Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - West Newton Houses and Commercial Buildings -

Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - West Newton Houses and Commercial Buildings -

Newell family -- Portraits - Newton (Mass.) -- History -- Pictorial works -

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. - View overlooking two houses with half-timbered gables, commercial buildings in background, Robinson's Block was on Watertown St. at corner of Waltham St., West Newton and Walton's Block was at 58-64 Chestnut St., West Newton, caption: The Blodgett residence back of the Dr. Fisher residence from roof of #87 Chestnut St., left background Robinson Block and foot of Chestnut St. (center background), [Walton Block & Walton & Whittlesey res. over roof of Fischer's]. - Page 97 -

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