Borkowski Collection
Overview
A student of history since adolescence when Mrs. Henry N. Flynt, a mentor and founder of Historic Deerfield along with her husband, arranged for me to become a guide there, my keen interest in history has grown since arriving in Provincetown in the mid-1980’s. I have collected materials and studied the various areas that have interested me about Provincetown, regardless of their seeming randomness, which began with a chance purchase of some glass plate negatives that touched off a quest to understand the history of the art colony. My work with the Town of Provincetown Art Collection further informed me. Other avenues of historical exploration presented themselves during my research into the lives of Edna Boies Hopkins, Blanche Lazzell and E. Ambrose Webster. Such work was started in preparation for monographs on these local artists by many fine art historians who I was fortunate enough to assist in their research. [More...]
Postcards loaned to the History Project by Stephen Borkowski.Collection: BorkowskiFormat: PhotoSubjects: Breakwater (West End), Cape Cod National Seashore (Mass.), Churches, High Schools--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Pilgrim Monument, and Schools
A 1952 newpaper account of Mildred McMillen's carved block print of the building of the...Collection: BorkowskiFormat: NewsprintSubjects: Art, Commercial Street (Provincetown, Mass.), and Theaters
An article by Georgia M. Coxe on the Town Art collection that appeared in the 2006 edition of the...Collection: BorkowskiFormat: TextSubjects: Art, Art Museums, Provincetown (Mass.)--Guidebooks, and Town Hall
A transcript of a letter from the Provincetown Board of Selectmen dated August 5, 1952 and...Collection: BorkowskiFormat: TextSubjects: Provincetown (Mass.) -- Politics and government, Provincetown (Mass.) Board of Selectmen, and Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century
Announcement of Adolphe Robicheau's "Provincetown Ballet School" a broadside which was...Collection: BorkowskiFormat: TextSubjects: Advertising and Music
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- Advertising [48]
- Advertising fliers [28]
- Architecture, domestic--Massachusetts--Provincetown [1]
- Art [75]
- Art galleries, Commercial [36]
- Art Museums [19]
- Atlantic Fisherman [1]
- Atwood Avenue (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Barnstable County (Mass.) History [3]
- Beachcombers Club [1]
- Biography [6]
- Boats and boating [1]
- Boston Globe [1]
- Boston Post [1]
- Boston Sunday Globe [1]
- Bradford Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Breakwater (West End) [1]
- Burial [1]
- Business [5]
- Cape Cod (Mass.) Description and travel [1]
- Cape Cod (Mass.) History [3]
- Cape Cod houses [1]
- Cape Cod National Seashore (Mass.) [1]
- Churches [3]
- Commercial Street (Provincetown, Mass.) [4]
- Death [2]
- East End (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Families [1]
- Fish trade--Massachusetts--Provincetown [1]
- Fishermen [2]
- Fishing [2]
- Fishing boats--Massachusetts--Provincetown [1]
- Fishing villages [1]
- Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown [1]
- Guesthouses [2]
- Harbors [1]
- Harbors--Provincetown--Mass [6]
- Hawthorne, Charles [8]
- High Schools--Massachusetts--Provincetown [1]
- Highland Light [1]
- Highland Light (U.S) [1]
- Historical museums--Massachusetts--Provincetown [1]
- Hunt, Peter [1]
- Incorporation [1]
- Kemp, Harry [1]
- Kennedy, John F. [1]
- Letters [3]
- Local government -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown [1]
- MacMillan, Miriam [1]
- Maps [2]
- Mayflower (Ship) [1]
- Modernism [2]
- Modernism (Art) [5]
- Music [1]
- New Bedford (Mass.) [1]
- Peaked Hill Bars Station [1]
- Pilgrim Monument [5]
- Portland Gale [1]
- Provincelands [1]
- Provincetown (Mass.) - 200th Anniversary [1]
- Provincetown (Mass.) -- Politics and government [1]
- Provincetown (Mass.) Board of Selectmen [3]
- Provincetown (Mass.)--Guidebooks [2]
- Provincetown (Mass.)--History--18th century [1]
- Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century [4]
- Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century [15]
- Provincetown (Mass.)--History--21st century [6]
- Provincetown Art Association & Museum [11]
- Provincetown Players [3]
- Race Point--Massachusetts--Provincetown [2]
- Railroad Avenue (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Railroads [2]
- Salt industry and trade-Provincetown, Massachusetts [1]
- Schools [3]
- Schooners [1]
- Seamen's Bank [1]
- Shipwrecks [1]
- Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Cape Cod region [1]
- Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Provincetown [1]
- Theater--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History--20th Century [3]
- Theaters [2]
- Town Crier [2]
- Town Hall [6]
- Truro (Mass.)--Description and travel [2]
- Truro (Mass.)--History--20th century [1]
- Waterfronts [1]
- Webster, E. Ambrose [5]
- West End (Provincetown, Mass.) [1]
- Whale Watching--History--Provincetown [1]
- Whaling [5]
- Whaling--Massachusetts--History [5]
- Whaling--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History [3]
- Wharfs [1]
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