Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Family Posed on Rocks -

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Title

Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Family Posed on Rocks -

Subject

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

Description

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. - One man, two women, a boy and girl sitting or standing on rocks on shore, bay and sailboats in background, caption: Florence, Clara our mother, Channing and our grandfather Willard P. Plimpton at Onset Bay, Mass. Captioner omitted the grandmother low in foreground -

Source

http://library.minlib.net/record=b1775911
Newton Free Library

Contributor

Newton Free Library

Rights

Management Restrictions apply. Contact the Newton Free Library’s Reference Department for details.

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image/jpeg

Type

image/jpeg

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Citation

“Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Family Posed on Rocks -,” Digital Commonwealth , accessed May 21, 2013, http://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/items/show/11215.

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