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• Some Merchants and Sea Captains of Old Boston: Being a Collection of Sketches of Notable Men and Mercantile Houses Prominent During the Early Half of the Nineteenth Century in the Commerce and Shipping of Boston (c1918), by State Street Trust Company (Boston) (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• The story of the Irish in Boston, together with biographical sketches of representative men and noted women. (J. B. Cullen & co., 1889), by James Bernard Cullen and William Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty of Boston's immortals; showing illustrations and giving a brief sketch of forty men of the past whose work would entitle them to a niche in a Boston hall of fame. (Printed for the State Street Trust Company, 1910), by Boston State Street Trust Company and Boston Walton Advertising and Printing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schools and schoolboys of old Boston : an historical chronicle of the public schools of Boston from 1636 to 1844, to which is added a series of biographical sketches, with portraits of some of the old schoolboys of Boston (L. P. Hager, 1894), by Arthur Wellington Brayley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Later years of the Saturday club, 1870-1920 (Houghton Mifflin company, 1927), by M. A. De Wolfe Howe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The hundred Boston orators appointed by the municipal authorities and other public bodies, from 1770 to 1852; comprising historical gleanings illustrating the principles and progress of our republican institutions. (J. P. Jewett, 1853), by James Spear Loring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boston and some noted émigrés. ([Walton advertising & printing co.], 1938), by Allan Forbes, Paul F. Cadman, and Mass.) State Street Trust Company (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from the diary and correspondence of the late Amos Lawrence; with a brief account of some incidents in his life. (Gould and Lincoln;, 1856), by Amos Lawrence and William Richards Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Our first men": a calendar of wealth, fashion and gentility; containing a list of those persons taxed in the city of Boston, credibly reported to be worth one hundred thousand dollars, with biographical notices of the principal persons ... (Pub. by all the booksellers, 1846) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mount Vernon Street Warrens : a Boston story, 1860-1910 (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989), by Martin Green (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The aristocracy of Boston : who they are, and what they were : being a history of the business and business men of Boston, for the last forty years (The Author, 1848), by Thomas L. V. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The site of Saint Paul's cathedral, Boston, and its neighborhood (R. G. Badger, 1916), by Robert Means Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hundred Boston orators appointed by the municipal authorities and other public bodies from 1770 to 1852: comprising historical gleanings, illustrating the principles and progress of our republican institutions. (J.P. Jewett and company;, 1855), by James Spear Loring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some merchants and sea captains of old Boston : being a collection of sketches of notable men and mercantile houses prominent during the early half of the nineteenth century in the commerce and shipping of Boston. (State Street Trust Co., 1918), by Mass.) State Street Trust Company (Boston and Walton Advertising and Printing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hundred Boston orators appointed by the municipal authorities and other public bodies, from 1770 to 1852; comprising historical gleanings illustrating the principles and progress of our republican institutions. (J. P. Jewett and company;, 1854), by James Spear Loring (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hundred Boston orators appointed by the municipal authorities and other public bodies, from 1770 to 1852 (J. P. Jewett, and company;, 1855), by James Spear Loring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of the Cardinal de Cheverus, Archbishop of Bordeaux (Hooker & Cloxton, 1839), by M. Hamon and Robert M. Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The good parishioner, a discourse occasioned by the death of Benjamin Rich, Esq. : delivered in the Church on Church Green, June 8, 1851 (Printed by John Wilson & Son, 1851), by Alexander Young and Mass.) New South Church (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from the diary and correspondence of the late Amos Lawrence : with a brief account of some incidents in his life. (Gould and Lincoln;, 1855), by Amos Lawrence and William Richards Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from the diaries of William Appleton, 1786-1862. ([s.n.], 1922), by William Appleton and Susan Mason Lawrence Loring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Faneuil Hall and Faneuil Hall market, or, Peter Faneuil and his gift (Lee and Shepard, 1900), by A. E. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Edward Tyng, Esquire, of Boston, and of Hon. William Tyng, Esquire, of Gorham (Printed by Munroe, Francis, and Parker, 1808), by Timothy Alden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men of Boston and New England. (Boston American, 1913), by Boston American (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Our first men:" a calendar of wealth, fashion and gentility (Pub. by all the booksellers, 1846) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from the diaries of William Appleton, 1786-1862. (Merrymount Press, 1922), by William Appleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mayors of Boston; an illustrated epitome of who the mayors have been and what they have done. (Printed for the State Street Trust Company, 1914), by Mass.) State Street Trust Company (Boston and Mass.) Walton Advertising and Printing Company (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hundred Boston orators appointed by the municipal authorities and other public bodies, from 1770 to 1852 (J. P. Jewett, and company;, 1855), by James Spear Loring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristics. With biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men. (Post Publishing Company, 1892), by Richard Herndon and Edwin M. Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Dorman Mahoone alis Mathews" : an early Boston Irishman. (s.n., 1916), by John Henry Edmonds (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early years of the Saturday club (The Rowfant club, 1921), by Thomas Lynn Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hundred Boston orators appointed by the municipal authorities and other public bodies, from 1770 to 1852 (J. P. Jewett, and company;, 1853), by James Spear Loring (page images at HathiTrust)
• The aristocracy of Boston (The author, 1848), by Thomas L. V. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• James Walker Austin (s.n.], 1921), by Walter Austin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Early Boston booksellers 1642-1711 (Club of odd volumes, 1900), by George Emery Littlefield and Club of Odd Volumes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oration delivered before the City council and citizens of Boston on the one hundred and twenty-second anniversary of the Declaration of independence, Monday, July 4, 1898 (Printed by order of the City Council, 1898), by Denis O'Callaghan and C. W. Ernst (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hundred Boston orators appointed by the municipal authorities and other public bodies, from 1770 to 1852 : comprising historical gleanings, illustrating the principles and progress of our republican institutions (J.P. Jewett and company, 1854), by James Spear Loring (page images at HathiTrust)
• By-laws of St. Andrew's Royal arch chapter, Boston. Instituted A.D. 1769. Together with biographical sketches of distinguished members (Press of the Freemason's Magazine, 1866), by Freemasons. Boston. St. Andrews Royal Arch Chapter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the Irish in Boston: together with biographical sketches of representative men and noted women (J.B. Cullen & Co., 1890), by James Bernard Cullen and William Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Faneuil Hall and Faneuil Hall market (Lee and Shepard, 1901), by A. E. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Faneuil Hall and Faneuil Hall Market; or, Peter Faneuil and his gift. (Lee and Shepard, 1900), by A. E. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical catalogue of the Old South church (Third church) Boston. (Printed for private distribution, 1883), by Mass.) Old South Church (Boston, George Frederick Bigelow, and Hamilton Andrews Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Gardiner Greene estate on Cotton Hill, now Pemberton Square, Boston ([Boston] : [publisher not identified], 1916., 1916), by Winthrop S. Scudder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Other merchants and sea captains of old Boston : being more information about the merchants and sea captains of old Boston who played such an important part in building up the commerce of New England, together with some quaint and curious stories of the sea. (State Street Trust Co., 1919), by Mass.) State Street Trust Company (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Dorman Mahoone alis Mathews" : an early Boston Irishman. (s.n., 1916), by John Henry Edmonds and Bostonian Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eulogy on Charles Sumner (Rockwell & Churchill, printers to the city of Boston, 1874), by Carl Schurz and Music Hall (Boston,Mass.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Old School Boys of Boston, organized 1880. (Printed for the Association, 1903), by Old School-Boys of Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Our first men" : a calendar of wealth, fashion and gentility. (Pub. by all the booksellers, 1840) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Centennial celebration of St. Andrew's Royal Arch Chapter, held at Masonic Temple on Wednesday, September 29, 1869. (Printed by order of the Chapter, 1870), by Freemasons. Boston. Royal Arch Masons. St. Andrew's Chapter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joseph Coolidge Shaw : Boston yankee, Jesuit, early Boston College patron (Boston College, 1990), by Charles F. Donovan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The aristocracy of Boston : who they are, and what they were : being a history of the business and business men of Boston, for the last forty years (The author, 1986), by Thomas L. V. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Augustus Lowell. (s.n., 1901), by Percival Lowell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of the Late Amos Lawrence; with a brief account of some incidents of his life, by Amos Lawrence, ed. by William R. Lawrence (Gutenberg ebook)

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