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2025 Holiday Book Sale

The 2025 Holiday Book Sale will take place in the Goodwin Forum of the Main Library on Friday & Saturday, December 5 & 6,  from 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. and Sunday, December 7, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Come for your holiday shopping and have a fun time. Sponsored by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library.  

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The William Munroe Special Collections acquires an unrecorded photograph of Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the support of the Concord Free Public Library Corporation and the generosity of its donors, the William Munroe Special Collections has acquired an unrecorded photograph of one of Concord's most famous residents, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The image is a circa-1860s carte-de-visite (CDV), a popular 19th-century format for small, card-mounted photographs the size of a calling card, taken from an original daguerreotype, the first widely used photographic method, circa-1848.