Find Original Materials & Primary Sources

We have many archival manuscript materials and collections (i.e., documents, letters, news clippings, etc.) in Special Collections, which we have arranged and described to help you determine whether a collection is relevant to your research. The arrangement and description are combined to create a finding aid (or inventory) of each collection, which details the contents and provides background information. Below you will find PDF finding aids for each collection.

This complete A to Z list includes all archival manuscript collections and finding aids at Haverhill Public Library. Click on a letter to jump to a collection title or use Ctrl+F to search this page using keywords, such as surnames and names of organizations and businesses. Click on the collection title to open the finding aid in new tab.

 

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Agawam Club Records

Also includes: Intervale Tennis Club, Pentucket Club

Ayer Family Papers

Also includes: Chesley family, Plummer family

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Richard E. Becker Papers

Also includes: Boy Scouts, Lone Tree Council, Yankee Clipper Council

Bradford College Collection

Also includes: Bradford Academy, Bradford Junior College, Zion Bible College, Northpoint Bible College

Bradford Public Library Records

Also includes: Bradford Library Association

Bradford Saturday Evening Club Records
Bradford Shakespeare Club Records
Brickett Family Papers
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Centre Congregational Church

Also includes: Center Congregational Church

Clifford Hoffman Chase Papers
Corliss Family Papers

Also includes: Poplar Lawn

Crowell Family Papers

Also includes: Caroline Corliss Crowell, Consulting Board of Physicians and Surgeons at Danvers Asylum

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James Duncan, Jr. Papers

Also includes: James Duncan and Son (firm), Rebekah (ship), Buttonwoods

Samuel W. Duncan Papers

Also includes: Essex Agricultural Society, Albert Gorton Greene

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Eclectic Club Records
Emerson Family Papers

Also includes: Chas. Emerson & Sons, Frame family

Emerson-Smith Family Papers

Also includes: Revolutionary War

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First Baptist Church Records

Also includes: Hezekiah Smith

First Parish Church Records

Also includes: John Ward, Dudley Phelps, First Parish Unitarian Church, First Universalist Church, Universalist Unitarian Church, Unitarian Universalist Association, Haverhill Congregational Ministerial Fund

Charles M. Fleischner Papers

Also includes: Haverhill Public Library

Fortnightly Club Records
Obed Rice Fowler Papers
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Dr. Arnold P. George Papers
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church Records

Also includes: First Methodist Episcopal Church, Good Shepard United Methodist Church, Third Methodist Episcopal Church

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Hale/Currier Family Papers

Also includes: John Charles Currier, Henry Hosford Hale, Walter Scott Hale, Waterman Smith

Harding Family Papers
Haverhill Athenaeum Records
Haverhill Cemetery Records

Includes: Bradford Burial Ground, Broadway Cemetery, Carlton Cemetery, Center Street Cemetery, Children of Israel Cemetery, Elmwood Cemetery, Greenwood Cemetery, Glynn Memorial Cemetery, Haverhill City Cemetery, Haynes Burial Ground, Hilldale Cemetery, Hillside Cemetery, Linwood Cemetery, Lithuanian Cemetery, Maplewood Cemetery, Maplewood Cemetery, Pentucket Burial Ground, Rocks Village Cemetery, Saint Gregory Cemetery, Saint James Cemetery, Saint Patrick’s Cemetery, Walnut Cemetery, West Parish Cemetery, West Haverhill Cemetery

Haverhill Children’s Aid Society Records
Haverhill Clubs Collection

Includes: Acacia Club, Arcadia Club, Boston University Club of Haverhill, Camera Club, Cheerful Circle of King’s Daughters, Crescent Motor Boat Club, Crescent Yacht Club, D.A.R. Brigadier General James Brickett Chapter, Faust Club, Forty Club, Fraternity of Shenstones, Friday Afternoon Club, Haverhill Kennel Club, Haverhill Lawn Tennis Association, Haverhill Medical Club, Haverhill Sportsman Club, Haverhill Whittier Club, Haverhill Woman’s Athletic Club, Haverhill Yacht Club, Highland Magazine Club, Holmes Club, Howes Helping Hands CB Club, Irving Club, Kenoza Country Club, Kenoza Lake Association, Ladies Monday Club, Mayflower Club, Merrimac Yacht Club, Merrimac Club, Nineteenth Century Club, Pelican Club, Puritan Mothers’ Club, Round Table Club, Roundabout Club, Saturday Book Club, Traveller’s Club, Wachusett Club, Whisker Club, Writer’s Round Table Club, Yankee Flyers Ski Club.

Haverhill College Club Records
Haverhill Community Chest Records

Also includes: United Fund of Greater Haverhill, Inc., United Way of Merrimack Valley, Inc.

Haverhill Cycle Club Records
Haverhill Day Care Center Records

Also includes: Young Women’s Building Association, Inc., Haverhill Day Nursery Association, Inc., Haverhill Day Care Center and Kindergarten

Haverhill Female Benevolent Society Records
Haverhill Historical Society Records

Also includes: Buttonwoods

Haverhill Island Club Records
Haverhill Mother’s Club Records
Haverhill Old Ladies Home Association Records

Also includes: Ladies Charitable Society, Stevens-Bennett Home

Haverhill Public Library Biographical File Collection

Materials are arranged in alphabetical order by family name. Use Ctrl+F to keyword-search the finding aid at the link.

Haverhill Public Library Greeting Card Collection
Haverhill Public Library Local History Vertical File

Primary sources concerning the city of Haverhill and surrounding towns such as Groveland, Boxford, and Atkinson, NH. Use Ctrl+F to keyword-search the finding aid at this link.

Haverhill Public Library Map Collection

Includes: Haverhill, Essex County, Merrimack Valley, Massachusetts, New England

Haverhill Union Mission Records

Also includes: Haverhill Union Mission Auxiliary

Haverhill Union Mission Scrapbooks

Haverhill Visiting Nurses Association Records

Also includes: Jane Peterson, Red Feather Services, United Way

Haverhill Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Records
Haverhill Woman’s Club Records
Haverhill Women’s Literary Union Records

Includes: Bradford Saturday Evening Club, Haverhill Book Club, Hosford Club, Leisure Hour Club, Papyrus Club, Quaere Club, Reading Guild, Saturday Book Club, XV Club

Haverhill Woman Suffrage Association Records

Also includes: Haverhill Equal Suffrage League

Joseph Haynes Family Papers

Also includes: Captain Richard Ayer, Timothy Ladd, Haverhill Committee of Safety

Hosford Club Records
Edwin Walter Howe Papers

Also includes: Mrs. John B. Mason, Haverhill Historical Society

Charles N. Hoyt Papers

Also includes: North Parish Church Ministerial Funds Trustees

Harry Elmore Hurd Papers

Also includes: Center/Centre Congregational Church

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None.
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None.
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Joseph C. Kennedy Correspondence

Also includes: Mary Jane Kennedy, Altine Greenman, World War I

Kosmos Club Records
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Leisure Hour Club Records
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Major How G.A.R. Post 47 Records
Charles C. McDuffie Papers
Isaac Merrill Diaries Collection

Also includes: Julian S. Miller

Merrimack Valley Children’s Museum Clippings
Edmund “Ted” G. Miller Collection

Also includes: Al Capp, Ham Fisher, Bob Montana

Mitchell and Company Records
Monday Evening Club Records
Bob Montana Collection

Also includes: Archie Comics, Haverhill High School, Brown and Gold

William H. Moody Papers

Also includes: Lizzie Borden, United States Supreme Court

Anne Carroll Moore Papers

Also includes: New York Public Library

John G. Moulton Papers

Also includes: Haverhill Public Library

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North Congregational Church Records

Also includes: First Congregational Church, North Parish Community Church (Plaistow, NH), Union Congregational Church, United Church of Christ

North Parish Church and North Parish Community Church Records

Also includes: First Congregational Church, Plaistow Congregational Society, Rockingham Congregational Church, United Church of Christ

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Octagon Club Records
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Papyrus Club Records
Pentucket Club Records

Also includes: Agawam Club, Duncan Mansion, Knights Templar

Portland Street Baptist Church Records

Also includes: Third Baptist Church

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Quaere Club Records
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Mike Ryan Collection

Also includes: Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox

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Saltonstall Family Collection

Also includes: Leonard W. Smith

Thomas Sanders Family Papers

Also includes: Alexander Graham Bell, Bell Telephone Company, Birchbrow, Sanders Leather Company

Lillian Shapiro Papers

Also includes: Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, World War II

Leonard W. Smith Papers

Also includes: Buttonwoods, Haverhill Historical Society

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Temple Emanu-El Oral History Project

Includes: Anne Baker, Henrietta Becker, William Benedetson, Glenna Bier, Alice Bloom, Dora Blotner, George Brindis, Alfred Brody, Sophie Brownstein, Dora Cohen, Martha Cohen, Elsie Epstein, Manny Epstein, Mae Albertson Espovich, Norman Espovich, David Fishbein, Jerome Fishbein, Frances Albertson Foreman, Julia Garbelnick, Norman Gerson, Carl Goldberg, Philip Goltz, Gussie Goralnick, Samuel Goralnick, Eva Gorevitz, Mrs. Benjamin Grad, Vinson Grad, Sarah Greenberg, Benjamin Hartman, Bessie Hershberg, Rabbi Abraham I. Jacobson, Evelyn Kaplan, Saul Karelis, George Karelitz, Ada Mandell, Max Marcus, Bert Mencis, Bennett Nesson, Anuta Rich, Nadia Rodberg, Sadie Salner, Fannie Silverman, Saul Silverman, Ida Sherman, John D. Shinberg, Louis Swartz, Dorothy Taitsman, David Watnick, Pauline Watnick, Bertha Shapiro Woodman, David Zelig

Rules and regulations pertaining to the use of this collection.

Winfield Scott Thomas WPA Collection

Also includes: Works Progress Administration

Emily Tucker Papers
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None.
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None.
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Henry Walker Family Papers

Also includes: War of 1812

WHAV Radio Station Collection

Also includes: Eagle Tribune, Haverhill Gazette, WXRV

Winnekenni Foundation Records

Also includes: Winnekenni Castle, Winnekenni Park Conservation Area

Winter Street Baptist Church Records

Also includes: First Baptist Church, Free Will Baptist Society, Randall Church, Winter Street Free Baptist Church, Winter Street Free Will Baptist Church

Women’s City Club of Haverhill Records
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XV Club Records

Also includes: Fifteen Club

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Homer P. Young, Jr. Papers

Also includes: Haverhill Public Library

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None.
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