Image Galleries

March 18, 2010

A photographic tour of the 2010 Longyear on Board trip to the Panama Canal, with stops at five tropical ports: Aruba, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, and Jamaica. View This Gallery »

January 18, 2010

Through this gallery of images from Longyear's collection of portraits and historic photographs you'll meet a pioneering group of Christian Scientists in the American Midwest. These images represent a blend of spiritual conviction, rugged individualism, and courage that enabled them to introduce Christian Science along the American frontier in the 1880s. The stories of these and other courageous Christian Science pioneers are told in this Image Gallery and also in Longyear's documentary film, "The Onward and Upward Chain." View This Gallery »

December 7, 2009

This Image Gallery presents a selection from Longyear's collection of gifts and greetings from Mrs. Eddy. The Leader of Christian Science gave Christmas presents; she also gave gifts on special occasions, and to thank or encourage people. The nine items in this picture-story show that Mrs. Eddy liked to give books — her own and works by other authors — as well as gold jewelry, framed photographs, and a variety of other beautiful and useful things. View This Gallery »

November 16, 2009

Travelers on this year's annual Longyear Fall Tour reveal, in their own words, insights gained from visiting Longyear's eight Mary Baker Eddy Historic Houses and other sites on the trail of Mrs. Eddy’s life journey. A picture story and comments recapture some highlights of the trip. View This Gallery »

October 19, 2009

Close-up views inside Longyear Museum in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, bring to life the history of Christian Science. Longyear's displays of historic documents, images, records, and artifacts lend immediacy and authenticity to the story of Mary Baker Eddy's life and work. Seeing firsthand the books she read, the Bibles she studied, the pen she held and the tablets she wrote on, enhance an appreciation of the words she set down. Watching her steps as she moved in the context of her time, visitors can learn much about her as Discoverer, Founder, and Leader. Longyear's collections, exhibits, research library, vaults, publications, and programs offer the visitor a clear view of the past that enlightens our perception of the present. If you can't visit the Museum in person, this image gallery is the next to best thing. View This Gallery »

September 21, 2009

This Image Gallery (September 2009) tells the story of Mary Baker Eddy’s 1898 class. She said that her work with that class “changed the character of the entire Field.” The picture-story includes portraits, documents, photographs, and artifacts from Longyear’s collection that are on display in the Museum’s exhibit: Imparting a Fresh Impulse – Mary Baker Eddy Teaches the Class of 1898. View This Gallery »

August 10, 2009

This Image Gallery takes you on a picture-tour of Longyear’s grounds. In addition to being a decorative landscape, the grounds present historically significant mementos from Mary Baker Eddy’s Pleasant View home in Concord, New Hampshire. View This Gallery »

July 20, 2009

The faces in the remarkable photograph of the Point of Pines picnic are a study in contrasts. Taken July 16, 1885, the image depicts members of the Christian Scientist Association — students of Mary Baker Eddy — celebrating its ninth anniversary. Seated side by side are those who would stand resolutely with their teacher – and those who would break away from her and even attack her. View This Gallery »

June 24, 2009

In 1908 Mary Baker Eddy, then 86, made national headlines by her surprise move back to greater Boston. In this study, rebuilt to mirror her former study at Pleasant View, Mrs. Eddy directed the officers of her church to publish a daily newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor. View This Gallery »

June 23, 2009

This house was the starting point of the nearly two decades of work Mrs. Eddy carried out while living in Concord, New Hampshire. Here she revised Science and Health and wrote Retrospection and Introspection. Visitors can also view scale models of her next home, Pleasant View, also in Concord. View This Gallery »

June 22, 2009

In the first house she ever owned, the future Mrs. Eddy completed the manuscript of Science and Health. Here in 1877 she and Asa Gilbert Eddy were married, and here she taught classes on Christian Science healing, formed her student association, and started her church and the Massachusetts Metaphysical College. View This Gallery »

June 21, 2009

The future Mary Baker Eddy’s stay in Stoughton from 1868 to 1870 was a year-and-a-half respite from moving from one home to another in Lynn and Amesbury. Here she had time for studying the Bible and for writing her earliest works on Christian Science. View This Gallery »

June 17, 2009

Here in the Bagley home in 1868 and again in 1870, the future Mrs. Eddy found a brief refuge where she was able to teach two of her earliest students – confirming her conviction that her discovery was indeed Science and, therefore, could be taught. View This Gallery »

June 17, 2009

This little five-room cottage is where the future Mary Baker Eddy lived from 1855 to 1860 – five years of invalidism and disappointment – and of growing conviction that in medicine, it was faith in the drug, rather than the drug itself, that seemed to heal. View This Gallery »

June 17, 2009

Situated on a sunny knoll not far from the Rumney town center, this house represented an improved outlook for the future Mary Baker Eddy. Living here from 1860 to mid-1862, she resumed her writing, mainly poetry, as she continued to seek health. View This Gallery »

June 17, 2009

While living here in February 1866, the future Mary Baker Eddy experienced, through prayer alone, the pivotal healing of a severe injury. Years later Mrs. Eddy would refer to this site as “the birthplace of Christian Science.” View This Gallery »

May 19, 2009

Mrs. Eddy directed those who were interviewing prospects for her household to send her workers “who will stand.” Scrapbook photos in this gallery recall eight of the steadfast helpers who stayed the course, watching and working. View This Gallery »

April 29, 2009

A photographic tour of Mrs. Longyear's journey in acquiring Mrs. Eddy's historic homes. View This Gallery »