Old Corner Bookstore restoration materials, 1960.

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Old Corner Bookstore restoration materials, 1960.

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The materials represent the concerted efforts of the Old Corner Committee, the Bostonian Society, and Historic Boston Inc. to purchase and restore the Old Corner Bookstore, located at the corner of School and Washington Streets in downtown Boston. The collection consists of a program of action by the Old Corner Committee, containing purchase price, projected rentals, and forms for contributions. Additional materials include a subscription to a fund raising luncheon, sponsored by the three organizations at which Mayor John F. Collins and Walter Muir Whitehill were to speak, a photocopy of a Boston Herald article, dated Nov. 16, 1960, detailing the building's history and the efforts to preserve it, and a handout, featuring images from 1960 and 1850. In the nineteenth century, the Old Corner Bookstore was home to the offices of Ticknor and Fields, publishers of Hawthorne, Longfellow, Lowell, and others, and where James T. Fields edited the Atlantic Monthly.

8 items (1 folder)

Boston Athenaeum

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Ticknor and Fields

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Ticknor and Fields of Boston, Massachusetts was the premier "literary" publishing house in the United States during the middle years of the nineteenth century. Ticknor and Fields originated in the firm of Allen and Ticknor established in 1832. The partners in Ticknor and Fields were William D. Ticknor (one of the partners in Allen and Ticknor) and James T. Fields, who entered the firm as a junior partner in 1843. Fields edited the Atlantic monthly from 1861-1870. Fields was also a wri...

Bostonian Society

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Old Corner Bookstore (Boston, Mass.)

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Historic Boston Incorporated

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Old Corner Committee (Boston, Mass.)

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