GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, 1801-1882 He was member of Congress from Vermont, 1842-1849; United States Minister to Turkey, 1849-1853; United States Minister to Italy, 1861-1882. This picture is from the portrait by G. P. A. Healey, painted in 1845. MRS. GEORGE PERKINS MARSH This very curious old engraving, from the Analectic Magazine, published in Philadelphia in 1818, shows the modest farmhouse in which Captain Macdonough (Commodore by courtesy) lived on Cumberland Bay, Lake Champlain, while in the distance are shown the American forts, the town of Plattsburgh, the river Saranac, the British camp, and headquarters of Sir George Prevost. It is a typical example of the American engravings of that day. THE STATE HOUSE, BOSTON 999 "What Dr. Holmes audaciously called the 'Hub of the Universe.' From a drawing by Charles Wellington Furlong. Nowadays, this dome is brilliantly illuminated at night with electric lights. PINE-TREE SHILLING. These picturesque coins, the first made in the colonies, represented an assertion of a measure of independence; they figure in many interesting incidents. PAGE 132 134 136 138 139 HENRY WRIOTHESLEY, THIRD EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON 140 This picture shows the famous Earl of Southampton as a young man of twenty-one; it is from the original picture at Welbeck Abbey. "A young man resplendently attired. His doublet is of white satin; a broad collar, edged with lace, half covers a pointed gorget of red leather, embroidered with silver thread; the white trunks and knee-breeches are laced with gold; the sword-belt, embroidered in red and gold, is decorated at intervals with white silk bows; the hilt of the rapier is overlaid with gold; purple garters, embroidered in silver thread, fasten the white stockings below the knee. Light body armour, richly damascened, lies on the ground to the right of the figure; and a white-plumed helmet stands to the left on a table covered with a cloth of purple velvet embroidered in gold. Such gorgeous raiment suggests that its wearer bestowed much attention on his personal equipBut the head is more interesting than the body. The eyes are blue, the cheeks pink, the complexion clear, and ment. the expression sedate; rings are in the ears; beard and moustache are at an incipient stage, and are of the same bright auburn hue as the hair in a picture of Southampton's mother that is also at Welbeck. But, however scanty is the down on the youth's cheek, the hair on his head is luxuriant. It is worn very long, and falls over and below the shoulder. The colour is now of walnut, but was originally of lighter tint." From Sidney Lee's "A Life of William Shakespeare." Autograph, seal, and portrait attributed to Van Dyck, in Massachusetts State House. QUINCY RAILWAY PITCHER This bit of Staffordshire ware shows the first railway in America, sometimes called the "Experiment" railroad, built to carry stones to Bunker Hill Monument. All the first railcars were drawn by horses. THE STOURBRIDGE LION. This was the first locomotive in America (1829). PAGE 143 146 147 This railroad "had two locomotives of Stevenson's make from England. They had no cabs when they arrived here, but rude ones were attached. They burned wood. The cars were also. English; a box resembling a stage-coach was placed on a rude platform. Each coach carried eight people. The passengers entered the side. The train ran about twelve miles in forty minutes. The rails, like those of other railroads at the time, were of strap-iron spiked down. These spikes soon rattled loose, so each engine carried a man with a sledge-hammer, who watched the track, and when he spied a spike sticking up he would reach down and drive it home. These snake heads,' as the rolled-up ends of the strap-iron were called, sometimes were forced up through the cars and did great damage. Snake heads' were as common in railway travel as snags in the river in early steamboating."From "Stage-coach and Tavern Days," by Alice Morse Earle. JONATHAN EDWARDS From a recent photograph of the original painting of 1740, when Edwards was thirty-seven. JOHN ADAMS 148 151 THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON From an old engraving. Probably the most truthful picture of this historic incident. PAGE 153 156 From the mural painting by Henry O. Walker, in the State House, Boston. From a portrait of about the time of Emerson's earlier essays. DESTRUCTION OF TEA IN BOSTON HARBOR From an engraving in one of the earliest American histories. The men who disguised themselves as Indians and threw the tea overboard were, it is said, fairly well-known to every one except the British authorities. PAUL REVERE From the portrait by Gilbert Stuart, painted in 1807, when CHRIST CHURCH, SALEM STReet, Boston 160 165 From a drawing by Louis A. Holman, 1903. He said to his friend, "If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light, One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country-folk to be up and to arm.' From Longfellow's poem, "Paul Revere's Ride." THE EVACUATION OF BOSTON. 167 From an engraving by F. T. Stuart of the drawing by L. Hollis. March 17th is still celebrated in Boston as Evacuation Day. THE CONSTITUTION From the painting by Marshall Johnson. The most spirited of all the pictorial representations of this famous ship. THE GERRYMANDER After Governor Gerry and the Democrats had succeeded in electing a Democratic legislature in Massachusetts, 1811, they so divided and rearranged certain counties as to provide Democratic majorities in Federal counties. The editor of the Boston Centinel, who had fought against the scheme, took a map of one county, and designated by particular coloring the towns thus selected and hung it on the wall of his editorial room. "One day Gilbert Stuart, the eminent painter, looked at the map, and said the towns which Russell had thus distinguished resembled some monstrous animal. He took a pencil and with a few touches represented a head, wings, claws, and tail. There,' said Stuart, 'that will do for a salamander.' Russell, who was busy with his pen, looked up at the hideous figure, and exclaimed, Salamander! Call it Gerry-mander.' The word was immediately adopted into the political vocabulary as a term of reproach for those who changed boundaries of districts for a partisan purpose." - From "Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History." HARVARD COLLEGE IN 1836 This illustration, from one of the best of all the engravings of Harvard College, shows the procession in honor of the Second Centennial Celebration, and also several of the more famous buildings. Old Massachusetts Hall is just to the right of the centre of the picture, and Harvard Hall is to the left, with Holden Chapel farther to the left, and Hollis and Stoughton just behind it. Dr. Hale graduated at Harvard This portrait of Longfellow shows the professor who first occupied the chair of Belles Lettres at Harvard, and who 66 was not only to teach us but to quicken us and inspire us and make us glad that we were admitted into the secrets of learning and literature. . . . He changed the routine of his part of the college from the routine of the class-room to the courtesies and cordialities of a parlor." DEPARTURE OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS FROM Delft The Pilgrim From the painting by Charles W. Cope. Fathers, who landed at Plymouth from the Mayflower, sailed from Southampton, where they had been joined by those who had left Delft Haven, Holland, in the Speedwell some weeks before. PAGE 172 173 177 179 EDWARD WINSLOW The only member of the original band of Pilgrim Fathers upon whose likeness we can look to-day. He negotiated a treaty with Massasoit in 1621; was three times Governor of Plymouth Colony; made several trips to England in its behalf, and wrote several tracts about it. PUBLIC WORSHIP AT PLYMOUTH BY THE PILGRIMS A present-day picture of this very old and famous inn, still used as a hostelry; the scene of the supposed telling of Longfellow's "Tales of a Wayside Inn." SENATOR HOAR. THE "COLUMBIA AND THE "LADY WASHINGTON" ON This scene, from one of Captain Robert Gray's voyages that made known the nature of our northern Pacific coast, is from the original drawing in possession of Mrs. A. S. Twombly, a granddaughter of Captain Gray. HENRY LAURENS DAWES . PAGE 181 182 184 187 190 191 194 From a photograph in possession of F. J. Garrison, Esq. PROFESSOR ASA GRAY 196 The eminent botanist. He was Professor of Natural History at Harvard from 1842 to 1888. "DESTRUCTION OF THE SCHOONER GASPÉ' IN THE WATERS OF RHODE ISLAND, 1772" This engraving, by Rogers, of the painting by J. McNevin, illustrates one of the picturesque incidents, preceding the Revolution, in which the colonists began to assert their independence. Narratives survive that tell how a man went round the town at dusk beating a drum and inviting all who wished 203 |