A Day at the Beach

Charles Eliot, landscape architect: a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good, By Charles William Eliot, 1902

Encyclopedia of coastal science, By Maurice L. Schwartz, 2005

Municipal History of Essex County in Massachusetts, by Benjamin Arrington.

New Outlook, by Alfred Emanuel Smith, 1904

North Shore of Massachusetts Bay

Who’s who along the north shore of Massachusetts Bay, 1915
The North Shore of Massachusetts

Victoriana: the 19th century online — an online gallery of women’s swimsuits through history

Out on the Water

The Massachusetts Lake and Pond Guide

Citizen Information Service

Wakefield souvenir of the celebration of the 250th anniversary of ancient Reading, at Wakefield … May 28th, Reading .. (1894)

Fun and Games

The American Amusement Park, by Dale Samuelson with Wendy Yegoiants (2001)

Friends of Treasure Island

North Shore Music Theater Web site

Celebrating the Fourth

Beacon Lights of Patriotism, by Henry Beebee Carrington, 1894

The Fourth of July: political oratory and literary reactions, 1776-1876, By Paul Goetsch, Gerd Hurm, 1992

The hundred Boston orators appointed by the municipal authorities and other public bodies from 1770 to 1852: comprising historical gleanings, illustrating the principles and progress of our republican institutions, by James Spear Loring

American historical pageantry: the uses of tradition in the early twentieth century, by David Glassberg

Independence Day (United States): from Wikipedia

Summer Retreats

A Guide to Marblehead, by Samuel Roads, 1881

Medical record, Published by W. Wood., 1896

Summer by the Seaside: The Architecture of New England Coastal Resort Hotels, 1820-1950, by Bryant Franklin Tolles, 2008