Creator: Barbara Erkkila
Dates:  1851-1996 (bulk 1910s-1930s)
Quantity: 3.5 linear feet (3 manuscript boxes, 1 tube, 22 separate books wrapped, 800+ photographs, Quarry Room)
Addendum: 13.5 linear feet (32 manuscript boxes) [Acc. #2014.028].
Acquisition: 

Accession #: 1994.76; 1999.24; Gift of Barbara Erkkila

Accession #: 2011.20; Gift of Marcia J. Brown.

Accession #: 2014.028; Gift of the Estate of Barbara Erkkila.

Identification:  A24 ; Archive Collection #24
Citation: [Document Title]. The Barbara Erkkila Papers, [Box #, Folder #, Item #], Cape Ann Museum Library & Archives, Gloucester, MA.
Copyright:  Requests for permission to publish material from this collection should be addressed to the Librarian/Archivist.
Language: English
Finding Aid:  Linda K. Johnson, 2006; Addendum: Linda K. Johnson, 2011; Christine Virden, 2024.

 

Barbara Louise Howell Erkkila Ricker was born in Boston on July 11, 1918. She was he second daughter of John Waldron (aka Dauris) and Adelia Parsons Jones Howell. Around 1920 her father was killed in a motorcycle accident leaving her mother to raise the family of three girls: Grace (1911), the oldest, Barbara and Muriel, who was born in 1919. Originally from Lanesville, Mrs. Howell brought her daughters back to Cape Ann to live. In the early 1930’s she met and married her second husband, Grover Cleveland Crowell, and had three more children Richard, Marjorie and Stephen.

Barbara grew up surrounded by the quarries she would later research and write about, and became fascinated with the tools used in the industry. According to an article she wrote for the Boston Globe her blacksmith grandfather would take her to the quarries and “admonished her to always remember how important the granite industry is.”

She graduated from Gloucester High School in 1936, where she was an honor student all four years. After high school she worked as a stenographer and traffic manager at the Russia Cement Co (later Lepages).

On April 27, 1941, she married Onni R. Erkkila son of John and Hilma Erkkila of Lanesville. Onni’s father was a granite cutter. They had three children: John born in 1942 (married to Betty Kielinen of Rockport), Kathy born 1947, and Marjorie born 1948. While raising her children Barbara found time to study Russian at Boston University night school from 1959 to 1962.

Barbara began to work for the Gloucester Daily Times straight out of High School in 1936, in 1953 she became a feature writer, and later served as women’s editor, community news editor, freelance article writer for magazines, editor of the weekly magazine for Essex County Newspapers, editorial asst. and photographer. She retired from the newspaper in 1985. She also taught evening classes in Russian at the Ipswich public Schools and designed jewelry.

During the war she was on the price panel for the Office of Price Administration from 1944-46. She also was a member of the ARC nurse’s aide class at Addison Gilbert Hospital 1942-43.

For several years she served as a member of the Gloucester Historical Commission and as Secretary of the Lanesville Community Center. She also found time to be active in Girl Scouts.

A certified genealogist, she belongs to the Sandy Bay Historical Society, Ohio Genealogical Society, Delaware Genealogical Society and Virginia Genealogical Society. She was also appointed a granite industry consultant at the Cape Ann Historical Society.

She is a charter member of the North Shore Rock and Mineral Club and a member of the North Shore Button Club.

She is the author of several books and articles covering Cape Ann among them: Hammers on Stone, 1980, Village at Lanes Cove, 1989, and was the editor of the Lanes Cove cookbook 1954. She is currently working on a book about the New England Quarry Industry.

In 1981, her husband Onni was killed tragically in a motorcycle accident in Gloucester. In 1998 while researching gang saws (a multiblade machine used for cutting granite) a mason friend told her to write to Ashton Ricker, who knew how to run one. Mutual interests blossomed into romance and in February 2000, they were married in Chelmsford, Mass. She was 81 and he 86. They resided in Chelmsford, Mass. At 95 years of age, Barbara Louise (Howell) Erkkila passed away on December 14th, 2013.

 

The bulk of the contents of the original donation (Accession # 1994.78) are related to Lanesville and the Cape Ann quarrying industry.

Other items include Finnish books, diaries, receipts and photos of the people of Cape Ann.

 

Of Note:

-Large collection of photographs dealing with the quarries and Cape Ann, most notably Lanesville.

-Plans for the New York Holland Tunnel

-Tracings from the original “plans and section” of the Bunker Hill Monument by Simon Willard

-A framed original the regulations of the Lane’s Cove Pier Co.

-Large collection of artifacts pertaining to the quarry industry, tools, photos, granite blocks, ephemera including a small model of a galamander. These items are located in the quarry room at the Cape Ann Historical Society.

-5 year diary kept by Lanesville native Rudolph Karttonen c 1936 covers some local and national events

-Address by Rev.W.C. Wood on the occasion of the opening of the Lanesville Library 1872

-Records of the Cape Ann # 55 Knights of Pythias

-Ledger books of the Quarry Workers Union -Finnish books

-Loose file and book containing business receipts

 

Series I: Quarry Industry

This series contains items relating to the quarry industry, including maps, blueprints, photos, ephemera, tools, and ledger books.

Series II: Cemetery Records

This series contains loose zeroxed folders of records for the Sandy Bay Folly Cove, Bay View, Bridge Street, Ancient burying ground, and Lanes Cove cemeteries

Series III: Lanesville, Finns, and Misc. Cape Ann Ephemera

Series IV: Addendum [2014.028] - Not fully processed; initial inventory seen below in "Container List." Covers subjects and topics in series I-III to be integrated at a later date.

 

Box 1

Series I: Quarry Industry

Book: Holland Tunnel contract 15 Architectural finish for the New York approaches contract drawings 1-50 dated 1928

Book: Holland Tunnel contract No 16 Architectural finish for New Jersey approaches drawings 1-53 dated 1928

Loose-leaf notebook: Advanced Training Course (1950-1951 season) for the production of granite

Bound manual: Report of Proceedings Apprentice Training Conference held in Boston September 15-25 1926. Belonged to George A.Ricker Rockport

Folder 1:

Blueprints for the assembly of: gang saw (straight cut gang model E), gang saw pump pit, and pump pit gang saw. Patch and Wegner Company.

Folder 2: Misc. papers of the Rockport Granite Co.

Some of these papers were given to Barbara from the late Alfred Czerepak Stock certificate dated 1864 sold by Anna Fiske in 1873 [removed to Granite Exhibit, 2014]

Shipping and bill of lading dated 1900 for schooner Rebecca M. Smith.

3 bills for kegs of gunpowder from Charles J. Gray, 1900, 1901. [1900 removed to Granite Exhibit, 2014]

Misc. Scraps of paper.

Memos e.g. Slp Albert Baldwin 670lbs old rigging.

Misc. receipts 1910-11

Ad for Crosby Clips.

List of Estimated Jobs, 1917

Rockport Granite Co. Fireman’s Report, 1909

Folder 3:

Four tracings of Bunker Hill Monument. Willard’s plans and sections. Copy from the Boston Public Library

Folder 4:

Site maps and blueprints for the upper and lower quarry pit Rockport Granite.

Blueprint of the former land owned by Pigeon Cove Granite Company dated 1881 showing Bay State Pit

Map dated 1895, highway map to quarry pit Rockport and Pigeon Cove (Flat Ledge)

Map Pigeon Hill Granite dated March 6, 1898, upper pit where man was killed

 

Box 1 cont.

Folder 5:

Partial photocopy of a letter dated February 28, 1959 from the Galamander shop Vinalhaven, Maine to Barbara Erkkila

Architectural Granite Catalog dated 1931 (Boston, Mass)

Trow and Holden Catalogues stone cutting tools Barre, Vermont, 1931 & 1996

Reprint of an article from Engineering News February 25, 1915 “The manufacture of Granite paving blocks.”

Pinel Tool Co. catalog #3 Quincy, Mass

 

Included in this series but wrapped separately are the following:

Round tube containing the plans for the Holland Tunnel New York Van Dyke entrance

Books 1: 

Treasurer’s cashbook 1925-1926

Treasurer’s cashbook 1933-1936

These books appear to have belonged to the Quarry Union and contain lists of money taken in and expended. Fred E. Jacobsen kept the books, which contain salary, dues, hall rentals and other expenditures. Aid from Barre Vermont April 1935. June 1925-26 shop stewards allowances, hall rentals, officer’s salaries, money to coal miners (Jan. 1926) strike donations August 1926.

Books 2-18

Set of 17 ledgers of the Quarry Workers International Union Branch 86 Rockport, Mass organized Feb 3, 1906. These books cover the years 1906-1934 and contain lists of quarry workers and the dues paid to Union. Some of the books contain separate pages for members over 60. The book (11) covering the year’s 1927-1930 list Rockport members only.

The quarry room at the Cape Ann Historical contains tools, model of galamander, compressor and ephemera given with this collection.

800 plus photos are located in the photo archive collection in the Library.

 

Box 1A

Series I Quarry Industry (items removed from permanent Quarry Exhibit in 2013)

Folder 1:

Booklet: Agreement of Cape Ann Branch of Granite Cutters’ International Assoc. of America, 1938 (2 copies)

Rockport Granite Co. receipt book ‘Estimate of Paving Blocks’ 1919. Names of workers.

Luggage tags, Rockport Granite Co.: Plans of Registry of Deeds Bldg, Salem, MA; AM Industrial Bank; Ekstrom Monument; Keith Theatre; Hamm Bldg; Winter’s Nat’l Bank; Bankers Building; SSKresge, Boston, MA; Times Publishing Co., Erie, PA; People’s Bank, Steelton, PA; Wm. Glidden accident to eye, April 3, 1911

Loose:

5 small (6.5 x 2.5) account books contains hours worked and amount of blocks cut. Leroy Ford owned one. One titled ‘weights’ giving some vessel names & stone loaded.

Set of 2 account books from the Rockport Granite Company dated 1915 used in estimating paving blocks

Small envelope containing:

1) Constitution of the Granite Cutters International Association of America January 1, 1941

2) 24 years of dues cards (Granite Cutters International Assoc.) Louis Fingel Johnson covering years 1918-1942.

3) Louis Johnson honorary card Granite Cutters International Association July 1, 1943

4) Union catechism for the American Federation of Labor 1939

 

Folder 2: Returned from Auditorium exhibit in 2024. Originally put on display in 2014:

Shipping slip for Rockport Granite Co., paving blocks to the ‘Jersey Flats’ on sch. J. Henry Edmunds, 1899

2 Rockport Granite Co. order sheets with sketch & dimensions of blocks.

Luggage tags, Rockport Granite Co.: Bellmore & Merrick Ave. Bridges, Southern State Park Way; Bank Bldg Central Trust & Tile Co., Erie, PA; Chicago Telephone Co.’ Rialto Theatre, Chicago. Plymouth Cordage, Boston, Elks Memorial, Detroit, Theatre Bldg, Philipsburg, Independent Park, Beverly, Kansas City Library.

Cancelled check Rockport Granite Co. to Edward H. Brown, 1889

3 booklets:

Constitution of the Granite Cutters’ International Assoc. of America, 1905 Constitution of the Quarry Workers’ International Union, 1920 By-laws of Cape Ann Branch of the Granite Cutters’ International Assoc. of America, 1914

Business card of William R. Cheves, High St. Quarry, Lanesville

2 Granite Cutters’ International Assoc contribution cards for Louis Johnson, 1918 & undated; contribution card & envelope for the Quarry Workers’ International Union, Louis Johnson, 1930.

Weekly payment of wages for August, 1909, Rockport Granite Co., names of workers and amounts.Post card showing a granite fountain made by the Rockport Granite Company

Loose:

Small (6.5 x 2.5) account books contains hours worked and amount of blocks cut kept by Charles Chapman, 1897-1898.

 

Box 2

Series II Cemetery Records

Folder 1: 

Xeroxed copies of records for Sandy Bay Folly Cove ancient burial ground William Dolliver report 1896 (90 pages)

Folder 2:

Duplicate pages Gloucester cemetery records

Folder 3:

Records for Bay View, Bridge Street, Gloucester and Lanes Cove cemeteries (204 zeroxed pages)

Folder 4:

Partial copy of the Essex Antiquarian dated Jan. 1905 Gloucester inscriptions Ancient Burying ground

 

Box 3

Series III Lanesville, Finnish people and misc. Cape Ann ephemera

Books:

Hard cover Lasten Kirja used by children in Finnish language Sunday School 1922. (owned by Lilja Erkkila)

Finnish/English Cook-Book, Perhe = Kokkikirja, 1906

Sanakirja Ja Lavseoppi English-Finnish dictionary, 1911 Neilsen and Lundbeck NY

2 small hardbound songbooks Laulava Toivonliitto [Songs of Praise?] 1947 (stamped Valon-Leimu Temperance Society Rockport, Mass)

5 year dairy dated August 14, 1936 (but running 1935 - 1939) kept by Rudolph Ludwig Karttonen of Lanesville . Many entries about work and school. Mentions the tearing down of the old Post office in 1938, his 19th birthday, graduation and a marathon which took place July 4, 1935 The Rockport Town Team defeated Lynn Electric 4-3 on July 4th 1935. One entry in 1938 says, “Europe is troubled and America is doubling aircraft defenses.” Dec 1936 an entry mentions the new Social Security Act and in 1935 a new game called Monopoly is developed.

Loose-leaf notebook seems to be a guest book 1972-1973 Ellery House?

Small diary by unknown Annisquam woman, 1893, mentions Buhler, sketching, painting, Lobster Cove, etc.

Small book Address by Rev. W.C. Wood on the opening of the Lanesville Library 1872. Hand drawn sketch of Jacob’s well on the frontispiece. First printed catalogue of the library and newspaper clipping of the opening pasted in at the back. Handwritten list of the subscribers dated 1862.

Bound binder dated 1907-1909 owned by Rufus McLellan of Lanesville includes all the invoices he received during those years

Loose: Small scroll of map of Lanesville (from Walling 1851)

 

Box 3 cont.

Folder 1:

Papers in reference to Warren Lane’s early business found in Ms Idah Austin’s papers:

Bills from Smith & Pool, 1877; L.E. Smith; Dr. L. Saunders, 1878; J.L. Andrews & Sons, 1870; Albert Lane, 1879; E.W. Harriman, 1873

Narragansett Fire Insurance Policy, 1869

Tax Receipts 1868-1889 (some years missing)

Probate petitioning that Warren Lane be made guardian of Warren Sargent and Alphonso Sargent dated Jan. 1867 minor children of Sarah Ann Sargent who died 1866; also a probate letter affirming guardianship.

Bills from Louis Palelli, 1942 (for new house 1100 Washington St for Ida Austin after she retired from the Folly Cove Inn); Jesse M. Main, 1950; Tidewater Engineering Co., 1942

Folder 2:

2 dance cards for the 3rd Grand Ball at Seaside Brotherhood Christmas Eve Dec. 24, 1894

Dance card for the Grand Anniversary Concert and Ball April 18, 1895 at Lanesville Rink

Dance card for the 26th anniversary Cape Ann Lodge Lanesville Rink Dec. 1, 1897

Program 82nd Annual Convention, Spirian Lodge #98, 1981, in observance of the 75th anniversary (1981) of the Vasa order of America

Edward Lane Memoranda (small notebook) with hours worked and jobs done.

Calendar dated 1944 with Gloucester scenes

The Finns in America, Finland and other writings of John I Kolehmainen Heidelberg College. (small pamphlet bibliography)

4 leather bound books containing the records of the Cape Ann Lodge #55 Knights of Pythias Lanesville covering the years 1878-1939 are wrapped separately

Located in the back room of the CAHS library in Box P27 are papers relating to Mayor David Robinson. Barbara gave these papers with her collection but specified they should be a gift from the Robinson sisters.

 

Addendum Marcia J. Brown A# 2011.20

Box 4

Series I Quarry Industry

Rolled photograph of Fletcher Quarry 1921. ( May have been located in Westford, Mass)

1. Quarry Workers branch 86, Rockport, Mass 1906-1908

2. Lanesville branch 81 an 1907 in Italian ,to Sept 1908, April 1, 1909 to June 5, 1914

3. Finnish list 1st section 1913-1914, 1914 -1916 . In English Oct 1920- Sept 1921. Rockport branch # 80 Quarry Workers International Union.

4. Treasurers Report. Quarry Workers International Union Branch 81 Lanesville. 1915 - 1916 some 1918

5. Cash Book Lanesville Branch #81 1918 -1920

6. Treasurer’s Cash Book Lanesville Branch #81 1922 - 1924

7. Treasurer’s Cash Book 1927 -1931

8. Cash Book Lanesville Branch #81 1929 -1931

9. 2. Account Book Quarry Workers branch # 86 Rockport/Pigeon Cove 1907 - 1911. In Finnish

 

Box 5

Series I Quarry Industry

1. Account Book Jan 1906- Dec1911.

2. Account Book Quarry Workers Branch #81 Lanesville. July 1910 - Dec 1913

3. Account Book Oct 1, 1914 - Nov 6, 1914

4 Account Book Lanesville Sept 1921 - Nov 4, 1921

5. Ledger Rockport Branch Union records 1924 -1926 6. Account Book 1935-1937 ( Fred Jacobsen)

 

Addendum: Gift of the Estate of Barbara Erkkila, 2014 [Acc. #2014.028].

Box 1 - Personal Life, family photos

                  Folder 1- Family Photos

                  Folder 2- Personal items

Folder 3- Personal Correspondence

Folder 4- Trip to Russia 1960, some photos

Folder 5- Russia materials

Folder 6- Articles about Russia written by Barbara Erkkila

Folder 7- Motorcycle interests

Box 2 - Barbara Erkkila Notes and research

                  Folder 1- Notes and memos

                  Folder 2-Notes, 2 spiral notebooks

                  Folder 3- Notes

                  Folder 4- Notes. Mostly quarry

                  Folder 5- Misc correspondence and notes on granite and quarry

 

Box 3 - Barbara Erkkila Correspondence

                  Folder 1- Miscellaneous correspondence

                  Folder 2- Miscellaneous correspondence

                  Folder 3-Granite topics, correspondence

                  Folder 4- Dogtown correspondence

                  Folder 5- Miscellaneous correspondence

Box 4 - Barbara Erkkila Correspondence labeled by business or people*

Folders 1-62 need to be numbered

 

Box 5 - Barbara Erkkila Correspondence labeled by business or people*

Folders – 1-46 need to be numbered

 

Box 6 - Gloucester Daily Times and other articles written by Barabara Erkkila

                  Folder 1- Barbara Erkkila Articles with photos

                  Folder 2- Gloucester Daily Times articles

                  Folder 3- GDT articles, some with photos

                   

Box 7 - Barbara Erkkila Photos Collection

                  Folder 1- Misc photos, some ID

                  Folder 2- Misc photos

                  Folder 3- Photo notes and sleeves

 

Box 8 - Barbara Erkkila Photo Collection with negatives and info on some photos

                  Folder 1- Negatives / ledger about negatives/ info about negatives

                  Folder 2- Historical Photos collection of Barbara Erkkila

                  Folder 3- No ID photos

                  Folder 4- Lists and info about photos

 

Box 9 - Barbara Erkkila photos and Foster photos

                  Folder 1- Gloucester Daily Times photos

                  Folder 2- Foster photos

                  Folder 3- Identified photos by Barbara Erkkila, mostly people

 

Box 10 - Quarry Industry – tools and notes on tools

                  Folder 1- 5 Quarry Industry

                  Folder 6- Concrete

                  Folder 7-13 Tools

                  Folder 14-Drawings

Box 11 - Granite /Quarry Photos

                  Folder 1- photocopies, labeled 1-20, slide photos

                  Folder 2 – oversize photos, some identified, early original photos          

 

Box 12 - Granite /Quarry photos, historical letter and reminiscence

                  Folder 1- Miscellaneous info on quarries

                  Folder 2- glass negatives photos

                  Folder 3- Stone gallery photos

                  Folder 4- Providence Granite Co. Pidgeon Cove

                  Folder 5- Bay View Photos

                  Folder 6- Lanesville Quarry Photos

                  Folder 7-Quarry Reminiscences, Manninen from Lanesville

                  Folder 8-Quarry Worker letter, Rockport Granite Co., George Robertson, early 1900s

                  Folder 9- Harper’s Magazine, Quarries of Cape Ann

Box 13 - Granite Monuments and Buildings

                  Folder 1- Bunker Hill Monument and notes; correspondence

                  Folder 2- A G MacInnes New York City

                  Folder 3- Ultimate Granite Co Pavers- main St Gloucester 1941

                  Folder 4- Scotland Granite

                  Folder 5- Myles Standish Monument

                  Folder 6- Boston Post office

                  Folder 7- Boston Customs House

                  Folder 8- Peabody Essex Museum

                  Folder 9- Bridges, notes

                  Folder 10-Granite Buildings, notes

                  Folder 11- Old Stone Museum, VT

                  Folder 12-Granite Buildings photos

                  Folder 13- Rockport Meadow Granite Steps

Box 14 - Pave cutters, paving notes, granite cutters

                  Folder 1- Misc Quarry info- map of Cape Ann Quarries

                  Folder 2- Pave cutters notebook

                  Folder- 3 Granite paving notes

                  Folder 4- Cover of Granite Paving Block, Granite Manu Assoc.

                  Folder 5-List of Loads from Hickory St

                  Folder 6- Granite Cutter Ribbon Badge

                  Folder 7- Quarry company notes

                  Folder 8- Granite notes

                  Folder 9-Ed Roth woodcutter notes- notes for article

                  Folder 10- John Sharp Diary and notes 1896-1903, quarry worker

                  Folder 11- Cutters Prices early 1900s, Cape Ann Bank, ephemera

Box 15 - Granite Business Correspondence* folders need numbering

                  Folders 1-23

Box 16 - Rockport Granite Company*   more folders need numbering

                  Folder 1- Rockport Company photos

                  Folder 2- Halibut Point Museum

                  Folder 3- Bill of Sale, Canney 1894

                  Folder 4- Rockport Granite Company catalogue customer list

                  Folder 5-Rockport Granite Company Store

                  Folder 6- Rockport Granite Company correspondence 1864-69

                  Folder 7- Indentures 1925

                  Folder 8-Indenture Release – Elizabeth P Williams to Rockport Granite Co., 1929

                  Folder 9- Correspondence Indentures 1926

                  Folder 10- Indentures 1926

                  Folder 11-Indentures 1905/06

                  Folder 12- Correspondence Rockport Granite Company topics

                  *More folders- need to be numbered

Box 17 - Gloucester, Rockport, Annisquam materials, notes, photos

                  Folder 1- Gorton’s

                  Folder 2- Dogtown

                  Folder 3- City Hall

                  Folder 4- 5   Receipts and letterheads

Folder 6- Early Annisquam

Folder 7- Rockport notes

Folder 8- Wheeler School, Rockport

Folder 9 -Rockport hotel

Folder 10- Straitsmouth Inn, Rockport

Folder 11- Cape Ann Photos

Folder 12-Cape Ann Maps

Folder 13- Bay View Firehouse – handwritten letter

Box 18 - Lanesville notes, materials, photos

                  Folder 1- Stagecoach

                  Folder 2- Lanesville notes

                  Folder 3- Red Light 1872

                  Folder 4- Lanesville newsletter

                  Folder 5-Lanesville school photos

                  Folder 6-Lanesville photos

                  Folder 7-Lanesville receipts

                  Folder 8- Maps- Quarry

                  Folder 9-Lanesville History notes

                  Folder 10- Rockledge Camp

Box 19 - Churches on Cape Ann, materials.  photos

                  Folder 1- Church photos

                  Folder 2- St Paul, Lanesville

                  Folder 3- Congregational, Lanesville

                  Folder 4- St Ann’s, Gloucester

                  Folder 5- Sacred Heart, Lanesville

                  Folder 6- Universalist, Gloucester

                  Folder 7- St Johns, Gloucester

                  Folder 8-Congregational, Rockport

                  Folder 9- Congregational, Manchester

                  Folder 10- Congregational, Essex

                  Folder 12- Church of the Wilderness

                  Folder 13- Temple, Gloucester

                  Folder 14- Our Lady of Good Voyage, Gloucester

Folder 15- Methodist, Bay View

Folder 16- Photos- Baptist church stone to Fitz Henry Lane House

Folder 17- Congregational Trinitarian Church, West Gloucester

 

Box 20 - Barbara Erkkila Research, notes on Finns*

                  Folder 1- Walker Hancock, Lincoln Statue

                  Folder 2- Ocean Research

                  Folder 3- Fish Houses, Folly Cove

                  Folder 4- Bibliographies

                  Folder 5- Historical notes, 49ers, sea serpent

                  Folder 6- Sargent genealogy

                  Folder 7- Misc notes

                  Folder 8- Finns? Finish numbering folders

Box 21- Art and Festival local pamphlets, notes

Folder 1- Cape Ann Symphony

Folder 2- Seaport Festival

Folder 3- Cape Ann Festival

Folder 4- Police Ball

Folder 5- Folk Life misc.

Folder 6- Radio, TV

Folder 7 Rockport Legion Band

Folder 8-North Shore Theater

Folder 9- Sylvester Ahola, Jazz Trumpeter

Folder 10- Sylvester Ahola- autographed materials and ephemera

Box 22 - Ships, Shipwrecks, articles and photos, Notebook

Folder 1- Stone sloops

Folder 2- History of ships, granite notes

Folder 3 – Capt. Reuben Cameron – schooner

Folder 4- USS Constitution

Folder 5- Lost ships

Folder 6- Misc notes-

Folder 7- Barbara Erkkila Articles on ships

Folder 8- Ship articles collected by Barbara Erkkila

Folder 9 – Sourcouf

Folder 10-Ship Photos

Notebook- Barbara Erkkila notes

Folder 11- Pediment Book- stone boats

Box 23 - Village at Lane Cove original draft

Box 24 - Village at Lanes Cove draft

Box 25 - Village at Lanes Cove – before 1989 draft

Box 26 - Village at Lane Cove   Drafts, edits and Final Version on CD

Folder 1- Greg Gibson edits

Folder 2- Photo IDs of Lanes Cove

Folder 3- 4 Drafts

Folder 5- Index of Lanes Cove

Folder 5- CD of Village at Lanes Cove

Box 27 - Village at Lanes Cove materials, chapter, copies of book

Folder 1- 10 Pound Island

Folder 2- Correspondence about book and family

Folder 3- misc. materials

Folder 4- Drafts

Folder 5- Chapter about Fosters

Folder 6- Copies of book

Box 28 - Photos from Village at Lane Cove

                  Box of photos

Box 29 - Hammers in Stone original manuscript

Autograph calendar

Original manuscript

Box 30 - Hammers in Stone draft and related materials

                  Folder 1- Correspondence

                  Folder 2- Photo expenses

Folder 3-Attorney

Folder 4-Illustration permits

Folder 5- Copyright

Folder 6- Royalties

Box 31- Cahota and Civil War

Folder 1- Cahota, Edward Day

Folder 2- Correspondence. Thomas Leila to Barbara Erkkila - Cahota

Folder 3- Photos, Cahota

Folder 4- Civil War notes

Folder 5- Civil War photos


Box 32 - Films and slides –Barbara Erkkila Trip to Russia