Plate II - A View of the Town of Concord
subject: Concord Fight
description: Goodspeed print of the Doolittle Engraving
creator: Doolittle, Amos
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: 1903
rights: Images © 2020 James E. Coutré

Plate III - The Engagement at Concord
subject: April 19, 1775; Concord Fight
description: Goodspeed print of the Doolittle Engraving
creator: Doolittle, Amos
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: 1903
rights: Images © 2020 James E. Coutré

Plot 15: Lyman White GRAPHIC

Portrait of a Young Girl, Bertha Hobson
subject: Bertha Hobson
description: Charcoal on Cream Paper
creator: Stacy Tolman
source: Antoinette Watson
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: 1881
rights: Images © 2020 James E. Coutré
type: Charcoal on Paper
coverage: 23" x 16 3/4"

Portrait of Gertrude Rozzell Fulton
subject: Gertrude Rozzell Fulton
description: Oil on Canvas
creator: O. H. Heaton
source: Florence W. Fulton
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: Undated
rights: Images © 2020 James E. Coutré
type: Painting
coverage: 35 1/4" x 28"

Portrait of Jane
subject: Portrait of Jane
description: Oil on Canvas
creator: Charles Hovey Pepper
source: Gift of the Artist
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: Undated
rights: Images © 2020 James E. Coutré
type: Sculpture
coverage: 30" x 25"

Portrait of Loring N. Fowler
subject: Portrait of Loring Fowler, for whom the Fowler Branch of the Concord Free Public Library was named
description: Oil on Canvas
creator: Charles W. Dennis
source: Mary C. Fowler
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: Undated
rights: Images © 2020 James E. Coutré
type: Painting
coverage: 16" x 20"

Portrait of Rebecca Poor Farnham Damon
subject: Rebecca Poor Farnham Damon
description: Oil on Canvas
creator: Unknown Artist
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: Undated
rights: Images © 2020 James E. Coutré

Portrait of Three Wheeler Children
subject: Julia Dale Wheeler, Sarah Kendall Wheeler, and Mary Ellen Wheeler
description: Charcoal and chalk on paper
creator: Mary Colman Wheeler
source: Julia Dale Wheeler, 1953
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: 1886
rights: Images © 2020 James E. Coutré
type: Crayon portrait
coverage: 19 1/4" x 28"

Portrait of William Emerson
subject: William Emerson
description: Born in Malden in 1743 to the Reverend Joseph Emerson and his wife Mary Moody Emerson, William Emerson—Ralph Waldo’s grandfather—graduated from Harvard College in 1761. He served as a supply preacher here after the death in 1764 of Daniel Bliss, was chosen as Concord’s pastor in February of 1765, and ordained on January 1, 1766. In that same year, he married Phebe Bliss, daughter of his predecessor in the Concord pulpit. In 1770, he moved his wife and the first of their five children (William, born in 1769) from the Block House—the Bliss family home—to the Manse, the house he had readied for them near the North Bridge. The Concord Fight of April 19, 1775 took place in view of his Manse. William Emerson was a popular as well as an eloquent minister. A champion of political liberty, he was one of Concord’s Revolutionary leaders. When the Provincial Congress met in Concord in October of 1774, he officiated as chaplain. On August 16, 1776, just after the birth of his fifth child, he left Concord to serve as army chaplain at Ticonderoga. He never returned. He became sick, and died at Rutland, Vermont, on October 20th, while trying to come home. In his 1835 discourse, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote of his grandfather: “William Emerson, the pastor, had a hereditary claim to the affection of the people, being descended in the fourth generation, from Edward Bulkeley, son of Peter. But he had merits of his own. The cause of the colonies was so much in his heart, that he did not cease to make it the subject of his preaching and his prayers, and is said to have deeply inspired many of his people with his own enthusiasm.”
creator: Artist unknown
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: Undated
rights: All Materials Courtesy of the William Munroe Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library