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Report on the Broad Street Riots of June 11, prepared by Mayor Samuel A. Eliot and a joint committee.

Letter from Mayor Samuel A. Eliot to Fire Department engineers responding to uncertainty about the engineers participation in the Fire Department

Hyde Park High School sudents pose with donations for Save the Children Federation

Letter to the Mayor and Aldermen requesting assistance after the writer's house was looted.

In 1829, the Boston School Committee voted to use Pierpont’s National Reader in the city’s public grammar schools. Pierpont’s replaced Murray’s English Reader which had been previously used. This 1836 edition would have been used for reading and…

Letter to the mayor and Committee on the Fire Department describing and promoting a torpedo invented for the purpose of destroying buildings in order to halt the spread of fire

The School of Mutual Instruction was an experimental school in Boston. It relied upon a system in which older or more advanced students instructed the younger or weaker students under the supervision of the schoolmaster. Tokens with an attached…

Horace Mann School teacher and students with hearing and speech devices

Horace Mann School students at typewriters in class

Horace Mann School cheerleaders with principal Patrice DiNatale