• 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

Description from the donor - 

“A small (4 1/4" X 6 3/4") clothbound notebook containing many pages of notes, measurements and sketches of a number of different 'wagons' that were used to move bolts of material around in what I believe was the Lower Pacific Mills in Lawrence, MA. There are references to a 'warp room', 'spooling room', a wool washing room and so on. There is a handwritten note inside the notebook written on Lower Pacific Mills notepaper dated May 22,1900 addressed to G. H. James from George Oliver that includes a detailed sketch of a wagon and an order, including measurements, for this wagon to be built. The notebook also includes a few bits of what appear to be sample color swatches on paper and a detail of a design pattern that I cannot identify but are somehow related to the work being done at the mill. 

This little notebook is in poor/fair condition and was rescued by my late mother, Joyce Butler, a well-known writer and local historian in southern Maine who also was the Curator at the Maine Historical Society and worked at the Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk for several years. I discovered it while going through her records following her death in 2023 and feel that it may belong in your archives.”

Books to be added to the Michael Nestervich Collection. Michael Nestervich was a WWII veteran who served in the Navy in the Pacific and went to school on the GI Bill when he came home. He attended Lowell Tech. His wife was a mill girl, a bobbin girl who eventually became floor manager. The material is comprised of published books, textbooks, recipe books and samples, tools, and artifacts.

• A Manual of Engineering Drawing for Students and Draftsmen by Thomas E. French, 1947

• America’s Fabrics/Origin and History, Manufacture, Characteristics and Uses by Zelma Bendure and Gladys Pfeiffer, 1947 (inscribed with Michael Nestervich)

• 1951 Yearbook “The Pickout” for The Lowell Textile Institute, Lowell, MA, featuring Michael Nestervich (only in a listing as he graduated in 1952) as well as other Lawrence graduates.