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Life on the Streets and Commons, 1600 to the Present

SECTION I: STREET PROFESSIONS

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
Anú King Dudley

SECTION II: STREETS AND COMMONS IN WAR, FAITH, AND JUSTICE

“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 Wergland

Commotions on Meetinghouse Hill
W. Michael Ryan

SECTION III: HALLS AND TAVERNS

From “Bolshevik Hall” to Butterfly Ballroom: The Assimilation of South Norwood’s Lithuanian Hall
Patricia J. Fanning

Admission Twenty-Five cents—Children Half-Price: Exhibiting Egyptian Mummies in Nineteenth-Century America
S. J. Wolfe and Robert Singerman

SECTION IV: IMAGES OF THE CITY

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

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NOTES

Conference Program, 18 June 2005
Photograph and Illustration Credits
Notes on Contributors