The Verner Reed Photographic Collection contains more than 26,000 negatives and prints. His work came to encompass what it means to be a New Englander. We discover in Reed's photographs a turbulent, lively, changeable New England--a place that defies its long-held reputation as being overly dependent on the past. Reed's New Englanders respected tradition, and relished and maintained much of value from the past, but were deeply engaged with the coming of a new age.
