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open for research year round on Tuesdays and Thursday from 10
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General Collection The general collection contains over 5000 photos, 600 oral history recordings, papers of Woods Hole organizations, business records, a few Cape Cod ship logs, family collections, genealogy and house histories. The links below delineate the content of our collections |
| Photograph
Collection The photograph collection contains over 5000 photos of Woods Hole and Quissett going back to the 1850's, including family albums and photos, village scenes, boats, yachts, steamships, pictures of the early days of the scientific community starting in the 1880's with the U.S. Fish Commission and the Marine Biological Laboratory, as well as albums showing MBL activities in the 1920's and 1930's. A prized part of the photo archive is the Baldwin Coolidge Collection. Mr. Coolidge was a Boston photographer who worked extensively in the Woods Hole area from the early 1890's to about 1910. Our collection of his works contains 100 original prints and two glass plate negatives, as well as 100 more sepia and black and white copy prints. See the Books page in our Gift Shop for information on our volume New England Views: The Photography of Baldwin Coolidge (1845-1928). Our photo collection has been digitized by PhotoArk. To view samples from our photograph collection see our Historic Photos page. |
| Artifacts
Collection The artifacts collection includes paintings, by and of members of the Fay family, paintings by William H. Littlefield, Peggy Clark Kelly, R. Swain Gifford and Franklin Lewis Gifford and many other local artists; clothing from the 1850's to the 1920's; memorabilia, tools, crafts, maritime objects and boat models pertaining to the village of Woods Hole and environs. |
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History Collection The history collection has over 500 tapes and transcribed interviews and conversations with long-time residents, collected since 1974. The collection is constantly added to by tapes made from the monthly Conversation program. |
| Library The library contains well over 200 volumes devoted primarily to maritime and local history. |