Handwritten 1890s ledger book belonging to Joseph J. Flynn who, at the time, owned the Lawrence Opera House, put on various entertainment and shows in MA, owned a bill-posting company and later went on to be a MA State Senator and was nominated for Congress

Poem "Walking in Lawrence", by the donor.  See accession files for specific Deed of Gift restrictions. 

Photographs of Daniel J. DeSantis both at home and abroad during WWII. DeSantis served in the Coast Guard.

• 2 page paper on the granite of Pelham, NH and some of the locations where it was used; donor conducted research at LHC with the Essex Company Collection.

• Forged iron plug and feather devices that were more than likely used to split the granite from those quarries according to the donor.  They were found in a house built in the 1840's very near the quarries referenced. Donor believes that the house they were found in was a quarryman’s/worker’s house.

1872 map of Lawrence’s North side, panoramic photograph, shoe button hooks, cloth repair tools, engineering plans for the Ayer Mill Clock restoration, and a Post Office Square Hotel sign with business cards attached to the back.  

photographs and other material from the Bazin Family and Trudel Family

Material related to the planning of Antelope Day in the year 2000 and material related to public art created by Lawrence residents to celebrate Martin Luther King Day that same year.

Time capsule found where St. Peter and Paul Church once stood on Chestnut St., during excavation for a new housing development.

Contents include:  

Sections from the following newspapers/publications dated September 29, 1906:  Boston Daily Globe, The Pilot, Sacred Heart Review, Lawrence Telegram, and The Evening Telegram

• Donation slips for Church building, “Divida de Egreja Portugueza”
• Contributions from Lawrence to San Francisco for the Earthquake April 18, 1906
• 10 postcards – 9 are of 1906 religious procession
• 1906 City of Lawrence Manual of the City Council
• 2 photos – James O’Reilly, OSA (signed) and Father Paul Despouy, 1^st pastor of Church
• 2 religious medals
• Narrative in Latin
• Contents held in a copper box presented by B.B. Badger Sons, Sept. 1906