Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Panorama of West Newton -
Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Panorama of West Newton -
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Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Panorama of West Newton -
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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. - Businesses and houses of West Newton, shop of James T. Bailey, painter and decorator at 973 Watertown St. and the Martin Manufacturing Co. (curtains) at 1238 Washington St., owner George J. Martin, caption: Panorama of West Newton from Belfry of Congregational Church, Martin Factory on Washington St, Walton Block on Chestnut St. looking East toward Newtonville. - Page 102 -
