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Cambridge, Massachusetts

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Anne Whitney's sculpture of Charles Sumner

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Longfellow's house, Cambridge, Mass.

Bowditch, Nathaniel

Detail of Boston (c. 1900), from the 10th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Anne Whitney's sculpture of Charles Sumner

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Fogg Art Museum

Longfellow's house, Cambridge, Mass.

Bowditch, Nathaniel

Detail of Boston (c. 1900), from the 10th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica.

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