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The Museum continues to add to its collection through the gifts and bequests of generous friends, as well as through purchases funded by supporters of the Museum.

The Concord Museum adds depth and breadth to the collection by focusing on objects made in or associated with Concord, Massachusetts. These objects are given a home, preserving them for future generations and making them accessible to all.

We thank all our donors for enabling us to continue to develop and enhance our collections in meaningful ways. Some recent acquisitions include:

• A Daniel Munroe tall case clock which descended in the Merriam family of Concord and was originally the property of minuteman Josiah Merriam
• A much-beloved carousel horse that presided at the entrance to the Concord Country Store for many years
• A figural group by Daniel Chester French
• A unique miniature tall-case clock by Joseph Mulliken
• Portraiture of Concordians, both famous and not, including R.W. Emerson, Ellen Emerson, and H.D. Thoreau
• A 17th-century chest with drawer from a cabinetmaker's shop in the Concord area, the first 17th-century piece to be added to the collection in more than thirty years
• A rocking chair manufactured by the Allen Chair Company, established in West Concord by Charles W. Allen in 1906
• A boy's rifle and a Massachusetts militia musket made by Alvan Pratt, a gunsmith who worked on Concord's Milldam over a fifty year period in the 19th century, as well as an ambrotype of Pratt, holding one of his muskets
• Four samplers worked by Thoreau's mother, aunt, and great-aunt
• A bass drum used by the Concord Junction Brass Band in the early 20th century
• A Concord-made high chest that descended in the same Concord family for more than 200 years
• 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 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
• 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 silver cann made by Concord silversmith Samuel Bartlett
• An "Emerson Diplomat" brand cigar box
• 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 1775 by patriot and hat-maker Emerson Cogswell.

To learn more about gifts and bequests to the Concord Museum, please contact (978) 369-9763 or cm1@concordmuseum.org.