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<rdf:Description rdf:about="https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/items/show/3499">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Polly Bartlett]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Sepia portrait of Polly Bartlett (Mrs. Asa Bartlett)]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:available><![CDATA[2009-10-27]]></dcterms:available>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Box 3d]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[19 x 21.6 cm (7.5 x 8.5 in)]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[2009-078]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[Harry L. Bates materials]]></dcterms:provenance>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/items/show/1394">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Porch Reconstruction - The Spruces]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Houses and Barns]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Reconstruction of porch on  Magargal House after January 17, 1949 snowstorm.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Magargal House  - The Spruces - Porch under construction, summer 1949]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1949-06/1949-09]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:available><![CDATA[2006-08-10]]></dcterms:available>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Helen Magargal]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:hasPart><![CDATA[CD 040923_1752]]></dcterms:hasPart>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[021030_043]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:mediator><![CDATA[enl]]></dcterms:mediator>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/items/show/1398">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Porch Reconstruction - The Spruces]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Houses and Barns]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The porch on this house collapsed in a snowstorm on January 17, 1949. Ray Magargal is repairing it.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1949-06/1949-09]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:available><![CDATA[2005-07-15]]></dcterms:available>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Helen Magargal]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:hasPart><![CDATA[CD 040923_1752]]></dcterms:hasPart>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Still Image]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[021030_047]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:mediator><![CDATA[enl]]></dcterms:mediator>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/items/show/1396">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Porch Reconstuction - The Spruces]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Houses and Barns]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The porch on this house collapsed in a snowstorm on January 17, 1949. Ray Magargal is repairing it.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Magargal House - The Spruces, George Magargal and Ray Magargal rebuilding the foundation, summer 1949]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1949-06/1949-09]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:available><![CDATA[2005-07-15]]></dcterms:available>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Helen Magargal]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:hasPart><![CDATA[CD 040923_1752]]></dcterms:hasPart>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[021030_045]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:mediator><![CDATA[enl]]></dcterms:mediator>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/items/show/1397">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Porch Reconstuction - The Spruces]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Houses and Barns]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The porch on this house collapsed in a snowstorm on January 17, 1949. Ray Magargal is repairing it.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1949-06/1949-09]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:available><![CDATA[2006-08-10]]></dcterms:available>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Helen Magargal]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:hasPart><![CDATA[CD 040923_1752]]></dcterms:hasPart>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Still Image]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[021030_046]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:mediator><![CDATA[enl]]></dcterms:mediator>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/items/show/711">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Porter Family Lineage]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[People]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Ted Porter was very proud to present this paper as it verifiied his family lineage is the oldest in town. There is another copy as well.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Publication - &quot;First Census of the United States&quot;]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Ted Porter]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Edward K. (Ted) Porter]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Worthington Historical Society]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:available><![CDATA[2004-05-07]]></dcterms:available>
    <dcterms:dateAccepted><![CDATA[2007-03-25]]></dcterms:dateAccepted>
    <dcterms:modified><![CDATA[2012-12-04]]></dcterms:modified>
    <dcterms:hasPart><![CDATA[Box 29]]></dcterms:hasPart>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[21.6 x 27.9 cm (8.5 x 11 in)]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[Paper]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Document]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[2004a-068]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:mediator><![CDATA[bfs]]></dcterms:mediator>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/items/show/1025">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Porter Genealogy]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Written by Resolution Committee of the Women&#039;s Benevolent Society, Elsie Bartlett and Ida Joslyn, for May G. Porter who passed away on October 9, 1957. Filed with Porter genealogy. #52-33.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Church - Genealogy, Memorial, May G. Porter]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Town Hall]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Worthington Historical Society]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1957-10-9]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:available><![CDATA[2005-07-15]]></dcterms:available>
    <dcterms:dateAccepted><![CDATA[2007-04-29]]></dcterms:dateAccepted>
    <dcterms:modified><![CDATA[2012-10-05]]></dcterms:modified>
    <dcterms:hasPart><![CDATA[MEZZANINE FILE CABINET GENEA]]></dcterms:hasPart>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[21.6 x 27.9 cm (8.5 x 11 in)]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[Paper]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Document]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[2005a-113]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:mediator><![CDATA[bfs/swu]]></dcterms:mediator>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/items/show/3421">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Portraits of Pease&#039;s associated with Pease Piano Company ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Etching showing portrats of C. D. Pease, the first, C. D. Pease, the second, and Harry D. Pease, present head of the Pease Piano Company. Etching on light brown paper. Also newspaper clipping about C. D. Pease&#039;s tri[ around New EnglAND]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Unknown]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[uNKNOWN]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:available><![CDATA[2008-06-04, 2026-01-28]]></dcterms:available>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Box 06, digital archive]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[11.4 x 16.5 cm (4.5 x 6.5 in)]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[Electronic]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[2008-015]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Worthington - Worthington Center]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:mediator><![CDATA[db/\jd]]></dcterms:mediator>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[Dorothy Fitzgerald]]></dcterms:provenance>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/items/show/4750">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Post card: Looking West From Post Office, Worthington Corners, ca. 1920, H. B. Thrasher photograph]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Landscape]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Sepia postcard from sample book of Herbert Berniss Thrasher (1884-1927), photographer. Titled: ‘Looking West from Post Office, Worthington, Mass.‘  We have duplicate copies of this postcard from other sources.<br />
<br />
Thrasher was the son of George M. and Hattie Lyman Thrasher. Guy Thrasher was his brother. The sample book was produced during the 1920s when H. B. Thrasher was living and working in Florida. The images are undated but are probably quite a bit earlier, ca. 1910-1915 or so. <br />
<br />
Shows sidewalk to the left and a horse-drawn carriage in the road, utility pole and Jonathan Woodbridge House far right. Buffington Hill Road paved. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Herbert B. Thrasher]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Sample book postcards donated in 2018 by Barbara Batura and Marjorie Candiano, H. B. Thrasher&#039;s grand-nieces. They received it from their brother, Roy. E. Johnson Jr.]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[ca. 1920]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:available><![CDATA[2008-03-09]]></dcterms:available>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Box 09]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[8.9 x 14 cm (3.5 x 5.5 in)]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[Paper]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[Ph93pc]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Worthington - Worthington Corners]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:mediator><![CDATA[db upoaded image and edited 12/29/2018]]></dcterms:mediator>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[Bartlett Family]]></dcterms:provenance>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/items/show/3662">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Post Office]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Black and white photograph of store and post office in March of 1979. Snow on the ground.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:available><![CDATA[2007-07-11]]></dcterms:available>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Box 04c]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[8.9 x 12.7 cm (3.5 x 5 in)]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Photograph]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[23-032m]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Post Office]]></dcterms:coverage>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/items/show/6091">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Post Office - Cancellation Stamp from Ringville Post Office]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Cancellation stamp from Ringville Post Office, date unknown. Plated metal at base; ink residue shows; handle is wood-enamelled.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1933/1966]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:available><![CDATA[2007-04-21]]></dcterms:available>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Box 23]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[8.4 x 3.2 x 3.2 cm (3.3 x 1.2 x 1.2 in)]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Artifacts]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[U4]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[Franklyn Hitchcock]]></dcterms:provenance>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/items/show/5146">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Post Office - Diary, Record of Ringville Postmaster]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Businesses and Stores]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[List of Ringville postmasters and assistants in 1845, 1849, 1856, 1866, 1875; this list is handwritten in pencil on a small piece of paper.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1887-10-09]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:available><![CDATA[2021-11-04]]></dcterms:available>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[1845-1877]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Box 23]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[12.7 x 7.6 cm (5 x 3 in)]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[Paper]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Document]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[23-046]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Worthington - Ringville]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:mediator><![CDATA[el]]></dcterms:mediator>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/items/show/5147">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Post Office - Diary, Record of Ringville Postmaster]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[large envelope containing postmaster records from Ringville Post Office]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1866/1899]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:available><![CDATA[2007-04-21]]></dcterms:available>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Box 23]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Papers]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[23-046a]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/items/show/5738">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Post Office - Letter, from Reverend J. Herbert Owen ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Letter to J Herbert Owen concerning origin of first post office in Worthington.  Letter from W W Howes, first assistant Post Master General.  Also includes copy of statement written on brown wrapping paper in possession of Merwin F Packard when copied .  &#039;On December 1, 1793, a line of stages was established over the mountains from between Northampton and Pittsfield.  The route was through Roberts Meadow, Chesterfield,and Wortington, and not long after that this date, a post office was establlished in the latter town being the first post office in the hill towns.&#039;  Initial location unknown.  It was not at the locatioin of present day Corners Grocery.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1939-02-28]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:available><![CDATA[2007-04-21]]></dcterms:available>
    <dcterms:dateAccepted><![CDATA[summer 2005]]></dcterms:dateAccepted>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Box 23]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[21.6 x 27.9 cm (8.5 x 11 in)]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Papers]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[974.4/H/#41]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[Town Hall]]></dcterms:provenance>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/items/show/5151">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Post Office - Letter, from Samuel Cole]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This letter on the sale of boxes of tea dates from 1879  Letter is to Mr. Sanderson.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1879-05-27]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:available><![CDATA[2007-04-21]]></dcterms:available>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Box 23]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[20.3 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 in)]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Papers]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[23-050]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/items/show/5149">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Post Office - Letter, Merwin F. Packard]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This letter is from Ethel Graves to Merwin Packard in 1956: it contains  envelope and letter sent from R.M.S. Ivernia, 4/17/1903, to Mrs. Merwin Packard; the envelope is stamped &#039;Queenstown&#039; 4/17/1905.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1956-08-04]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:available><![CDATA[2007-04-21]]></dcterms:available>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Box 23]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[13 x 10.2 cm (5.1 x 4 in)]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Papers]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[23-048]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/items/show/5137">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Post Office - Miscellaneous]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[1. Envelope marking last day of operation of Ringville Post Office on 2/15/1935 (note .03c stamp);   (Envelope marking South Worthington Post Office discontinued 9/30/1927). Also contains certificate and other correspondence]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1935-02-15]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:dateAccepted><![CDATA[1996-11-17]]></dcterms:dateAccepted>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Box 23]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[23-035]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[Joy Solarz, Postmaster, 1997]]></dcterms:provenance>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/items/show/5148">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Post Office - Miscellaneous, Form Samples]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[1951 money order to Charles Eddy for 1 cent and one to Cullen (Pete) Packard; samples of money orders stamped 10/12/1962 and 10/13/1962 showing change in form, meter to hand-written; sample of certified mail receipt]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1951, 1962]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:available><![CDATA[2007-04-21]]></dcterms:available>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Box 23]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Papers]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[23-047]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/items/show/5143">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Post Office - Newsprint, Clippings]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Businesses and Stores]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Numerous clippings collected by Post Office &#039;Postmaster Packard,&#039;  and additional articles on the post office by Lois Ashe Brown. 2 articles about Harriet Osgood. Dates range from 1966 - 1987. Covers acquisition of a re-purposed mail canceling machine in 1966, renovation of post office in 1981 and 1987 letter of thanks to Cullen &#039;Pete&#039; Packard for putting this together.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1966 - 1981]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:available><![CDATA[2021-11-04]]></dcterms:available>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[1983, 1987]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Box 23]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[Paper]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Document]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[23-043]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Worthington - Worthington Corners]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:mediator><![CDATA[el]]></dcterms:mediator>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://worthingtonhistoricalsociety.org/omeka/items/show/3650">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Post Office - Pete (Cullen) Packard]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Color photograph of Pete (Cullen) Packard with Christmas themed antler hat at the post office (and Bert-UPS) ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[unknown]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[unknown]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[unknown]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:available><![CDATA[2007-07-11]]></dcterms:available>
    <dcterms:isPartOf><![CDATA[Box 04c]]></dcterms:isPartOf>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[10.2 x 14.6 cm (4 x 5.8 in)]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[Paper]]></dcterms:medium>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Still Image]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[23-032a]]></dcterms:identifier>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Worthington - Worthington Corners]]></dcterms:coverage>
    <dcterms:provenance><![CDATA[Joy Solarz]]></dcterms:provenance>
</rdf:Description></rdf:RDF>
