The Archives Collection of the Historical Society of Old Yarmouth is constantly growing. Our climate controlled archival storage at the Gorham Cobbler Shop contains correspondence, business records, marine logs and ledgers, family papers, and various other manuscripts. Other significant collections include the maritime documents of the shipping firm of Howes and Crowell, as well as numerous ship logs, ledgers, charts, and other shipping documents.

Click each Finding Aid title to learn more about that collection

• COVID-19 Stories project

• Olive Hallet Stobbart Collection

• Town of Yarmouth Annual Reports

• Ruth Hedge Sears Finding Aid & Spreadsheet of Contents

Our other document collections include the following. Finding aids will be added for each of them as they become available.

• 350th Anniversary Collection
• Annette Kelley Collection
• Bangs Hallet Collection
• Berry Family Collection
• Bray Family Collection, 1713-1961
• Brevet Major General Joseph Eldridge Hamblin Collection
• Calvin Tilden Collection
• Caroline R. Siebens Collection
• Cyrus Sears Collection, 1861-1882
• Daniel Wing Collection
• Dorothy Howes Anderson Collection
• E. Lawrence Jenkins Collection
• Elkanah and Sturgis Crowell Collection
• Lucy Davis Collection, 1853-1904
• Kenneth Baxter Crowell Collection
• Matthews Family Collection
• Rufus White Collection
• Thacher Family Collection
• Thacher-Perera Collection

Miscellaneous materials : these archive boxes have folders that contain only a few items, not a collection. Click each box title to link to a list of its contents. To search the contents in the list use CTRL F and search in the box that appears.

• Archives Box 1

• Archives Box 2

• Archives Box 3

• Archives Box 4

• Archives Box 5

• Archives Box 6

For more information on any of these collections. Please contact us.