1984.112.017

This is a scrapbook containing articles and photos clipped from local newspapers, mostly from the city of Haverhill around the time period between 1956 and 1963. Most of the clippings are articles about important developments in the city and families or events that had a direct effect on the community at the time. One of those events was a letter from President Lyndon B. Johnson that was sent to the city of Haverhill to congratulate them on their steadily increasing standard in infrastructure, another was an article on a nurse protest at the Hale Hospital in Haverhill over low wages and medical funding. The Jaffarian’s, a local auto-sales family, are mentioned in several articles and news stories about the Hampton earthquake as well as other crashes, fires and construction accidents come not long after. A counter-spy by the name of Herbert Philbrick, a man who went undercover as a communist to gain vital intelligence from U.S. enemies, has several stories written about him near the end of the book, alongside a dozen or so articles about Haverhill’s urban renewal in 1963. The book ends with another dozen or so articles about “historic” Groveland and Georgetown, inviting tourists from all around the U.S. to come and visit the two towns. As an added bonus there is also a detailed map of the Massachusetts Turnpike tucked into the inside of the back cover behind some articles on the shoe industry in Lynn.