To include:

(2) copies of New York's The Time Piece newspaper, including Vol. II, No. 40, dated Friday, December 15, 1797 and Vol. II, No. 113, dated Monday, June 4, 1798, each with (2) leaves. The Time Piece was a short-lived partisan newspaper established in 1797 by poet/editor Philip Freneau. Freneau had minimal involvement with the publication by the following year due to the recently passed Sedition Act (his name is removed as a result from no. 113); the paper soon folded due to pressure from the law (17 1/8 x 10 7/8 in. each).

(3) items related to Lowell, MA, the first a vertical yellow promotional poster for Lowell Museum, dated Nov. 24th, 1849, printed in black. Lowell Museum, founded in 1840, was an exhibition and entertainment space on Merrimack St. that was destroyed by fire in the 1850s (18 x 5 3/4 in.). The second item is a group photo outside a building, ca. early 20th century, by Lothrop & Cunningham of Lowell, mounted on board, with photographer's blind stamp in lower right corner (14 x 11 in.). The third is a photo album of "Views of the Powder Magazine / Explosion. / Tewksbury Mass. / July 29 1903. Also of the Military Camp," with all photos tipped in at left edge onto black construction paper, numbered and captioned in white paint, booklet bound with ribbon. The explosion, in what is now Lowell, was caused by the clean-up of a nitroglycerin leak that ultimately reacted with gunpowder stored by several companies. As a result, 80 homes were destroyed or damaged, and nearly two dozen people were killed (5 5/8 x 6 7/8 in.).

A cabinet card-style photograph presenting the interior of the American Waltham Watch Factory in Waltham, MA, ca. late 19th century, photo by William Webster, with "List of Views" on verso (5 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.).

(2) photos by J. A. French of Keene, NH, including a view of Lake Winnipesaukee on recto and the Boston Public Garden on verso, ca. late 19th century, both mounted on a card with a reinforced and hole-punched cloth edge (7 x 10 1/8 in.).

Photo of ruins after a fire in Manchester, NH with a Manchester Street Railway car in the foreground, early 20th century, mounted on board (10 7/8 x 13 7/8 in.).

Photo of an exhibit of The American Silver Co. in Bristol, CT by Bristol photographer Albert Jones, late 19th/early 20th century, mounted on board, each corner hole punched, with "Industrial Exhibit" "Bristol Conn." written below the image, photographer's name and location stamped in gilt (12 1/2 x 15 in.).

From a Significant Boston Silver Collector

Generally good estate condition with wear expected due to age; occasional toning, mild foxing and soiling, edgewear, and small stains; corner losses to photo album, photo of watch factory, and photo of silver exhibit; the newspaper with additional age wear such as worming and heavier staining; promotional poster with creasing, a couple of horizontal folds, numerous tiny holes, and now attached to cardboard with adhesive visible, not examined fully out of plastic covering; photo of N.H. lake/Boston Garden with waviness to card mount; photo of Manchester, N.H. with soiling and damp staining, and a few indentations on verso; photo album with a few tears and a couple of leaves fully or partially detached.