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Video Plymouth, Newport, and Provincetown, Cape Cod 1920
Credit: Christopher Seufert. The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: “Plymouth, Newport,...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Apr 1, 20242 min read
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Photo: Huntington, Hopkins & Company Hardware Store, Sacramento
Facade of the Huntington, Hopkins & Company hardware store at 54 K Street. In 1855 Collis P. Huntington and Mark Hopkins had joined to...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 30, 20241 min read
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Wooden Ships and Iron Men
Captain John Winslow Trustees of The Heritage Museum, Provincetown, MA 1994 Reginald W. Cabral - Curator James Theriault & Historian,...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 29, 20241 min read
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Records of the Boston Female Asylum
Records of the Boston Female Asylum Transcribed, cross-referenced and annotated by Ann S. Lainhart Univ. of Massachusetts Additional...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 29, 20241 min read
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The Provincetown Book by Rev Nancy Wiley Paine Smith 1922
Rev. Nancy Wiley Paine Smith (1849-1940) born to Joshua Paine and Martha Freeman Atwood was a descendant of Thomas Paine and Mayflower...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 28, 20241 min read
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The official program from the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the landing of the pilgrims 1920
Provincetown Tercentenary Committee--Credit: Provincetown History Project
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 27, 20241 min read
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List of persons whose names have been changed in Massachusetts 1780-1883
Link to read entire book by Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State; Massachusetts. General Court. Boston : Wright and Potter...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 23, 20241 min read
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The Benjamin Franklin and Timothy Folger Charts of the Gulf Stream
An 18th-century Gulf Stream chart, with a Ben Franklin connection Credit: Boston Rare Maps PDF by Philip L Richardson Woods Hole...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 22, 20241 min read
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Old Hopkinton Cemetery Mapping Project
Photo Credit Stan Arnold Find A Grave. PDF compiled by Alden Mitchell Eagle Scout Project Troop 77, Hopkinton, NH August 2013 Old...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 21, 20242 min read
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Research on the seventeenth century case furniture of Essex County, Massachusetts and its makers
James Symonds (American, 1633-1714) valuables cabinet, 1679, made for Joseph Pope and Bathsheba Folger of Salem Village. Courtesy of the...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 12, 20241 min read
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Celebration of the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the evacuation of Boston by the British Army March 17 1901
Photo Credit: Boston Public Library Archives also included in Mass Moments. Read Full Book "Celebration of the one hundred and...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 10, 20241 min read
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1942 Cherryfield Maine Flash Flood Photographs
A client Kathy Williams Curtis of Massachusetts shared some photos from her scrapbook collection. Kathy was recently accepted into the...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 3, 20241 min read
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"No Seas Can Now Divide Us": Captains' Wives, Sister Sailors, and the New England Whale fishery, 1840-1870
Charlotte Coffin Wyer daughter of Asa Coffin and Phebe Morselander Coffin. She was the wife of Captain Samuel Wyer. Credit: Nantucket...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Feb 28, 20241 min read
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Journal of Charlotte Coffin Gardner Onboard the "Sarah Parker"
Charlotte Coffin Gardner Full PDF Original Transcription sent to Mrs. Lloyd O. Graves, Historian for the state of Washington by Grace...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Feb 24, 20241 min read
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Genealogy Record Books compiled by William C Folger of Nantucket
William C. Folger Genealogical Record Books contains families A-Z. This collection contains record books, compiled by Folger, listing...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Feb 18, 20241 min read
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Large File Nantucket Early Documents Collection Book
Contains 79 documents in total. Consists primarily of deeds. 3 BILLS OF SALE, 1786-1796: Charles Folger for Estate of Thomas Bunker,...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Feb 18, 20244 min read
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NEW BEDFORD COMMUNITIES OF WHALING: People of Wampanoag, African, and Portuguese Island Descent, 1825–1925 PDF
PDF published by National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Northeast Region Ethnography Program
Melissa Davenport Berry
Feb 14, 20241 min read
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PDF File Alexander Starbuck's History of Nantucket
PDF File "History of Nantucket" published C. E. Goodspeed & Co. 1925 Also see the Starbuck Family Papers https://nantuckethistory.org:443...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Feb 10, 20241 min read
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Early voyages to California: Historical Collections of the Essex Institute of Salem, Massachusetts
The Bark "Eliza" of Salem 1821 painted by Benjamin F. West From Marine Room Peabody Essex Museum. See PDF below PDF: Early voyages to...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Feb 4, 20241 min read
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A Poem and Brief History on Browne's Hall Danvers Massachusetts
Illustration from Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, Browne's Hill, formerly called Long Hill and Leach's Hill. See PDF Below...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Feb 3, 20241 min read
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