Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Bridge over Charles River -
Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Bridge over Charles River -
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Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Bridge over Charles River -
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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. - Weston Bridge, a three-arched stone bridge that formerly spanned the Charles River from Weston to Newton where General Burgoyne's army marched into Newton and Cambridge in November, 1777 - Page 20 -
