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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.
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