Family and Individual Boxed Collections
Family and Individual Boxed Collections: Small Collections available in the museum Archives.
Left Behind: Clues to Life in the Past on Cape Cod
This 2021 exhibit explores the archaeology associated with the earliest indigenous settlements on Cape Cod. With the Public Archaeology Laboratory in Pawtucket, RI, the museum has developed a display on Native American archaeological sites, ranging from approximately 12,000 to 450 years ago, along with artifacts and images to tell us more about the culture of the earliest inhabitants of our region well before the Mayflower landing in 1620.
Atlantis Stories Is Back in Print
Atlantis Stories is the memoir of a young man who signed on as an Ordinary Seaman aboard the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s 143-foot sailing vessel, the ketch Atlantis, when ...
Baldwin Coolidge: New England Views
Baldwin Coolidge: New England Views (1845-1928), published by the Woods Hole Historical Museum, is the first book of the photographer’s work ever produced. It was also the winner of ...
June 24, 2021 – Ruth Anna Hatch and her Friends
The 1880S in Woods Hole and What Happened in Later Years - In 1992, the Woods Hole Historical Collection published "The Diary of Ruth Anna Hatch." It remained a very ...
June 10, 2021- The Fish Market
A fish market business (wholesale and retail) was founded in 1874 by Isaiah Spindell and Azariah Crowell to supply the Pacific Guano Company with small fish called menhaden, part ...
Honoring Jewel Plummer Cobb
“Honoring Jewel Plummer Cobb” exhibit tells the story of the change in name of Agassiz Road to Jewel Cobb Road. Woods Hole residents initiated a community wide campaign upon learning that the prominent scientist, Louis Agassiz, credited with inspiring the start of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), was a white supremacist who used his science in support of his racist theories. Seventeen illustrated panels give a step-by-step narrative of the way the name change came about.
May 27, 2021- Sarah Bryant Fay and Maria Denny Fay
As mentioned in our last Dispatch, we will now showcase some of Sarah Bryant Fay's watercolors along with those of her aunt, Maria Denny Fay, sister of Joseph Story ...
Spritsail Volume 35, Number 1: Winter 2021
From the Editors The Legacy of Charles R. Crane By Leonard Miele A Brief History of Shiverick’s Pond By Paul Dreyer Prosser Gifford: Our Own Renaissance Man By Vicky Cullen ...
Spritsail Volume 34, Number 2: Summer 2021
From the Editors Jewel Plummer Cobb By Diana Kenney 30 Years of the Woods Hole Film Festival By Judy Laster Carnival Breaks all Records at Otis Air Force Base By ...