City Council committees on the Army and Navy Monument records, 1866, 1870-1871, 1877.

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City Council committees on the Army and Navy Monument records, 1866, 1870-1871, 1877.

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Collection includes the records of the various city council committees on the Army and Navy Monument. The committee records of 1866 include designs proposed for the monument and correspondence relating to the designs and selection of a site for the monument. Several of the proposed designs are missing. Most of the proposals are written descriptions. Some sketches are included. One item of interest is the notes recording the opinions on the submitted designs of several prominent citizens of Boston including Samuel Eliot, Francis Parkman, Theodore Lyman, and Charles Sumner. The records of the committee of 1870 include designs submitted for the monument and a list of persons submitting designs. The designs are written descriptions of what the proposed monument will look like. One submission includes drawings. Several of the proposed designs are missing including those of Martin Milmore, the eventual winner of the competition. The records of the committee on the laying of the cornerstone of monument of 1871 include orders, correspondence, news clippings, miscellaneous records, and lists of invited guests. The records of the committee on the dedication of monument of 1877 include orders, correspondence, miscellaneous records, requests for payments, invoices, plans, invitations, tickets, list of invited guests, and programs. The oversized material includes plans of formation and procession, platforms, and seats. The artifacts include two badges worn by City Council members and members of the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) at the dedication ceremony.

.75 cubic ft. (2 document cases, 1 card file box, 1 flat box )

City of Boston Archives & Records Management Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 7780571

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Eliot, Samuel, 1821-1898

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President of Trinity College, philanthropist, author. From the description of Samuel Eliot letter to Count Adam de Gurowski [manuscript], [18__] Dec 26. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 182579807 American historian and educationist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to J. Pierpont Morgan, 1895 Jan. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270743938 Epithet: historian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Cata...

Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893

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Noted American historian from Massachusetts who traveled the Oregon Trail and published extensively on early America. From the description of Letter, November 27, 1865. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 233593490 Francis Parkman, historian, was born in Boston and educated at Harvard, his father's alma mater. Samuel Parkman was a Unitarian pastor who founded The Parkman Professorship of Pulpit Eloquence and Pastoral Care in The Cambridge Theological ...

Boston (Mass.). Committee on the Army and Navy Monument of 1870

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Boston (Mass.). Committee on the Dedication of Army and Navy Monument of 1877

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Boston (Mass.). City Council

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Milmore, Martin, 1844-1883

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Sculptor. From the description of Letter of Martin Milmore, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454559 ...

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

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Massachusetts lawyer and U.S. Senator, 1851-1874. He was an ardent abolitionist who attacked the south in his "crime against Kansas" speech in 1856. Two days later he was assaulted in the Senate, receiving injuries that took him years to recover from. From the description of Letters, 1858-1869. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55768315 Born in Boston, Mass., the U.S. statesman Charles Sumner studied law at Harvard and practiced law in his native ci...

Billings, Hammatt, 1818-1874

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B. 1818 d. 1874. From the description of Hammat Billings : Artist Files. (Whitney Museum of American Art). WorldCat record id: 228433073 ...

Grand Army of the Republic

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Founded in 1866, in Decatur, Ill. From the description of Grand Army of the Republic scrapbooks, 1913. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 276172404 The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of Civil War Union military veterans, formed in Decatur, Illinois in 1866. The GAR became one of the first advocacy groups in American politics, lobbying for black veterans, pensions, and supporting Republican candidates. The GAR waned during the 1870s as the ...

Lyman, Theodore, 1833-1897

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Lyman (1833-1897) earned his Harvard AB 1855. His positions at Harvard included: Treasurer of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) (1865-1872; 1874-1876), Overseer (1868-1880; 1881-1888), Assistant at the MCZ (1863-1877), member of the faculty at the MCZ (1874-1887). From the description of Papers of Theodore Lyman, 1897-ca. 1909. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972826 ...

Boston (Mass.). Committee on the Army and Navy Monument of 1866

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