Dowd Collection

Four postcards, circa 1905, showing life line and surf boat practice.

Collection: Dowd

Format: Photo

Subjects: Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Lifeboats, Lifesaving, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Truro, Peaked Hill Bars Station, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Shipwrecks, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Cape Cod region, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Truro, and Boxell, Althea

Four postcards of shipwrecks and rescues. One postcard is of a Capt. Cook's ship, the Ulysses,...

Collection: Dowd

Format: Photo

Subjects: Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Captains, Lifesaving, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Sailing ships, Schooners, Shipwrecks, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Cape Cod region, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Truro, and Boxell, Althea

Photos of a ship ashore at Race Point and a 1873 article on approach to development in Provincetown.

Collection: Dowd

Format: Photo

Subjects: Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Race Point--Massachusetts--Provincetown, and Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Provincetown

Photo of the debris of the Ed Small and George Knowles wharfs destroyed in 1926.

Collection: Dowd

Format: Photo

Subjects: Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Provincetown, and Wharfs

Three color postcards and one photo of the view from the old Grand View Tower which was replaced...

Collection: Dowd

Format: Photo

Subjects: Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Historic buildings--Massachusetts-Provincetown, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Shipwrecks, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Cape Cod region, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Provincetown, United States Coast Guard, United States. National Park Service, and Boxell, Althea