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Photographs of Daniel J. DeSantis both at home and abroad during WWII. DeSantis served in the Coast Guard.
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
Local labor union and labor-related material.
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LHC Board, Staff & Volunteers 2024
In The Merrimack Valley brings together the author's enduring trilogy: Here and Nowhere Else, Five Thousand Days Like This One, and Clearing Land. By intertwining her family's story with the quintessentially American history of a New England valley's immigrants, farmers, and textile workers, the author captures both the cadences of farm life and the complexities of our allegiances to the past and to place.
Book autographed by author.
Cover jacket is worn
The story of the Lowell family, from the first settler to arrive in New England in 1639 to those descendants who would build a dynasty during the Industrial Revolution and beyond.