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Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts volume 44, 45
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1973
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2 v. (xxiv, 737 p.) illus. 25 cm.
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1996
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128 p. ; ill. : 24 cm.
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Marblehead, Massachusetts, is a proud community steeped in history, and many fine images of its past still survive today. Paintings from the colonial period and engravings from the mid-nineteenth century complement the town's photographic record, which begins around 1865. In Marblehead Volume I historian John Hardy Wright has brought together many of these images for the first time in a published work. This illuminating pictorial history focuses on...
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The small seacoast town of Marblehead, in eastern Massachusetts, was the first to answer the call to arms during both the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Throughout World War I, Marblehead was affected, and the town influenced the outcome. Boasting of the fifth and final naval militia in history, the Tenth Deck Division, Marblehead's men stood on the front line as the first shots rang out, aimed at the Germans in 1917. It was a town that pulled together,...



