IMAGE REQUESTS / MOST REQUESTED IMAGES
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 Library collections.
If you are unable to visit the Library please contact Special Collections staff at specialcollections@concordlibrary.org for assistance with your request. In addition, you may also visit our list of Most Requested Images (below) which includes many representative examples of our visual holdings.
While we are pleased to provide images for reference or personal use, receipt of an image does not confer the right to reproduce that image in any form. To use an image in a publication or for an exhibit it is necessary to obtain formal permission.
Obtaining permission to use Concord Free Public Library images in a print or electronic publication, film, or exhibition: (a) a written request providing the details of intended use (requests by email are encouraged); (b) inclusion of the clearly visible credit line “Courtesy Concord Free Public Library” adjacent to the image; (c) payment of a per image one-time use reproduction fee; and (d) signing a form acknowledging the restrictions on use.
We accept checks made out to the Concord Free Public Library (all foreign checks to be payable in U.S. funds). We do not accept payment by credit card at this time.
Use of images in student presentations, dissertations, etc. is free of charge. However, such uses nevertheless require written requests and the inclusion of the credit line or verbal acknowledgment, as appropriate.
Please direct all requests to the William Munroe Special Collections at specialcollections@concordlibrary.org.
MOST REQUESTED IMAGES
The following selection of Concord Free Public Library images is provided to suggest the range of images available in the Special Collections. It is—emphatically—not intended to limit patron selection. If you do not see what you are looking for here, please do not hesitate to contact us to explore other possibilities. If you find what you want, you may order it by number (indicating that you saw it on our photo order 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.
 1. Amos Doolittle. A View of the Town of Concord, 1775 (engraving). |
 2. Amos Doolittle. The Engagement at the North Bridge in Concord, 1775 (engraving). |
 3. Solemn League and Covenant, 1774 (front, showing printed text). |
 4. Solemn League and Covenant, 1774 (reverse, showing signatures only). |
 5. Declaration of Independence (Salem: E. Russell, 1776). Concord’s copy, addressed to William Emerson. |
 6. North Bridge, 1875, with celebration tents for centennial of Concord Fight in background. |
 7. T. Lewis. Dining Tent, interior (Centennial of Concord Fight), 1875. |
 8. T. Lewis. Battle Monument, North Bridge, 1875. |
 9. Residence of Judge Hoar with President Grant and Cabinet (centennial of Concord Fight), 1875. |
 10. T. Lewis. Concord Square, April 19, 1875 (Centennial of Concord Fight). |
 11. Alfred Winslow Hosmer. Daniel Chester French’s Minute Man, ca. 1885-1890. |
 12. Keith Martin. North Bridge, 1965. |
 13. Edward Jarvis. Map of Concord Mass. Central Village, as it was 1810 to 1820, 1883 (drawn from memory). |
 14. Amos Bronson Alcott on steps of Concord School of Philosophy. |
 15. Amos Bronson Alcott on a rustic seat. |
 16. Louisa May Alcott, writing at desk in Orchard House. |
 17. Louisa May Alcott, seated, pen in hand. |
 18. Louisa May Alcott, seated, reading (Conly’s Portraits). |
 19. Orchard House and Concord School of Philosophy. |
 20. Ellery Channing (copied by A.W. Hosmer from original photograph). |
 21. Ralph Waldo Emerson, looking to his right (photograph by Black). |
 22. Ralph Waldo Emerson, in lecture stance (photograph by Black). |
 23. Ralph Waldo Emerson, seated (photograph by Black). |
 24. Ralph Waldo Emerson, head and shoulders (photograph by Black). |
 25. Ralph Waldo Emerson (Gutekunst). |
 26. Title-page, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (Boston: James Munroe, 1836). |
 27. Wrapper, The Dial, Vol. 1, No. 1, July, 1840. |
 28. Lidian Emerson holding young son Edward, ca. 1847. |
 29. T. Lewis. Old Manse (centennial of Concord Fight), 1875. |
 30. Alfred Winslow Hosmer. Old Manse, ca. 1890-1895. |
 31. Residence of R.W. Emerson, 1875. |
 32. Alfred Winslow Hosmer. Emerson House. |
 33. Margaret Fuller (copied by A.W. Hosmer from an engraving). |
 34. Mayall (London). Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1860. |
 35. Wayside, showing Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne. |
 36. Hawthorne’s Home, “The Wayside,” Concord, Massachusetts. |
 37. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody. |
 38. Alfred Winslow Hosmer. William Torrey Harris and Elizabeth Palmer Peabody by the Concord School of Philosophy. |
 39. Franklin Benjamin Sanborn. |
 40. Samuel Worcester Rowse. Henry David Thoreau, 1854 (crayon portrait). |
 41. Benjamin Maxham. Henry David Thoreau, 1856 (A.W. Hosmer copy from one of three daguerreotypes—that originally held by H.G.O. Blake—by Maxham). |
 42. Edward S. Dunshee. Henry David Thoreau, 1861 (carte de visite copy from original ambrotype). |
 43. Alfred Winslow Hosmer. Thoreau's birthplace (Virginia Road, Concord). |
 44. Alfred Winslow Hosmer. Thoreau’s Walden furniture (displayed in the Concord Antiquarian Society building). |
 45. Henry David Thoreau. Walden Pond, 1846 (manuscript survey, ink on paper). |
 46. Title-page, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or, Life in the Woods (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854). |
 47. Alfred Winslow Hosmer. Walden Pond and cairn, ca. 1890-1895. |
 48. Herbert Wendell Gleason. Overlooking Walden Pond toward Mt. Wachusett, from Pine Hill, Apr. 28, 1906. |
 49. Herbert Wendell Gleason. Egg Rock, Oct. 31, 1899. |
 50. Alfred Munroe. Canoe under the Leaning Hemlocks, Assabet River. |
 51. Monument Square from Lexington Road (showing Wright Tavern, Middlesex Hotel, flagpole, Soldiers’ Monument). |
 52. Alfred Munroe. First Parish in Concord (before 1900 fire and rebuilding). |
 53. Alfred Munroe. Wright Tavern. |
 54. John Warner Barber. Central Part of Concord, Mass., 1839 (engraved by J. Downes; published in 1840 in Barber’s Historical Collections). |
 55. A.H. Putnam. Soldiers’ Monument, Monument Square. |
 56. Middlesex Hotel. |
 57. City Hall (Town House), Concord, Mass., 1875. |
 58. Alfred Winslow Hosmer. Monument Square and Town House, before 1895. |
 59. Concord Square, Concord, Mass. (looking west; showing trolley). |
 60. Concord Center, south side, looking west, ca. 1865. |
 61. Concord Center, looking east (toward Monument Square). |
 62. Concord Bank building (Concord Center, north side), late 1850s. |
 63. Concord Free Public Library, ca. 1880. |
 64. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Mass. |
 65. Station, Concord Junction, Mass. |
 66. Depot, Concord Junction, Mass. |
 67. Union Square, Concord Junction, Mass. |
 68. Commonwealth Avenue. Concord Junction, Mass. |
 69. Buildings of the Allen Chair Co., Concord Junction, Mass. |
 70. Boston Harness Co., Concord Junction (West Concord), Mass. |
 71. Alfred Winslow Hosmer. Damon Mill building, Main Street, Damondale (West Concord), Mass., ca. 1895. |
 72. Concord Reformatory (M.C.I. Concord), 1937. |
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