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  • Online Exhibits May 2010

    In this exhibit, the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections has selected items from their extensive collection of family papers and institutional records to pay tribute to students past and present.
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  • Gravestone of Dorothy Cromwell, Salem Massachusetts
  • We discovered this photograph of the oldest headstone in Salem Cemetery — that of Dorothy Cromwell, who died September 27, 1673 — among the several photo books of Massachusetts gravestones in the Harriette Forbes Collection (call number SL 111 8) at NEHGS. The writing under the photo reads: "Dorothy Cromwell died September 27, 1673. Her stone was peeled off by the boys 'to make a witch.'"

    Gravestone of Dorothy Cromwell
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