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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  65
    1978 obituary for Norman Cook, owner and pharmacist at Adam'pharmacy. 1910 photo of the...
    Collection: Dowd
    Format: Photo
    Subjects: Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Families, Fire houses, Gosnold Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Boxell, Althea, Business, and Death
  • Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 11, Page  66
    Obituary for Nilla Cram Cook who died in Austrai on October 11, 1982. Her father, George Cram...
    Collection: Dowd
    Format: Text
    Subjects: Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Death, Gosnold Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Provincetown Advocate, Town Center (Provincetown, Mass.), and Boxell, Althea
  • Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 11, Page  67
    1971 newspaper article in the Advocate about the Selectmen voting to return the town benches in...
    Collection: Dowd
    Format: Newsprint
    Subjects: Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Commercial Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Local government -- Massachusetts -- Provincetown, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Provincetown Advocate, Town Hall, and Boxell, Althea
  • Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 11, Page  68
    Newspaper article about Nathan Malchman buying the Corner Gift Shop Building and moving his...
    Collection: Dowd
    Format: Artwork
    Subjects: Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Gosnold Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Boxell, Althea, and Business
  • Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 11, Page  69
    A 1966 article in praise of the volunteer fire department in Provincetown and reporting on a gala...
    Collection: Dowd
    Format: Newsprint
    Subjects: Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Fire houses, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, and Boxell, Althea
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