre et de Thomas Corneille; avec notes et commentaires ...

The notes are by Voltaire, La Harpe, Palissot and others.

Calligraphia graeca et Poecilographia graeca : a work explaining and exemplifying the mode of forming the Greek characters with ease and elegance, according to the method adopted by Thomas Young, and exhibiting a copious collection of the various forms of the letters, and of their connexions and contractions /

List of subscribers: leaf at end.

Mon oncle Thomas /

Mode of access: Internet.