This item is a photograph of Lucretia Leonard taken around 1902. Leonard was one of the few black citizens forced to sit in the slave galleries built into the New North Church in the first half of the 19th century. This state of affairs endured…
This portrait photograph depicts Herbert L. Foss in his naval uniform. On his uniform multiple medals can be seen. The majority of these metals were given for his service in the Spanish-American War.
This is a portrait photograph of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt taken in 1933. Roosevelt was the wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was president of the United States between 1933 and 1945. Eleanor Roosevelt was an activist for many humanitarian…
This item is a portrait photograph of Daniel Parker Livermore taken in 1888, when Livermore was seventy years old. Livermore was a Universalist minister and social reformer. He was married to activist Mary Ashton Livermore.
This is a photograph of Alice "Pat" Granahan printed in the Hingham Journal on January 5, 1989. It was included with an article about her arrest for civil disobedience at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
This item is a copy of an oil painting depicting John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who lived in the Massachusetts during the 17th century. The portrait shows Winthrop with dark, shoulder length hair and a beard. He is wearing…