Dowd Collection
Overview
Althea Boxell (1910–1988) never lived in Provincetown, but during her life she assembled a series of scrapbooks that preserved elements of Provincetown's history and daily life throughout the late 19th and 20th century that are priceless. [More...]
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Images of Provincetown, Town Center, including the Pilgrim Monument and an article dated May 31,...Collection: DowdFormat: TextSubjects: Pilgrim Monument, Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony), Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, and Town Center (Provincetown, Mass.)
Historical information related to Provincetown, including an article regarding the Wharves of...Collection: DowdFormat: TextSubjects: Atlantic Cod fishing, Fish trade--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Fish trapping, Fisheries--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History, Fishing boats--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Fishing villages, Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Stores/Business (Provincetown, Mass.), and Wharfs
Images of Provincetown, Town Center, including Commercial Street, the former Colonial Cold...Collection: DowdFormat: TextSubjects: Cold Storages, Commercial Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Stores/Business (Provincetown, Mass.), and Town Center (Provincetown, Mass.)
Images of Provincetown, Town Center, including views of the Christopher Wren Tower of the...Collection: DowdFormat: TextSubjects: Churches, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, and Unitarian Universalist Meeting House
Images of Provincetown, Town Center, including Commercial Street and R.A. Jennings' Restaurant c....Collection: DowdFormat: TextSubjects: Commercial Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Stores/Business (Provincetown, Mass.), and Town Center (Provincetown, Mass.)
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- Advertising [61]
- Advertising fliers [36]
- Airplanes [8]
- Airships [2]
- Allerton Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Ambassadors [1]
- Anchor and Ark Club [2]
- Archaeology [4]
- Architecture, domestic--Massachusetts--Provincetown [148]
- Arctic regions [2]
- Arctic regions Discovery and exploration [8]
- Art [57]
- Art galleries, Commercial [11]
- Art Museums [20]
- Atkins Lane (Provincetown, Mass.) [6]
- Atkins-Mayo Road (Provincetown, Mass.) [5]
- Atlantic Avenue (Provincetown, Mass.) [3]
- Atlantic Cod fishing [10]
- Atlantic Fisherman [16]
- Atlantic herring fishing [1]
- Atwood Avenue (Provincetown, Mass.) [3]
- Atwood, Nathaniel [1]
- Autobiography [4]
- Baker Avenue (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Bangs Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [4]
- Barnstable County (Mass.) History [154]
- Barrie, Steve [1]
- Beachcombers Club [9]
- Bell, John D. [10]
- Bibles [1]
- Biography [29]
- Birthdays [3]
- Blessing of the Fleet [1]
- Bluefishing [2]
- Boat ramps [7]
- Boathouses [4]
- Boats and boating [68]
- Boston (Mass.) [2]
- Boston Globe [1]
- Boston Herald [1]
- Boston Post [8]
- Boston Sunday Herald [1]
- Bowdoin (Ship) [8]
- Boxell, Althea [398]
- Boys [2]
- Bradford Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [58]
- Breakwater (West End) [22]
- British [3]
- Buoys [5]
- Burial [4]
- Business [87]
- Business Records [7]
- Cape Cod (Mass.) Description and travel [11]
- Cape Cod (Mass.) History [263]
- Cape Cod houses [32]
- Cape Cod National Seashore (Mass.) [36]
- Captains [20]
- Carver Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [9]
- Cemeteries [13]
- Center Methodist Episcopal Church (Provincetown, Mass.) [66]
- Center Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [3]
- Chaffee, Oliver N. [2]
- Chip Hill (Provincetown, Mass.) [2]
- Chrysler, Walter [12]
- Churches [150]
- Cold Storages [62]
- Commercial Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [308]
- Conwell Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [3]
- Cook Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [11]
- Cottages [12]
- Court Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [8]
- Critchley, Jay [1]
- Crowds [3]
- Death [57]
- Dedication Services [19]
- Del Deo, Josephine [7]
- Dickinson, Edwin [3]
- Docks [73]
- Dories (boats) [20]
- Drowning [13]
- Dune Shacks--Peaked Hill Bars Historic District [7]
- Dwellings [88]
- Dyer Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- East End (Provincetown, Mass.) [101]
- Editorials [2]
- Elementary Schools (Provincetown, MA) [18]
- Epitaphs [1]
- Epitaphs--Massachusetts--Provincetown [1]
- Essays [8]
- Explorers [5]
- Families [30]
- Fathers [1]
- Festivals [1]
- Financial Records [2]
- Fire houses [18]
- Firearms [1]
- Fires [30]
- Fish trade--Massachusetts--Provincetown [69]
- Fish trapping [12]
- Fisheries--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History [41]
- Fishermen [50]
- Fishers [26]
- Fishers--Massachusetts--Provincetown [35]
- Fishes [17]
- Fishing [55]
- Fishing boats--Massachusetts--Provincetown [72]
- Fishing nets [15]
- Fishing villages [100]
- Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown [112]
- Franklin Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [6]
- Freeman Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [9]
- Freemasons [12]
- Funeral rites and ceremonies (Provincetown, Mass.) [7]
- Gifts [2]
- Girls [2]
- Gosnold Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [14]
- Gossip [2]
- Gropius, Walter [3]
- Guesthouses [41]
- Gull Hill (Provincetown, Mass.) [13]
- Harbors [161]
- Harbors--Provincetown--Mass [202]
- Hawthorne, Charles [14]
- High Pole Hill (Provincetown, Mass.) [64]
- High Schools--Massachusetts--Provincetown [16]
- Highland Light [2]
- Highland Light (U.S) [2]
- Historic buildings--Massachusetts-Provincetown [191]
- Historic Districts--Massachusetts--Provincetown [22]
- Historical museums--Massachusetts--Provincetown [23]
- Hoffman, Hans [4]
- Howland Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [12]
- Hunt, Peter [6]
- Hurricanes [5]
- Ice Harvest [1]
- Indians of North-America Massachusetts--Antiquities [1]
- Industries [9]
- Jennings, Herman A. [1]
- Johnson Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [9]
- Kemp, Harry [20]
- Kiley Court (Provincetown, Mass.) [5]
- Knaths, Karl [3]
- Law Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [7]
- Legislative bodies [2]
- Letters [2]
- Life preservers [3]
- Lifeboats [30]
- Lifesaving [138]
- Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts [132]
- Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Provincetown [138]
- Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Truro [49]
- Lipton Cup (trophy) [13]
- Literature [2]
- Local government -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown [6]
- Logbooks [1]
- Long Point Settlement [19]
- Lopes Square [13]
- Mackerel fishing [8]
- MacMillan Wharf (Provincetown, Mass.) [26]
- MacMillan, Donald B. [22]
- MacMillan, Miriam [4]
- Masonic Place (Provincetown, Mass.) [2]
- Mayflower [1]
- Mayflower (Ship) [5]
- Mayflower II (Ship) [2]
- Military history [6]
- Miller Hill (Provincetown, Mass.) [7]
- Miller Hill Road (Provincetown, Mass.) [2]
- Modernism [9]
- Modernism (Art) [11]
- Moffett, Ross [14]
- Montello Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [2]
- Mooring of ships [5]
- Murchison House [10]
- Murchison, Dr. Carl [6]
- Museums--Massachusetts--Provincetown [35]
- Music [1]
- Names [2]
- Nautilus Club (Provincetown, MA) [2]
- Nickerson Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [8]
- Nixon, Richard Milhouse [1]
- Nordfeldt, Bror J. B. [1]
- Peaked Hill Bars Station [81]
- Pearl Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [3]
- Pilgrim Monument [137]
- Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) [19]
- Pleasant Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [2]
- Poetry [11]
- Point Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [3]
- Portland (Steamer) [23]
- Portland Gale [28]
- Portraits [1]
- Province Lands--Massachusetts--Provincetown [101]
- Provincelands [100]
- Provincetown (Mass.) -- Politics and government [4]
- Provincetown (Mass.) Board of Selectmen [5]
- Provincetown (Mass.) Selectmen [2]
- Provincetown (Mass.)--Description and travel [27]
- Provincetown (Mass.)--Guidebooks [5]
- Provincetown (Mass.)--History--17th Century [16]
- Provincetown (Mass.)--History--18th century [38]
- Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century [302]
- Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century [1057]
- Provincetown Advocate [95]
- Provincetown Art Association & Museum [10]
- Provincetown Heritage Museum [13]
- Provincetown Magazine [1]
- Provincetown Marina (Provincetown, Mass.) [3]
- Provincetown Players [11]
- Provincetown Print (White-line woodblock print) [1]
- Provincetown Printers [2]
- Provincetown Volunteer Fire Department [9]
- Putnam, Abby [3]
- Race Point--Massachusetts--Provincetown [85]
- Radio--History [1]
- Railroad Avenue (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Railroads [24]
- Research Club (Provincetown, Mass.) [10]
- Ryder Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [9]
- Sailing ships [50]
- Sailors [3]
- Salt industry and trade-Provincetown, Massachusetts [8]
- Schools [39]
- Schooners [63]
- Seamen's Bank [8]
- Shank Painter Road (Provincetown, Mass.) [9]
- Shankpainter Pond [1]
- Shipping [26]
- Shipwrecks [155]
- Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Cape Cod region [139]
- Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Provincetown [123]
- Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Truro [56]
- Siberian husky [1]
- Sklaroff Wharf (Provincetown, Mass.) [16]
- Sled dogs [1]
- Smith, John R. [26]
- Smith, Nancy Paine [3]
- Soper Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [2]
- Standish Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [4]
- Stores/Business (Provincetown, Mass.) [151]
- Telegraph Hill (Provincetown, Mass.) [3]
- Theater--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History--20th Century [23]
- Theaters [19]
- Town Center (Provincetown, Mass.) [266]
- Town Crier [36]
- Town Hall [79]
- Town Meeting [3]
- Tremont Street [13]
- Truro (Mass.)--Description and travel [4]
- Truro (Mass.)--History--19th century [24]
- Truro (Mass.)--History--20th century [26]
- Unitarian Universalist Meeting House [24]
- United States Coast Guard [50]
- United States Navy [16]
- United States. Life-Saving Service [52]
- United States. National Park Service [31]
- Vorse, Mary Heaton [9]
- Waterfronts [167]
- Webster, E. Ambrose [4]
- Weirs [1]
- Wellfleet (Mass.) [2]
- West End (Provincetown, Mass.) [172]
- West End Marina (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- West Vine Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [2]
- Whale Watching--History--Provincetown [3]
- Whalers (Persons) [7]
- Whaling [22]
- Whaling masters [7]
- Whaling--Massachusetts--History [20]
- Whaling--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History [20]
- Wharfs [197]
- Wild Horse [2]
- Windstorms--Massachusetts--History--19th century [10]
- Winthrop Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [6]
- Young, Will H. [1]
- Youngs Court (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
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