The newest on-line feature exhibition by the FRHS, “MUGS: 1911-1948,” is now available for viewing on the FRHS website. As mentioned in a previous post, the exhibition opens with a brief –...
The late 19th and early 20th century was the heyday of china painting in America, and during that period countless women took brush in hand and churned out a plethora of ornamental pieces of all...
“Mug shots – gritty depictions of human drama in a pure, unadulterated form, captured in the medium of vernacular photography, that is, images taken by little-known or amateur photographers.”...
The FRHS has maintained a longstanding relationship with the Adams House—a.k.a. Home for Aged People—founded in Fall River in 1891 to provide exemplary care in a lovely, private home-like...
I freely admit that I am not social media savvy—I know the basics—sort of—and that is well enough for me. But I have become a firm believer—a convert, I suppose—of the benefits of social...
The box—not very large, but large enough—began its journey to the FRHS dispatched from Newmarket, Ontario, Canada—though in point of fact, the contents left Fall River decades ago and were, in...
Sometimes, one simply need ask. In a recent post on the subject of yearbooks in the FRHS library, I mentioned that whereas the run of volumes from B.M.C. Durfee High School is nearly complete –...
And so it was that 126 years ago today the city of Fall River secured its place in history—albeit unwillingly—not as the Spindle City, the famed cotton capitol of the world, but as the scene of...
I have often said that there is an amazing array of material out there, held in private collections, and that one never knows what fascinating artifacts may arrive at the FRHS on any given day, as...
In our ongoing work relocating archival materials into the recently completed west room in the Charlton Library of Fall River History, the FRHS staff and volunteers are handling large quantities of...
