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Calcutt Brewery fonds
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1855-1933 (Creation)
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7 files
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Custodial history
This material was found in the Calcutt family home in Ashburnham and subsequently acquired by the City Archives.
Scope and content
The fonds consists of legal documents, stock certificates, some photographs, military records, genealogical material and ephemera. Specific items include: Brewer's License (1900); receipts and correspondence (Calcutt Brewing letterhead); Calcutt Brewery business ledger; a patent document with original plans on linen, for Henry Calcutt's "Improvements in Steam Boilers" (1895); lease indenture from Arthur Peck to Henry Calcutt relating to Calcutt Brewery property; assorted Calcutt family legal documents including original deed to family home at 73 Robinson, Ashburnham; minutes of the stockholders meeting (1911-33); receipt for a keg of ale for $1.50 (1886); a poem about an accidental spill at Calcutt's when people gathered gallons of beer that was pouring out of a spout; brief histories of some of the steamboats owned by Calcutt; some newspaper clippings.
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Associated materials
See PG 5-1 A-D for a series of original photographs of Calcutt Brewery. See photograph (PG 5-1 D) for an original cabinet card photograph of Calcutt's patented steam boiler system. The Museum collection contains bottles from Calcutt Brewery, labels, and other objects.
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