Life on the streets and commons, 1600 to the present / edited by Peter Benes

Contents: Introduction / Peter Benes and Jane Montague Benes -- Purveyor to the peddlers : Nathaniel Coverly Jr., printer of songs for the streets of Boston / Kate Van Winkle Keller -- "Pedlars in divinity" : street religion in Massachusetts and Rhode Island before 1830 / Peter Benes --- "I never used to go out with a weapon" : law enforcement on the streets of prerevolutionary Boston / J.L. Bell -- Doctors in the streets : medicine as public performance in early-nineteenth-century New England / Anu King Dudley -- "Within the King's lines" : the Long Island letter-book of Prudence Punderson / Patricia Oat-Judge -- Shakers and the public roads : burdens and blessings, 1780-1875 / Glendyne R. Wergland -- Commotions on Meetinghouse Hill / W. Michael Ryan -- From "Bolshevik Hall" to Butterly Ballroom : the assimilation of South Norwood's Lithuanian Hall / Patricia J. Fanning -- Admission twenty-five cents-children half-price : exhibiting Egyptian mummies on nineteenth-century America / S.J. Wolfe and Robert Singerman -- Streets in 3-D : early stereography in New England / Jeanne Schinto -- "Fair New England" : displaying the region at the Eastern State Exposition / Anthony J. Antonucci

Boston : Boston University, [2007]

2007

179 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.