Sights in Boston and suburbs, or, Guide to the stranger (1856) (14761213065)

Identifier: sightsinbostonsu00puls_0 (find matches)
Title: Sights in Boston and suburbs, or, Guide to the stranger
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Pulsifer, David, 1802-1894 Andrew, John, 1815-1875, egr. Billings, Hammatt, 1818-1875, egr. Hill George W., 1815-1893, egr. Barry, egr.
Subjects: Boston (Mass.)--Guidebooks Boston (Mass.)--History Boston (Mass.)--Public buildings Railroads--Massachusetts--Boston Railroads--Massachusetts--Boston--Stations Cemeteries--Massachusetts--Boston Boston Harbor Islands (Mass.)--Description Churches--Massachusetts--Boston Historic buildings--Massachusetts--Boston Theatres--Massachusetts--Boston Associations, institutions, etc.--Massachusetts--Boston Travel literature--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century Guidebooks--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century Advertisements--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century
Publisher: John P. Jewett & Co. Jewett, Proctor & Worthington
Contributing Library: Elms College
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library



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onous copper head of our own country. Here,also, is the fascinating rattlesnake, and such numbers ofthe creeping race that a crawling feeling comes over us,and we quit the room with a feeling of relief Many strangers leave the city without seeing the splen-did cabinet of this society, and many residents are noteven aware of its existence. But whether resident orstranger, the visitor will be well repaid for the expendi-ture of time. SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY. 103 The library belonging to the Massachusetts Society ofNatural History contains several thousand volumes anda number of valuable manuscripts. The society holdmonthly meetings, and several of their proceedings havebeen published. The institution now owns the buildingwhich was formerly occupied by the Massachusetts Medi-cal College; but the building has been remodelled, toadapt it to its present purposes. The Vi^hole estate costabout thirty thousand dollars, which was obtained by sub-scription from the liberal citizens of Boston.
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CHAPTER XII. MERCANTILE LIBRARY. LQWELL INSTITUTE. ORD- VTAY HALL. BRATTLE STREET CHURCH. The Mercantile Library Association occupies thesecond floor in Mercantile Building, at the corner of Haw-lej and Summer Streets, the main entrance being fromthe latter. The Newspaper Room, which occupies the front of thebuilding, facing on Summer Street, is about fifty feetsquare, and is furnished with twenty-two stands for papers,made in the most approved form, and handsomely finished.These stands are supplied with one hundred and sixtynewspapers, comprising nearly all of the better class ofdaily papers throughout the country, and a well-selectedlist of foreign weeklies and dailies, offering the largestand best selection of any reading room in New England. Besides the facilities for gathering news, there are otherattractions to interest visitors. Facing you, as you enter,hangs a fine copy of Stuarts Washington, a gift from theHon. Edward Everett; and around the walls are sus-pended portraits of