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  1. 2002.024.007 - Magazine

    Supplement to the Sippican Sentinel newspaper. Articles include "You mean yours got away?" Profiles in Education, and "New Look for Long Wharf."

    Record Type: Archive

    Sippican Sentinel Overflow
  2. 2004.019.002 - Print, Photographic

    Photographers almost tip over boat to "shoot" President Roosevelt whose vacation in Marion, Mass was just beginning.

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    Roosevelt on yacht
  3. 2004.019.003 - Print, Photographic

    President Franklin Roosevelt aboard "The Amberjack II" sets out from Marion, Mass. harbor for a vacation cruise along the coast.

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    Roosevelt on Amberjack
  4. 2004.019.004 - Print, Photographic

    President Franklin Roosevelt aboard "The Amberjack II" sets out from Marion, Mass. harbor for a vacation cruise along the coast. Present on the sail are Captain George Briggs, Amyas Ames, James Roosevelt, John Cutter, and Paul Rust.

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    Roosevelt and yacht
  5. 2004.019.005 - Print, Photographic

    3 newspaper photos while President Franklin Roosevelt is on vacation in Marion, Mass. One is of the President in his auto enroute to Marion to board "The Amberjack II". Another is on "The Amberjack II" with James Roosevelt and friends ready for a swim.. Finally "The First Lady" at Groton School with son Franklin Jr., as Mr. and Mrs. James Roosevelt look over a road map.

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    Roosevelt
  6. 2004.019.006 - Print, Photographic

    Crowd watching President Roosevelt trying out his yacht in Marion, Mass. Amberjack II in Marion Harbor is the yacht that the president is aboard when the photo was taken. He will be going on a cruise from Dr. McDonald's Long Wharf. Dr. McDonald had been the president's doctor in an earlier battle against infantile paralysis.

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    Roosevelt's yacht
  7. 2004.019.007 - Print, Photographic

    Newspaper photo of Pres. F. D. Roosevelt at Marion, Mass., June 17, 1933. An exciting day in Marion history when Roosevelt paid a visit to his old doctor, William McDonald, who could not make the trip to the White House, because of terminal illness. The cars in the photo brought the Presidential party, and residents turned out to see the chief executive.

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    Arrival of President Roosevelt
  8. 2004.019.008 - Print, Photographic

    Newspaper photo of East Marion waterfront residence leased for the Summer by James Roosevelt, son of the President. The family, including Mrs. Roosevelt and their small daughter, plan to move in early June. The property is owned by William Bullivant of Marion.

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    summer residence of John Roose
  9. 2004.019.085 - Print, Photographic

    Exterior of 9 Main Street. This house was the residence of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Richard Harding Davis and Admiral Richard Byrd.

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    9 Main Street
  10. 2004.019.086 - Print, Photographic

    Exterior of 9 Main Street. This house was the residence of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Richard Harding Davis and Admiral Richard Byrd.

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    9 Main Street
  11. 2004.019.223 - Print, Photographic

    Beverly Yacht Club, exterior. One of Marion's oldest houses.

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    Beverly Yacht Club
  12. 2005.007.003 - Tape, Audio

    Interview with Peter Converse covering the following topics: Converse family history Converse Point history Second World War Marion to Bermuda race Marion summer community Peter Converse It is December the 5th, 1995, and this is Christina Kingston speaking with Peter Converse of the Moorings, Converse Road, Marion, MA as part of the Sippican Historical Society's - Oral History Project. Peter Converse: Well, what is now Converse Point b...

    Record Type: Archive

  13. 2006.010.018 - Print, Photographic

    18 Main Street, Hamlin, Harriet. Original home of Bowditch, Benjamin, rented one month to Richard Harding Davis, one month to FDR, one season to Admiral Byrd and family.

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    Print, Photographic
  14. 2006.010.019 - Print, Photographic

    16 Main Street, home of Bibsy Taylor. House burned down. On this site was The Hut, a small home. FDR rented for a while, later he moved to Lawrence Taylor house in North Marion, owned in 2006 by Bronson Taylor.

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    Print, Photographic
  15. 2006.011.019 - Print, Photographic

    House at the corner of Main and Hiller streets - Bowditch house. Richard Harding Davis's "workshop," it was later the temporary residence of Franklin Delano Roosevelt when under the care of Dr. McDonald, and later the residence of Admiral Byrd. According to information recorded by Ed Tripp (former curator), the house is where RHD wrote some of his novels and short stories.

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    Richard Harding Davis "workshop"
  16. 2008.001.016 - Digital photograph

    Wharf Village - The Edward Hamblin Cottage, called "Daddy's" in this real-photo view dating from the 1920s, was built in 1780 at 9 Main Street, where Hiller Street turns to the right to intersect with Main at the corner of the picket fence. As a rental property, the building housed a number of distinguished guests-including the author and journalist Richard Harding Davis, who rented rooms as his writing study (he wrote his novel Soldiers of Fortu...

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    Daddy's, Edward Hamblin Cottage, Marion, Mass.
  17. 2008.007.080 - Digital image

    President Franklin D. Roosevelt (left) and Dr. William McDonald swimming

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    Digital image
  18. 2008.007.081 - Digital image

    President Franklin D. Roosevelt (right) and Dr. William McDonald. Second photogragph: Dr. McDonald is on the right, FDRs valet is on the left.

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    Digital image
  19. 2008.015.042 - Digital image

    Wharf Village - 9 Main Street -built in 1780, Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt stayed here as did Amiral Byrd. It also served as a workshop for Richard Harding Davis

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    Digital image
  20. 2010.005.001 - Booklet

    A 48 page booklet containing a series of 10 New Bedford Standard-Times articles titled "My Recollections of the Roosevelts" by Mrs. Charles S. Hamlin. They were published in December of 1950. She summered in Mattapoisett and was prominent in Washington, D. C. through personal activity in the Democratic Party. Mrs. Hamlin's circle of acquaintances included many eminent persons.

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    My Recollections of the Roosevelts

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