1. highlights of new hampshire history at the new hampshire historical society museum
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Highlights of New Hampshire History
At the New Hampshire Historical Society Museum
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Our museum welcomes teachers and learners of all ages!
Our programs generally servemore than 20,000 people eachyear.
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Enjoy this preview of what you may see during your visit.
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Come to us with your questions and ideas about the history of our state.
(With permission: City of Montreal, Records Management and Archives)
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View a few of our intriguing objects andimages.
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Consider what artifacts can tell us …
…about the people who used them.
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Art, too, can teach usabout our past.
What does this painting show, for example?
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Here are a few other objects and images you may see during your visit.
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A Sketch of Pre-Contact Native American Life
Study the sketch carefully!
Is the life depicted truly“pre-contact”?
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A Re-Created Corner of George Jaffrey’s Parlor
What waslife like forthis wealthy Portsmouth merchant family?
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New Hampshire in the Revolutionary War
See artifactsfrom the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Battle of Bennington!
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The “Truck” of the 1700s and Early 1800s
An Oxcart
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The Vehicle That Opened the West
A Concord Coach
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New Hampshire in theCivil War
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New Hampshire Inventiveness
Patents and Prototypes
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The Willey House in Crawford Notch
A Thomas Hill Painting
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Our Stairwell to the Upper Gallery
A “Mountain Hike”
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A General Store
Goods & Prices, circa 1905
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The Museum Store
Where you may shop…
Goods & Prices,circa…today!
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We’ll see you soon!
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Images and Objects from
New Hampshire through Many EyesAn Exhibit at
The New Hampshire Historical Society Museum
6 Eagle Square, Concord, NH(Background photograph by Linda Wilson)
© 2008 Christopher MacLeod for the New Hampshire Historical Society