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Continuation of text and photo from 'Life Savers of Cape Cod'. Criteria for selecting surfmen,...

Collection: Dowd

Format: Text

Subjects: Business Records, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Lifesaving, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Truro, Peaked Hill Bars Station, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Shipwrecks, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Cape Cod region, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Truro, Boxell, Althea, and Business

Continuation of text and photos from 'Life Savers of Cape Cod'. Description of Capt. Cook's...

Collection: Dowd

Format: Text

Subjects: Captains, Lifeboats, Lifesaving, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Truro, Peaked Hill Bars Station, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Sailing ships, Schooners, Shipwrecks, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Cape Cod region, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Truro, and Boxell, Althea

Last page of 'Life Savers of Cape Cod' mentions and describes each of the surf men at Peaked...

Collection: Dowd

Format: Text

Subjects: Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Lifeboats, Lifesaving, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Truro, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Sailing ships, Schooners, Shipwrecks, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Cape Cod region, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Truro, and Boxell, Althea

Several articles on storms and lifesaving in the 1870's

Collection: Dowd

Format: Text

Subjects: Death, Lifeboats, Lifesaving, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Truro, Peaked Hill Bars Station, and Race Point--Massachusetts--Provincetown

Booklet on the history of life saving services on Cape Cod. (Undated)

Collection: Municipal

Format: Text

Subjects: Lifesaving, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Truro, Peaked Hill Bars Station, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, and Race Point--Massachusetts--Provincetown