Assorted pamphlets, documents, newspaper articles, and other written information relating to Lawrence, and in particular the Lawrence community

• Print featuring portraits of the Lawrence Bench and Bar members for 1926
• Print showing the schedule of minimum fees adopted by the Lawrence Bar Association, June 25, 1970

• Book – La lezione di Josephone “All for the Love of Teaching”; a book about the first Sicilian teacher in Lawrence, MA

• Lawrence High School football captain letterman sweater, which belonged to William Rossi

• Signed Lawrence High School football

• Photograph of William Rossi

• Football game programs

• William Rossi’s graduation certificate

• Community Savings Bank metal bank

• Bresnahan’s Ice Company ice pick

• Merrimade Catalog, Fall 1994

• Lawrence High School General Science notebook, 1941

Booklet, “Views of Lawrence, Mass” published by L.H. Nelson Co., Portland, ME – was donated to the "Hands-On" Collection on January 4, 2025. 

• Book - Historical Sketches of The Lawrence Family by Dr. R.M. Lawrence, June 1890

Film reel of the first Air Mail flight from the Lawrence Municipal Airport, May 19,1938 filmed by Paul Leslie of Summer Street, Methuen.  This particular flight came to Lawrence from the Plum Island Airport (Newburyport, MA). The film was given to David Fletcher after Mr. Leslie’s death in the 1980s. Mr. Fletcher kept the film safe for many years before gifting it to Lawrence Municipal Airport on June 6^th 2025, where director Francisco A. Urena and the Lawrence Municipal Airport had the film digitized and then donated the original reel and digital file to LHC on July 15, 2025. 

The plane in the used for the flight is now in a museum in CA.  

Book about Lawrence-born artist Margaret-Hall Sweeney (1904-1973), featuring biographical information and her artwork

Papers, pins, photographs, and documents from the estate of Joe and Mary (Taylor) McCarthy.  The McCarthys had no children.  The material consists of personal papers as well as documents related to WWII.

City of Lawrence, MA picture book from 1903