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Horace Mann School teacher and students with hearing and speech devices

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…

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

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 Aldermen requesting assistance after the writer's house was looted.

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

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

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

Letter from Michael Desmond requesting compensation from the City of Boston for damages incurred to his store and merchandise during the Broad Street Riots on 11 June 1837.

Annual report on the school providing an overview of administrative matters and highlights of the school's achievements