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  • Stripping a Whale
    Black & white photograph of a whale being stripped at J. Cook's Oil Factory located on Long...
    Collection: Moffett
    Format: Photo
    Subjects: Harbors--Provincetown--Mass, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Whalers (Persons), Whaling, and Whaling--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History
  • Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 7, Page 10
    Two colored postcards, one of the steamer 'Longfellow' at Matheson's Wharf in the 1900's and the...
    Collection: Dowd
    Format: Photo
    Subjects: Docks, Fishing boats--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Fishing villages, Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Harbors, Harbors--Provincetown--Mass, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Sailing ships, Shipping, Whaling, and Boxell, Althea
  • Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 - 10/4/1988), Book 7, Page 69
    Photo of the Joshua Stickney Nickerson Whale Oil plant near Herring Cove, Race Point in 1890.
    Collection: Dowd
    Format: Photo
    Subjects: Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Fisheries--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History, Fishing villages, Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Historic buildings--Massachusetts-Provincetown, Industries, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Whaling, Whaling--Massachusetts--History, Whaling--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History, and Boxell, Althea
  • Helen Valentine Collection #1
    Photographs loaned to the Provincetown History Project by Helen Valentine, resident of Provincetown.
    Format: Photo
    Subjects: Architecture, domestic--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Boats and boating, Cape Cod houses, Dwellings, Fire houses, Fishermen, Fishing boats--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Fishing villages--Massachusetts--Provincetown, High Pole Hill (Provincetown, Mass.), Johnson Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Schooners, Theater--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History--20th Century, Theaters, Town Hall, Waterfronts, Whalers (Persons), Whaling, Whaling--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History, Harbors--Provincetown--Mass, West End (Provincetown, Mass.), and Commercial Street (Provincetown, Mass.)
  • Helen Valentine Collection #2
    Photogaphs and post cards loaned to the Provincetown History Project by Helen Valentine, a...
    Format: Photo
    Subjects: Cape Cod houses, Center Methodist Episcopal Church (Provincetown, Mass.), Center Street (Provincetown, Mass.), Docks, Dwellings, East End (Provincetown, Mass.), Highland Light, Highland Light (U.S), Ice Harvest, Lifesaving, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Lifesaving stations--Massachusetts--Truro, MacMillan Wharf (Provincetown, Mass.), Murchison House, Peaked Hill Bars Station, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--18th century, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Provincetown Players, Provincetown Volunteer Fire Department, Race Point--Massachusetts--Provincetown, West End (Provincetown, Mass.), Whaling, Wharfs, Windstorms--Massachusetts--History--19th century, Boats and boating, Cold Storages, and Town Crier
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