Each week, Jeff Henry, a dedicated researcher at the Westford Museum, selects an intriguing artifact or a group of artifacts from our collection to present to you. We invite you to discover the rich stories they tell.
Featured Artifact of the Week
Box This is a lacquered wood box from China that contains a silk shawl. The box is black with a gold-painted picture on the cover and measures 17-1/4 inches long
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Shawl This beautiful shawl once belonged to Mary Elizabeth Richardson Fletcher (1847-1922), a founding member of the Tadmuck Club and an organist at the Unitarian church. She was celebrated for
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Gift Certificate Tiki Lau Gift Certificate envelope. It measures 7.5″ x 4″. The paper is off white with red printing. It reads: Tiki Lau Gift Certificate “A Gift that is
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Photographs Two photographs of Westford Academy taken by Charles L. Hildreth in 1928. It is the Roudenbush Community Center today. Trees are visible in the foreground, while Frost School, now
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Decorative Plaque Decoupage wooden plaque created by Nancy Hall Bissell as a Christmas gift in the late 1960s. It measures 13″ x 7.5″ x 0.75″. The plaque features six photographs
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Decorative Bowl Tole bowl, tin, that was hand-stenciled by Alice Viola Swenson Day (1906-1991). She was married to Walter Otis “Otey” Day (1891-1994), who ran a poultry farm in town.
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Commemorative Plate 10” commemorative Plate highlighting 1776 American Independence and George Washington. It depicts Carver, Bradford, Winslow, Brewster, and Standish in a shoreline scene. The plate is part of the
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Bread Maker Metal, mechanical bread maker made around 1904. It was marketed as Universal #4, and was made by Landers, Frary & Clark. A bread recipe is readable on the lid.
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Meat Grinder Universal brand #1 meat grinder. Universal #2 was also marketed as “The Universal Food Chopper.” These were made as early as 1897, based on the associated patent. 10