Spotlight on Collections

Upper floor of 29 Water Street, storage graciously provided by Daniel Healy. (Kelly Daniell photo.)

Did you know that the Amesbury Carriage Museum has hundreds of artifacts, ranging from carriages and toboggans to vintage automobile trade magazines, from carriage and automobile lamps to thermometers made in Amesbury? They are all behind the scenes waiting to be unveiled.

Rice home on Lion’s Mouth Road in Amesbury. (Photo courtesy of The Daily News, Sept. 15, 2010.)

This new monthly feature will spotlight items in the Amesbury Carriage Museum’s collection. ACM volunteer Joyann Reynolds, Board member and chair of the ACM Collections Committee, will be our guide. She currently is entering the entire collection into ACM’s database using Past Perfect software and uncovering all sorts of gems.

“It’s intriguing,” she said. “We recently found a collection of papers from Margaret Rice’s third great aunt, including poems written by Mary E. Fish of Putnum, VT.” The late Margaret Rice was one of the founders of the Amesbury Carriage Museum and stored many of the ACM carriages in her barn on Lion’s Mouth Road.

So come with us each month as we unveil an ACM treasure. If something particularly intrigues you, it may be possible to schedule an appointment for you to view it in person. It all waits behind the scenes.

Our Collections Committee has a new email account to easily receive information and requests about collections: collections@amesburycarriagemuseum.org