Collections
 

     Collections in the Sandwich Historical Society Museum in the Elisha Marston House are remarkable for their quality and variety. The museum houses objects which were originally owned by early Sandwich families. Particularly extensive collections include early tools, house furnishings and textiles. Most of the furnishings are appropriate to the modest homes of the farmers, artisans, and shopkeepers of the 19th  century who lived and worked in Sandwich.

     The work of early local painters, Albert Gallatin Hoit, Fred G. Quimby and summer resident E. Wood Perry, are well represented in our current collection.

     Each winter a major exhibit utilizing the museum's collections is prepared and is open throughout the summer. Recent exhibits have featured the Quimby School of Sandwich, the development of spinning, basket makers of Sandwich, early maps and twentieth century Sandwich crafts. The 2007 Summer exhibit, "Love and Loss in Sandwich", featured the Society's costume collection.
 

The Sandwich Historical Society would like to thank everyone who donated to the collection in 2010:

Object Collection additions:

Scythe and Whetstone- Gift of Joan Beach Little

Wall Telephone- Gift of June Nicoli

Iron Bar for stone masonry- Gift of Bob Wright

1939 Sandwich Fair Basket- Gift of James O’Neil

3 Maple Canes and 1 Cedar Cane- Gift of Robin Dustin

Archival Collection additions:

Copy of the Roster of the Sandwich Militia, Dec. 25, 1782-Gift of John and Dorothy Taylor

Photograph Collection additions:

Photo of Robert Russell and Mary Welsh- Gift of Geoff Burrows

Photo of: Arthur George Family, Margaretta Bickford, Robin and David Gotshall, 1950 Quimby School Graduates, 1976 Bicentennial parade, Quimby School Alumni Banquet, Squam Lake and Red Hill- Gift of Joan Beach Little

Photos of the Colonel Joseph Wentworth House- Gift of Susan H. Bell