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Dowd Collection

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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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  • Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 4, Page 129
    News articles on clearing hazards to navigation.
    Collection: Dowd
    Format: Newsprint
    Subjects: Lifesaving, Shipwrecks, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Cape Cod region, and United States Coast Guard
  • Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 4, Page 155
    Images of Provincetown, Province Lands, including images and articles regarding the wreck of the...
    Collection: Dowd
    Format: Text
    Subjects: Boats and boating, Fish trade--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Fisheries--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History, Fishing boats--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Lifesaving, Peaked Hill Bars Station, Province Lands--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Provincelands, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Shipwrecks, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Cape Cod region, and Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Provincetown
  • Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 2, Page 72
    Images of Provincetown, including the Methodist Church, Provincetwon Cold Storage, Conwell, Kibbe...
    Collection: Dowd
    Format: Text
    Subjects: Churches, Commercial Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Music, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, and Wharfs
  • Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 5, Page 83
    Images of Provincetown, Waterfront, including the construction of MacMillan Wharf c. 1956-1957...
    Collection: Dowd
    Format: Text
    Subjects: Docks, Fish trade--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Fisheries--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History, Harbors, Harbors--Provincetown--Mass, MacMillan Wharf (Provincetown, Mass.), Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Waterfronts, and Wharfs
  • Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 5, Page 57
    Historical information regarding ferry service between Boston and Provincetown, including the...
    Collection: Dowd
    Format: Text
    Subjects: Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century
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