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Manuscript Collections
Albany, New York
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“North America Family Histories, 1500–2000”
Arizona
Private Collection, Robert Haskell Korndorffer
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Boston, Massachusetts
Boston Athenaeum, Letter Collection
Boston Medical Library (Temporary Loan to 2022 at the Countway Library)
Letters to Rimmer from Perkins
Newspaper Clipping Scrapbook of Mary H.C. Rimmer (B MS b44.4)
Rimmer Commonplace Book (B MS b44)
Rimmer, “Stephen and Phillip,” (B MS b44.2)
Boston Public Library, William Rimmer File
Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University
Rimmer Sketchbook (B MS b44.1)
Lecture Drawings (B MS 44.3), Fogg Museum Loan
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
Curatorial Files
Visual Archives
Massachusetts Historical Society, Lee Family Papers
Brockton, Massachusetts
Brockton Public Library, Object Files
Brooksville, Maine
Private Collection, Richard Salisbury Nutt
Image from early negative of Head of a Young Woman
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo Historico Sarmiento, Archive
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard University
Houghton Library, Amos Bronson Alcott Papers
Concord, Massachusetts
Concord Free Public Library, Ellen Tucker Emerson Letters
FamilySearch.org
Birth Certificate of Adeline Rimmer
Birth Certificate of Caroline Rimmer
Death Certificate of Thomas Rimmer
“Deaths Registered in the Town of Milton for the Year 1858”
“Massachusetts Deaths, 1841–1915”
“Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795–1910”
“Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1621–2001”
Hanover, New Hampshire
Dartmouth College, Rauner Library, James Steele MacKaye Papers
Indianpolis, Indiana
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Curatorial file
Liverpool, England
Holy Trinity, St. Anne Street, Marriage Registers
Los Angeles, California
Getty Research Institute, Research Library, William Suhr Papers
Manchester, New Hampshire
Currier Museum of Art
Curatorial Files
Medford, Massachusetts
Tufts University Archives
School of the Museum of Fine Arts Records
Milford, Massachusetts
Town Clerk’s Office, Vital Records
New Bedford, Massachusetts
New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library
Gifford Papers
New York, New York
Cooper Union Library, Archives and Special Collections
Frick Collection, Frick Art Reference Library
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum Archives
New York Public Library, Microfilm
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Kirstein Papers
Suitland-Silver Hill, Maryland
U.S. Census Bureau, United States Census, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1870
Washington, D.C.
Library of Congress
Daniel Chester French Papers
French Family Papers
Paul Wayland Bartlett Papers
National Gallery of Art
Curatorial files
William H. Gerdts Archive
Smithsonian Institution
Archives of American Art
Hiram Powers Papers
Lincoln Kirstein and Richard Sherman Nutt Research Material on William Rimmer, 1849–1971
Sadakichi Hartmann Papers
American Art and Portrait Gallery Library, Merl Moore Newspaper Files
Wakefield, Massachusetts
Star of Bethlehem Lodge, Archive
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Williams College, Chapin Library, Chesterwood Archives
Worcester, Massachusetts
American Antiquarian Society, Manuscript Department
Worcester Art Museum
Curatorial Files
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, George C. Gordon Library, Archives and Special Collections
Newspapers and Journals
Amherst, New Hampshire
The Farmer’s Cabinet, 1858
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston Daily Advertiser, 1861, 1864, 1865, 1870, 1879, 1880, 1882
Boston Daily Globe, 1916
Boston Evening Journal, 1883
Boston Evening Transcript, 1863, 1879
Boston Herald, 1872, 1916
Boston Post, 1864, 1865
Boston Times, 1880
Evening Saturday Gazette, 1864
The Liberator, 1863
New England Magazine¸1894
Pilot, 1879
Sunday Herald, ca. 1871
Watchman and Reflector, 1870
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Daily Tribune, 1875
Concord, New Hampshire
New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette, 1845
Galveston, Texas
Galveston Tri-Weekly News, 1871
Hallowell, Maine
Maine Cultivator and Hallowell Gazette, 1846
Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford Daily Courant, 1913
London, England
London Daily News, 1863
New London, Connecticut
Morning News, 1845
New Orleans, Louisiana
The Times-Democrat, 1906
New York, New York
Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly, 1872
Evening Post, 1866
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 1868
Harper’s Weekly, 1862, 1868
National Anti-Slavery Standard, 1865, 1866, 1868
The Nation, A Weekly Journal Devoted to Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, 1877, 1882
New York Daily Tribune, 1865
New York Evening Post, 1921
New York Herald, 1868, 1870, 1878
New York Times, 1880, 1894, 1905, 2000
New York Tribune, 1866, 1867, 1868
Peterson’s Magazine, 1871
The Revolution, 1869
The Round Table: A Saturday Review of Politics, Finance, Literature, Society and Art, 1864
The Round Table, A Weekly Record of the Notable, the Useful, and the Tasteful, 1864
[Unknown New York City newspaper], 1866
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Daily Evening Bulletin, 1867
Friends’ Intelligencer, 1859–1860
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence Daily Journal, 1873, 1874
Richmond, Virginia
The Southern and Western Literary Messenger and Review, 1846–1847
San Francisco, California
The Daily Dramatic Chronicle, 1868
Springfield, Massachusetts
Springfield Weekly Republican, 1863
Trenton, New Jersey
Trenton State Gazette, 1852
Washington, D.C.
Washington Times, 1913
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