The Haverhill City Directories offer occupation, home, and work addresses for heads of households and businesses. We have most years from 1870 to 1978.
A variety of manuscript materials organized by family name, including deeds, letters, and other primary resource documents. Search the finding aid for your family name.
An extensive collection of local and regional maps includes Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, assessor's maps, and town survey maps showing building footprints and ownership over time.
Completed in the late 1970s, a survey of most houses in Haverhill and Bradford includes a reference photo and brief description of each house, organized by neighborhood, street name, and house number.
[Not in catalog; only available onsite.]
Browsable print photographs of local places, people, and events from the late 1800s through the 1970s. Included are a house photo series and a street photo series, both organized by street name, as well a businesses series organized by business type. Digitized photos from this series are available in the Senter Digital Archive.
A collection of print photographs of each house in Haverhill in the 1970s, organized by street name and number. [Not in catalog; only available onsite.]
This collection features over 150 original watercolors and several pencil drawings of historic Haverhill houses and buildings. Check the finding aid to see if your home or family name is included.
An extensive collection of publications and documents covering multiple aspects of Haverhill history, from the shoemaking industry to local authors to urban renewal. The collection also includes a selection of city records.
This collection features primary sources concerning the city of Haverhill, including information on surrounding towns such as Groveland, Boxford, and Atkinson, NH.
The Pecker Local & Regional History Collection focuses on town histories throughout Massachusetts and New England, including rare titles that are no longer in print.
Organized by surname, this collection consists of index cards with notes on World War I military assignments, rankings, biographical notes, and news clippings for soldiers from Haverhill and the surrounding area.
[Not in catalog; only available onsite]
The Pecker Collection collection includes a section on the military history of Haverhill and the surrounding region, including Maine and New Hampshire.