Concord Museum Publications

An Observant Eye: The Thoreau Collection at the Concord Museum. By David F. Wood. Concord: Concord Museum, 2006.

This beautiful book, a four-color, hardcover catalogue of the Museum’s Henry D. Thoreau Collection, is supported in part by an Institute of Museum and Library Services Museums for America grant. It will serve both the scholar and the generalist through sophisticated use of the objects themselves — how Thoreau used them, what they meant to his writings, why they were acquired, what they meant to the people who knew and admired him, and what they mean today. For scholars, the catalogue will serve as a resource from which they can understand how to interpret the objects and place them in context and will underscore the benefit of object interpretation in future scholarly research. For the visitors from around the world who come to the Museum each year, the catalogue will offer continued learning opportunities and introduce them to new aspects of the collection not explored fully in the Museum.

Reprinted together:

“Concord, Massachusetts, Clockmakers, 1789-1817,” by David F. Wood, in The Magazine Antiques, CLVII, No. 5, May 2000, pp.760-769.
“Concord, Massachusetts, Clockmakers 1811-1831,” by David F. Wood, in The Magazine Antiques, CLIX, No. 5, May 2001, pp. 762-769.

Curator David Wood’s articles on Concord clockmaking are the product of research conducted for the exhibition Keeping Time: Clockmaking in Concord, Massachusetts, 1790-1835 (Concord Museum, September 8, 2000-January 21, 2001), sponsored in part by the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities.

Concord: Climate for Freedom. By Ruth Wheeler. Concord: Concord Antiquarian Society, 1967; reprinted 2000.

Long a classic Concord history text, this fascinating story explores the people and places of Concord’s revolutionary history.

The Concord Museum. Decorative Arts from a New England Collection. Edited by David F. Wood. Concord: Concord Antiquarian Society, 1996.

Awarded Second Place in the New England Museum Association’s Publication Design Competition, this beautifully illustrated catalog is filled with new research and major findings, with entries prepared by some of the foremost American researchers writing in their area of expertise.

Two Towns: Concord and Wethersfield - A Comparative Exhibition of Regional Culture (1635 - 1850). Edited by Peter Benes. Concord: Concord Antiquarian Society, 1982.

The catalog for this ground-breaking exhibit examines everyday objects and attempts a fresh look at early American life by comparing surviving 17th, 18th, and 19th-century artifacts from two communities located in separate regions of New England.

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