153 10 2124 https://www.sc.concordlibrary.org/files/original/23/2194/20201203-JEC_6319-Edit.jpg fa7d44c296d0eb9ff4d07b024bd4978e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Art Collection Subject The topic of the resource Art Description An account of the resource The Art Collection of the William Munroe Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library and items associated with the creation and growth of the collection. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All materials courtesy of the William Munroe Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library Type The nature or genre of the resource Art Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Art Collection Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. 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Title A name given to the resource Concord Buildings Description An account of the resource Watercolor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource William Farrer Ranzulli Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1950 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2020-001-066 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Concord Free Public Library Subject The topic of the resource Concord, MA Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Loraine Sullivan Type The nature or genre of the resource Watercolor Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Images © 2020 James E. Coutré Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 23" x 43" Art Collection Buildings Concord Ranzulli Watercolor https://www.sc.concordlibrary.org/files/original/23/2257/20160212-JEC_1191_remv_SO_Flt.jpg b483458167cdb6bb82a5b975435370e8 https://www.sc.concordlibrary.org/files/original/23/2257/The_Philosopers_Camp_in_the_Adirondacks.mp3 89ccfd546f1d62b6abac794e75ef9c6b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Art Collection Subject The topic of the resource Art Description An account of the resource The Art Collection of the William Munroe Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library and items associated with the creation and growth of the collection. 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Title A name given to the resource The Philosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks Description An account of the resource This painting—one of the best-known in the Concord Free Public Library art collection—includes the figures of both Ralph Waldo Emerson (in the center, standing alone between two trees) and Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar (the first figure to the right of Emerson’s). It depicts a visit by the “Adirondack Club”—an offshoot of the Saturday Club—to the Adirondack wilderness in 1858. The trip was organized by William James Stillman (1828-1901), a friend of Saturday Club members and the painter of this piece. Stillman was a talented man of wide-ranging interests and occupations. He trained as an artist with Frederic Church—American landscape painter of the Hudson River school—and in London, where he was influenced by the pre-Raphaelites. He was also, at different points in his life, a journalist; a writer on art, current events, and other subjects; a diplomat (he was United States Consul in Crete and in Rome); a political activist, involved in Kossuth’s Hungarian revolution; and a photographer. He founded The Crayon, a journal of the graphic arts, and through this periodical became acquainted with a number of the writers and thinkers of his time. An outdoorsman, Stillman persuaded some of his friends in the Saturday Club to make a camping expedition to Follansbee Pond in the Adirondacks in 1858. The party included Emerson, James Russell Lowell, Louis Agassiz, Estes Howe, Jeffries Wyman, John Holmes, E.R. Hoar, Horatio Woodman, Amos Binney, Stillman, and a number of local Adirondack guides. Others were invited but declined to go. When Longfellow was asked, he inquired whether Emerson would be taking a gun. Told that Emerson would, in fact, have a gun, Longfellow replied that he wouldn’t go because someone was sure to be shot. Stillman’s Philosophers’ Camp is more than a record of the 1858 Adirondack Club trip. It represents the artist’s interpretation of the significance of that outing. Although Emerson’s figure does not dominate the painting, it is central. Behind Emerson (at the left), a cluster of campers is grouped around scientific naturalist Agassiz, who is dissecting a fish. In front of him (at the right), a group of marksmen engage in target practice under Stillman’s direction. (Stillman stands elbow-to-elbow with the figure raising a gun.) Emerson stands alone in the middle, soaking up the wild majesty around him, in contrast with his busy fellow campers, who are preoccupied with the concrete reality of nature. Stillman’s Emerson is moved by his immersion in the virgin forest and responds to it in a deeper, more spiritual way than the other campers. Emerson wrote a poem—“The Adirondacs”—about his experience on the 1858 trip. It was included in the collection May-Day (1867; Myerson A28). His son Edward later prepared a key identifying the vacationing “philosophers” in the painting (also in the Concord Free Public Library art collection). Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource William James Stillman Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1859 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2020-001-129 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 19 1/2" x 29 1/2" Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Concord Free Public Library Subject The topic of the resource Stillman's The Philosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Bequest of E. R. Hoar Type The nature or genre of the resource Painting Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Images © 2020 James E. Coutré Adirondacks Art Collection Emerson Stillman Transcendentalism https://www.sc.concordlibrary.org/files/original/30/4113/DCF_Exhibit017.jpg 095b5433d7e6920d51e729e1ab8a0992 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from William M.R. French to Edward J. Bartlett, 1/3 Subject The topic of the resource Edward J. Bartlett Description An account of the resource Letter of condolence from Will French to his brother-in-law Ned Bartlett upon the death of Sallie French Bartlett. French empathizes with Bartlett due to the death of his wife Sarah two years earlier. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All material courtesy of the William Munroe Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPG Type The nature or genre of the resource Letter Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource William M.R. French Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10 July 1883 https://www.sc.concordlibrary.org/files/original/30/4114/DCF_Exhibit018.jpg 2c2bce9c34f2fed0bea553aa8972f3d8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from William M.R. French to Edward J. Bartlett, 2/3 Subject The topic of the resource Edward J. Bartlett Description An account of the resource Letter of condolence from Will French to his brother-in-law Ned Bartlett upon the death of Sallie French Bartlett. French empathizes with Bartlett due to the death of his wife Sarah two years earlier. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All material courtesy of the William Munroe Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPG Type The nature or genre of the resource Letter Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource William M.R. French Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10 July 1883 https://www.sc.concordlibrary.org/files/original/30/4115/DCF_Exhibit019.jpg 8c8c2ecfa81a2ba124e8b314743cbf9b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All materials courtesy of the William Munroe Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library Type The nature or genre of the resource Art Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Art Collection Middlesex Hotel A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Letter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource William Munroe letter on Concord Free Public Library expansion Subject The topic of the resource Concord Free Public Library Description An account of the resource William Munroe wrote a letter to the Concord Free Public Library Corporation detailing his plans for a future expansion of the Library with an art museum attached. Here is the text of the letter: To the President and Members of the Corporation of the Concord Free Public Library Gentlemen I have said that the Public Library was intended to be capable of enlargement without disturbing the original plan of construction. Acting on the suggestion that I should leave on record my ideas of a suitable plan for such enlargement, I have had drawings prepared by the architect, after the present building, and now have the pleasure of offering them for acceptance and preservation with the records of the Library Corporation; not to be used for exhibition. The present building, by a little judicious crowding has capacity to answer all the probable demands for book room for a long period of prosperous growth of this town. When, however, there shall in a distant future arrive a time that more room must be provided, the lending department should be seperated [sic]from the general library by its removal to an auxiliary building devoted exclusively to its use. The plans I present provide for such a building, connected with the present Library by a corridor, but having its main entrance on Sudbury Street. It will have space for shelving more than 36,000 volumes, arranged on one floor in that concentrated manner now approved for lending libraries, with all the convenient rooms required for the administration of that department. This is a Book Capacity greater than is likely ever to be wanted for the lending department; but its spare room would, in time, become useful to the general Library as a place of deposit for its duplicates and pamphlets, and perhaps, for some classes of voluminous books, seldom used, that might be shelved there at little inconvenience should the original building ever again become crowded. The present building will thus become the General and Reference Library—the main room to be fitted with increased accommodations for the convenience of students and general readers; the present reading room serving for newspapers, or for offices. The experience of the next fifty years in the management of Public Libraries will enable whoever shall after that have charge of this Institution to judge more wisely than we could do now, what special arrangements will then be best. Collections of works of Art, worthy of study, will in this Country, long be rare except in the larger cities; and as paintings, engravings and statuary are fit companions for books, that local Public Library will be thought lacking an important feature which does not provide rooms specially adapted to their reception and study. The want of such rooms will be felt in Concord, and any plan for the extension of the Library should be unacceptable which does not provide for supplying it. It is only by having proper accommodation for works of Art that a collection can be hoped for. A fine building, well adapted to the purpose, would be a perpetual invitation to possessors of Art treasures to consider the wisdom of bestowing them on the public. Included in the plans I present are those of a building for a Fine Art Department of the Library, to be connected with the other departments by corridors, but having its public entrance on Main Street. The erection of this structure, while adding a valuable element of usefulness to the Library, would perfect the architectural symetry [sic] of the group of buildings, and instead of disturbing, would complete the original plan of construction. To what other use, this department should be devoted, if to any besides those branches of the Fine Arts, must necessarily be left to the wisdom of the Library Corporation. Its rooms are so arranged as to encourage a division into several sections. Among them might be one for objects illustrating and assisting the study of local history. Offices for the managers of these departments, including store rooms, work-rooms etc. are placed in the central rear of all these buildings, and are conveniently accessible from them all. There is space, and it would, I think, be wise to enlarge the plans of those offices, and perhaps add to their number. The drawings do not include working details, but are such as sufficiently explain themselves to enable any competent architect to prepare from them whatever further plans would be needed should a construction of either of these buildings require them. It is intended that the materials used in the construction of these edifices shall conform to those in the original Library Building, and harmonize with its characteristic style—and it is very desirable that they be made more nearly fireproof than that building, by placing the wooden floors in a bed of cement, supported on brick arches—at least so much of them as would be near the furnace room below—and that the connections of the corridors be made absolutely fireproof. The execution of these plans would necessitate some enlargement of the Library grounds. The adjoining land of the Town, on which a School House now stands, I have supposed would soon be no longer wanted for its present purpose, and would be acquired by the Library Corporation. When that time arrives, it would be well to occupy it, till wanted for the proposed Library extension, as a site for a dwelling for the Librarian or the curator. And as alone it would be quite too small for building upon I have thought it desirable to secure so much of the land in its rear as would enlarge it to tolerable dimensions for that purpose—and at the same time secure all the additional land that will ultimately be required for the erection of the Lending Library and Art Building. I have therefore purchased and conveyed to the Library Corporation so much of the adjoining land of Mr. Cyrus Benjamin as will be required for both purposes. Respectfully your servant Concord, Sept. 6, 1875 Wm. Munroe Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource William Munroe Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Concord Free Public Library Corporation Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Concord Free Public Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1875 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Material courtesy of the William Munroe Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Letter Art Collection Concord Free Public Library Concord Free Public Library Corporation William Munroe https://www.sc.concordlibrary.org/files/original/4123/15.JPG a50817fc62125ffef612c669de8f8ead Middlesex Hotel A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. 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Title A name given to the resource Concord Reformatory Cemetery Grave Marker 15 Subject The topic of the resource Concord Reformatory Cemetery Concord, Massachusetts Eugene Samuel Taylor Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource William Munroe Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Concord Reformatory Prison Taskforce Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available William Munroe Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 2023 Language A language of the resource English Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource William Munroe Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library https://www.sc.concordlibrary.org/files/original/4127/57.JPG a0b781496323a7ff1d42a88237ebebf4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Concord Reformatory Cemetery Grave Marker 57 Subject The topic of the resource Concord Reformatory Cemetery Concord, Massachusetts Oliver William Holden Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource William Munroe Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource William Munroe Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Concord Reformatory Prison Taskforce Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available William Munroe Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 2023 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Anderson Market Today (Main Streets Market and Cafe) Subject The topic of the resource Anderson Market Exhibit Description An account of the resource Contemporary photo of Anderson Market building; now Main Streets Market and Cafe. Image description: A color photograph of Main Streets Market and Cafe—a brick building with a small green awning and stairs to the left. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource William Munroe Special Collections, The Concord Free Public Library Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available William Munroe Special Collections, The Concord Free Public Library Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpeg Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource image