Dowd Collection

Newspaper articles documenting the inception of the railroad to Provincetown and its demise.

Collection: Dowd

Format: Text

Subjects: Boston (Mass.), Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Railroads, and Sailing ships

Photo of schooners alongside Hilliard's and Railroad Wharfs (1890), codfish drying on Hilliard's...

Collection: Dowd

Format: Photo

Subjects: Advertising, Fishing villages, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Sailing ships, Salt industry and trade-Provincetown, Massachusetts, Waterfronts, and Wharfs

November 15, 1960 funeral notice for Jimmie McGuire, Provincetown's last sailmaker.

Collection: Dowd

Format: Text

Subjects: Burial, Death, Families, Lipton Cup (trophy), Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Sailing ships, Schooners, and Boxell, Althea

The shore around Gull Hill in 1880 with eelgrass visible. Also a 1947 newspaper article about...

Collection: Dowd

Format: Photo

Subjects: Architecture, domestic--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Boat ramps, Boathouses, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Churches, Docks, Dwellings, Fisheries--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History, Gull Hill (Provincetown, Mass.), Harbors--Provincetown--Mass, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Sailing ships, West End (Provincetown, Mass.), and Boxell, Althea

Two photos of the Figurehead House, one taken June 14, 1977, and two newspaper articles about...

Collection: Dowd

Format: Newsprint

Subjects: Architecture, domestic--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Captains, Dwellings, East End (Provincetown, Mass.), Historic buildings--Massachusetts-Provincetown, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Sailing ships, and Boxell, Althea