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The Massachusetts Home Missionary Society : membership certificate / Bufford, Boston.
1876
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Metadata
- Publisher
- Boston : Bufford ; 1876.
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Massachusetts Missionary Society—History—19th century
- Boston (Mass.)—Social life and customs
- Massachusetts—Aerial views
- Missions—Societies, etc—Massachusetts—Boston—19th century
- Missions—Massachusetts—Boston—19th century—History
- Broadsides—United States—19th century
- Broadsides—Massachusetts—Boston—1876
- Calligraphy (visual works)—Massachusetts—Boston—1876
- Membership certificates—Massachusetts—Boston—19th century
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- The Massachusetts Home Missionary Society : membership certificate / Bufford, Boston.
- Call Number
- C South 08/Drawer 07/GC179/Half Folio GA 2022.00277
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dcd791sw652
- Publisher
- Boston : Bufford ; 1876.
- Language
- English
- Date Created
- 1876
- Extent
- 1 broadside : lithograph with pen additions ; sheet 40.7 x 48.3 cm
- Source Acquisition
- Princeton copy 1 Gift of David Dorret ; 2021.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Lithographic membership certificate with calligraphic additions for member's name, officers' names, and date of presentation. Includes aerial view of Massachusetts with inscriptions above and below.
- Inscribed in plate, above image: "He shall have dominion from sea to sea, beginning at Jerusalem."
- Inscribed in plate, below image: "By donation to the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society [Miss Abbie W. Edwards" is made a Life Member [W. Barrows], Secry. W. A. Stearns, Pres't. Boston [May 8 1876]".
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Massachusetts Missionary Society—History—19th century
- Boston (Mass.)—Social life and customs
- Massachusetts—Aerial views
- Missions—Societies, etc—Massachusetts—Boston—19th century
- Missions—Massachusetts—Boston—19th century—History
- Broadsides—United States—19th century
- Broadsides—Massachusetts—Boston—1876
- Calligraphy (visual works)—Massachusetts—Boston—1876
- Membership certificates—Massachusetts—Boston—19th century
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 1
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Omega Project
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/49fab01d-1416-47c6-bf16-bcd7ee15d4d9/manifest