Lawrence Public Library

Phil Laudani collection, 1950s-1990s

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Phil Laudani collection

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Photographs, posters, videos, research materials, clippings, notes, scrapbooks, and ephemera, reflecting Laudani's numerous interests., Includes filmed tapes (chiefly 1990s) documenting changes taking place in Lawrence: interviews with Lawrence mayors still living, the Ayer Mill clock tower and money being raised for renovations, Essex County jail after the fire and before demolition, and the Malden Mills fire of 1995; photographs documenting various aspects of the city particularly views in the cemeteries, city buildings, and the Great Stone Dam, along with a few family photographs; files concerning projects Laudani was researching: the Central Theatre and various buildings and monuments in Lawrence; loose leaf binder containing material about the Pemberton Mill disaster and folder (in map case) containing 12 posters, many of them signed, of works by Ralph Fasanella, primitive painter; and scrapbooks (4 v.). Subjects of the scrapbooks include the Robert Frost memorial in the Campagnone Memorial Common (Lawrence Common), Immaculate Conception Church, 1854-1991, and the Lawrence House of Correction and Essex County Jail