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is a small sampling of some of the items in our gift shop.
This full color sampler catalog provides images and text
associated with 35 samplers from 1749 to the mid-20th century. Each sampler has a
biographical data regarding the creator, sampler size, school (if known), and other
particulars that bring each of these creation to life. Sampler Catalog: $5.00
plus $2.00 s/h.
Sampler Charts
Tabitha Balch Sampler 1793 chart: $5.00 plus
$2.00 s/h
New Book!
THIEVES, COW BEATERS
AND OTHER TRUE TALES OF COLONIAL BEVERLY
By Edward R. Brown
Colossal military blunders, home
invasion and kidnapping, animal cruelty, theft by trusted servants, family members
newspaper? Perhaps, but they were also part of life in Colonial Beverly. Join author Ed
Brown as he explores these fascinating true tales of the trials and tribulations endured
by the early settlers of Beverly.
113 pages, 9 1/4" x 6 1/2" softcover, 1st
edition, (2007).......................$15.95 + $4.00 s/h
Beverly High School Football in the 20th Century
By Sandy Kassaris, Bob Carr, and Dick Batchelder
Kenneth "Sandy"
Kessaris, Dick Batchelder, and Bob Carr, have spent many hours researching, and organizing
this pictorial history of the Beverly High School football teams during the 20th century.
This is a great book for fans of local schoolboy football and a great resource to end
arguments regarding scores and "who was on which team in which year, etc."
Images of team members and coaches spanning more than 100 years.
Beverly High School 1901 Football Team
The book contains pictures of all the teams from
the 1900 season to the 1999 season, (except 1918, no season due to WWI) plus the names and
images of most of the players, the coaches, action shots, team scores, the season records,
and much, much more. The authors of this book have graciously given us this book to
sell, and all net profits will benefit the Beverly Historical Society & Museum
$20.00 + $5.00 shipping & handing; 226
pages 8 1/2" x 11"
Additional Books
Note: All items listed below are subject to shipping charge
based on total invoice. See shipping schedule at bottom of this page. Order more than one
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Click on any image below to enlarge
 Treasures of a Seaport
Town
$25.00 + $4.00 Shipping
Hardcover by former BHS&M executive director K. David
Goss and Ronald Tagney, with photographs by J. David Bohl. The narrative and
treasures displayed here provide the reader with a colorful glimpse of past life in one of
America's oldest seaport towns. A great "coffee table" book.
 Reference
Guide to the Residential Development of the Eastern Shore of Beverly, MA 1844-1919
$19.95
+ $4.00 Shipping
This book by Harold A. Pinkham, PhD., traces the
development and building of large estates, built mostly for rich summer residents who came
to live on Beverly's Gold Coast during the last half of the 19th and first quarter of the
20th century. Maps, photos, and descriptions of the land development during this period.
 North Beverly Remembered
$19.95
+ $4.00 Shipping
A fond look back at this section of Beverly as it used to
be, with B/W photos of people, places, and events that occurred in the late 19th and early
to mid 20th century in North Beverly, paperback.
 John Hale, A Man Beset
By Witches
$19.95
+ $4.00 Shipping
A modest inquiry into the nature of witchcraft in the 17th
century. Written by a Beverly minister who played a critical role in the witchcraft
hysteria, paperback.
 Old Planters of Beverly and
the Thousand Acre Grant of 1635
$12.50
+ $4.00 Shipping
This book traces several families that were granted 200
acres each in Beverly in the early 17th century. This book would be of value to
those tracing the early land holdings of Balch, Woodbury, Palfrey, Conant, Dodge families
and others, paperback
 Beverly Men in the War for Independence
$3.00
+ $2.00 Shipping
A 39 page booklet containing the text of a speech given by
George G. Wolkens at the Historical Society in 1930, at the unveiling of tablets
memorializing the American Revolution. Also contains a very concise listing of men who
served in the conflict from Beverly, paperback.
 Recipes from a 17th Century Kitchen
$4.50 + $2.00 Shipping
A collection of 17th century recipes adapted for today's
kitchens, paperback.
Other
items at the gift shop are assorted Beverly coffee mugs, bean pots, note cards, and photo
note cards. We also carry Balch items such as the Balch Christmas ornament cast in high
quality resin. Hale items available too such as notecards!
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