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100 1 $aTucker, Louis Leonard,$d1927-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50012638
245 14 $aThe Massachusetts Historical Society :$ba bicentennial history, 1791-1991 /$cby Louis Leonard Tucker.
260 $aBoston :$bThe Society :$bDistributed by Northeastern University Press,$c1996.
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300 $axvii, 623 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c27 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aWhen Jeremy Belknap and seven associates met in Boston on January 24, 1791, to establish the Massachusetts Historical Society, there was nothing like it anywhere in North America. Belknap, concerned that accident and carelessness were jeopardizing America's documentary heritage, proposed an organization to provide a secure repository for rare manuscripts and printed works and a publication program to "multiply the copies" of these valuable items.
520 8 $aThe Society that eight Boston gentlemen created that evening was the first institution anywhere for "the collection and preservation of materials for a political and natural history of the United States.".
520 8 $aThe Massachusetts Historical Society: A Bicentennial History, 1791-1991, is a candid and detailed account of this remarkable institution's first two centuries. Despite its location and its name, the Society has never been a provincial institution, dedicated to chronicling the story of a single city or state.
520 8 $aThrough its incomparable library and publications, as well as through the writings of such illustrious members as Belknap, Francis Parkman, William Hickling Prescott, Samuel Eliot Morison, and scores of modern scholars, the Society has been - and continues to be - a profound influence on the study of a nation's history.
610 20 $aMassachusetts Historical Society$xHistory.
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