Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Clara Ella Plimpton Newell in her Garden -

Photograph Album of the Newell Family of Newton, Massachusetts - Clara Ella Plimpton Newell in her Garden -

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 of Clara Ella Plimpton Newell holding basket of garden cuttings in foreground with church roof and scaffolding in background, caption: Spire of Second Congregational Church in course of construction from roof of 87 Chestnut St. [mother, Mrs. Newell in our garden] -

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