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Newspaper articles from the mid 1950's regarding tales of a "serpent" in Provincetown...

Collection: Dowd

Format: Newsprint

Subjects: Harbors, Harbors--Provincetown--Mass, and Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Provincetown

Newspaper article from 1955 featuring obituary of Edna Higgins, and photogrpahs of Higgins...

Collection: Dowd

Format: Newsprint

Subjects: Cape Cod houses, Commercial Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Guesthouses, Harbors--Provincetown--Mass, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Provincetown, and West End (Provincetown, Mass.)

Photo of Pilgrim Monument with hurricane warning signal flags on September 13, 1944. Newspaper...

Collection: Dowd

Format: Newsprint

Subjects: Atlantic herring fishing, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Captains, Docks, Fishermen, Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Harbors--Provincetown--Mass, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Mooring of ships, Pilgrim Monument, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Provincetown Advocate, Town Center (Provincetown, Mass.), United States Coast Guard, United States. Life-Saving Service, Boxell, Althea, and Hurricanes

June 10, 1937 article on proposed closing of Pamet River and Peaked Hill Coast Guard Stations...

Collection: Dowd

Format: Newsprint

Subjects: Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Peaked Hill Bars Station, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, United States Coast Guard, and United States. Life-Saving Service

An article about Mrs. Nell Silvey, widow of William E. Silvey (an assistant keeper of the Peaked...

Collection: Dowd

Format: Newsprint

Subjects: Biography, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Churches, Commercial Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Death, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Peaked Hill Bars Station, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Provincetown Advocate, Boxell, Althea, and Nautilus Club (Provincetown, MA)