Athenaeum Reveals Hidden TreasuresFor the past seven years, Robert Brown, local historian and chair of the Westfield Athenaeum's Board of Trustees, has led a volunteer committee to sift through the hundreds of boxes, bags, trunks and barrels donated over the past 140 years. What they found were artifacts spanning the course of United States history.
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Reminder Publications photos by Katelyn Gendron
|  | | | The volunteer committee discovered hundreds of World War I and II bond and recruiting posters packaged between several layers of cardboard flooring in this alcove of the Athenaeum's basement. |
| |  | | | Volunteers found a British "Red Coat wrapped in a trash bag at the bottom of a barrel. |
| |  | | | The volunteer committee found a parade backpack from the Westfield Artillery Unit. |
| |  | | | "The Cage" houses many boxes of fabric, including fans from the 1800s and 1900s. |
| |  | | | About one year ago, "The Cage" was built in a section of the Athenaeum's basement to house and protect all the fabric artifacts uncovered by the volunteer committee. |
| |  | | | The volunteers found numerous pairs of shoes belonging to women, men and children of 1800 and 1900s Westfield. |
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