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Papers Relating to the Garrison Mob. Lyman, Theodore, ed. Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow, and Co., 1870.

“Constitution of the Prison Discipline Society” Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Prison Discipline Society. Massachusetts Historical Society.

“List of Persons Receiving Payments by Ward, 1839”. Records of the Boston Overseers of the Poor. Massachusetts Historical Society

“List of Persons Receiving Outdoor Relief by Ward, 1842.” Records of the Boston Overseers of the Poor. Massachusetts Historical Society.

Police log desribing the Ann St. Riot. Boston Daily Atlas. December 31, 1843. Vol. 12, Issue 52. 1 p.

“Disgraceful Riot in Ann St.” Eastman, W. Dean. Notes taken from the Emancipator, 8: 18 (August 31, 1834): p. 71. Event happened Aug. 30. Reprinted from Mercantile Journal.

“Rights of Colored Citizens.” Emancipator Free American. (Dec. 1, 1842): 128.

“Caution” [against Rev. Isaac Hamilton]. Emancipator & Free American 8: 7 (Thursday, June 15, 1843): 27.

“Meeting in Belknap St. Church [advertisement]. Emancipator & Free American 7: 48 (Thursday, March 23, 1843): 183.

[Meeting Concerning the 1844 Presidential Election] Emancipator & Weekly Chronicle 4: 27 (October 24, 1844).

Description of the Smith School. Page 65 from the 1847 Boston Almanac. Courtesy of the Boston Athenaeum. 1 p.

A Boston Boardinghouse off Anderson Street (formerly West Centre Street) circa 1850 [picture]. Courage and Conscience: Black and White Abolitionists in Boston. Indiana University Press, 1993.

Massachusetts Slave Trade Documents. Record Linkage Exercise from PATH (Project Apprentice to History).

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Ten-Footer Shoe Shops of Essex County
Children Bound Out to Essex County
One-Room Schoolhouses of Essex County
Poorhouses and Workhouses of Essex County
Boston Overseers of the Poor
Slave Gravestones of Essex County
Dracut’s Claypit Cemetery
Stone Walls of New England
Project Apprentice to History (PATH)
Primary Research Through the History of Beverly
Nathan Dane Collaborative
African-Americans in Antebellum Boston
“Tiptoeing Through the Tombstones”: Early New England Gravestone Studies
“The Pit”: Archaeological Field Training Site

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Social History of Postcards
African-Americans in Antebellum Boston
Public School History
Neighborhoods of Beverly
Landscape History
Nathan Dane Archival Collaborative Research Projects
Annotated List of Past Research Paper Topics

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Hometown Handbook: Architecture
Gravestone Glossary
Archaeology Handbook: A Guide for Better Understanding of Archaeology
Seriation Chart

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Beverly Educational Archives
African-Americans in Antebellum Boston
Nathan Dane Collaborative: Documents
Historic Beverly Postcards & Images
Rantoul Street Beverly, Massachusetts. United States Population Census. 1910 & 1920
Beverly Civil War Soldiers

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