Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Cofferdam in Charles River -

Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Cofferdam in Charles River -

Newell family -- Portraits - Newton (Mass.) -- History -- Pictorial works -

Description ca. 225 photos. (in album). - Note Majority of photographs of West Newton with handwritten captions describing photographs - The Newell family moved from Colrain, Massachusetts to West Newton, leaving their farming roots to become successful merchants, inventors, and manufacturers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The family photograph album shows family members, their houses (interior, exterior and grounds), family homesteads, farms, mills, views from their Boston offices, and their West Newton neighborhood. - Cofferdam with booms, wires and pulleys, three small boats in the river, caption: Coffer-dam in Charles River by Norumbega Park and Weston Bridge for the Cochituate Aqueduct to bring water to Boston from Cochituate Reservoir -

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