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Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the Town Of Maynard, for the Year Ending, March 11, 1872.

The Report of the School Committee

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The Question Club was organized in 1909 as a women's social club. The club met on the first Monday of the month at various members homes. Singing, conversation, cards, a business meeting and refreshments were on the agenda. The club was still…

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The mill on the left was headquarters for the Digital Equipment Corporation.
Adjacent to the mill in the center is the Assabet River and Walnut Street.
The right shows downtown Maynard, Nason and Main Sts.

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The Powder Mill was located on the Acton-Maynard line. The office is approximately where 145 Powder Mill Rd., Acton is now with Sudbury Rd. slightly seen on the back left.

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The Bancroft Street School was originally a single story building. The second story was added in 1910 as seen here.

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Originally the site of Uncle Pete's Twin Tree Cafe, owned by Peter Carbone,
who sold it to his chef John Alphonse circa 1965.

John Alphonse started his restaurant career in 1933 as a chef. He worked at the former 1812 House, the Maridor, Abner…

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Likely a view from below the Ben Smith Dam.

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The view is from Summer Hill:
Far right, white building is St. Bridget's Church, a bit to left is the Main St. School, brick. Further to the left are the six white houses on Front Street and of course the Mill with a single chimney (in 1916 a second…

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A card (in postcard format) sent to Thomas D. Weeks of Albuquerque, New Mexico from H. H. Scott of Maynard with warranty information for his stereo.

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A booklet containing advertisements for the first annual Maynard Police Relief Association Ball held on November 1, 1956 at the newly opened Green Meadow School.

This book contains a snapshot of businesses and organizations active in and around…

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A partial review of the engineering culture at DEC praising and critiquing the strurcture the company has developed.

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This is a 1991 DEC employee directory of services in the Mill complex including phone numbers, times of operation, and location: building number, floor, pole number (e.g., MLO3-1, Pole 46C). The brochure also included a map of the complex and the…

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A faded list of the characteristics that define real "Millrats", a DEC cultural term (of sorts) for a Digital employee who has worked in the Maynard Mill for a long time.

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This is a 1990 DEC employee guide to the available conference rooms within the Mill Complex . The company named conference rooms after people and other cultural references to Maynard and the vicinity and Digital Equipment Corporation history.

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A one-sheet folding brochure with basic information about the Digital Parker Street site (site code "PKO") which consisted of 3 buildings: 2 small buildings PKO1, PKO2, and the larger PKO3. There was also a helicopter pad and the adjacent DCU…

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A photograph of the KDF-11B is a CPU processor module developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for its PDP-11 family of 16-bit minicomputers. The KDF-11B board is associated with the PDP-11/23+.

Technically, the KDF-11B is a quad-height…

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This is a marketing photograph of a late 1960s / early 1970s Digital Equipment Corporation computer module. While no model number is visible, based on labeling and other photographs that accompanied it, it appears to be a PDP-9 A-D Converter Option:…

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A photo of a Digital Equipment Corporation wire-wrapped backplane assembly for the PDP-9 computer.

This photograph demonstrates the design philosophy of DEC computer design in the late 1960s and early 1970s: a wire-wrapped (no solder) insulated…