Program, 3 record albums, cassette tapes, chrome movie film, scrapbook. Items relating to the Anniversary Choral Concert.
Official collection name: The 250th Anniversary Committee Records, 1965-1967
Location: Shelving
Local identifier: LH.034
Creator: The 250th Anniversary Committee
Date: 1965-1967
Extent: 1.5 linear feet (one box)
Subject: Celebrations–Westborough (Mass.)
Seasonal programs for American Legion Baseball.
Official collection name: Westborough American Legion Baseball Programs, 1973-1992
Location: Shelving
Local identifier: LH.038
Creator: Westborough American Legion Baseball
Date: 1973-1992
Extent: 2 folders
Subject: American Legion baseball; Little League baseball–Westborough (Mass.)
Photographs, meeting minutes, correspondence, certificates, and membership records.
Official collection name: Records of the American Legion Stowell-Parker Post 163
Former name: Membership Records for the Earle B. Stowell Post No. 163 of the American Legion
Location: Shelving and processing.
Local identifier: LH.025
Creator: Earle B. Stowell Post No. 163 of the American Legion
Date: 1918 – 2014
Extent: In processing as of 10/18/18.
Subject: American Legion–Westborough (Mass.)
Architectural drawings of 18 West Main Street, the Forbes Building, and one for a Post Office that apparently was never built.
Official collection name: Architectural Drawings Collection
Location: Roll Box
Local identifier: LH.057
Creator: Westborough Public Library
Date: 1891-1950
Extent: 2 linear feet
Subject: Architectural design–Westborough (Mass.)
Online access:
Bound serials, unbound serials. Reports outside of these years appear in Westborough Town Reports.
Official collection name: Westborough Assessor’s Reports, 1853-1956, 1963, 1972
Location: Wood shelving
Local identifier: LH.049
Creator: Town of Westborough
Date: 1853-1956, 1963, 1972
Extent: 2 linear feet
Subject: Tax assessment–Westborough (Mass.)
Video casettes, film rolls, DVDs, casette tapes, reel to reel tape. Miscellaneous films, videos, and audio tapes documenting Westborough life and history, plus the Westborough Public Library Oral History Project. Also includes a CD published by the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings of a folk program recorded live at The Old Vienna Kaffeehaus in Westborough in 1993 (Box 2).
Official collection name: Audio-Video Collection
Location: Elevator Room and online
Local identifier: LH.004
Creator: Westborough Public Library
Date: Undetermined
Extent: 2 linear feet (4 boxes)
Subject: Westborough (Mass.)–Motion pictures; Westborough (Mass.)–Audiocasettes
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Newspaper clippings, brochures, pamphlets, manuscripts, photograph, and other materials about Westborough history gathered by Kristina Nilson Allen. Includes the manuscript for her book, On the Beaten Path. The collection also includes “The Suppers of the Club” cookbook, “A Collection of Historical Articles” written by Helena Engberg of the Evangelical Congregational Church,” gravestone rubbings, and Lyman School materials.
Official collection name: Kristina Nilson Allen Papers
Location: Shelving and Map Case
Local identifier: LH.032
Creator: Kristina Nilson Allen
Date: Undetermined
Extent: 1.75 linear feet (4 boxes) + map case folder
Subject: Local history–Westborough (Mass.); Westborough (Mass.)–Social life and customs
Most of the records in this collection fall between the late eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century. They document the administrative activities of the Town of Westborough, including town meetings, selectman activities, indenture servant contracts, church records, military records, and the layout of the town boundary, roads, and bridges. Genealogists will find valuable information in the Vital Records, Indentures, Military, and Church Records series.
Official collection name: Historical Records of the Town of Westborough: Administrative Documents
Location: Shelving and Oversize
Local identifier: OD.001
Creator: Town of Westborough
Date: 1724-1929
Extent: 3 linear feet (1 banker box + one oversize box)
Subject: Westborough (Mass.)–Politics and government
Online access:
Finding aid: Westborough Administrative Docs 18-01-10
Arts and culture organizational websites in Westborough, MA.
Official collection name: Westborough Arts and Culture Websites Collection
Local identifier: LH.081
Creator: Westborough Public Library
Date: 2018 – present
Subject: Arts & Humanities, Arts, Culture
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These records document the Town of Westborough’s role in forming, arming, and supplying the Westborough Unit of the Massachusetts Militia and the Continental Army through the American Revolutionary War, and they demonstrate the sacrifices the Town made to support the war effort.
Official collection name: Records of Westborough’s Involvement in the American Revolution, the Massachusetts Militia, and the Continental Army, 1774-1792
Location: Shelving and Oversize
Local identifier: OD.005
Creator: Town of Westborough, the Westborough Unit of the Massachusetts Militia and the Continental Army, and Charles H. Reed.
Date: 1774-1792
Extent: 2.5 linear feet (1 box + materials in the Military Oversize Box)
Subject: United States–History–Revolution, 1775-1783
Online access:
Finding aid: OD005 – Westborough in the American Revolution – 2021-02-08
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