The Washington Elm Sources and Images Page
The following images and sources should help you in learning about the Washington Elm.
Texts and Images from 1775
- Map of Cambridge and the Common in 1775 showing military positions
- Excel spreadsheet of Soldiers' diary entries from July, 1775 (MS-Excel Spreadsheet)
- Web-based display of diary entries
GW letter to Congress of July 10, 1775 (text)
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Texts and Images Created in the 19th (and early 20th) century
- Joshua Slocum Account (1844)
- Diary of student from 1848 mentioning the Washington Elm.
- Diary of Dorothy Dudley, supposedly from the time, but actually written in 1876.
- A reading from an 1884 volume of the Bay State Monthly (L. L. DAME. Historic Trees: The Washington Elm; The Eliot Oak. [The Bay State monthly. / Volume 1, Issue 2, Feb., 1884])
- A Poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Excerpt from historian Jared Sparks , The Life of George Washington (Boston: Little, Brown, 1852, p. 133).
- Excerpt from Washington Irving , The Life of George Washington in Five Volumes (New York: Putnam, 1837-1856, volume 2, p. 23).
- Excerpt from John L. Sibley , "The Washington Elm, in Cambridge" from The American Magazine of Useful & Entertaining Knowledge (Boston: J.L. Sibley, 1837, volume 3, p. 432). And accompanying image .
- Excerpt from Ballou's Pictorial magazine. M.M. Ballou (editor), Boston, Saturday, July 7, 1855. Vol IX., No. 1, p. 1. And accompanying image .
- An 1899 image of the elm, from the LOC
- Boston Globe newspaper article from 1926, and accompanying image of the old stone table.
- 1875 photograph of the "Old Washington Elm"
- 1921 photograph of the elm
Contemporary Commemorations of the Washington Elm:Current pictures of the Common and the Elm
- A New Washington Elm
- Washington Elm Gate
- Engraved Tablet with text of GW's orders (2 sides)
- Larger Area Surrounding the Elm
Objects and Literature Celebrating the Elm
- Washington Elm Spoon
- A commemorative tourist map produced by the City of Cambridge, the Cambridge Historical Commission, the Cambridge Historical Society, the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinatti and the Sheraton Commander Hotel to celebrate Cambridge during the American Revolution. Its title: WASHINGTON TAKES COMMAND"
- The seal of the city of Cambridge...featuring the Washington Elm.
References from the WWW to Other Washington Elms...("Scions" of the Original)
