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Newspaper article about Shaw's Store at 491 Commercial St. closing its doors and ending a long...

Collection: Dowd

Format: Newsprint

Subjects: Architecture, domestic--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Cape Cod houses, Commercial Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Death, East End (Provincetown, Mass.), Historic buildings--Massachusetts-Provincetown, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Stores/Business (Provincetown, Mass.), Boxell, Althea, and Business

Two news stories about the 1918 immense ice cakes in the harbor that damaged many wharves. Also...

Collection: Dowd

Format: Newsprint

Subjects: Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Center Methodist Episcopal Church (Provincetown, Mass.), Churches, Harbors, Harbors--Provincetown--Mass, Historic buildings--Massachusetts-Provincetown, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Town Hall, Wharfs, and Boxell, Althea

Newspaper article from 1938 telling the story of the rescue and retrieval of the figurehead by...

Collection: Dowd

Format: Newsprint

Subjects: Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Captains, Commercial Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Dwellings, East End (Provincetown, Mass.), Essays, Fishing villages, Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Historic buildings--Massachusetts-Provincetown, Sailing ships, Shipwrecks, Whaling, and Boxell, Althea

May 1957 article on the Kibbie Cook House and Mary Heaton Vorse.

Collection: Dowd

Format: Newsprint

Subjects: Historic buildings--Massachusetts-Provincetown, Provincetown Players, and Vorse, Mary Heaton

September 1947 article on last saling of the Steel Pier. Also photos of Sklaroff Wharf, Central...

Collection: Dowd

Format: Newsprint

Subjects: Boats and boating, Historic buildings--Massachusetts-Provincetown, Sklaroff Wharf (Provincetown, Mass.), and Unitarian Universalist Meeting House