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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 14 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Library of Congress. (search)
government publications are placed at the service of the Library of Congress for international exchanges through the Smithsonian. Other special accessions have been: The Peter Force collection (22,529 volumes, 37,000 pamphlets) purchased, 1867, cost $100,000; the (Count) Rochambeau collection (manuscript) purchased, 1883, cost $20,000; the Toner collection (24,484 volumes, numerous pamphlets) gift in 1882 of Dr. Joseph M. Toner; the Hubbard collection (engravings), gift in 1898 of Mrs. Gardiner G. Hubbard. The collection in the main library is the largest single collection on the Western Hemisphere. It comprises about 1,000,000 printed books and pamphlets, 27,300 manuscripts, 55,700 maps and charts, 294,000 pieces of music, and upward of 84,800 photographs, prints, engravings, and lithographs. Of the printed books, probably one-third are duplicates. The law library, of 103,200 volumes (which remains at the Capitol), is not included in the above. The main collection is rich i
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
including about three million square feet of land. It was organized by Gardiner G. Hubbard, who may fairly be called the father of three great enterprises which haof Massachusetts in 1852 granted Charles C. Little, Isaac Livermore, and Gardiner G. Hubbard, their associates and successors, the right of making and selling gas, aon of John H. Blake, Isaac Livermore, Charles C. Little, Estes Howe, and Gardiner G. Hubbard as directors; the last named was chosen president, and Estes Howe was then the Law School and the Gymnasium in Old Cambridge. Its officers were Gardiner G. Hubbard, president, and Dr. Estes Howe, treasurer, who, with James Dana, of Charprincipal instigator in this then great work was our well-known citizen, Gardiner G. Hubbard, to whom the city of Cambridge owes a debt of gratitude. He was the prid were: directors, H. H. Stimpson, Willard Phillips, Charles C. Little, and G. G. Hubbard; Estes Howe was elected clerk and treasurer. Of these Mr. Hubbard is now t
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), General Index. (search)
n, body of, 16. Town boys and Wells boys, 38. Town church. See First Parish. Town-house, location, 31. Town, traces of English method of forming, in Cambridge, 4. Travel between Boston and Cambridge, 400. Treadwell, Prof. Daniel, 73. Treasurer, City, 402. Trowbridge, Prof. John, 77. Trustees of Cambridge Public Library, 403. Uniform Rank Garnett Division, K. of P., 292. Union Methodist Episcopal Church, 241. Union Railway Company, incorporated, 396; Gardiner G. Hubbard and his associates, 396;; first meeting of stockholders. 396, 397; officers elected, 397; efforts to procure subscriptions, 397; cars procured, 397; a successful run, 397; fares, 398; hack to call for passengers, 308; removal of snow from Boston streets, 398; passes, 398, 399; absorbed in West End system, 399. Unitarian churches, 239, 240. United Presbyterian Church, 241. Universalist churches, 241. University Press, The, 10; history of, 336, 337. Valuation from 1886 t