Title & Author:

Massachusetts : a guide to its places and people / written and compiled by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Massachusetts ; Frederick W. Cook, secretary of the Commonwealth, cooperating sponsor.

Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937.
Cambridge : The Riverside Press

Description:

xxxvi, 675 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm + folded map in pocket.

Series:

American guide series

Notes:
Spine title: Massachusetts.
"Copyright, 1937, by George W. Nutting, Director of Publicity, Commonwealth of Massachusetts"--Title page verso.
Map, "Key to Massachusetts tours" on front lining-paper.
Maps on verso of folded map in pocket: Winter sports area[s] / courtesy of the Massachusetts State Planning Board -- Public picnic sites, beaches & camp grounds / courtesy of the Massachusetts State Planning Board -- Boston.
Includes 64 unnumbered pages of photographs in eight groups, each preceded by a half-title not included in the paging.
Includes "Fifty books about Massachusetts" (p. [637]-638) and index.
Amherst: An adventure in quietude -- Arlington: history and homes -- Boston: the hub of the universe -- Brockton : city of shoes -- Brookline: opulent confort -- Cambridge: university city -- Chelsea: city of transformations -- Chicopee: The future-minded -- Concord: golden age heaven -- Dedham: the sober-minded -- Deerfield: a beautiful ghost -- Everett: industrial half sister -- Fall river: city of falling water -- Fitchburg: the farmer goes to town -- Gloucester-Rockport (Cape Ann): Mother Ann's children -- Haverhill: from hardscrabble to hats and shoes -- Holyoke: the power of water -- Lawrence: warp and woof -- Lexington: a town of heroic past -- Lowell: company founders and city fathers -- Lynn: machine city -- Malden: neighbor of Boston -- Marblehead: Where tradition lingers -- Medford: rum, ships and homes -- New Bedford: thar she blows! -- Newburyport: city of the Captains' houses -- Newton: Commuter's haven -- Northhampton: from Jonathan Edwards to0 Sophia Smith -- Northfield: a propeht with honor -- Norton: typical New England -- Pittsfield: power-source and playground -- Plymouth: The colony's first 'Main Street' -- Provincetown: Way up along -- Quincy: Iron ships and great men -- Revere: a beach beside a city -- Salem: New England's treasure-house -- Somerville: traditons of the trade -- South Hadley: milk, butter and ideas -- Springfield: The metropolis of western Massachusetts -- Taunton: largest city for its size -- Waltham: city of five-score industries -- Watertown: cradle of the town meeting -- Wellesley: town of schools -- and a College -- Weymouth: aggregate of villaged -- Williamstown: buckwheat, barley and gentlemen -- Wobrun: home of a Yankee count -- Worcester: heart of the Commonwealth
Clues to it's character -- Natural setting -- First Americans -- Enough of it's history to explain it's people -- Government -- Labor -- Architecture -- Literature -- Literary groups and movements -- Music and the theater -- Art.
Also available online from the HathiTrust and Internet Archive websites.
Library copy: bookplate of Marilyn A. Lavin, designed by Michael Graves.

Resources:
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Subject:

Historic sites Massachusetts.
Lieux historiques Massachusetts.
Historic sites
Manners and customs
Massachusetts.
Massachusetts Guidebooks.
Massachusetts Social life and customs.
Massachusetts Guides.
Massachusetts Mœurs et coutumes.

Form/genre:

travel guidebooks.
Guidebooks
Guides touristiques.

Added entries:

Cook, Frederic W. (Frederic White), 1873- sponsor.
Nutting, George M., sponsor.
Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg, donor.
Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Massachusetts, author.
Massachusetts. Secretary of the Commonwealth, sponsor.
Massachusetts. State Planning Board, cartographer.
American guide series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318037
Call No.: 318037
Copy: 1
Status: Available