Bibliograph

Life on the streets and commons, 1600 to the present, edited by Peter Benes

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Life on the streets and commons, 1600 to the present, edited by Peter Benes

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Life on the streets and commons, 1600 to the present

Oclc number

228013485

Responsibility statement

edited by Peter Benes

Series statement

Dublin Seminar for New England Foklife annual proceedings, v. 30, 2005

Table Of Contents

Introduction / Peter Benes and Jane Montague Benes -- Purveyor to the peddlars : Nathaniel Coverly Jr., printer of songs for the streets of Boston / Kate Van Winkle Keller -- "Pedlars in divinity" : street religion in Massachusetts and Rhode Island before 1830 / Peter Benes --- "I never used to go out with a weapon" : law enforcement on the streets of prerevolutionary Boston / J.L. Bell -- Doctors in the streets : medicine as public performance in early-nineteenth-century New England / Anu King Dudley -- "Within the King's lines" : the Long Island letter-book of Prudence Punderson / Patricia Oat-Judge -- Shakers and the public roads : burdens and blessings, 1780-1875 / Glendyne R. Wergland -- Commotions on Meetinghouse Hill / W. Michael Ryan -- From "Bolshevik Hall" to Butterly Ballroom : the assimilation of South Norwood's Lithuanian Hall / Patricia J. Fanning -- Admission twenty-five cents-children half-price : exhibiting Egyptian mummies on nineteenth-century America / S.J. Wolfe and Robert Singerman -- Streets in 3-D : early stereography in New England / Jeanne Schinto -- "Fair New England" : displaying the region at the Eastern State Exposition / Anthony J. Antonucci

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