Martha's Vineyard Museum

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Summary Information

Biography/Historical Note

Scope and Content Note

Administrative Information

Controlled Access Headings

Collection Inventory

Descriptive Summary

Repository	Martha's Vineyard Museum Gale Huntington Research Library 59 School Street P.O. Box 1310 Edgartown, MA 02539 (508) 627-4441
Call Number	RU 509
Creator	Turner, Gertrude F., 1881-1977
Title	Gertrude F. Turner scrapbooks
Date	1929-1953
Extent	6 boxes (3.26 cubic feet)
Language	The materials are in English.
Abstract	Gertrude F. Turner (1881-1977) was a local correspondent for West Tisbury, Massachusetts. The collection has 27 scrapbooks containing her articles which were printed in regional newspapers between 1929 and 1953.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use and Reproduction Restrictions

Requests to reproduce material from this collection should be directed to the library's staff. Reproduction fees may apply.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Gertrude F. Turner in 1969 (Accession no. 1969.025).

Publication Information

Martha's Vineyard Museum

Gale Huntington Research Library
59 School Street
P.O. Box 1310
Edgartown, MA 02539
(508) 627-4441

Processing Information

Finding aid prepared by Joyce Cooper in January 2015 with assistance from Lara J. Ullman. Finding aid machine-encoded by Nathaniel Janick in January 2015.

 Creation of this finding aid was sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Biography/Historical Note

Gertrude F. Turner (1881-1977) was the eldest daughter of David B. Adams, a whaling captain, and Alice Tilton Adams of Chilmark, Massachusetts. In 1918 Gertrude married Charles A. Turner (1882-1957). Charles A. Turner moved to West Tisbury, Massachusetts, from the Boston area around 1910 and was a clerk at S. M. Mayhew Company. In 1914 Turner bought the company from Mayhew and in 1945 Turner sold his company to Albion Alley, the business currently known as Alley’s General Store. Charles and Gertrude Turner lived in West Tisbury and had two daughters: Alma in 1920 and Elizabeth in 1922.

Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of 27 books containing articles written by Gertrude F. Turner about local events in West Tisbury including, school events, marriages, deaths, accidents, and the annual fair. The articles were printed in The New Bedford Standard Times,  The Cape Cod Standard Times, and  The Vineyard Gazette. Turner was paid per article and she used her scrapbooks to track what she was paid for each article and in some cases what she was still owed.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged chronologically.