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Tag: 1950

Block prints from the 1950 IHS calendar: Old Time Ipswich

November 14, 2022November 17, 2022 Gordon Harris3 Comments

Ipswich High School "Old Time Ipswich." featuring block prints created and printed by the students for each month of the calendar.

Posted in PhotosTagged 1950

Ipswich woman survived two train crashes on February 28, 1956!

November 12, 2021November 16, 2022 Gordon Harris7 Comments

Every day Charlotte Lindgren boarded at Ipswich Depot for her commute to Boston and back. On February 28, 1956, she was unfortunate to be in two horrible train crashes in the same morning, but survived them both unscathed.

Posted in PeopleTagged 1950, Charlotte Lindgren, February

The Hello Girls

July 24, 2021November 12, 2022 Gordon Harris3 Comments
Ipswich telephone exchange story by Harold Bowen

Harold Bowen wrote, "My family was more or less a telephone family. My father, two brothers and a sister-in-Iaw were all telephone operators. The dial system is quicker and more efficient, but it still cannot compare with that personal touch you had with the Hello Girls."

Posted in StoriesTagged 1950, Harold Bowen, telephone, women

Building a ship in Essex

March 22, 2021December 11, 2022 Gordon Harris2 Comments

By the early 1840s, Essex no longer had its own fishing fleet, but had turned to year-round shipbuilding fostering a symbiotic relationship with the successful fishermen in Gloucester

Posted in Places, VideoTagged 1950, burnham, Essex, essex boatbuilding, ships

Emma Jane Mitchell Safford

March 10, 2021October 18, 2022 Gordon Harris7 Comments
Emma Safford, Ipswich MA

Emma Jane Mitchell Safford was a descendant of Massasoit, Sachem of the Wampanoag. Her daughter, also Emma, tried to help her relatives regain land taken from them on the reservation.

Posted in PeopleTagged 1950, Native Americans, truth, women
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