Francis Parkman
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Francis Parkman Jr. was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America
Parkman in 1889
Francis Parkman House, a National Historic Landmark on Beacon Hill
Grave of Francis Parkman
Parkman Memorial near Jamaica Pond
Boston Athenæum
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The Boston Athenæum is one of the oldest independent libraries in the United States. It is also one of several membership libraries, for which patrons pay a yearly subscription fee to use Athenæum ser
The Boston Athenæum building today, as designed by Edward Clarke Cabot with additions by Henry Forbes Bigelow
The unfinished 1796 Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington, one of two portraits at the center of the controversy.
Boston Athenaeum, Beacon Street, c. 1855
Statuary gallery, 19th century