A 6" x 8" black and white photograph, mounted on 8" x 10" cardboard, showing the exterior of a house, a horse and wagon marked "Wauwinet Farm, West Newton," and 14 people seated or standing, two of them holding bicycles. The people are identified in pencil on the back of the photograph as follows: Left to Right: Lonnie Seward, Roy Seward, Eva A. Sanderson, Pat ____, Colin Fraser, Barney, Hugh McLean, Judson B. Sanderson, Merton Loukes, ____, Darwin Sunderland, Walter Johnson, Joe Brewer (bicycle), Homer Teachout (bicycle), and Vera Seward (in upper window). The photo is marked "About 1893-4." The area around Wauwinet Road on West Newton Hill was once the largest dairy farm in Massachusetts. George Ellis, treasurer of the George H. Ellis Printing Company of Boston, purchased about 25 acres here in the early 1890s. The farm eventually housed 500 dairy cows. Wauwinet Farm was subdivided in 1922. The address of the house shown was 1245 Commonwealth Avenue.
