Williamsburg Collection

description - This large (13.5 x 10.25 inches) and wonderfully detailed photograph was taken from an embankment above the raised railroad grade at the southeast end of Haydenville, one of the villages in Williamsburg, Mass. The view is northwestward (upstream)… subject - Williamsburg (Mass.); Haydenville (Mass.); Disasters--Massachusetts--Williamsburg relation - Part of the Meekins Library, Local History, Historic Photographs Collection Identifier - Meekins Library--Local History--Historic Photographs Collection--Haydenville after Mill River Disaster, 1874 http://dlib.cwmars.org/u?/williamsbrg,42

description - This pair of images shows a corner of Richard F. Burke's General Store at left (now the Williamsburg General Store); the Williamsburg Center School (now the Grange Hall) at center; and the old Town Hall (now the Historical Society's museum, though… subject - Williamsburg (Mass.); Williamsburg Grange; General stores--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Schools--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; City halls--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Williamsburg Historical Society relation - Part of the Williamsburg, Mass., Historical Society Historic Photographs Collection Identifier - Williamsburg Historical Society--Historic Photographs Collection--Store, Grange Hall, Town Hall c.1910/2011 http://dlib.cwmars.org/u?/williamsbrg,41

description - This is a handwritten list of the goods purchased for Mary Dickinson Graves of Williamsburg, probably by her father under her mother's direction, in preparation for her October 6, 1830 marriage to Deacon John Montague of Sunderland, Massachusetts. It… subject - Williamsburg (Mass.); Graves, Mary Dickinson, 1805-1881; Montague, John, 1796-1881; Graves, John, 1773-1843; Dowry--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; House furnishings--Massachusetts--Williamsburg. relation - Part of the Williamsburg, Mass. Historical Society, Graves Farm Documents Collection. Identifier - Williamsburg Historical Society--Graves Farm Documents Collection--Mary Graves dowry list http://dlib.cwmars.org/u?/williamsbrg,40

description - This recent photograph of the center of the village of Williamsburg, Mass. contrasts with the one taken 101 years earlier from the same spot, seen elsewhere in this Digital Treasures collection. This image is digital and has not yet been printed. subject - Williamsburg (Mass.); Weber, Eric, 1948- relation - Part of the Williamsburg, Mass., Historical Society, Historic Photographs Collection Identifier - Williamsburg Historical Society--Historic Photographs Collection--Main Street in the center of Williamsburg, Mass., July 2011 http://dlib.cwmars.org/u?/williamsbrg,39

description - 'Williamsburg Friends' ladies group from Williamsburg and Haydenville, Mass., c. 1890s. Ten women of various ages pose in a stately home for this snapshot of what appears to be a book group or reading society. The specific name or occasion for the… subject - Williamsburg (Mass.); Haydenville (Mass.); Women--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Group reading--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Book clubs (Discussion groups)--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Architecture, Domestic--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Interior… relation - Part of the Williamsburg, Mass., Historical Society, Historic Photographs Collection Identifier - Williamsburg Historical Society--Historic Photographs Collection--'Williamsburg Friends' http://dlib.cwmars.org/u?/williamsbrg,38

description - Full-length studio portrait of Fred Carr, at the apparent age of about 13. He is wearing an unusual lace-up shirt or tunic, apparently has a pocket watch on a fob in his breast pocket, and on his right breast he has pinned a medal and ribbon of some… subject - Williamsburg (Mass.); Carr, Fred N., 1869-? relation - Part of the Williamsburg, Mass., Historical Society, Historic Photographs Collection Identifier - Williamsburg Historical Society--Historic Photographs Collection--WHS993 Fred Carr carte-de-visite http://dlib.cwmars.org/u?/williamsbrg,37

description - Full-length studio portrait of Alice C. House, born in Chesterfield, Mass. and a resident of Haydenville (part of Williamsburg, Mass.) from 1870 until after 1900. She taught a Sunday school class and worked as a dressmaker and housekeeper, spending… subject - Williamsburg (Mass.); Chesterfield (Mass.); Haydenville (Mass.); Agawam (Mass.); House, Alice C., 1862-1921 relation - Part of the Williamsburg, Mass., Historical Society, Historic Photographs Collection Identifier - Williamsburg Historical Society--Historic Photographs Collection--WHS993 Alice C. House cabinet card http://dlib.cwmars.org/u?/williamsbrg,36

description - This unusual portrait is of Annie Cooney, born in Williamsburg, Mass. as the last child of an Irish immigrant saloon keeper who had done fairly well for himself and could afford to indulge her. It casts her in the quite extraordinary (for a woman of… subject - Williamsburg (Mass.); Cooney, Annie, 1867-? relation - Part of the Williamsburg, Mass., Historical Society, Historic Photographs Collection Identifier - Williamsburg Historical Society--Historic Photographs Collection--WHS981 Annie Cooney cabinet card http://dlib.cwmars.org/u?/williamsbrg,35

description - This photograph shows Capt. Charles E.Tileston, Civil War commander of Co. I, 52nd Mass. Infantry, outside his house in the Searsville district of Williamsburg, Mass., about 1900-1902. Seated in his handsome surrey is one of his granddaughters,… subject - Williamsburg (Mass.); Tileston, Charles Edward, 1829-1902; Bisbee, Maria Evelyn, 1897-?; Bisbee, Inez Wells, 1898-1970; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans; Carriages and carts--Massachusetts--Williamsburg relation - Part of the Williamsburg, Mass., Historical Society, Historic Photographs Collection Identifier - Williamsburg Historical Society--Historic Photographs Collection--WHS969 Capt. C. E. Tileston at home http://dlib.cwmars.org/u?/williamsbrg,34

description - This photograph shows all the spectacularly-costumed participants in a staged 1771 wedding, part of an elaborate pageant during Williamsburg's 1921 150th anniversary celebration. Among those returning to town for the occasion was photographer Jessie… subject - Williamsburg (Mass.)--Anniversaries, etc.; Anniversaries--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Tarbox, Jessie Richmond, 1870-1942 relation - Part of the Williamsburg, Mass. Historical Society, Historic Photographs Collection. Identifier - Williamsburg Historical Society--Historic Photographs Collection--WHS802 JTB 1921 'Wedding Party' http://dlib.cwmars.org/u?/williamsbrg,33

description - This snapshot by a member of the Joseph Strong Graves family shows a home-made, gasoline-powered outdoor precursor of the modern clothes washer. It was likely devised as a present to the women of the household by eldest son J. Edwin Graves, standing… subject - Williamsburg (Mass.); Graves, Joseph Strong, 1853-1920; Graves, Joseph Edwin, 1892-1969; Graves; Ruth Elizabeth, 1896-1979; Graves, Rachael Matilda, 1898-2000; Graves, Dwight Lincoln, 1902-1994; Washing machines relation - Part of the Williamsburg, Mass. Historical Society, Graves Farm Photograph Collection. Identifier - Williamsburg Historical Society--Graves Farm Photograph Collection--WHS717 Powered washing machine http://dlib.cwmars.org/u?/williamsbrg,32

description - This conch shell was blown to call residents to the first meeting of the newly erected District of Williamsburgh on May 6, 1771, and to all Town Meetings for many years thereafter. At that first meeting it was 'Voted that Joshua Thayer have fifteen… subject - Williamsburg (Mass.); Thayer, Joshua, 1742-1822; Local government-Massachusetts-Williamsburg; Shells; Wind instruments relation - Part of the Meekins Library, Williamsburg, Mass., Local History, Objects Collection. http://www.meekins-library.org Identifier - Meekins Library--Local History--Objects Collection--Williamsburg Conch Shell http://dlib.cwmars.org/u?/williamsbrg,31

description - Adelbert Bailey was born in Amherst, Mass. and served in the Civil War as a sergeant in the 31st Mass. Infantry. In 1869 he married Juliet Metcalf of Williamsburg, Mass., and they lived in Williamsburg for the rest of their long lives. Mr. Bailey was… subject - Williamsburg (Mass.); Bailey, Adelbert, 1843-1932; Metcalf, Juliet, 1843-1933; United States--History--Civil War, 1816-1865--Veterans; Tintypes relation - Part of the Williamsburg, Mass., Historical Society, Historic Photographs Collection Identifier - Williamsburg Historical Society--Historic Photographs Collection--Adelbert Bailey triptych http://dlib.cwmars.org/u?/williamsbrg,30

description - George Cheney was one of the heroes of the May 16, 1874 Mill River Disaster that took many lives in Williamsburg and Northampton, Mass. Cheney, the caretaker of the huge reservoir dam that failed that morning, rode his horse bareback to the center of… subject - Williamsburg (Mass.); Disasters--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Disasters--Massachusetts--Northampton; Cheney, George, 1844-1918; Alvord, Jane Elizabeth, 1847-1922; Cheney, Phillip Donald, ?-1919; Graves, Charles Erastus, 1894-1988; Graves, Joseph… relation - Part of the Williamsburg, Mass., Historical Society, Graves Farm Documents Collection Identifier - Williamsburg Historical Society--Graves Farm Documents Collection--WHS946 Jane and George Cheney, 1916 http://dlib.cwmars.org/u?/williamsbrg,29

description - This pair of photographs shows the one-room schoolhouse on Nash Hill in Williamsburg, Mass., which was in use on its present site from 1786 until 1917. The pictures were taken during and after its restoration by the Williamsburg Historical Society,… subject - Williamsburg (Mass.); Schools--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Rural schools--Massachusetts--Williamsburg relation - Part of the Williamsburg, Mass., Historical Society, Historic Photographs Collection Identifier - Williamsburg Historical Society--Historic Photographs Collection--WHS904 Nash Hill Schoolhouse restoration diptych http://dlib.cwmars.org/u?/williamsbrg,28

description - Sophie (Damon) Eaton, a beloved grammar-school teacher in Williamsburg for many decades, was a finalist in the 20th Annual Pillsbury Company Bake-Off Competition held in Atlanta, Georgia in 1969. As part of the hoopla surrounding the event, this… subject - Williamsburg (Mass.); Damon, Sophia Clara, 1896-1987; Reagan, Ronald Wilson, 1911-2004; Pillsbury Company; Elementary school teachers--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Baking-Competitions--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Bake-Off (Contest) relation - Part of the Williamsburg, Mass., Historical Society, Historic Photographs Collection Identifier - Williamsburg Historical Society--Historic Photographs Collection--WHS902 Sophie Eaton & R. Reagan, 1969 http://dlib.cwmars.org/u?/williamsbrg,27

description - Group portrait of the Williamsburg Drum Corps, about 1904. But for this photograph, the existence of this local youth organization would be unknown today. No other information has been discovered about it. Anyone who has any such information is asked… subject - Williamsburg (Mass.); Hyde, Elwyn, 1894-1993; Ames, Wesley, 1887-1923; Kelly, George, 1890-?; Waldemire, Casper, ?-?; Graves, Philip Richards, 1887-1969; Hyde, Edward Lucius, 1885-?; Graves, Arthur F., 1886-1978; Williamsburg Drum Corps; Drum and… relation - Part of the Williamsburg, Mass., Historical Society, Historic Photographs Collection Identifier - Williamsburg Historical Society--Historic Photographs Collection--WHS901 Williamsburg Drum Corps, 1904 http://dlib.cwmars.org/u?/williamsbrg,26

description - Local Civil War veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic ride in a parade during Williamsburg's Old Home Days celebration in 1915. Only two men are identified: Adelbert Bailey, holding the flag, and Henry Bisbee, second from right in the rear. The… subject - Williamsburg (Mass.)--Anniversaries, etc.; Bailey, Adelbert, 1843-1932; Bisbee, Henry, 1837-1917; Anniversaries, etc.--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Grand Army of the Republic; United States--History--Civil War, 1816-1865--Veterans relation - Part of the Williamsburg, Mass., Historical Society, Historic Photographs Collection Identifier - Williamsburg Historical Society--Historic Photographs Collection--WHS804 GAR float, 1915 Old Home Days http://dlib.cwmars.org/u?/williamsbrg,25

description - This is a handheld device for viewing stereographic images in simulated 3D. The standard stereograph or stereo view format (side-by side images taken from about 2.5 inches apart, printed, and mounted the same distance apart on a stiff card) was… subject - Williamsburg (Mass.); Stereoscope. relation - Part of the Meekins Library, Williamsburg, Mass., Local History, Objects Collection. http://www.meekins-library.org Identifier - Meekins Library--Local History--Objects Collection--Stereoscope http://dlib.cwmars.org/u?/williamsbrg,24

description - This photographic post card shows the North Main Street, Williamsburg home of William Avery Hawks. Advocates for culture and refinement, Mr. Hawks and his second wife Annie Juliet (Jones) founded the Williamsburg Library Association, which purchased… subject - Williamsburg (Mass.); Hawks, William Avery, 1834-1892; Jones, Annie Juliet, 1851-1921; Hawks, Clara Bodman, 1888-1975; Meekins, Stephen, 1812-1894; Libraries--Massachusetts--Williamsburg; Dwellings--Massachusetts--Williamsburg relation - Part of the Meekins Library, Williamsburg, Mass., Local History, Historic Photographs Collection. http://www.meekins-library.org/ Identifier - Meekins Library--Local History--Historic Photographs Collection--Hawks (W. A.) house http://dlib.cwmars.org/u?/williamsbrg,23