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Title:
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Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Turner's Falls - Connecticut River - |
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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. - River view with wooded island, bridge, falls, logs floating in water - Just above these falls Eugene Newell was drowned in 1903 while canoeing with a friend in March when snow had just melted and water was so high one would hardly distinguish the falls. caught in an eddy and canoe overturned - They were out after muskrats. - Page 16 - |
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URI:
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http://hdl.handle.net/10240/3372
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