Newspaper

Archive

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Mattapoisett Museum

Name/Title

Newspaper

Entry/Object ID

0000.8.409

Scope and Content

New Bedford Sunday Standard newspaper article about Henry Purrington. "A 94-year-old cop at Mattapoisett who guarded ballot box". Mattapoisett has an "oldest citizen" in "Uncle Henry Purrington", who is still hale, harty and active although he has seen 94 winters. Uncle Harry [Henry?] acted as town constable at the recent state election and guarded the ballot box as zealously as any younger officer would have done.

Collection

Mendell Research

Acquisition

Accession

0000.8

Acquisition Method

Gift

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Newspaper

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Serial

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Voting

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

Nov 16, 1919

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Purrington

General Notes

Note

Status: OK Status By: Lenora Robinson Status Date: 2015-12-01

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

December 1, 2015

Updated By

Unknown

Update Date

December 1, 2015