subject: Shrewsbury
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Popcorn Man in front of Spag's, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.
description- – The Popcorn Man was in front of Spag's nearly every night. This photo was taken one evening in December, 1952, and shows a busy concessionstand in great demand.
- – Concession stand for popcorn at SPAGS, Shrewsbury (Mass.) 1952
- – SPAG's Supply, Inc.
- – Borgatti, Anthony A., 1916-1996
- – Discount houses (Retail trade) -- Shrewsbury (Mass.).
- – Stores, Retail -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Hardware stores -- Worcester County (Mass.)
- – Harlow family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
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Eddie Dean's sawmill at the Ward homestead, circa 1917, Main Street, Shrewsbury, Mass.
description- – Eddie Dean's Sawmill at the Ward homestead on Main Street, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, circa 1917. This early tractor with its ironwheels supplied power for the sawmill. George Banister of Boylston ran the sawmill at the time of this photograph. Oscar Swenson worked forGeorge Bannister.
- – Historic dwellings -- Massachusetts
- – Ward, Artemas, Commander-in-Chief of the American Revolution. Sawmills -- Massachusetts.
- – Eddie Dean's sawmill at the Artemas Ward homestead, Main Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – ca. 1917
- – Harlow family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
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Flint Farm, West Main Street, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.
description- – Flint Farm, West Main Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.) Dr. Edward Flint was a surgeon in the French and Indian Wars. In the twentiethcentury, the home was owned by the Gage family and was known as Iristhorpe.
- – Historic dwellings -- Massachusetts
- – Iristhorpe, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Flint Farm, West Main Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Gage family -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Massachusetts -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763.
- – Harlow family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
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Doane's Mill, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
description- – Doane's Mill, located on Old Mill Pond, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Mills and mill-work -- Shrewsbury (Mass.).
- – Doane's Mill, on Old Mill Pond, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Historic buildings -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Harlow family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
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Cushing-Haven Tavern, Main Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
description- – The Cushing-Haven Tavern was built in 1751, by Colonel Job Cushing, son of Reverend Job Cushing, Shrewsbury's first minister.In 1871, the tavern was moved across Main Street to make room for the new Town Hall to be built. It was torn down in 1960.
- – Taverns (Inns) -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Cushing family -- Shrewsbury (Mass.).
- – Cushing-Haven Tavern, Main Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Harlow family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
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505 West Main Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
description- – Historic home at 505 West Main Street. 1797 was the first mention of buildings on this property. Property used as harness shop, furniture shop and by saddle tree makers. Home onceoccupied by Henry Snow, mapmaker and first surveyor of Lake Quinsigamond. L.E. Colton had a pharmacy on the property. Sara M. Warren, Children's Librarian, Shrewsbury Public Library from 1923-1950, once lived here.
- – Surveying Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Cartography -- History --Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Historic dwellings -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Lake Quinsigamond, Shrewsbury (Mass.).
- – Harness making and trade -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – 505 West Main Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Brunell family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
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Ward Estate, circa 1860s, Main Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
description- – Ward estate circa 1860s. The horse in the foreground of the photograph belonged to Charles Ward who was killed in the CivilWar. Thomas W. Ward went south to retrieve his son's body and returned to Shrewsbury with the horse. This was a working farm from the 1720s whenit was built, until it was left to Harvard University in 1925 by Artemas Ward, great grandson of the first Commander-in-Chief of the AmericanRevolution, General Artemas Ward of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.
- – Ward Estate, circa 1860s, Main Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Historic buildings -- Massachusetts. Ward, Artemas, Commander-in-Chief of the American Revolution
- – Ward family -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Harlow family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
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Ross Wyman Mill, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
description- – Wyman Mill, located off Main Circle, west of Ward Hill, Shrewsbury (Mass.). Built early 1800's. Ross Wyman was also a skilledgun maker. He is recognized as having made General Artemas Ward a gun"of sufficient strength to pitch an Englishman over his head."
- – Gunsmiths -- Shrewsbury (Mass.).
- – Firearms -- Manufactures -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Mills -- Massachusetts
- – Ross Wyman Mill, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Harlow family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
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Samuel Howe's Store, Main Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
description- – General store of Samuel I. Howe, Main Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – General stores -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Retail store -- Samuel I. Howe, Main Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Shops -- Shrewsbury (Mass.).
- – Historic shops -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Harlow family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
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Bailey Brothers Store, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
description- – Bailey Brothers Store, corner of South Street and Main Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.). In this brick building, local women werehired to work in the shop. It was where the first ready-made clothes, possibly first in the United States, were made. Later, the building wasused as a market and in the mid-twentieth century, was the site of Julio's Market. A horse-drawn sled is in front of the building.
- – Historic buildings -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Clothing -- Manufactures -- Shrewsbury (Mass.).
- – Bailey Brothers store, corner of South Street and Main Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Harlow family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
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Samuel B. Boutell's Store and Home, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
description- – Samuel B. Boutell's store and home, Shrewsbury (Mass.) Built in 1885, in the"Lower Village"of Shrewsbury, Mass. Mr. Boutell is on the piazza.
- – Store and home of Samuel B. Boutell -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – General stores -- Shrewsbury (Mass.).
- – Historic buildings -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Harlow family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
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Dr. Min-Chueh Chang, of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology -- Shrewsbury (Mass.) (1908-1991).
description- – Doctor Chang standing outside his laboratory at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology -- Shrewsbury (Mass.) in thewinter of 1945. Min-Chueh Chang's development of oral contraception with Gregory Goodwin Pincus and John Rock changed human society. Changalso collaborated with Cyril Adams in the 1950s on embryo transfer in farm animals, which led to Chang's innovation of in vitro fertilization, ortest-tube fertilization. Dr. Chang's office is now in the Smithsonian in Washington, D. C.
- – Fertilization in vitro.
- – Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Contraceptives, oral
- – Dr. Min-Chueh Chang, Shrewsbury (Mass.) (1908-1991)
- – 1945
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Gershom Wheelock House, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
description- – Gershom Wheelock was the first settler in Shrewsbury, Mass., in 1717. The home was built in 1732 and is now 265 BoylstonStreet. The Wheelock family lived in this house for 205 years. It is the oldest home in town of Shrewsbury, Mass. It was used as an antique shop andis currently the location of Green Dragon Bindery.
- – Harlow family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
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Perkins Home Bakery, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
description- – Perkins Home Bakery and Groceries, Shrewsbury (Mass.), opened in 1897 near what is now 40 Maple Avenue. Perkins sold his ownheadache medicine in his store. His dog Trilby (pictured) was used to promote the remedy. ?My head never aches. If yours does, take my master?sHeadache Powders.? Color copy of antique postcard.
- – Historic buildings -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Medicine -- History -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Bakers and bakeries -- Shrewsbury (Mass.).
- – Perkins home bakery and groceries -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Harlow family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
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Nelson and Rice Currier Shop, (Tannery), Shrewsbury (Mass.)
description- – Nelson and Rice Currier Shop located on Main Street, opposite South Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.) During the Civil War, Nelson andRice supplied many leather goods for the Union soldiers. Hides came in to North Grafton (Mass.), by Rail Road and were ?teamed? to Shrewsburyby a four-horse express wagon seen in this picture.
- – U.S. -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
- – Tanneries -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Nelson and Rice Currier Shop, Main Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Historic buildings -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Leather goods -- History -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Harlow family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
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Workers from the Nelson and Rice Currier Shop, (Tannery), Shrewsbury (Mass.)
description- – Nelson and Rice Currier Shop, (Tannery), Shrewsbury (Mass.) Workers from the Nelson and Rice Currier Shop located on MainStreet, opposite South Street, Shrewsbury, Mass. Group photograph of laborers.
- – Tanneries -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Historic buildings -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Workers from the Nelson and Rice Currier Shop, Main Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Leather goods -- History -- -- Shrewsbury (Mass.).
- – Harlow family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
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Green and Hickey Leather Company, Main Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.).
description- – Nelson and Rice Currier Shop became Green and Hickey Leather Company, located on Main Street, opposite South Street, Shrewsbury(Mass.). The business continued to grow and later relocated to Grafton (Mass.). The building was torn down.
- – Historic buildings -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Green and Hickey Leather Company, Main Street, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Tanneries, Massachusetts.
- – Harlow family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
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Argento's Diner, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.
description- – Argento?s Diner, located on the east corner of Route 9 and South Quinsigamond Avenue. In 1926, this was one of the first dinersbuilt on a site. It was then Warren?s Diner. It was fifty feet long by fourteen feet wide. Genesee wagon with team of twelve horses andworkers of the Diner stand in small groups in front.
- – Diners (Restaurants) -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Horsedrawn vehicles.
- – Diners (Restaurants) -- Worcester County (Mass.)
- – Harlow family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
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Anthony A. Borgatti (1916-1996) standing in front of SPAG'S, Shrewsbury, Mass.
description- – One of Shrewsbury's most famous residents in the twentieth century was Anthony A. Borgatti, Jr. (Spag). Born the oldest of four children on February 29, 1916, in Worcester (Mass.), he opened a tireand battery store on Route 9 in Shrewsbury (Mass.) in 1934 that by 1939 had expanded to hardware and other items, and since then, was known byAnthony's nickname, Spag's. He married Olive Lutz on November 24, 1940 in St. Anne's Church. Together they raised three daughters, Carol, Jeanand Sandra. Olive died on December 28, 1990, and Spag died on February 23, 1996. Oil portraits of both Borgattis by Worcester artist LeonHovesepian now hang in the Shrewsbury Public Library.
- – SPAG'S, Shrewsbury (Mass.) circa 1940
- – SPAG'S Supply, Inc.
- – Borgatti, Anthony A., (1916-1996)
- – Hardware stores -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – Discount housed (Retail trade -- Shrewsbury (Mass.).
- – Stores, Retail -- Shrewsbury (Mass.)
- – ca.1940
- – Borgatti family, Shrewsbury (Mass.)
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