73 10 2124 https://www.sc.concordlibrary.org/files/original/5414/1875_ticket.jpg b50a46cd22f1d78e72afa1de890d1613 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 Boston & Lowell Ticket (1875) Description An account of the resource A ticket for one of the special trains used by the Boston Lowell & Nashua Railroad for the 1875 Centennial Celebration, which joined the Fitchburg Railroad in providing increased service to Concord and Lexington. Image description: A white and pink train ticket with black text. Transcription: Boston Lowell & Nashua Railroad 1775 Centennial 1875 Boston to Concord. Mass. and Return B.F. Kendrick Special Ticket Good April 19 1875 only Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Boston Lowell & Nashua Railroad Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1875 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image https://www.sc.concordlibrary.org/files/original/5344/boston_brass_band.jpg abef6607cf1f34b26d36422ef2e702d0 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 Boston Brass Band bill, 1850 Description An account of the resource A receipt ensuring payment for the Boston Brass Band's performance at the 1850 celebration. Image description: Handwritten text on blue paper. Transcription: Concord April 19th 1850. The Committee on Music for the Celebration at Concord, April 19th, Dr. to the Boston Brass Band for the services of 18 musicians, at five dollars Each. Rec'd pay't. Eben Flagg Clerk of Boston Brass Band." Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Committee on Music Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1850 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image https://www.sc.concordlibrary.org/files/original/5295/1950_news_clipping.jpg f4a66d0040ecaf6f9ac752111c77dba0 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 Boston Herald Clipping (1950) Description An account of the resource A news clipping with a headline reading "Million to Watch Battleground Rites, Marathon, Red Sox." Transcription: Million to Watch Battlegreen Rites, Marathon, Red Sox On the same countryside where possibly 20,000 colonial Americans dwelt 175 years ago, more than a million rollicking holiday folk will go forth today to take in the biggest and most varied Patriots' Day program ever devised in celebration of the Battle of Concord and Lexington. Three parades—billed at the best and biggest ever—will be held in Concord, Lexington, and Arlington. The Arlington parade will begin at 9:30 A.M., the one in Concord at 10:30 A.M., and Lexington's will be held at 2 P.M. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived William Munroe Special Collections Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1950 Type The nature or genre of the resource image https://www.sc.concordlibrary.org/files/original/28/4007/Bow_Street_Area.pdf 6e2f507b3aa747efd958f83ea7134d35 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 Massachusetts Historical Commission Surveys: Concord, MA Subject The topic of the resource Surveys of historic properties and districts in Concord, MA Description An account of the resource Well-rounded survey documents combine an evaluation of the structure itself with research in primary and secondary documents on the structure, the people associated with it and the broader context. All documents are also available on the state's <a href="https://mhc-macris.net/">MACRIS</a> site. 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/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CON.P Title A name given to the resource Bow Street Area Subject The topic of the resource Massachusetts Historical Commission Surveys Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Concord https://www.sc.concordlibrary.org/files/original/5313/stereo7RESCAN.jpg 377c42822642b7d5f6bb37161ab07921 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 Bridge (1875) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived William Munroe Special Collections Type The nature or genre of the resource image Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1875 Description An account of the resource Image description: A black-and-white stereograph of the North Bridge in 1875. The bridge is covered in snow, and the 1836 monument is visible in the background. Two children pose for the photograph on the bridge's left side. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thomas Lewis https://www.sc.concordlibrary.org/files/original/5329/1850_poster.jpg 4cecf0c7f676f2b2ef2bbc147bfd564c 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 Broadside (1850) Description An account of the resource A broadside advertising the 75th Concord Fight anniversary events in 1850. Transcription: A procession will be formed, at Ten o'clock, A. M. escorted by the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, under the direction of Col. Isaac H. Wright, of Lexington, Chief Marshal. The Procession, after visiting the Monument at the "North Bridge," will march to the Pavilion, to be erected near the Railroad Station in Concord, where an Oration will be delivered by Hon. Robert Rantoul, Jr. Addresses will be made by Hon. Edward Everett, Hon. J. Sparks, Hon. Rufus Choate, His Excellency Gov. Briggs, Chief Justice Shaw, Hon. John G. Palfrey, and others. The arrangements are designed to accommodate ladies. Hon. E. Rockwood Hoar, President of the Day. The Dinner will be provided by Mr. John Wright of Boston, under a new and spacious Pavilion. Tickets 75 cents.---to be had of the Committees of the respective towns. No person can be admitted to the Pavilion without a ticket. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1850 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image https://www.sc.concordlibrary.org/files/original/5415/1877_broadside.jpg 08db4c596c685caf57e069ff8fe77f4a 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 Broadside (1877) Description An account of the resource A broadside advertising the 102nd anniversary celebration of the Concord Fight, comparatively smaller than the Centennial just two years before. Transcription: Notice. The citizens of Concord interested in perpetuating the memory of the events of the Nineteenth of April, 1775, are requested to meet at the Town Hall, in said town, on Wednesday, Apr. 11, 1877 at 7 1-2 o'clock P.M., to concert measures for the proper observance of the One Hundred and Second Anniversary of that day. Chas. Thompson, Chas. Hubbard, Geo. Tolman, Selectmen of Concord Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Concord Board of Selectmen Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1877 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image https://www.sc.concordlibrary.org/files/original/710591db5fe402ff47f6323d2755e55a.jpeg 4fdccf5bca6f6322e3aea32b216ff94f 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 Emerson in Concord Subject The topic of the resource Ralph Waldo Emerson Description An account of the resource Materials for the exhibit Emerson in Concord Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Concord Free Public Library Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived CFPL web exhibit: Emerson in Concord Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020 Language A language of the resource English 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. 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 Bronson Alcott Subject The topic of the resource Bronson Alcott Description An account of the resource Educator, philosopher, lecturer, poet, essayist, diarist, and reformer Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888) was Emerson’s close friend for more than forty-five years. Emerson valued Alcott from their first acquaintance. Long after he had realized Alcott’s impracticality, he was still invigorated by the man’s idealism. Judging Alcott a “world-builder” and “Genius,” Emerson wrote Margaret Fuller in May, 1837: “ … he has more of the godlike than any man I have ever seen and his presence rebukes & threatens & raises. He is a teacher. I shall dismiss for the future all anxiety about his success. If he cannot make intelligent men feel the presence of a superior nature the worse for them—I can never doubt him. His Ideal is beheld with such unrivalled distinctness, that he is not only justified but necessitated to condemn & to seek to upheave the vast Actual and cleanse the world.” Even though he was sometimes skeptical of the efforts into which Alcott threw his energies, Emerson supported him emotionally and often financially through periods of turmoil and despondency. Born at Spindle Hill near Walcott, Connecticut, Alcott was largely self-educated. As a young man, he made his living as a peddler in New York and Pennsylvania. He traveled south, where he observed slavery first-hand. In 1823, he began teaching in Connecticut, in 1828 moved to Boston, and in 1830 married Abigail May. The couple moved to the Philadelphia area, where their first two daughters, Anna and Louisa, were born. Back in Boston in 1834, Alcott—with the help of educator and reformer Elizabeth Palmer Peabody—established a progressive school in the Masonic Temple building. At the Temple School, rather than attempting to impose knowledge on his students, he employed the Socratic conversational method to draw from them the spiritual and moral truth that he felt they possessed innately. With Elizabeth Peabody and (later) Margaret Fuller as his assistants, he operated the school until 1838. Its closing was forced by the withdrawal of students by parents alarmed at his teaching methods and at some of the subjects he broached. The publication of Alcott’s Conversations with Children on the Gospels (1836-1837)—Alcott’s edited record of his dialogues with his pupils—had made him a target for criticism. In 1840, Alcott moved his wife and growing family into the “Dovecote,” a Hosmer family cottage in Concord. His plan was to support the family by farming and day labor. Emerson paid Edmund Hosmer the rent. That year, his “Orphic Sayings”—described by Emerson as “a string of Apothegms”—appeared in The Dial. Emerson had mixed feelings about them,” but nevertheless found merit in some, and felt they should be published. On April 8, 1840, he wrote Margaret Fuller of the “Orphic Sayings,” “ … what he read me this P.M. are not very good. I fear he will never write as well as he talks.” Late in 1840 and into early 1841, the Emersons gave some thought to having the Alcotts live with them, but—probably for the best—nothing came of the idea. In January, 1841, Alcott was jailed for nonpayment of his poll tax, a form of protest against slavery for which Thoreau also was later jailed. In 1842, Alcott traveled to England, where he found support for his educational theories. The trip was financed largely by Emerson. Alcott returned to America with reformer Charles Lane, with whom he founded Fruitlands, a utopian community in Harvard, Massachusetts, in 1843. The Alcotts moved there in June. The Fruitlands experiment focused on manual labor, vegetarianism, religious harmony, education, and the balanced development of the individual. Relying on highly idealistic, relatively ineffective methods of farming, the reformers found it difficult to sustain the community, in consequence of which Mrs. Alcott and her children suffered considerable hardship. Moreover, Lane’s subordination of individual to community did not sit well with Bronson Alcott’s Transcendental individualism and conflicted with the needs of his family. The Alcotts left Fruitlands in January, 1844. Bronson was deeply depressed over its failure. In 1845, partly with funding provided by Emerson, the Alcotts bought a house in Concord, on Lexington Road. They called it Hillside. (Later, under Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ownership, it would be renamed Wayside.) Alcott made repairs and improvements to the old place and, together with Thoreau, built Emerson a Gothic summerhouse. The Alcotts remained at Hillside until 1848, when they moved to Boston, where Bronson offered conversational series and Abba did missionary work among the urban poor. They returned to Concord in 1857 and settled in the Orchard House. Bronson’s particular talents were locally recognized between 1859 and 1865, when he served Concord as Superintendent of Schools. In the mid-1850s, Alcott began to make conversational tours out west and to receive some of the positive public attention that had eluded him. He wrote and published volumes of prose and verse, including Emerson (1865). The success of his daughter Louisa as a popular author finally provided some financial stability for the family. Bronson Alcott founded the Concord School of Philosophy in 1879. Held summers between 1879 and 1888, the school was managed with the assistance of Frank Sanborn and William Torrey Harris, who ran it after Alcott suffered a debilitating stroke in 1882. In 1884—two years after Emerson’s death—the program of lectures was devoted in part to Emerson’s thought and work. Alcott died in 1888. Emerson never lost his appreciation of the best in Alcott. He wrote of Alcott in a letter to Emily Mervine Drury on November 23, 1853: “ … there are few persons so well worth seeing. I am very sensible of the defects of his genius & character, but he is a rare piece of nature, and is a man who stands in poetic relations to his friends & to the whole world.” 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 Undated 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 Bronson Alcott Concord Emerson https://www.sc.concordlibrary.org/files/original/5308/stereo2RESCAN.jpg 67bc504126dfde04611aeabd83da7316 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 Bronze Statue of Minute Man, on the spot where Davis and Hosmer fell (1875) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived William Munroe Special Collections Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1875 Type The nature or genre of the resource image Description An account of the resource Image description: A black-and-white stereograph of the Minute Man statue, a black metal sculpture of a man leaning on a plow with his left hand and holding a musket in his right. The statue stands on a tall stone pedestal. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Thomas Lewis https://www.sc.concordlibrary.org/files/original/24/2431/DCF.002.036.jpg 3645e45c89d01fecdb50be00d974e51a 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 Sculpture 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 Brooklyn Subject The topic of the resource Sculpture Description An account of the resource Photograph of Brooklyn by Daniel Chester French Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Daniel Chester French Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Daniel Chester French 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 1915 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 Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Picture Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DCF.002.036 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Manhattan Bridge Brooklyn Museum of Art Language A language of the resource English Daniel Chester French Sculpture