Stand Alone Documents Collection
Overview
The initial focus of the History Preservation Project was on the wealth of material from the now defunct Provincetown Heritage Museum. Open in 1975 to showcase Provincetown's rich and varied history, the Heritage Museum doors closed permanently to the public in 2002. When possible, material was organized and assessed by subject, and in some cases by donor, but in some instances a document or photograph defied inclusion in existing collections and yet was an important part of Provincetown's history. The Provincetown record of who served in the Rebellion of 1861, Provincetown's first Resident Directory in 1886, and a burial listing of the Winthrop Street Cemetery – Provincetown's oldest existent cemetery – are but a few of the items housed under the collective Stand Alone title. In time, as review of the as yet unassessed material from the Heritage Museum occurs, these stand alone items may migrate and be incorporated into other collections as appropriate, but in the meantime remain house here in a varied and broad ranging assortment for your browsing pleasure and review.
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Two copies of the playbill from the performance by The Mooncussers of Captain Oliver's Daughter...Collection: Stand Alone DocumentsFormat: TextSubjects: Theater--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History--20th Century, Theaters, and Town Hall
Short story by Wilbur Daniel Steele that appeared in Harpers Magazine, Vol. 134, No. 802, March...Collection: Stand Alone DocumentsFormat: TextSubjects: Fish trade--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Harpers Magazine, and Literature
Aphotograph of unidentified people staging a play at Town Hall, Provincetown.Collection: Stand Alone DocumentsFormat: PhotoSubjects: Theater--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History--20th Century, Theaters, and Town Hall
Map dated October 17, 1918 of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. Map shows route...Collection: Stand Alone DocumentsFormat: PhotoSubjects: Cape Cod (Mass.) Description and travel, Provincetown (Mass.)--Description and travel, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, and Railroads
Photographs loaned to the Provincetown History Project by Helen Valentine, resident of Provincetown.Collection: Stand Alone DocumentsFormat: PhotoSubjects: Architecture, domestic--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Boats and boating, Cape Cod houses, Dwellings, Fire houses, Fishermen, Fishing boats--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown, High Pole Hill (Provincetown, Mass.), Johnson Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Schooners, Theater--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History--20th Century, Theaters, Town Hall, Waterfronts, Whalers (Persons), Whaling, Whaling--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History, Harbors--Provincetown--Mass, West End (Provincetown, Mass.), and Commercial Street (Provincetown, Mass.)
Collections
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- Stand Alone Documents [52]
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Subjects
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- Advertising [3]
- Airplanes [1]
- Airships [1]
- Allerton Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Anchor and Ark Club [1]
- Architecture, domestic--Massachusetts--Provincetown [5]
- Art [2]
- Atkins Lane (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Atlantic Cod fishing [2]
- Atlantic Fisherman [1]
- Barnstable County (Mass.) History [19]
- Biography [1]
- Blessing of the Fleet [1]
- Boathouses [1]
- Boats and boating [5]
- Bradford Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [3]
- Breakwater (West End) [1]
- Business [3]
- Cape Cod (Mass.) Description and travel [3]
- Cape Cod (Mass.) History [20]
- Cape Cod houses [7]
- Captains [2]
- Cemeteries [1]
- Center Methodist Episcopal Church (Provincetown, Mass.) [2]
- Center Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Churches [2]
- Clark, Eugene S. [1]
- Cold Storages [2]
- Commercial Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [7]
- Conant Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Cottages [1]
- Death [6]
- Docks [2]
- Dories (boats) [2]
- Drowning [1]
- Dwellings [3]
- East End (Provincetown, Mass.) [3]
- Families [10]
- Fathers [2]
- Fire houses [3]
- Fish trade--Massachusetts--Provincetown [6]
- Fisheries--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History [1]
- Fishermen [6]
- Fishers [1]
- Fishers--Massachusetts--Provincetown [2]
- Fishing [6]
- Fishing boats--Massachusetts--Provincetown [8]
- Fishing nets [2]
- Fishing villages [6]
- Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown [10]
- Funeral rites and ceremonies (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Guesthouses [1]
- Harbors [4]
- Harbors--Provincetown--Mass [7]
- Harpers Magazine [1]
- High Pole Hill (Provincetown, Mass.) [4]
- Highland Light [1]
- Highland Light (U.S) [1]
- Historic buildings--Massachusetts-Provincetown [6]
- Historical museums--Massachusetts--Provincetown [1]
- Hunt, Peter [1]
- Hurricanes [1]
- Ice Harvest [1]
- Industries [1]
- Johnson Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Kennedy, John F. [1]
- Lifesaving [2]
- Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts [3]
- Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Provincetown [3]
- Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Truro [1]
- Lipton Cup (trophy) [1]
- Literature [1]
- Local government -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown [1]
- Long Point Settlement [1]
- MacMillan Wharf (Provincetown, Mass.) [2]
- MacMillan, Donald B. [1]
- MacMillan, Miriam [1]
- Mayflower [1]
- Military history [2]
- Murchison House [4]
- Murchison, Dr. Carl [1]
- Museums--Massachusetts--Provincetown [1]
- Names [4]
- New Bedford (Mass.) [2]
- Peaked Hill Bars Station [1]
- Pilgrim Monument [5]
- Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) [1]
- Portland (Steamer) [2]
- Portland Gale [1]
- Portraits [3]
- Province Lands--Massachusetts--Provincetown [2]
- Provincelands [2]
- Provincetown (Mass.) Directories [2]
- Provincetown (Mass.)--Description and travel [1]
- Provincetown (Mass.)--History--18th century [1]
- Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century [18]
- Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century [21]
- Provincetown Heritage Museum [1]
- Provincetown Players [4]
- Provincetown Volunteer Fire Department [1]
- Race Point--Massachusetts--Provincetown [2]
- Railroad Avenue (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Railroads [5]
- Sailing ships [6]
- Sailors [2]
- Salt industry and trade-Provincetown, Massachusetts [2]
- Schools [2]
- Schooners [8]
- Shipping [1]
- Shipwrecks [3]
- Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Cape Cod region [2]
- Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Provincetown [2]
- Theater--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History--20th Century [8]
- Theaters [8]
- Town Center (Provincetown, Mass.) [3]
- Town Crier [1]
- Town Hall [7]
- United States Coast Guard [1]
- United States Navy [1]
- Waterfronts [4]
- West End (Provincetown, Mass.) [6]
- Whalers (Persons) [3]
- Whaling [6]
- Whaling masters [2]
- Whaling--Massachusetts--History [2]
- Whaling--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History [6]
- Wharfs [7]
- Windstorms--Massachusetts--History--19th century [1]
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