The Library and Archives at the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities holds more than a million items documenting life in New England from the seventeenth century to the present. Extensive collections of photographs, architectural drawings, manuscripts, books, and ephemera are available for study.

The Library and Archives is open by appointment from 9:30 to 4:30 Wednesdays through Fridays. Please call or write in advance to enable the staff to determine how they can best help you. Photocopying is permitted for most materials. Photographic services are available; prices on request.

SPNEA LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES

141 Cambridge Street

Boston, MA 02114

617-227-3957, ext. 226

E-mail: gyowell@SPNEA.org

The Genealogical History of the Town of Reading, Massachusetts Including the Present Towns of Wakefield, Reading, and North Reading with Chronological and Historical Sketches from 1639 to 1874, by Lilley Eaton (Boston: A. Mudge and Son, 1874)

 “Colonial Paper Money,” by John J. McCusker, in Studies on Money in Early America, edited by Eric P. Newman and Richard G. Doty (New York: American Numismatic Society, 1976)

Wealth of A Nation to Be: the American Colonies on the Eve of the American Revolution, by Alice Hanson Jones (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980)