Multiple Items. Four Yearbooks that she considers her yearbook project. The yearbooks mean more to her then just a book. The yearbooks begin with the Mark Hopkins School yearbook in her 5th/6th grade. The Hugh Peyton family photos and yearbooks are…
Black top hat, made of beaver skin and fabric. Has elk trademark inside hat on top (seal of Cutting & Co., a retailer that used to be in North Adams center.) Once owned by the Richmond sisters, who had inherited it from their father, and then later…
US Naval Academy yearbook of Rear Admiral Flaherty, of North Adams, who graduated from the Naval Academy in 1928. The front board and flyleaf contain the US Naval Academy motto, "Ex scientia tridens," meaning "from knowledge, seapower," in Latin and…
Hand made sugar cube holder/condiment dish made in Sheffield, England by Leonard Silver Inc. Metal unknown, possible silverplate, in shape of a basket with infinity pattern around rim. Spoon and glass bowl missing.
Newspaper article from Wednesday, August 8, 2018, about soldiers missing in action from the Berkshires, including Admiral Michael William Flaherty. Images include sub-articles by same author on the same topic.
Cup specifically designed for men with mustaches to keep them clean, accompanied by two letters requesting and imparting information on the origin of the cup, metal, possibly pewter
Newspaper article from Friday Afternoon, October 13th, 1961 announcing the promotion of North Adams native Rear Admiral Michael F.D. Flaherty to Cruiser Force Commander, U.S. Atlantic Fleet on November 2 (1961).
This newspaper clipping describes F.D. Flaherty and his promotion to being the commander of a nuclear-powered naval ship, the cruiser Long Beach. Flaherty is from North Adams.