Category: 1840s
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Hutchinson Family Singers
Color portrait of the world-famous Milford, NH quartet… PLUS series source links!
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Frederick Douglass Visits Pittsfield (1842)
The famous abolitionist finds both prejudice and humanity in a NH graveyard: Douglass visited Pittsfield as part of a speaking tour through New England.
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Dublin Lyceum (1836-1844)
Community education & discourse in Dublin: The adults publish (& perform) their own bi-weekly zine… and the kids put out TWO!
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To Work in the Mills? (Keene, 1845)
A farm family debates sending their youngest daughter to work in the mills…