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Dowd Collection

Dowd

Overview

Althea Boxell (1910–1988) never lived in Provincetown, but during her life she assembled a series of scrapbooks that preserved elements of Provincetown's history and daily life throughout the late 19th and 20th century that are priceless. [More...]

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  • Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 10, Page 93
    Newspaper articles and photos of the new bath house at New Beach in 1953. A very modern,...
    Collection: Dowd
    Format: Newsprint
    Subjects: Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Cape Cod (Mass.) Description and travel, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Province Lands--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Provincelands, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, and Boxell, Althea
  • Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 10, Page 94
    Four color photos of the bath house at Herring Cove Beach, formerly New Beach, between 1954 and...
    Collection: Dowd
    Format: Photo
    Subjects: Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Province Lands--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Provincelands, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, and Boxell, Althea
  • Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 10, Page 95
    Two color postcards of Herring Cove Beach in 1921 and 1930, one showing bathers and the other...
    Collection: Dowd
    Format: Artwork
    Subjects: Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, and Boxell, Althea
  • Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 10, Page 96
    Newspaper article from 1961 with an account by Irving S. Rogers of the Helltown community that...
    Collection: Dowd
    Format: Newsprint
    Subjects: Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Dories (boats), Fishermen, Fishing boats--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, and Boxell, Althea
  • Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 10, Page 97
    Two postcard photos...one of a lobsterman's dory at Herring Cove Beach and the other of William...
    Collection: Dowd
    Format: Artwork
    Subjects: Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Dories (boats), Gull Hill (Provincetown, Mass.), Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Whalers (Persons), Whaling, and Boxell, Althea
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