Recent Acquisitions
Portrait of Minuteman Eleazer Brooks, 1760-1780
The Concord Museum continues to collect, and in recent years has added some important artifacts of Concord's history to the collection. A selected list of recent acquisitions includes:
- A rare diamond-head timepiece by Daniel Munroe
- An 18th century "case of drawers" which was listed in Rev. William Emerson's 1776 probate inventory
- An “Emerson Diplomat” brand cigar box
- An 1845 oil portrait by Nahum Ball Onthank of 3-year-old Annie Hosmer of Concord, along with the dress that she is wearing in the portrait
- A silver cann made by Concord silversmith Samuel Bartlett
- An 1808 Carlisle, Massachusetts sampler made by a 16-year-old schoolgirl and an 1818 sampler worked by 10-year-old Eliza Cordelia Hildreth of Concord
- A creampot and sugar bowl from Paul Revere's shop
- A toy pirate ship made by Martha Lincoln and Katharine Torrey in the Bantam Workshop in Concord in the 1950s
- An eight-day clock with a distinguished Concord history made by Concord clockmaker Nathaniel Munroe
- A very rare print of The Bloody Massacre by the patriot and engraver Paul Revere which was owned in Concord in 1776 by patriot and hat-maker Emerson Cogswell
- An 18th-century portrait of minuteman Eleazer Brooks
- A fine match (made for competition) rifle made by Alvan Pratt working in Concord center, about 1845
- A manuscript leaf from "Walking" one of Thoreau’s most lyrical essays
- A large, impressive needlework picture, "Charity" worked by Miriam Buttrick in 1812
- Two important Revolutionary-era tax stamps
- A paleo-Indian spear head, one of the earliest (about 8000 years before present) man-made objects from Concord
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