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News articles realted to salt works, the Province Lands, and Snail Road.

Collection: Dowd

Format: Newsprint

Subjects: Peaked Hill Bars Station, Province Lands--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, and Salt industry and trade-Provincetown, Massachusetts

1905 postcard of a circa 1890 photo of Union Wharf and J.L.N. Paine Wharf, a 1970 newspaper...

Collection: Dowd

Format: Newsprint

Subjects: Advertising, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Fish trade--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Fishermen, Fishers--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Fishing, Fishing villages, Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Harbors, Harbors--Provincetown--Mass, Portland Gale, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Provincetown Advocate, Sailing ships, Salt industry and trade-Provincetown, Massachusetts, Shipping, Waterfronts, West End (Provincetown, Mass.), Wharfs, Boxell, Althea, and Business

A photo of the first lighthouse on Long Point, 1826, which in 1830 also became the first...

Collection: Dowd

Format: Newsprint

Subjects: Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Dwellings, Elementary Schools (Provincetown, MA), Lifesaving, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Salt industry and trade-Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Boxell, Althea

Scrapbook of "Provincetown and Cape Cod" of unknown origin titled "Book 3". ...

Collection: Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum

Format: Newsprint

Subjects: Advertising fliers, Architecture, domestic--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Arctic regions Discovery and exploration, Art, Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Beachcombers Club, Boats and boating, Bowdoin (Ship), Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Captains, Center Methodist Episcopal Church (Provincetown, Mass.), Commercial Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Crowds, Death, Dune Shacks--Peaked Hill Bars Historic District, Explorers, Families, Fires, Gosnold Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Historic buildings--Massachusetts-Provincetown, Mayflower II (Ship), Nautilus Club (Provincetown, MA), North Pole, Peaked Hill Bars Station, Poetry, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--17th Century, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--18th century, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Provincetown Players, Research Club (Provincetown, Mass.), Salt industry and trade-Provincetown, Massachusetts, Stores/Business (Provincetown, Mass.), Unitarian Universalist Meeting House, Hunt, Peter, Kemp, Harry, MacMillan, Donald B., MacMillan, Miriam, Murchison, Dr. Carl, Vorse, Mary Heaton, and Hurricanes

An OCEA News article from the Outer Cape Environmental Association about the history of the...

Collection: Municipal

Format: Newsprint

Subjects: Atlantic Cod fishing, Atlantic Fisherman, Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Fish trade--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Fish trapping, Fishers--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Fishing, Fishing nets, Fishing villages, Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Mackerel fishing, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--17th Century, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--18th century, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, and Salt industry and trade-Provincetown, Massachusetts