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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 98
    Newspaper photos and story about the Swedish freigther, Monica Smith, that grounded out high and...
    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 99
    Swedish freighter, Monica Smith, gets a clean bill of health and starts on journey back to Canada.
    Collection: Dowd
    Format: Newsprint
    Subjects: Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Race Point--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Shipwrecks, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Cape Cod region, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Provincetown, and Boxell, Althea
  • Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 10, Page100
    Continuation of the story of the Monica Smith, a Swedish freighter that beached itself off Race...
    Collection: Dowd
    Format: Newsprint
    Subjects: Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Harbors, Harbors--Provincetown--Mass, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Race Point--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Shipwrecks, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Cape Cod region, Shipwrecks--Massachusetts--Provincetown, and Boxell, Althea
  • Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 11, Page   1
    A 1973 article in the Provincetown Advocate by Marylyn Donahue about the impending sale of the...
    Collection: Dowd
    Format: Artwork
    Subjects: Advertising, Architecture, domestic--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Cape Cod houses, Commercial Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Dwellings, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Provincetown Advocate, Boxell, Althea, and Business
  • Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 11, Page   2
    Photo from 1906 of Commercial St. and Tremont 'at the turn'. Franklin St. is to the right. As...
    Collection: Dowd
    Format: Photo
    Subjects: Architecture, domestic--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Commercial Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, and Boxell, Althea
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