Life on the streets and commons, 1600 to the present
By: edited by Peter Benes
Contributors: Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Series: Dublin Seminar for New England Foklife annual proceedings -- v. 30, 2005; Annual proceedings (Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife) -- 2005.
Publisher: Boston University
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: Street life; Congresses; History; Peddling; Customs and practices; Social life and customs
Work titles: Annual proceedings (Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Peter Benes and Jane Montague Benes; title: Purveyor to the peddlars : Nathaniel Coverly Jr., printer of songs for the streets of Boston / Kate Van Winkle Keller; title: "Pedlars in divinity" : street religion in Massachusetts and Rhode Island before 1830 / Peter Benes; title: - "I never used to go out with a weapon" : law enforcement on the streets of prerevolutionary Boston / J.L. Bell; title: Doctors in the streets : medicine as public performance in early-nineteenth-century New England / Anu King Dudley; title: "Within the King's lines" : the Long Island letter-book of Prudence Punderson / Patricia Oat-Judge; title: Shakers and the public roads : burdens and blessings, 1780-1875 / Glendyne R. Wergland; title: Commotions on Meetinghouse Hill / W. Michael Ryan; title: From "Bolshevik Hall" to Butterly Ballroom  : the assimilation of South Norwood's Lithuanian Hall / Patricia J. Fanning; title: Admission twenty-five cents-children half-price : exhibiting Egyptian mummies on nineteenth-century America / S.J. Wolfe and Robert Singerman; title: Streets in 3-D : early stereography in New England / Jeanne Schinto; title: "Fair New England" : displaying the region at the Eastern State Exposition / Anthony J. Antonucci.