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Books about Boston (Mass.):

• 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)

• Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston, by Samuel Adams Drake (page images at MOA)

• The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Boston, Together With the Acts of the Legislature Relating to the City (Boston: J. H. Eastburn, 1850), by Boston (Mass.), ed. by Peleg W. Chandler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Loyolas and the Cabots, by Catherine Goddard Clarke (HTML with commentary at catholicism.org)

• The Book of Boston (Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co. 1916), by Robert Shackleton, illust. by R. L. Boyer (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston, by Samuel Adams Drake (page images at MOA)
• Rambles Around Old Boston (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1921), by Edwin M. Bacon, illust. by Lester G. Hornby (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• Random Notes of Boston (ca.1913), by Henry Payson Dowst, illust. by John Albert Seaford (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)

• The Rise of Silas Lapham, by William Dean Howells
  • illustrated HTML at wsu.edu
  • Gutenberg text
• Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy (multiple editions)
• Streets of Night (New York: G. H. Doran Co., ca. 1923), by John Dos Passos (Gutenberg text)
• Wickford Point (c1939), by John P. Marquand (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Bostonians, by Henry James (HTML at New Paltz)
• A Modern Instance, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• Alexander's Bridge, by Willa Cather
  • HTML at unl.edu
  • Gutenberg text
• A Chance Acquaintance (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1873), by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• The Thinking Machine: Being a True and Complete Statement of Several Intricate Mysteries Which Came Under the Observation of Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S., M.D., Etc. (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1907), by Jacques Futrelle, illust. by Troy Kinney and Margaret West Kinney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Thinking Machine on the Case (without frontispiece; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1908), by Jacques Futrelle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts (4 volumes; New York: Lewis historical Pub. Co., 1908), ed. by William Richard Cutter (page images at HathiTrust)

• Boston: A Guide Book (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1903), by Edwin M. Bacon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Boston Illustrated (ca.1891), by Edwin M. Bacon (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• The Stranger's New Guide Through Boston and Vicinity (Boston: A. Williams and Co., 1869)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA

• Some Events of Boston and Its Neighbors (1917), by State Street Trust Company (Boston) (HTML at kellscraft.com)
• A History of East Boston, With Biographical Sketches of its Early Proprietors, and an Appendix (Boston: J. E. Tilton and Co., 1858), by William H. Sumner
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Rambles Around Old Boston (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1921), by Edwin M. Bacon, illust. by Lester G. Hornby (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)

• Literary Boston of To-Day (Boston: L.C. Page and Co., 1903), by Helen M. Winslow
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Literary Boston of To-Day (Boston: L.C. Page and Co., 1903), by Helen M. Winslow
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• An Old-Fashioned Girl (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950), by Louisa May Alcott (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Motion Picture Chums' New Idea: or, The First Educational Photo Playhouse (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1914), by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• An Old-Fashioned Girl, by Louisa May Alcott
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania

• The Boston Phoenix (full serial archives)
• The Christian Science Monitor (partial serial archives)
• Boston Evening Transcript (partial serial archives)
• The Boston Satirist (full serial archives)
• Publick Occurrences (only issue of the first multi-page newspaper in the US, 1690, as reprinted with commentary on its suppression, 1897) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Courier de Boston (in French) (partial serial archives)
• The Liberator (US abolitionist newspaper, 1831-1865), ed. by William Lloyd Garrison (full serial archives)

• The Boston News-Letter, and City Record (partial serial archives)
• The City Record, and Boston News-Letter (full serial archives)

• City Limits: Images of Boston in Transition (originally published 1987; Humanities Open Book edition Boston: Northeastern University Press, c2019), ed. by Kelly Wise, illust. by Roswell Angier, Polly Brown, Bill Burke, and Kelly Wise (multiple formats at Project MUSE)
• Boston, Its Byways and Highways: Being Twenty-Five Drawings Reproduced in Photogravure (Boston: LeRoy Phillips, ca. 1914), by John Albert Seaford (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)

• World Religions in Greater Boston (free online edition, updated from earlier print editions edited by Eck and Pierce), contrib. by Diana L. Eck and Elinor J. Pierce (illustrated HTML at pluralism.org)

• Americans in Process: A Settlement Study, by Residents and Associates of the South End House, ed. by Robert Archey Woods
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The City Wilderness: A Settlement Study, by Residents and Associates of the South End House (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1898), ed. by Robert Archey Woods (page images at HathiTrust)

• Boston: A Guide Book (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1903), by Edwin M. Bacon (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Unpublished Orations, by John Fiske (HTML at elfinspell.com)

• The Lights of Beacon Hill: A Christmas Message (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1922), by Abbie Farwell Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cultural Landscape Report for Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston National Historical Park, Boston, Massachusetts (2006), by Christopher M. Stevens, Margie Coffin Brown, Ryan Reedy, and Patrick Eleey (PDF at National Park Service)

• Souvenir of the 50th Anniversary of the Dedication of Bunker Hill Monument, 1843-1893 (Charlestown, MA: Bunker Hill Times, 1893) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, by Mary Baker Eddy
  • Part 1: HTML at mbeinstitute.org
  • Part 2: HTML at mbeinstitute.org
  • Part 3: HTML at mbeinstitute.org
  • Part 4: HTML at mbeinstitute.org

• Memorial Lessons: A Sermon Preached at King's Chapel, Boston, on Sunday, May 29th, 1870; With a List of the Sons of the Church Who Entered the Service of the Country (Boston: Barker, Cotter and Co., 1870), by Henry Wilder Foote (multiple formats at archive.org)

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Books by Boston (Mass.):

• Boston (Mass.): The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Boston, Together With the Acts of the Legislature Relating to the City (Boston: J. H. Eastburn, 1850), ed. by Peleg W. Chandler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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