From the Collections
Stories and behind-the-scenes information on the rich holdings of our Library archives.
Calvin Frye’s camera
Learn more about Calvin Frye’s love for technology and see how he used his camera in Eddy’s household.
“Her rightful place”: Images of Pleasant View
Explore a photo essay that tells the story of the Concord, New Hampshire property Mary Baker Eddy would call home for 16 years.
Advice to Healers Collection
Selected letters by Mary Baker Eddy from the Library’s collection are available for purchase. They shed light on Eddy’s own spiritual growth, her loving care for and counsel to students, as well as on her spiritual insights and healing ideas. Advice to Healers, Volume...
Webcast: Revelations — What Scholars Learn from the Mary Baker Eddy Collection
Dr. David Holland, a Research Fellow at The Mary Baker Eddy Library and Associate Professor of North American Religious History at the Harvard Divinity School, and Mike Davis, Senior Researcher at The Mary Baker Eddy Library, held an online audiocast discussion, with questions from the public, on how The Mary Baker Eddy Library collections are bringing about new understanding of Mary Baker Eddy.
Photo of George Glover III: “the dear little fellow”
Mary Baker Eddy treasured this framed photograph of her grandson George W. Glover III, which she kept on display in her living room.
Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, and Mary Baker Eddy
To commemorate the publication of the Emancipation Proclamation, artist Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1830-1900) sought to depict President Lincoln reading it to his cabinet in September 1862.
Laying the cornerstone: “Let this ceremony be simple, prayerful, devout.”
One hundred and twenty years ago this month (January 6, 1895), the original Mother Church edifice was dedicated in Boston. Its cornerstone had been laid less than eight months before.
A Christmas gift from Mary Baker Eddy
Learn about Mary Baker Eddy’s Christmas gift to Sunday School children in 1904.
“A Faithful Likeness”: Alice Barbour’s portrait of Mary Baker Eddy
Learn about portrait artist Alice Barbour’s iconic portrait of Mary Baker Eddy, completed in late 1910.
Christian Science Emblem Jewelry and J.C. Derby
In 1889 James Clare (J.C.) Derby (1867-1928), a resident of Concord, New Hampshire, repaired watches at 54 N. Main St. The Concord Directory records that he later worked at Holland & Derby at the same address. By 1898 his occupation was that of jeweler. Derby worked that same year with Mary Baker Eddy and Henry P. (H.P.) Moore, a local artist and photographer, to produce and issue a portrait of Eddy.…
The building of the Christian Science Center
See how this project helped revitalize The Mother Church and the City of Boston.
Arthur Buswell and The Associated Charities of Cincinnati
Read about three documents from our archive that shed light on the social history of Mary Baker Eddy’s time.
The Mother Church Park
Read the history of a treasured green space in the shadow of The Mother Church.
Gifts from Puget Sound
Find out what church photos and a case of salmon have in common.
Picnic at Point of Pines
See the largest group of Eddy’s students to sit for a single photograph.