Image Requests

For research and publication purposes, the Concord Free Public Library holds and provides access to thousands of images documenting the Concord landscape (natural and built), the town’s people and life, and its historical, cultural, and literary heritage, as well as photographs of unique items—manuscripts and artwork—in the holdings of the William Munroe Special Collections. If you are unable to visit the Library, you can review our list of Most Requested Images (below), which features many representative examples of our visual holdings.

While we are pleased to provide digital image reproductions for reference and personal use, receipt of an image does not confer the right to publish that image in any form. To use an image in a publication (print or online), including student presentations and dissertations, or for an exhibition, it is necessary to obtain formal permission. 

The​ William Munroe Special Collections makes digital copies of works available in accordance with 17 U.S. Code § 107. Limitations on Exclusive Rights: Fair Use, which authorizes the use of works protected by copyright without permission for “purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, … scholarship or research.” Usage, transmission, downloading, or reproduction of protected items beyond that allowed by the Fair Use Copyright Law requires the written permission of the copyright owners. While a significant percentage of our image holdings are in the public domain, determining the existence of copyright or any other legal restrictions, as well as obtaining permission from the copyright holder, is solely the responsibility of the user. The​ William Munroe Special Collections cannot make such determinations on behalf of the user. The William Munroe Special Collections also reserves the right to deny permission to reproduce images of any works in our collections based on copyright considerations and other factors.

Most Requested Images

The following selection of images from the Concord Free Public Library is provided to suggest the range of images available in the Special Collections. It is not intended to limit your selection. If you do not see what you are looking for here, please do not hesitate to contact us to learn more about our holdings.  If you find what you want, you may request it by number (indicating that you saw it on this page). If an image is shown in black and white, it is available only in black and white. If it is shown in color (including sepia), please specify whether you want it in black and white or color.

Please direct all requests and questions to the William Munroe Special Collections at SpecColl@minlib.net. 

Doolittie - Concord
1. Amos Doolittle. A View of the Town of Concord, 1775 (engraving).
Doolittle - Bridge
2. Amos Doolittle. The Engagement at the North Bridge in Concord, 1775 (engraving).
Concord Covenant
3. Solemn League and Covenant, 1774 (front, showing printed text).
Concord Covenant
4. Solemn League and Covenant, 1774 (reverse, showing signatures).
Declaration of Independence
5. Declaration of Independence (Salem: E. Russell, 1776). Concord’s copy, read by William Emerson.
Concord Bridge
6. North Bridge, 1875, with celebration tents for the centennial of the Concord Fight.
1875 celebration
7. Dining Tent, interior (Centennial of Concord Fight), 1875, by T. Lewis.
Monument
8. Battle Monument, North Bridge, 1875, by T. Lewis.
President Grant and Cabinet
9. Residence of Judge Hoar with President Grant and Cabinet (centennial of Concord Fight), 1875.
Concord Square
10. Concord Square, 1875 (Centennial of the Concord Fight), 1875, by T. Lewis.
Minute Man Statue
11. Daniel Chester French’s Minute Man, ca. 1885-1890, by Alfred Winslow Homer.
North Bridge, 1965.
12. North Bridge, 1965, by Keith Martin.
Map of Concord, 1810-20
13. Edward Jarvis. Map of Concord, Mass., Central Village, as it was from 1810 to 1820, 1883 (drawn from memory).
A.B. Alcott
14. Amos Bronson Alcott on the steps of the Concord School of Philosophy.
A.B. Alcott
15. Amos Bronson Alcott on a rustic seat.
L.M. Alcott
16. Louisa May Alcott, writing at the desk in Orchard House.
L. M. Alcott
17. Louisa May Alcott, seated, pen in hand.
L.M. Alcott
18. Louisa May Alcott, seated, reading (Conly’s Portraits).
Orchard House
19. Orchard House and Concord School of Philosophy.
W.E. Channing
20. Ellery Channing (copied by A.W. Hosmer from original photograph).
R.W. Emerson
21. Ralph Waldo Emerson, looking to his right, by Black.
R.W. Emerson
22. Ralph Waldo Emerson, in lecture stance, by Black.
R.W. Emerson
23. Ralph Waldo Emerson, seated, by Black.
R.W. Emerson
24. Ralph Waldo Emerson, head and shoulders, by Black)
R.W. Emerson
25. Ralph Waldo Emerson, by Gutekunst).
Nature, by R.W. Emerson
26. Title-page, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (Boston: James Munroe, 1836).
Cover to The Dial
27. Wrapper, The Dial, Vol. 1, No. 1, July 1840.
Lidian and Edward Emerson
28. Lidian Emerson holding young son Edward, ca. 1847.
Old Manse
29. Old Manse (centennial of Concord Fight), 1875, by T. Lewis.
A.W. Hosmer, Old Manse
30. Old Manse, ca. 1890-1895, by Alfred Winslow Hosmer.
20 Cambridge Tpk.
31. Residence of R.W. Emerson, 1875.
Emerson House
32. Ralph Waldo Emerson House, by Alfred Winslow Hosmer.
Margaret Fuller
33. Margaret Fuller (copied by A.W. Hosmer from an engraving).
Nathaniel Hawthorne.
34. Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1860 (London: Mayall)
The Wayside.
35. Wayside, showing Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne.
Wayside
36. Hawthorne’s Home, “The Wayside,” Concord, Massachusetts.
E.P. Peabody
37. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody.
W.T. Harris and E.P. Peabody
38. William Torrey Harris and Elizabeth Palmer Peabody by the Concord School of Philosophy, by Alfred Winslow Hosmer.
B.F. Sanborn
39. Franklin Benjamin Sanborn.
H.D. Thoreau
40.   Henry David Thoreau, 1854 (crayon portrait), by Samuel Worcester Rowse.
H.D. Thoreau
41. Benjamin Maxham. Henry David Thoreau, 1856 (A.W. Hosmer copy from one of three daguerreotypes that initially belonged to H.G.O. Blake, by Maxham).
H.D. Thoreau
42. Edward S. Dunshee. Henry David Thoreau, 1861 (carte de visite copy from original ambrotype).
H.D. Thoreau birthplace
43.  Thoreau's birthplace, Virginia Road, Concord, Mass., by Alfred Winslow Hosmer
Thoreau room
44. Alfred Winslow Hosmer. Thoreau’s Walden furniture (displayed in the Concord Antiquarian Society building).
Walden Pond survey
45. Henry David Thoreau. Walden Pond, 1846 (manuscript survey, ink on paper).
Thoreau.  Walden
46. Title-page, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or, Life in the Woods (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854).
Hosmer. Walden pond.
47. Walden Pond and cairn, ca. 1890-1895, by Alfred Winslow Hosmer.  
Gleason. Overlooking Walden Pond
48. Herbert Wendell Gleason. Overlooking Walden Pond toward Mt. Wachusett, from Pine Hill, Apr. 28, 1906.   
Egg Rock
49. Egg Rock, Oct. 31, 1899, by Herbert Wendell Gleason.
Hemlocks
50. Canoe under the Leaning Hemlocks, Assabet River, by Alfred Munroe.
Wright Tavern
51. Monument Square from Lexington Road (showing Wright Tavern, Middlesex Hotel, flagpole, Soldiers’ Monument).
1st Parish
52. First Parish in Concord, before the 1900 fire and rebuilding, by Alfred Munroe.
Wright Tavern
53. Wright Tavern, by Alfred Munroe.
Concord Center.
54. John Warner Barber.  Central Part of Concord, Mass., 1839 (engraved by J. Downes; published in 1840 in Barber’s Historical Collections).
Monument Square
55. Soldiers’ Monument, Monument Square, by A.H. Putnam.
Middlesex Hotel
56.  Middlesex Hotel.
Town House
57. City Hall (Town House), Concord, Mass., 1875.
Monument Square
58.  Monument Square and Town House, before 1895, by Alfred Winslow Hosmer.
Concord Square
59. Concord Square, Concord, Mass. (looking west; showing trolley).
Concord Center, 1865
60. Concord Center, south side, looking west, ca. 1865.
Concord Center
61. Concord Center, looking east (toward Monument Square).
Concord Center
62. Concord Bank building (Concord Center, north side), late 1850s.
Concord Free Public Library
63. Concord Free Public Library, ca. 1880.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
64. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Mass.
West Concord Junction
65. Station, Concord Junction, Mass.
West Concord Station.
66. Depot, Concord Junction, Mass.
Union Square, West Concord
67. Union Square, Concord Junction, Mass.
Comm. Ave., West Concord
68. Commonwealth Avenue. Concord Junction, Mass.
Allen Chair Co., Concord Junction
69. Buildings of the Allen Chair Co., Concord Junction, Mass.
Boston Harness Co.
70. Boston Harness Co., Concord Junction, West Concord, Mass.
Damon Mill
71. Damon Mill building, West Concord, Mass, ca. 1895, by Alfred Winslow Hosmer. 
MCI Concord
72.  Concord Reformatory, Concord, Mass, 1937.

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