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National Trap Account Book detailing sales of several varieties of fish to various fish buyers...

Collection: Cold Storage/Trap Industry

Format: Text

Subjects: Atlantic Cod fishing, Atlantic Fisherman, Atlantic herring fishing, Business Records, Cold Storages, Commercial Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Financial Records, Fish trade--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Fish trapping, Fisheries--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History, Fishermen, Fishers, Fishers--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Fishes, Fishing, Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Harbors--Provincetown--Mass, Industries, Mackerel fishing, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, and Weirs

Small pamphlet about the history of trapboat fishing, memoirs and history.

Collection: Charlotte

Format: Text

Subjects: Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Cold Storages, Dories (boats), Fish trade--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Fish trapping, Fisheries--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History, Fishermen, Fishing, Fishing boats--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Harbors--Provincetown--Mass, Mackerel fishing, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Sklaroff Wharf (Provincetown, Mass.), and Weirs

Images of Provincetown, Harbor, including the mackerel fleet and images of the Steamer "Cape...

Collection: Dowd

Format: Text

Subjects: Docks, Harbors, Harbors--Provincetown--Mass, Mackerel fishing, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Schooners, and Wharfs

Images of Provincetown, Town Center, including wharves, Town Hall, Long Point Schoolhouse, the...

Collection: Dowd

Format: Text

Subjects: Churches, Docks, Elementary Schools (Provincetown, MA), Harbors, Harbors--Provincetown--Mass, High Schools--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Mackerel fishing, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Schooners, Town Center (Provincetown, Mass.), Town Hall, Unitarian Universalist Meeting House, Waterfronts, and Wharfs

This journal was kept by John W. Atwood of the mackerel (and occasionally other fish, including...

Collection: Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum

Format: Text

Subjects: Atlantic Fisherman, Fish trade--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Fishing, Fishing boats--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Mackerel fishing, and Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century