1871 view from the tower of the old City Hall.


  Baby shoes, ca. 1900

  Anthony’s Hawthorne restaurant, Oxford Street, ca. 1950.

Charles Buffum and Company, shoe manufacturers, 37 Willow Street, 1879.

Untitled [Tree with View of Shore], ca. 1895, by Edward Burrill, Jr.


“Clement Drew 2”: [?] Head, Mount Desert [ME], 1886, oil on board. Gift of Frances N. Easterbrooks


“Clement Drew 3”: Minot’s Light Northeast Gale, 1886, oil on board. Gift of Frances N. Easterbrooks.

“Clement Drew 1”: View of Minot’s Light from North Shore, 1886, oil on board. Gift of Frances N. Easterbrooks.

Map of Lynn by Alonzo Lewis, 1829.


GAR medal: original owner unknown, ca. 1866-1870. Medal given to any member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Donor unknown.


Portrait of Charles Dow as a child, ca. 1840. School of Mathew Prior (1806-1873) or Sturtevant Hamblen (1823-1856). Gift of David R. Richard.

Portrait of Annie Dow as a child, ca. 1840. School of Mathew Prior (1806-1873) or Sturtevant Hamblen (1823-1856). Gift of David R. Richard.

Untitled mixed-media painting of an Eastern Orthodox Bishop, ca. 1975, by Bob Moody. Gift of Bob Moody.

  Enamel pendant, ca. 1970. Gift of Barbara Poole.

Making room of Brophy Brothers Shoe Company, Central Ave. , 1898

  Traditional Greek boy’s costume, ca. 1950. Gift of Sophia Pappas.

Greek School on the steps of St. George’s Church, ca. 1918

  Lynn’s last surviving Civil War veterans, Memorial Day, 1939.

Portrait of Mrs. Virginia Newhall and her children, ca. 1910, by Frank Benson. Bequest of Benjamin Newhall, Jr.

Original High Rock Tower, built in 1847 and burned in 1865.

Thomson Wagonette electric car built at GE in 1897.