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BOOKS ABOUT MASSACHUSETTS

Boston- Eyewitness Travel
Boston- Eyewitness Travel


Day Trips and Getaway Weekends in Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts
Day Trips
and Getaway Weekends in Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts


Massachusetts Curiosities : Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities, & Other Offbeat Stuff
Massachusetts Curiosities : Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities, & Other Offbeat Stuff


Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket: An Explorer's Guide
Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket: An Explorer's Guide


M Is for Mayflower: A Massachusetts Alphabet
M Is for Mayflower:
A Massachusetts Alphabet


Famous People
from Massachusetts

Abigail Adams
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
Samuel Adams
Louisa May Alcott
Horatio Alger
Susan B. Anthony
Johnny Appleseed
Crispus Attucks
Emily Greene Balch
Roger Nash Baldwin
Clara Barton
Katherine Lee Bates
Leonard Bernstein
Elizabeth Bishop
Ray Bolger
William Cullen Bryant
Charles Bulfinch
Luther Burbank
Frank Gelett Burgess
George Bush
John Cheever
James Bryant Conant
Allan Rohan Crite
E.E. Cummings
Jacques d'Amboise
Bette Davis
Jared Diamond
Emily Dickinson
W. E. B. DuBois
Will Durant
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Geraldine Farrar
Benjamin Franklin
Buckminster Fuller
Margaret Fuller
Theodore Geisel
Robert M. Goddard
John Hancock
Wallace K. Harrison
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Winslow Homer
Anne Hutchinson
Theodore “Seuss” Geisel
John F. Kennedy
Jack Kerouac
Nancy Kerrigan
Lewis Latimer
Amy Lowell
James Russell Lowell
Robert Lowell
Mary Lyon
Mary Eliza Mahoney
Cotton Mather
Horace Mann
Christa McAuliffe
Bruce McCandless II
Maria Mitchell
W. T. G. Morton
Lucretia Mott
F. Story Musgrave
Eliot Noyes
Frances Perkins
Edgar Allan Poe
Eleanor Powell
Israel Putnam
Paul Revere
Norman Rockwell
Deborah Sampson
Roger Sherman
Louis Sullivan
Benjamin Thompson
Henry David Thoreau
James VanDerZee
Mercy Otis Warren
James McNeil Whistler
Eli Whitney

Massachusetts Signers
of the Declaration
of Independence
John Adams
Samuel Adams
Elbridge Gerry
John Hancock
Robert Treat Paine

• more Colonial America posters

Greetings from Massachusetts

Boston
Cambridge
Cape Cod
Gloucester
Lexington
Lowell
Lynn
Marblehead
Martha's Vineyard
Nantucket Island
New Bedford
Plymouth
Quincy
Salisbury Beach
Salem
Springfield
Winthrop
Worchester




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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Posters, Prints, Photographs
for educators and home schoolers, themed decor in studio or office.


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Massachusetts from Space Poster
Massachusetts
from Space
Art Print

(42º18'0"N 71º48'0"W)

State Bird : Black Capped Chickadee
State Flower : Mayflower
State Insect : Lady Bug
State Fish : Atlantic Cod
State Marine Mammal : “Right” Whale
State Tree : American Elm
State Capital : Boston
State Motto : “By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty”.
Massachusetts Map by county.
US Census Bureau facts
more Massachusetts facts.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, nicknamed the “Bay State”, joined the Union on February 6, 1788 as the 6th state. (Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Kentucky are also commonwealths.)

The name Massachusetts comes from the Native American Massachusetts tribe meaning those who “lived near the Great Hill”.

Massachusetts is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north.



A jeweled belt at New England's waist, Massachusetts divides mountainous woodsy north from populous industrial south. From the sands of Cape Cod through the bustle of Boston to the quiet Berkshire Hills, it samples all New England.

Massachusetts begins in Boston, venerable chalice of history, where a busy street may wander a colonial cowpath. The city looks across its harbor toward Cape Cod's tip, but the distance there by car is almost as far as it is across the state to the New York border.

A million tourist tramp Boston's Freedom Trail each year, following a red brick path for four miles to such stops as Faneuil Hall, the Paul Revere House and Old North Church. Boston's literary heritage – and its universities, orchestras, libraries, galleries, and brain-powered industries – have prompted the nickname “Athens of America.”

Many “Athenians” flee summer's heat and crowds in the rolling Berkshires. There they blend with folk from afar to picnic on Tanglewood's lawn and hear the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A feast for eye and spirit awaits at Clark Art Institute; it's a surprise to find such treasures as 30 Renoir originals in a dot-on-the-map like Williamstown.

In Plimoth Plantation and Old Sturbridge Village, Bostonian and “foreigner” step into a past that shaped them both. In Fall River they stir newer memories as they tour a sub, a dstroyer, and the state's namesake battleship, a museum fleet on course for Nostalgia.

Ask a Yankee where he'll spend vacation; chances are he'll say “the Cape.” North Shore residents, whose coast bends north from Boston, will demand, “Which cape?” And rightly so; their Cape Ann has historic shrines, sailing centers, beconing beaches.

Shipwrecks of the Northeast Map Poster
Shipwrecks of the Northeast Map Poster

For most “the Cape” is Cod, a bent arm embracing Cape Cod Bay. The “upper,” or biceps, half hosts hordes of visitor in summer. Most find what they seek: swimming, boating, fishing, theater, celebrity watching. Ferries glide to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, where you can hike or bike to moors, ponds, and uncrowded beaches.

“Down-Cape” toward its tip, Cape Cod narrows to twin strands of sand. Resort towns fall away, the strands converge and hook around Provincetown Harbor to Long Point. Cape Cod National Seashore preserves these superb beaches and tells their story in visitor centers and self-guiding trails. At Provincetown, Cape Cod ends – but on a beach nearby the Mayflower landed in 1620 and new England began.

(poster text about Massachusetts)


Massachusetts Flag Art Print
Massachusetts Flag
Art Print

Old State House, Boston, Massachusetts Art Print
Old State House,
Boston, Massachusetts
Art Print

• more flag posters

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Art Print
Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Art Print

Boston University (MA) (College History Series)
Boston University (MA) (College History Series)


Cape Cod from Space Art Print
Cape Cod from Space
Art Print

Boston from Space Art Print
Boston from Space
Art Print

• more Earth from Space posters
landforms posters
cities posters

Map of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts Art Print
Map of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts Art Print

Map of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts Art Print
Map of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts Art Print

• more map posters

Boston Street Map Art Print
Boston Street Map
Art Print

Freedom Trail, Historic Boston, Art Print
Freedom Trail,
Historic Boston,
Art Print

Revolutionary War posters

Cobblestone Street and Historic Homes of Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Photographic Print
Cobblestone Street and Historic Homes of Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Photographic Print

House of the Seven Gables, built 1668, Giclee Print
House of the Seven Gables,
built 1668,
Giclee Print

• more architecture posters


Pilgrim ship Mayflower, Plymouth, MA Giclee Print
Pilgrim ship Mayflower, Plymouth, MA
Giclee Print

Thanksgiving Day, Landing at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts Art Print
Thanksgiving Day,
Landing at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts
Art Print

holidays posters

Trailing Arbutus, Photographic Print
“Mayflower”,
Photographic Print

The mayflower (Epigaea regens), also known as “trailing arbutus” and “ground laurel”, was adopted as the official flower or floral emblem of Massachusetts on May 1, 1918. The mayflower has fragrant five petal flowers and prefers sandy or rocky soil near evergreens. It is on the endangered list.


Lady Bug, Photographic Print
Lady Bug,
Coccinella Spp,
Photographic Print

Ladybugs - Massachusetts State Insect

Ladybugs, or lady beetles, are small insects that are usually red, orange, or yellow with black spots on their back. Most ladybugs consume other insects that damage crops. [a rainy day project]

entomology posters


Black Capped Chickadees Art Print
Black Capped Chickadees
Art Print

Black Capped Chicadee
(Massachusetts State Bird)

• more bird posters


Washington Elm, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Art Print
Washington Elm, Cambridge, MA,
Art Print

The American Elm (Ulmus americana) was chosen as the official Massachusetts tree in 1941 to commemorate General George Washington taking command of the Continental Army beneath one on Cambridge Common in 1775.

tree posters


“Right” Whale, Giclee Print
“Right” Whale,
Giclee Print

“Right” Whale
(MA State Marine Mammal)

The “Right” Whale is so named because it was the “right” whale to hunt due to its being found nearer shore than many other whales. It was harvested to near extinction.

• more whales & dolphins posters


Nature Magazine - View of a Boston Terrier TearingUp a Nature Magazine with its Picture, c.1931 Art Print
View of a Boston Terrier Tearing Up a Nature Magazine with its Picture, c.1931
Art Print

Boston Terrier
(Massachusetts State Dog)

• more dog posters


Cranberry Harvest in Cape Cod Art Print
Cranberry Harvest
in Cape Cod
Art Print

Cranberries are “epigynous” berries (not a true berry) that grow on evergreen dwarf shrubs in bog areas.

Cranberries have been a food source for millenia and are now a part of the traditional U.S. Thanksgiving dinner.

Cranberry juice is the official Massachusetts beverage.


Textile Mills Line the Merrimac and Concord Rivers in Lowell, Massachusetts, c.1830, Giclee Print
Textile Mills Line the Merrimac and Concord Rivers in Lowell, Massachusetts, c.1830,
Giclee Print

Lowell, Massachusetts became the center of textile manufacturing and the industrial revolution in the United States in the 1830s. Lowell was named after Francis Cabot Lowell.

Lowell Mill Girls in History of Labor posters


Paul Revere Home, Boston, MA, Art Print
Paul Revere Home, Boston, MA,
Art Print

Paul Revere Home, Boston, MA

The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere - Longfellow


John Adams John Quincy Adams
Buy John F. Kennedy at Art.com Bush Era TIME

Presidents Born in Massachusetts

John Adams
John Quincy Adams
George Herbert Walker Bush
John F. Kennedy

• more presidents posters


Comet Hale-Bopp Over East Chop, Art Print
Comet Hale-Bopp
Over East Chop,
Art Print

Comet Hale-Bopp Over East Chop, Martha's Vineyard

comet posters


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