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