Municipal Collection
Overview
The Municipal Collection contains a sampling of historic material on file in the Town Clerk's Office and represents a wide range of subjects dealing with Provincetown that has been collected over the years, much of which was uncovered during a reorganization of the basement storage area in Town Hall in 2007. A complete index of the Municipal Collection is available to review in the Town Clerk's Office.
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'Those Were The Days' is a collection of articles written by Dan Towler for Provincetown Magazine...Collection: MunicipalFormat: NewsprintSubjects: Architecture, domestic--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Art, Art Museums, Blessing of the Fleet, Bradford Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Churches, Commercial Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Highland Light, Highland Light (U.S), Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Truro, MacMillan Wharf (Provincetown, Mass.), Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown Magazine, Schools, Town Hall, Wharfs, Bell, John D., Chrysler, Walter, Gropius, Walter, Atkins-Mayo Road (Provincetown, Mass.), Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Crowds, Dune Shacks--Peaked Hill Bars Historic District, Explorers, Fishermen, Fishing boats--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Fishing villages, Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Guesthouses, Harbors, Harbors--Provincetown--Mass, Historical museums--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Museums--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Nautilus Club (Provincetown, MA), Railroads, Research Club (Provincetown, Mass.), Salt industry and trade-Provincetown, Massachusetts, Shipping, Shipwrecks, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Cape Cod region, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Stores/Business (Provincetown, Mass.), MacMillan, Donald B., Business, Kendall Lane (Provincetown, Mass.), and Hurricanes
Photographs of the Blessing of the Fleet from the 1970's donated to the Provincetown History...Collection: MunicipalFormat: PhotoSubjects: Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Blessing of the Fleet, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Festivals, Fishermen, Fishing, Fishing boats--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Fishing villages, Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Harbors, Harbors--Provincetown--Mass, and Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century
The Romance of Tom and Tabby! Found tucked into a nondescript ledger dated 1894, these newspaper...Collection: MunicipalFormat: NewsprintSubjects: Art
A booklet of photos of Provincetown around 1900 by The Perry Picture Company, Boston, MA,...Collection: MunicipalFormat: PhotoSubjects: Atlantic Cod fishing, Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Churches, Commercial Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Dwellings, East End (Provincetown, Mass.), Fish trade--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Fishing boats--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Fishing villages, Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Harbors, Harbors--Provincetown--Mass, Historic buildings--Massachusetts-Provincetown, Lifesaving, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Railroads, Sailing ships, Salt industry and trade-Provincetown, Massachusetts, Schooners, Shipwrecks, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Town Center (Provincetown, Mass.), and West End (Provincetown, Mass.)
Cape Cod Lyars' Handbook or The Snow Job by George Washington Snow (teller of tall tales...Collection: MunicipalFormat: TextSubjects: Advertising, Essays, Fishing villages, Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Harbors--Provincetown--Mass, Highland Light, Highland Light (U.S), Literature, Long Point Settlement, Peaked Hill Bars Station, Race Point--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Railroads, Shank Painter Road (Provincetown, Mass.), Shankpainter Pond, and Whaling
Collections
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- Municipal [722]
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Subjects
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- Advertising [169]
- Advertising fliers [72]
- Airplanes [4]
- Airships [1]
- Alden Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- And God Created Great Whales [2]
- Archaeology [1]
- Architecture, domestic--Massachusetts--Provincetown [30]
- Arctic regions [3]
- Arctic regions Discovery and exploration [2]
- Art [251]
- Art galleries, Commercial [184]
- Art Museums [107]
- Atkins-Mayo Road (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Atlantic Avenue (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Atlantic Cod fishing [7]
- Atlantic Fisherman [17]
- Atlantic herring fishing [1]
- Atwood Avenue (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Autobiography [8]
- Autographs [3]
- Bangs Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [3]
- Barnstable County (Mass.) History [96]
- Barnstormers, The [1]
- Beachcombers Club [2]
- Bell, John D. [2]
- Bible [1]
- Biography [103]
- Birthdays [1]
- Blessing of the Fleet [25]
- Bluefishing [1]
- Boat ramps [2]
- Boathouses [5]
- Boats and boating [30]
- Boston Globe [5]
- Boston Sunday Globe [1]
- Boys [5]
- Bradford Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [7]
- Breakwater (West End) [2]
- British [1]
- Burial [8]
- Business [97]
- Business Records [6]
- Cape Cod (Mass.) Description and travel [9]
- Cape Cod (Mass.) History [121]
- Cape Cod houses [8]
- Cape Cod National Seashore (Mass.) [13]
- Cape Playhouse, The [1]
- Captains [6]
- Carver Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [5]
- Cemeteries [6]
- Center Methodist Episcopal Church (Provincetown, Mass.) [5]
- Central Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Chaffee, Oliver N. [1]
- Childbirth [1]
- Chrysler, Walter [17]
- Churches [23]
- Cold Storages [4]
- Commercial Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [65]
- Conwell Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [2]
- Cook Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Cottages [2]
- Court Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [8]
- Crowds [24]
- Death [44]
- Dedication Services [7]
- Del Deo, Josephine [14]
- DeWitt, Miriam Hapgood [1]
- Diaries [1]
- Dickinson, Edwin [4]
- Docks [10]
- Dories (boats) [3]
- Drowning [5]
- Dune Shacks--Peaked Hill Bars Historic District [11]
- Dwellings [11]
- East End (Provincetown, Mass.) [10]
- Editorials [3]
- Emergency Committee for the Preservation of the Province Lands. (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Epitaphs [1]
- Epitaphs--Massachusetts--Provincetown [1]
- Eskimos [1]
- Essays [3]
- Explorers [3]
- Families [20]
- Fathers [6]
- Festivals [8]
- Fiction [2]
- Financial Records [3]
- Fire houses [4]
- Firearms [1]
- Fires [10]
- Fish trade--Massachusetts--Provincetown [19]
- Fish trapping [6]
- Fisheries--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History [12]
- Fishermen [38]
- Fishers [5]
- Fishers--Massachusetts--Provincetown [11]
- Fishes [5]
- Fishing [29]
- Fishing boats--Massachusetts--Provincetown [36]
- Fishing nets [1]
- Fishing villages [36]
- Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown [37]
- Franklin Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Freemasons [1]
- Girls [5]
- Gosnold Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Gropius, Walter [4]
- Guesthouses [17]
- Gull Hill (Provincetown, Mass.) [6]
- Harbors [22]
- Harbors--Provincetown--Mass [46]
- Hawthorne, Charles [15]
- High Pole Hill (Provincetown, Mass.) [6]
- High Schools--Massachusetts--Provincetown [8]
- Highland Light [9]
- Highland Light (U.S) [5]
- Historic buildings--Massachusetts-Provincetown [46]
- Historic Districts--Massachusetts--Provincetown [9]
- Historical museums--Massachusetts--Provincetown [19]
- Hoffman, Hans [6]
- Howland Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Hunt, Peter [5]
- Hurricanes [4]
- Ice Harvest [1]
- Indians of North-America Massachusetts--Antiquities [2]
- Industries [5]
- Johnson Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Kemp, Harry [10]
- Kendall Lane (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Knaths, Karl [1]
- Kunitz, Stanley [3]
- Legislative bodies [1]
- Letters [14]
- Lifeboats [1]
- Lifesaving [8]
- Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts [9]
- Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Provincetown [15]
- Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Truro [3]
- Lipton Cup (trophy) [2]
- Literature [6]
- Local government -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown [12]
- Logbooks [1]
- Long Point Settlement [7]
- Lopes Square [1]
- Mackerel fishing [3]
- MacMillan Wharf (Provincetown, Mass.) [14]
- MacMillan, Donald B. [9]
- MacMillan, Miriam [2]
- Maps [5]
- Marriage [2]
- Masonic Place (Provincetown, Mass.) [4]
- Massachusetts State House (Boston, MA) [1]
- Mayflower [4]
- Mayflower (Ship) [11]
- Mayflower II (Ship) [6]
- Mayo, Jr., Charles A. [2]
- Military history [14]
- Miller Hill (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Miller Hill Road (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Modernism [30]
- Modernism (Art) [32]
- Moffett, Ross [13]
- Montello Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Mooring of ships [2]
- Mothers [2]
- Murchison House [5]
- Murchison, Dr. Carl [6]
- Museums--Massachusetts--Provincetown [11]
- Music [4]
- Names [5]
- Nautilus Club (Provincetown, MA) [1]
- Nickerson Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Peaked Hill Bars Station [6]
- Pearl Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Pilgrim Monument [33]
- Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) [11]
- Pleasant Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [3]
- Poetry [8]
- Point Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Portland Gale [2]
- Portraits [2]
- Province Lands--Massachusetts--Provincetown [12]
- Provincelands [11]
- Provincetown (Mass.) -- Politics and government [20]
- Provincetown (Mass.) Board of Selectmen [12]
- Provincetown (Mass.) Directories [1]
- Provincetown (Mass.) Selectmen [2]
- Provincetown (Mass.)--Description and travel [4]
- Provincetown (Mass.)--Guidebooks [7]
- Provincetown (Mass.)--History--17th Century [24]
- Provincetown (Mass.)--History--18th century [30]
- Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century [80]
- Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century [343]
- Provincetown (Mass.)--History--21st century [42]
- Provincetown Advocate [10]
- Provincetown Art Association & Museum [75]
- Provincetown Heritage Museum [27]
- Provincetown Magazine [10]
- Provincetown Marina (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Provincetown Players [9]
- Provincetown Print (White-line woodblock print) [1]
- Provincetown Printers [1]
- Provincetown Property Owners Protective Association (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Provincetown Volunteer Fire Department [2]
- Putnam, Abby [2]
- Race Point--Massachusetts--Provincetown [10]
- Railroads [11]
- Research Club (Provincetown, Mass.) [2]
- Ryder Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Ryder Street Ext. (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Sailing ships [25]
- Sailors [14]
- Salt industry and trade-Provincetown, Massachusetts [5]
- Schools [15]
- Schooners [16]
- Seamen's Bank [1]
- Shank Painter Road (Provincetown, Mass.) [2]
- Shankpainter Pond [2]
- Shipping [6]
- Shipwrecks [15]
- Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Cape Cod region [10]
- Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Provincetown [19]
- Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Truro [3]
- Smith, Nancy Paine [1]
- Standish Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [2]
- Stores/Business (Provincetown, Mass.) [8]
- Telegram [1]
- Theater--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History--20th Century [19]
- Theaters [15]
- Town Center (Provincetown, Mass.) [19]
- Town Crier [10]
- Town Hall [33]
- Town Meeting [3]
- Truro (Mass.)--History--19th century [3]
- Truro (Mass.)--History--20th century [6]
- Unitarian Universalist Meeting House [2]
- United States Coast Guard [7]
- United States Navy [3]
- United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs [2]
- United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands [4]
- United States. Life-Saving Service [2]
- United States. National Park Service [2]
- Vorse, Mary Heaton [6]
- Waterfronts [10]
- Webster, E. Ambrose [2]
- Weirs [4]
- Wellfleet (Mass.) [1]
- West End (Provincetown, Mass.) [26]
- West End Marina (Provincetown, Mass.) [2]
- West Vine Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Whale Watching--History--Provincetown [1]
- Whalers (Persons) [5]
- Whaling [9]
- Whaling masters [3]
- Whaling--Massachusetts--History [8]
- Whaling--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History [11]
- Wharfs [42]
- Windstorms--Massachusetts--History--19th century [4]
- Winthrop Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [5]
- Young, Will H. [4]
- Youngs Court (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
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