Alfred Munroe

Portraits include images of about 35 individuals and some of family or other groups as well. Several photographs of people were reproduced from earlier portraits, including images of Louisa May Alcott (taken from a cabinet card), Nathaniel Hawthorne (taken from the Mayall portrait made in London in 1860) and Henry David Thoreau (made from the Dunshee ambrotype image).

Street and area views include images of the Cattle Show Grounds (Middlesex Agricultural Fairgrounds), Elm Street, Main Street, Monument Square, Monument Street, and Stow Street.

Composite photographs relating mainy to Concord authors; and images of horses, carriages, and one coat of arms.

Photographs of buildings and houses include images of 19 structures, some of which are no longer in existence. Some of those that remain standing have been radically altered; some moved to other locations. Most building shots are exterior. Several of the photographs are from earlier images.

Concerns the Elisha Jones House (also called the Bullet-Hole House), Concord, Mass.

Papers, 1819-[ca. 1885], include: 7 deeds & related documents, 1819-1838 (certificate of sale, Roger Brown to Ephraim H. Bellows, for sale of spring of water, 1819 Nov. 25; deed, Ephraim H. Bellows to Elisha Parks & Thomas Lord, for land, cotton factory, grist mill, etc., 1831 Apr. 16; deed, Elisha Parks & Thomas Lord to James Derby, for real estate, cotton factory, & water privileges, 1833 Sept. 20; certificate of sale, James Derby to Calvin C. Damon,...