Browse Collections (17 total)

"Westborough: Your Town - Your History" Scanning Day, 2017

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The Westborough Public Library received a Common Heritage grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to hold a community scanning day, where…

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Architectural Drawings Collection

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Architectural drawings of buildings built, or planned to be built, in Westborough.

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Collected Papers of Dr. Charles H. Reed (a.k.a., the Reed Collection)

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Photographs, letters, diaries, maps, administrative documents, scrapbooks. Papers and records relating to Westborough history collected by Charles H.…

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Digitized History Collection

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This collection contains digitized images of materials that were born digital, scanned from items belonging to people and organizations outside of the…

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Historical Photographs of Westborough

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Photographs, CD-ROM, film negatives, glass negatives. Miscellaneous collection of photographs and negatives relating to Westborough.

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Historical Records of the Town of Westborough: Schools

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Most of the records in this collection were created in the nineteenth century. They document planning for the repair and building of schools,…

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Local History by Subject

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Photocopies, newspaper clippings, documents, pamphlets, booklets, periodicals, etc . A miscellaneous collection of information and primary sources…

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Photographer-in-Residence Photograph Collection

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The Photographer-in-Residence program at the Westborough Public Library was created as part of the Westborough Center for History and Culture in 2018.…

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Records of the American Legion Stowell-Parker Post 163

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Photographs, meeting minutes, correspondence, certificates, membership records, and a trophy won by the group during the Tercentenary celebration in…

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Records of the Lyman School for Boys [State Reform School]

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The State Reform School for Boys was established in Westborough in 1848 and is considered the first publicly-funded reform school in the United…

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