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The history of Charlestown, Massachusetts
Frothingham, Richard, 1812-1880, 1845. A public-domain text about Boston, accessioned whole so the archive can quote it.
Document
- Type
- book
- Author
- Frothingham, Richard, 1812-1880
- Publisher
- Boston : C.C. Little and J. Brown
- Published, as stated
- 1845
- Language
- en
- Media type
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- 1130775 bytes
- Preservation
- preserved
- Digest (SHA-256)
e16ef0207ac08eed5edd66d1c0300222cfeca090f483b59a11ba643a1a350d55
Text
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Who wrote The history of Charlestown, Massachusetts, and who published it?
Frothingham, Richard, 1812-1880 wrote it. It was published at Boston by C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1845.
Attested by: Internet Archive — Boston texts, retrieved 5 September 2026, under Public domain — published before 1929.
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Attested by: Internet Archive — Boston texts, retrieved 5 September 2026, under Public domain — published before 1929.
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- urn:lemay:boston:document:the-history-of-charlestown-massachusetts-2
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- https://boston.fyi/document/the-history-of-charlestown-massachusetts-2
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- https://boston.fyi/document/the-history-of-charlestown-massachusetts-2.json
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- 1 · last changed 5 September 2026
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- Internet Archive — Boston texts — source of record
- License
- Public domain — published before 1929 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 5 September 2026
- Source identifier
- historyofcharles45frot
- Attribution
- Frothingham, Richard, 1812-1880
- Rights as stated
- NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT (Internet Archive item rights review), corroborated by the item's own publication date of 1845 — before 1929, and therefore in the public domain in the United States
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