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Boston Athenaeum
Engraving of the exterior on Beacon Street, facing the direction of the State House, 1855.
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From Ballou's Pictorial, 1855.
The exterior in 2011.
Boston Athenaeum
Engraving of the exterior on Beacon Street, facing the direction of the State House, 1855.
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Women.
In 1827, historian Hannah Adams (1755-1831) was the first woman allowed into the Reading Room at the Athenaeum. Women were not more regularly allowed in the room until after 1856.
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