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Title:
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Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Our Parlor - |
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Newton Free Library
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Abstract:
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Description:
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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. - Ornately decorated parlor with chairs, divan, lamp, chandelier, framed photographs and pictures, clock, plants, peacock feathers hiding fireplace, mantle, patterned wallpaper, rug and curtains, caption: Our parlor at 153 Webster St. West Newton, pictures are great grandmother Plimpton and Willard P. Plimpton & Lucy Pratt Plimpton, uncle Sanford's wife - Page 44 - |
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URI:
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http://hdl.handle.net/10240/3306
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