Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Engineers working on New Commonwealth Pier -
Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Engineers working on New Commonwealth Pier -
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Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Engineers working on New Commonwealth Pier -
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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. - Three men standing or sitting with machinery (perhaps concrete mixing machine) behind them, caption: Engineers working on New Commonwealth Pier at beginning of the First World War -
