2018.010.001

This is a repurposed city government documentation book turned into a scrapbook that holds dozens of pages of news articles surrounding a plethora of different events in Lawrence and Methuen from 1915 to 1917. The very first page has a coat of arms with the name Arthur DeMerick Marble underneath, perhaps his family coat of arms. It is uncertain who compiled this scrapbook, but it is reasonable to assume either Arthur or someone else in the Marble family had a hand in its creation due to this first page. The next page holds an image of the city seal of Lawrence, with some handwritten notes underneath on its creation and underlying meaning. From that page forward the rest of the scrapbook is comprised of articles pasted into the book, ranging from subjects like religion and infrastructure to poetry and sports. Some interesting examples include one about William Caffrey, Lawrence’s champion rower from 1916, one about a Methuen child named Charles eating poison that was supposed to be used to put down his injured dog, and a few articles on the 1910 cyclone that hit Lawrence and tore up roofing and trees around the city.