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The Avon Home, 1889-1965
Samuel Francis Batchelder Papers, 1765-1930
Jacob Hill Bates, Papers, 1783-1906
Basket Club Records, 1873-1963
The Bee Records, 1861- 1934 [ image gallery on flickr ]
Cornelius Gerrit Hendrik Bennink Papers Papers, 1861-1917 [ image gallery on flickr ]
Maria Bowen Papers, 1855-1936
Bull Curtis Papers, 1830-1910
Cambridge Branch of the Massachusetts Indian Association Records, 1886-1923
Cambridge Civil Service Reform Association Records, 1800-1909
Cambridge Club and Harvard Lyceum Papers, 1894-1939
Cambridge Drill Club, 1861-1871
Cambridge Fire Companies, 1803-1827, 1847-1850
Cambridge Historical Society Image Collection [ image gallery on flickr ]
Cambridge Historical Society Postcard Collection, 1898-2010
Cambridge Humane Society Records, 1814-1911
Cambridge Schools, 1834-1996
Cambridge Walking Club Records, 1894-1930
Bill Cavellini Papers, 1945-2002
Child Family Papers, 1833-1916
Clergymen’s No-License Committee Records, 1896-1918
Craigie Estate Papers, 1792-1855
East Cambridge Anti-Slavery Society, 1837-1840
East Cambridge Temperance Organizations, 1830-1875
Charles W. Eliot II Papers, 1971-1976
Female Humane Society of Cambridge Records,1814-1914
Garden Street Garden Club Records, 1879-1897
Hollis G. Gerrish Papers, 1865-2002 [ image gallery on flickr ]
Mary Isabella Gozzaldi, Papers, 1844-1952 [ image gallery on flickr ]
Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) P. Stearns Davis, Post 57, East Cambridge Records, 1867-1920
Gray & Davis Inc. Photo Album, 1920
Greenhill Family/Folklore Productions, 1960-2000
Harris Family Papers 1711-1909
Harvard Square Defense Fund Records, 1979−2007
Henderson-Vandermark Family Papers, 1813-1974
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) Carte de Visite Album (1862-1866) [ image gallery on flickr ]
Hodges-Swan Family Papers, (1698-1909)
Lois Lilley Howe Photographic Collection, (1884-1912) [ image gallery on flickr ]
George Inman Diaries, (1786-1789)
Irving Literary Association Records, (1855-1859)
The Longfellow Neighborhood Council Oral History Project, 1930–2010
Maps and Plans Collection, 1635-2012
McCafferty Family Papers, 1861- ca. 1900
Sylvia Mitarachi Papers, c.1978-1980
Nichols Family Papers, 1831-1958 [ image gallery on flickr ]
Officers of Middlesex County Carte de Visite Album, 1894
The Old Cambridge Photographic Club, 1892-1946
Old Cambridge Shakespeare Association Records, 1882-2006
Parmenter-Hunt Family Diaries, 1849-1931
The Proceedings of the Cambridge Historical Society Finding Aid
Quincy-Hill-Phillips-Treadwell Papers, 1699-1969
Rindge Alumni Association Collection, 1890-1991
Rindge Technical School Yearbooks, 1931-1977
Sanitary Society of Cambridge, 1860-1864
Skip and Lenore Schloming Papers, 1974-2004
Mercy Scollay Papers, 1775-1824
Winwood Serjeant Letters, 1769-1840
Betsy Siggins Papers, 1714-2008
Whittemore Family Papers, 1903-1941
Joseph Willard – Sermons, 1775-1777
George G Wright Collection Records, 1814 – 1930