The Assabet River
subject: Painting of the Assabet River in Concord by Stacy Tolman
description: Watercolor and graphite on paper
creator: Stacy Tolman
source: Miriam Little
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: Undated
rights: Images © 2020 James E. Coutré
type: Watercolor
coverage: 9 1/2" x 14 3/4"

The Attempt to Steal the Bicentennial
description: The cover of the report of the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws. Image description: Black text on white paper reads the following: "The Attempt to Steal the Bicentennial: The Peoples Bicentennial Commission. Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary. United States Senate. Ninety-Fourth Congress. Second Session. March 17 and 18, 1976. Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary."
creator: United States Committee on the Judiciary - Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws
publisher: US Government Printing Office
date: 1976
format: Image

The Awakening of Endymion
subject: Sculpture
description: Photograph of The Awakening of Endymion by Daniel Chester French
creator: Daniel Chester French
source: Daniel Chester French
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: 1876
rights: All material courtesy of the William Munroe Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library
format: Sculpture
language: English
type: Still Picture
coverage: ||||osm Chesterwood

The Awakening of Endymion
subject: Sculpture
description: Photograph of The Awakening of Endymion by Daniel Chester French
creator: Daniel Chester French
source: Daniel Chester French
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: 1876
rights: All material courtesy of the William Munroe Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library
language: English
type: Still Picture
coverage: Last known to be in the collection of Mary Abbott of Concord, MA

The Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain
subject: Sculpture
description: Photograph of the Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain by Daniel Chester French
creator: Daniel Chester French
source: Daniel Chester French
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: 1914
rights: All material courtesy of the William Munroe Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library
language: English
type: Still Picture
coverage: Washington, D.C
coverage: The Ellipse, Executive Avenue and Ellipse Drive at Northwest Junction

The Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain - Relief
subject: Sculpture
description: Photograph of a relief from the Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain by Daniel Chester French
creator: Daniel Chester French
source: Daniel Chester French
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: 1914
rights: All material courtesy of the William Munroe Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library
language: English
type: Still Picture
coverage: Washington, D.C
coverage: The Ellipse, Executive Avenue and Ellipse Drive at Northwest Junction

The Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain - Relief
subject: Sculpture
description: Photograph of a relief from the Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain by Daniel Chester French
creator: Daniel Chester French
source: Daniel Chester French
publisher: concord Free Public Library
date: 1914
rights: All material courtesy of the William Munroe Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library
language: English
type: Still Picture
coverage: Washington, D.C
coverage: The Ellipse, Executive Avenue and Ellipse Drive at Northwest Junction

The Carpenters Repairing Hubbard's Bridge
subject: One of twelve original paintings done by N.C. Wyeth for Men of Concord and Some Others, as Portrayed in the Journal of Henry David Thoreau(1936)
description: Oil on Board
creator: Newell Convers (N.C.) Wyeth
source: Gift of Caleb and Ruth Robinson Wheeler in memory of their son Caleb Kendall Wheeler
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: 1936
rights: Images © 2020 James E. Coutré
type: Painting
coverage: 38" x 27"

The Cherokees
subject: The Cherokees
description: During the period from about 1820 until the Civil War, a heightened awareness of a range of social issues was expressed through a number of active reform movements. Emerson, in his 1841 lecture “Man the Reformer,” assessed the climate of the times, “In the history of the world the doctrine of Reform had never had such scope as at the present hour.” There was not only an outpouring of concerned effort on behalf of the unrepresented and underrepresented—Blacks, Native Americans, the labor force, women, children, the mentally ill—but also a trend toward the idealistic reshaping of society through communal living and through education and moral reform. Emerson found that his liberal contemporaries—including some in Concord—hoped that he would speak out on the causes they embraced. In Emerson in Concord, Edward Waldo Emerson wrote of his father’s involvement in reform: “To all meetings held in Concord for the causes of Freedom, spiritual or corporal, he felt bound to give the sanction of his presence whether the speakers were good or bad; he officially welcomed Kossuth and his Hungarian exiles; he entertained John Brown at his house and gave largely from his, at that time very limited, means, to the fund for the furtherance and arming of the Kansas “Free State” immigration.” Emerson certainly spoke out for reform, in Concord and elsewhere. However, his commitment to reform activism did not come easily. Both temperamentally and philosophically, he had difficulty aligning himself with organized reform. Naturally reserved, he was repelled by the emotionalism that characterized the rhetoric of reform meetings. Moreover, his Transcendental focus was on the intellectual and moral perfection of the individual as the best method of reforming society. Even when he believed in the principles behind a reform effort, he could not support the elevation of society over the primacy of the individual. In his “New England Reformers” (1844), he declared: “ … union must be inward, and not …
creator: Ralph Waldo Emerson
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: 1838
rights: All materials courtesy of the William Munroe Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library

The Concord Hymn
subject: Concord Hymn
description: Ruth Haskins Emerson wrote to her son William—Ralph Waldo’s older brother—on June 27, 1837: “The 4th of July, the good citizens of Concord talk of celebrating by having a little parade on account of the erection of the Monument—The Hon. S. Hoar is to give an address on the occasion[,] Dr. Ripley, a prayer, & Waldo, has written a hymn, to be sung to the tune of old hundred—when it is printed will send you a copy.” Emerson, in Plymouth on July 4th, did not hear his hymn sung at the dedication of Concord’s monument commemorating the battle at the North Bridge on April 19, 1775. What is now known as the “Concord Hymn”—today perhaps Emerson’s best-known piece of poetry—was first printed for distribution at the dedication of the Battle Monument (Myerson A4.1). The text of later printings, including the version shown here (collected in The Boston Book for 1850), varies somewhat from the original. In 1875, the first verse of the “Concord Hymn” was carved into the granite base of Daniel Chester French’s Minute Man statue, erected on the opposite bank of the Concord River from the Battle Monument for the town’s centennial celebration of the Concord Fight.
creator: Ralph Waldo Emerson
publisher: Concord Free Public Library
date: 1837
rights: All materials courtesy of the William Munroe Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library