Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Hamlet and Lucy Wight Residence -
Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Hamlet and Lucy Wight Residence -
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Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Hamlet and Lucy Wight Residence -
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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. - Four children and four dogs in front of white house and barn, caption: Channing, Florence Newell, Alice Wight and Hamlet Wight in front of the Hamlet and Lucy Wight residence and farm in Medfield, Mass. [Alex. Wight was a veterinarian and boarded dogs in the summer.] - Page 21 -
