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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 11, Page  70
    1972 Cape Cod Standard Times article in praise of the modern apparatus of the Provincetown Fire...
    Collection: Dowd
    Format: Newsprint
    Subjects: Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Fire houses, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, and Boxell, Althea
  • Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 11, Page  71
    Photo of the Center Methodist Church about 1870 with Higgins Wharf behind the two masted...
    Collection: Dowd
    Format: Photo
    Subjects: Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Churches, Fishing villages, Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Harbors, Harbors--Provincetown--Mass, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Town Center (Provincetown, Mass.), Town Hall, Boxell, Althea, and Chrysler, Walter
  • Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 11, Page  72
    Four postcard views, from 1890 to 1962, of the Center Methodist Church which became the Chrysler...
    Collection: Dowd
    Format: Photo
    Subjects: Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Center Methodist Episcopal Church (Provincetown, Mass.), Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown, High Pole Hill (Provincetown, Mass.), Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Provincetown Heritage Museum, Boxell, Althea, and Chrysler, Walter
  • Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 11, Page  73
    Black and white night photo of artist John Dowd's house with enormous American flag, intersection...
    Collection: Dowd
    Format: Photo
    Subjects: Architecture, domestic--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Commercial Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Franklin Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Tremont Street, West End (Provincetown, Mass.), and Boxell, Althea
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