Dowd Collection

Photos of H. & S. Cook & Company Wharf, wholesale and retail fish dealers, and the Kibbe...

Collection: Dowd

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Subjects: Architecture, domestic--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Atlantic Cod fishing, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Commercial Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Cook Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Docks, East End (Provincetown, Mass.), Families, Fish trade--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Fishing, Fishing villages, Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Harbors, Harbors--Provincetown--Mass, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Provincetown Advocate, Stores/Business (Provincetown, Mass.), Wharfs, Boxell, Althea, and Business

Continuation of text from 'The Life Savers of Cape Cod' relating details of poorly equipped...

Collection: Dowd

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Subjects: Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Fishing villages, Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Lifesaving, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Truro, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Sailing ships, Schooners, Shipwrecks, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Cape Cod region, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Truro, Boxell, Althea, and Peaked Hill Bars Station

Continuation of text and pictures of methods and apparatus employed in rescues at sea as...

Collection: Dowd

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Subjects: Cape Cod (Mass.) Description and travel, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Fishermen, Fishing, Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Lifesaving, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Truro, Peaked Hill Bars Station, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Sailing ships, Shipwrecks, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Cape Cod region, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Truro, and Boxell, Althea

A November 25, 1971 article in the Provincetown Advocate by John Bell about the Portland Gale...

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Subjects: Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Boats and boating, Breakwater (West End), Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Death, Fishing villages, Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Harbors, Harbors--Provincetown--Mass, Lifeboats, Lifesaving, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Portland Gale, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Provincetown Advocate, Shipwrecks, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Cape Cod region, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Provincetown, United States Coast Guard, Bell, John D., Boxell, Althea, and Hurricanes