Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - West Newton Square -

Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - West Newton Square -

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. - House in foreground and main buildings of West Newton center in background, caption (one of the Pratt houses), West Newton "Square" in background - left to right are Unitarian Church, City Hall, Congregational Church (with clock) Old Unitarian Church, now Players Hall & used as a Christian Science Church [note the (New) Congregational Church now stands on lot back of the black clump of trees] -

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