Ingalls-Price-Gowan Papers

Box 1 – Ingalls Gowen Papers

Address on “Essex County Dialect” by Walter R. Ingalls

Automobile data

Boxford – Roads, maintenance cost in 1933 and Willow Road construction

Boxford – Schools 

Includes: 

• Floorplans for Gardner-Morse school

• Correspondence relating to Aaron Wood and Gardner Morse schools

• Handwritten notes

Boxford – Taxes

Includes:

• Notes on revenue loans, interest, overdue taxes

• List of taxpayers, n.d.

• List of people and amount of taxes owed in 1932

Boxford – Town Budget – Estimated budgets, 1932-1934

Boxford – Town Meetings

Includes:

• Notes on March 25, 1925 and Mar 3, 1930 meetings

• List of candidates, March 1928

• Agenda for meeting, 1932 (?)

Correspondence, 1940s-1950s, 11 items

Flags – article re: State flag of Massachusetts displayed tercentenary year

Hoover, Herbert 

• Reminisces of Hoover

• Personal letter to him

• Invitation to his dinner and list of attendees

• Presentation to Mr. Hoover from Mining and Metallurgical Society, 1914

Houses – Old New England

Ingalls Family in England & America – Material probably used in writing this book

Johnson Pond – Letter to Walter R. Ingalls from E. E. Pearl, November 7, 1930

Manuscript – “Economic Survey of Bay Colony”

Manuscript – “Jews and Jewish Religion”

Manuscript – “Words That are Mispronounced”

Manuscript – “A Farmer’s Meditations on His Economy”

Manuscript – “After the War”

Manuscript, “Housing & Six Room Cottage” (Second Church Parsonage Building

Committee, 1941-1944)

Manuscript – “MacBeth”

Manuscript – “Scandals of the Puritans”

Notes – miscellaneous facts

Passenger List – American Export Lines, 1937

Roads – Massachusetts

Tercentenary plaque – Massachusetts

West Boxford Improvement Society

Box 2 – Genealogical information on the following families:  

Ingalls, Renton, Burbank, Gordon, and Martino (Martineau)

Box 3 –  Iron Works (especially those at Saugus)

Steel in America, History of

Iron Industry: “The Early Iron Industry in Connecticut” and “Hopewell Village”

“Iron Mining and Smelting at Lynn, Massachusetts” by Walter Renton Ingalls

Anaconda Collection

Braintree Notes

First Iron Works Association, Annual Reports, 1950, 1955

Incoming correspondence

Outgoing correspondence

Maps

• • •  First Ironworks in Saugus, 1949

    • “Hammersmith in 1650, America’s First Successful Iron Works, 1952 print

    • Original layout of Saugus Ironworks, 1946

    • Elevation map of Old Canal Bottom, 1949

    • Study sketch for mural restoration of Mt. Riga furnace

    • Preliminary sketch of First Iron Works Saugus, J.L. Bradford, Engineer, 1949

Notes on houses

Pamphlets, including First Iron Works Gazettes

Saugus Iron Works history

Saugus Iron Works newspaper clippings

“Condition of the Excavation at the Saugus Iron Works Furnace, Saugus, Massachusetts, as of October18, 1948” by Charles Rufus Harte

Reports of Reconstruction Chairman

Box 4 – Ingaldsby Farm

Account books, 1929-1933

Agricultural Census, 1940, 1950, 1959

Estate, description of

Financial summaries kept by Mr. Ingalls

Maps:

• Map of Boxford/Groveland line showing landowners Washington Street, Willow Road, Pine Plain Road and Uptack Road, c.1890s-1910s

• Map of Ingaldsby land with individual land parcels named, by Walter Renton Ingalls, updated 1982

“A History of the Lands in the North Part of Boxford” by Walter Renton Ingalls

Inventories – Chattels, buildings and land , including record book of inventories, 1911-1918, 1946-1947

Copies of photographs, 1925-1930

Receipts and Expenses, 1918

Tax Bills, 1946-1955

Box 5 – Photograph albums

Ingaldsby Farm, 1912-1915, 1919-1920, 1939-1944

Gaspe Peninsular, c.1940

Box 6 – Rosamond Gowen Papers

Account books, 1929-1933

Biographical newspaper clippings and ephemera

Correspondence, incoming, business

Correspondence, outgoing, business

Correspondence, personal

Knowlton House

• • Includes Country Maid Candies box, with picture of Knowlton House

Market gardening and poultry

Receipts, miscellaneous

Box 7 – Boxford records (collected by Mrs. Gowen)

“Know Your Town: A combined study of Topsfield and Boxford” by The Topsfield- Boxford League of Women Voters, N.D.

Master Plan, 1961

“Natural Resources Program of the Town of Boxford, Massachusetts,” 1971

Schools

School Committee, 1951-1952

Printed floorplans for proposed changes in Aaron Wood and Gardner Morse schools

Printed floorplan, site plan and artist rendition of proposed Spofford Pond School

“Soils and their Interpretation for Various Land Uses,” 1967

“Subdivision Regulations,” Charles W. Eliot, 1961

“Revised Zoning Proposals,” 1962

“Parker and Rowley River Basins/Parker and North Shore Study Areas,” Edward A. 

Sammel, 1962

Box 8 – College Material (including yearbooks)

Bradford College, Miscellaneous, including:

• Bradford Academy Address Book, 1918-1919

• Rosamond Ingalls Gowen presentation, 1985

• Citation and Medallion from Bradford College to Rosamond Ingalls Gowen

• Bradford College Yearbooks, 1917, 1918, 1919

Smith College memorabilia and ephemera, Class of 1923